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6 Amendments of Renate SOMMER related to 2013/2091(INI)

Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas as athe general principles of EU food law it isn accordance with Regulation No 178/2002 prohibited to the marketing of unsafe food or food with incorrect or misleading labelsalong with fraudulent practices, the adulteration of food, and any other practices which may mislead the consumer;
2013/11/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods and Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers lay down detailed provisions in relation to the ban on misleading advertising and labelling practices;
2013/11/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the EU regulatory framework in place for food safety and the food chain has provided the highest level of food safety for EU consumers until now and Europe has the highest food safety standards in the world;
2013/11/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas EU food law is very detailed in the area of food safety and includes controls and tests for residues and other contamination of food and feed, but whereas there is no framework in place specifically to target food fraud, other than the general stipulation that consumers may not be misledand no harmonisation of sanctions against food fraud, other than the provisions referred to in Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 and Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 in relation to the ban on misleading consumers;
2013/11/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas recent fraud cases include the use of dioxin-contaminated fats in animal feed production, the marketing of ordinary flour as organic flour, of battery cage eggs as organic eggs, of road salt as food salt and of horsemeat as beef, and the use of methanol- contaminated alcohol in spirits;
2013/11/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Member States and European regions to provide control bodies with sufficient personnel, financial and technical resources;
2013/11/05
Committee: ENVI