9 Amendments of Giancarlo SCOTTÀ related to 2013/2091(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that while food fraud may concern only quality issues, in the past it has been proven to have food safety implications too (‘Horsegate’ and phenylbutazone, methanol in wine, Sudan Red dyes, dioxin in feed and eggs, etc.), to which the utmost attention should be paid;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Points out that increasing commercial pressures on producers, in addition to unfair trading practices (UTP) throughout the food supply chain, as recently identified by the Commission in a Green Paper, are widespread and widely recognised by most operators in the agri- food sector. These pressures tend to lower quality standards and facilitate fraud, also through the use of foodstuffs of uncertain origin;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Is of the view that even behaviour that is legal and typical of modern distribution, such as selling at a loss, permanent promotions and food price discounting, contributes, in the medium to long term, to jeopardising the sustainability of the food chain. This provides an incentive to suppliers and intermediaries to replace genuine products with counterfeit ones, or to cut production costs, including basic food health and safety rules;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Recognises that the economic crisis that is afflicting several Member States can lead to fraud, both because of the growing segments of national populations for whom low cost is the vital issue when purchasing food and because of the incentive given to companies to cut their production costs;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2e. Notes that food fraud takes advantage of the legal grey area consisting of vague marketing standards, which include product categories that can be very diverse from a quality point of view. Such marketing standards appear to be more pervious to food adulteration and counterfeiting technologies;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. When a market has average product prices that are consistently low, consumers have difficulty in appreciating the real value of the product and, therefore, the appropriate price. Against such a background, fraud (the sale of one thing for another) can prosper. Anti-fraud investigations should pay the utmost heed to such market signals (namely, sales prices that are below production costs, without appropriate justification);
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2g. Abnormal price fluctuations, or production costs that are consistently low, should be adequately monitored at EU level, also by placing national statistics online, where available. The EU’s European Food Prices Monitoring Tool should be further broken down into retail categories that can be used to check the genuine price trends of specific foodstuffs, where possible;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2h. Calls for the establishment of a standardised EU-wide food fraud database, along the lines of that which exists in the United States, for example;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4