15 Amendments of Anne FERREIRA related to 2008/0028(COD)
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Food information law should provide sufficient flexibility to be able to keep up to date with new information requirements from consumers and ensure a balance between the protection of the internal market and the differences in the perception of consumers in the Member States.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Food labels should be clearprecise, clear, easily readable and understandable to assist consumers wanting to make better-informedconscious food and dietary choices. Studies show that legibility is an important element in maximising the possibility that labelled information can influence its audience and that the small print size is one of the main causes of consumer dissatisfaction with food labels.
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) With a view to provide consumers with food information that is necessary to make an informed choice, alcoholic mixed beverages should alsobe labelled as such, provide information on their ingredients and state the alcohol content.
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) To appeal to the average consumer and to serve the informative purpose for which it is introduced, and given the current level of knowledge on the subject of nutrition, the information provided should be simple and easily understood. Research in certain Member States has indicated that consumers find the information on the main nutrients/ingredients in the principal field of view or ‘front of pack’ is useful when making purchasing decisions. Therefore, to ensure thatus consumers can readily see the essential nutrition information when purchasing foods such information should be in the principal field of view of the label. if this information is placed in the principal field of view on the label. But if consumers are to be able to buy this food on the basis of a sufficiently informed choice, it should be mandatory for an easily visible, readable, clear and comprehensible indication, placed under the essential information on the ‘front-of- pack labelling’, to refer consumers to the nutrition declaration on the back or side of the package.
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38 a (new)
Recital 38 a (new)
(38a) At the latest five years after the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council a report on the research into consumer understanding in the Member States of the various schemes and provisions for information on foods; it shall put forward, if necessary, a legislative proposal for a better framework for the various information schemes and provisions.
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. At the latest three years after the entry into force of this Regulation, the Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council a report showing the particular properties of natural mineral water with regard to the prevention, treatment or cure of a human disease,
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Food business operators, within the business under their control, shall not modify the information accompanying a food if such modification would mislead the final consumer or otherwise reduce the level of consumer protection, particularly with regard to health and the ability to make an informed choice, and the possibility of making a sufficiently informed choice.
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Article 8 – paragraph 5
5. Food business operators within the business under their control shall ensure that information relating to non-prepacked food shall be transmitted to the operator receiving the food in order to enable, where appropriate, the provision of the mandatory food information specified in Article 9(1) points (a) to (cd), (f) and (fi) to the final consumer.
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The particulars referred to in paragraph 1 shall be indicated with words and numbers unless the consumers are informed, as regards one or more particulars, by other forms of expression established by implementing measures adopted by the Commission. Those measures designed to amend non- essential elements of this Regulation by supplementing it, shall be adopted, in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 49(3).
Amendment 306 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Amendment 373 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 - paragraph 1
Article 16 - paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice to Article 9(2), mandatory food information shall appear in athe language easily understood by the consumers of(s) used in the Member States where a food is marketed.
Amendment 379 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 - paragraph 1
Article 17 - paragraph 1
1. In the case of glass bottles intended for reuse which are indelibly marked and which therefore bear no label, ring or collar only the particulars listed in Article 9(1) (a), to (cd), (e), (f), (g) and (l) shall be mandatory.
Amendment 723 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IX – paragraph 1 – point d – indent 5
Annex IX – paragraph 1 – point d – indent 5
– bakers’ or pastry cooks’ wares which, given the nature of their content, are normally consumeen they have been sold within 24 hours of their manufacture,
Amendment 724 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IX – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Annex IX – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) the ‘use by date’ shall be indicated on each individual prepackaged portion.