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2016/2223(INI) Initiative on resource efficiency: reducing food waste, improving food safety
Lead committee dossier: ENVI/8/06870
Legal Basis RoP 052
| Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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| Opinion | AGRI | NICHOLSON James (ECR) | |
| Lead | ENVI | BORZAN Biljana (S&D) | DELAHAYE Angélique (EPP), DEMESMAEKER Mark (ECR), MÜLLER Ulrike (ALDE), KYLLÖNEN Merja (GUE/NGL), ŠKRLEC Davor (Verts/ALE), PEDICINI Piernicola (EFD), JALKH Jean-François (ENF) |
Legal Basis RoP 052
Activites
- 2017/05/16 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
- 2017/05/15 Debate in Parliament
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2017/04/28
Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading
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A8-0175/2017
summary
The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted the own-initiative report by Biljana BORZAN (S&D, HR) on the initiative on resource efficiency: reducing food waste and improving food safety. Members stressed the urgent need to reduce the amount of food waste, and to improve resource efficiency in the EU at every step of the food chain given that in highly industrialised countries food is wasted predominantly at the sales and consumption stages, while in developing countries food begins to be wasted at the manufacturing and processing stages. Members called on the Commission to: identify EU legislation that might hamper the effective combating of food waste and analyse how it might be adapted to meet the food waste prevention objective; evaluate the potential impact of new relevant legislative proposals on food waste; examine, by 31 December 2020, the possibility of setting up binding EU-wide food waste reduction targets to be met by 2025 and 2030 on the basis of measurements calculated in accordance with a common methodology; draw a clear distinction in its future policies between food wastage and food loss, which is unavoidable at primary production level owing to force majeure events such as storms; support a legally binding definition of food waste and to adopt, by 31 December 2017, a common methodology, including minimum quality requirements, for the uniform measurement of food waste levels. A common EU definition and methodology for measuring food ‘loss’, applicable to the entire supply chain, would facilitate Member States’ and stakeholders’ efforts in calculating and reducing food waste; update the list of foods currently exempt from ‘best before’ labelling in order to prevent food waste. They called on the Commission and the Member States to: put existing financial support for combating food waste on a permanent footing; engage in awareness-raising and communication campaigns on how to prevent food waste; use the following definition of ‘food waste’: ‘food intended for human consumption, either in edible or inedible status, removed from the production or supply chain to be discarded, including at primary production, processing, manufacturing, transportation, storage, retail and consumer levels, with the exception of primary production losses’; provide economic incentives to support the collection of unused food, which can either be redistributed to charities or re-used for another secondary purpose which prevents food waste, such as turning unused food into a valuable resource, by using it in the production of feed for livestock and domestic animals; consider variable pricing linked to expiry dates, as a tool for reducing the quantity of edible food products which become waste (i.e. by introducing discounts in proportion to the time remaining before product expiry). Members highlighted the initiatives contained in the Circular Economy Action Plan covering measures for establishing a financial support platform to attract investment and innovations aimed at reducing losses, as well as the guidelines addressed to the Member States for converting some food losses or agricultural by-products into energy. They stressed that: energy needs should be met by using waste and by-products that are not useful in any other process higher up the waste hierarchy; successfully combating food waste also requires strong recycling levels in the revised Waste Framework Directive and the integration of the cascading principle for biomass in EU energy policy; food waste reduction measures must not compromise food safety, environmental standards or animal protection standards, notably animal health and welfare. Members called on the Member States to: take measures to reduce food losses along the whole supply chain, including in primary production, transportation and storage; take the measures required to achieve an EU food waste reduction target of 30% by 2025 and 50% by 2030 compared to the 2014 baseline; adopt specific food waste prevention measures within their waste prevention programmes and in particular to establish voluntary agreements and create economic and fiscal incentives (e.g. changing the VAT rules) for donating food and other means of limiting food waste; encourage home composting and the separating out of bio-waste at source, and ensure that this waste is subject to bio-recycling; use the European Agriculture Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) to reduce food waste in primary production and the processing sector. Lastly, Members welcomed the creation of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste and called on it to support the development of a variety of consumer information channels as well as consumer information and foodstuff education programmes.
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A8-0175/2017
summary
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2017/04/11
Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
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2016/09/15
Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
Documents
- Committee report tabled for plenary, single reading: A8-0175/2017
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T8-0207/2017
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2016/2223(INI)
2017/02/08
ENVI
338 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) - having regard to the Special Report by the European Court of Auditors entitled ‘Combating Food Waste: an opportunity for the EU to improve the resource-efficiency of the food supply chain’ of 10 November 2016,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas one of the main reasons for wastage of food is its poor quality (a high amount of chemical substances added thereto: artificial preservatives and colouring agents, pesticides, antibiotics, flavour and aroma enhancers, stabilisers and emulsifiers that contribute to worse product quality and diseases);
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N N. whereas, unfortunately, in many Member States, it is more expensive to donate surplus food that is fit for consumption than to send it for anaerobic digestion21, which is contrary to the public interest, given the number of people living in extreme poverty; _________________ 21 Comparative Study on EU Member States’ legislation and practices on food donation (2014), commissioned by the European Economic and Social Council.
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N a (new) Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N a (new) Na. whereas active and intelligent food contact materials can improve the quality of packaged food and extend its shelf-life or better monitor the condition of packaged food and provide information on the freshness of the food;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N a (new) Na. whereas combating food waste also brings economic benefits, as each euro spent on preventing food waste makes it possible to avoid 265 kg of food waste, with a value of EUR 535, and enables local authorities to save EUR 9 on the cost of waste and EUR 50 on environmental costs linked to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution1 a; _________________ 1a Commission staff working document, executive summary of the impact assessment, impact assessment on measures addressing food waste to complete SWD (2014) 207 regarding the review of EU waste management targets (SWD(2014) 289 final, 23.9.2014).
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N a (new) Na. whereas local and regional authorities have a key role to play in reducing food waste through their responsibilities and competences in waste collection, their capacities for initiating and running local campaigns as well as their direct contact and cooperation with civil society and charity organisations, considering their large share in public procurement and in many cases their authority over educational institutions;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N b (new) Nb. whereas local and regional authorities have a key role to play in reducing food waste in the area of their competence; whereas actions to reduce food waste should be taken at the appropriate level;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N a (new) Na. whereas since the second semester of 2013 the European Parliament is implementing a comprehensive policy with the objective to drastically reduce food waste produced by its catering services; whereas unconsumed food from overproduction is regularly donated by the Parliament's main facilities in Brussels;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N a (new) Na. whereas, owing to existing administrative barriers, major retail chains and supermarkets find it acceptable to throw away food close to the ‘best before’ date instead of donating it;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution Recital N a (new) Na. whereas food which turns into waste requires a further use of resources in its management;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the urgent need to reduce the amount of food waste in the Union at every step of the
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas, according to a Eurobarometer survey conducted in 2009, close to 80 million people in the European Union, or 16% of the total EU population, live below the poverty line;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the urgent need to reduce
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the urgent need to reduce the amount of food waste
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the urgent need to reduce the amount of food waste in the Union at every step of the production, supply and consumption chain;
Amendment 113 #
1. Stresses the urgent need to reduce the amount of food waste in the Union at every step of the supply and consumption chain; in this regard, underlines the importance of political leadership and commitment from both the Commission and Member States; reminds that the European Parliament repeatedly, in its resolutions from 2011, 2012, 2015 and 2016, asked the Commission to take action against food waste;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the urgent need to reduce the amount of food waste in the Union at every step of the supply and consumption chain, taking into account that in highly industrialised countries food is wasted predominantly at the stages of sales and consumption, while in developing countries food begins to be wasted at the manufacturing and processing stages;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the urgent need to reduce the amount of food waste in the Union at every step of the supply and consumption chain respecting strict food waste hierarchy, which prioritizes food rescue in support of vulnerable social groups and limits practices such as anaerobic digestion and mechanical biological treatment;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 1. Stresses the urgent need to reduce the amount of food waste in the Union at every step of the supply and consumption chain; stresses, however, that measures to reduce food waste in households and processing sectors would have the highest impact;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission to swiftly adopt a definition of food surpluses and food recovery;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Underlines the responsibility of all actors in the supply chain, especially the responsibility of producers of packaging systems in preventing food waste, such as by preserving the quality, hygiene and safety of food during transport or storage, and by extending shelf-life; calls on the Commission to incentivise the design and development of adequate packaging solutions that will prevent food waste while also improving resource efficiency; however stresses that food waste reduction shall not entail an increase in packaging waste;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a coordinated policy response at EU and Member State level that takes into account policies regarding waste, food safety and information, but also aspects of economic, research and innovation, environment, financial, agriculture, education,
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a coordinated policy response at EU and Member State level that takes into account policies regarding waste, food safety and information, but also aspects of economic, research and innovation, environment, agriculture, education,
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a coordinated policy response at EU and Member State level that takes into account policies regarding waste, food safety and information, but also aspects of economic, research and innovation, environment,
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a coordinated policy response at EU and Member State level that takes into account policies regarding waste, food safety and information, but also aspects of economic, research and innovation, environment, agriculture, fisheries, energy, education, and social policy;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a coordinated policy response at EU and Member State level that takes into account policies regarding waste, food safety and information, but also aspects of economic, tax legislation, research and innovation, environment, agriculture, education, and social policy;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a coordinated policy response at EU and Member State level that takes into account policies regarding waste, food safety and information, but also aspects of economic and fiscal, research and innovation, environment, agriculture, education, and social policy;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a coordinated policy
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 2. Calls for a coordinated policy response at EU and Member State level that takes into account policies regarding the recovery of food surplus for human nutrition, waste, food safety and information, but also aspects of economic, research and innovation, environment, agriculture, education, and social policy;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission to come forward with a legally binding definition of food waste, defining food waste as "food intended for human consumption, either in edible or inedible status, removed from the production or supply chain to be discarded including at primary production, processing, manufacturing, transportation, storage, retail and consumer levels, with the exception of primary production losses1a "; _________________ 1aIn accordance with the definition voted in ENVI on 24.01.2017 within the waste framework directive.
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Urges the European Commission and Member States to use the following definition of "food waste": "food waste means food intended for human consumption, either in edible or inedible status, removed from the production or supply chain to be discarded including at primary production, processing, manufacturing, transportation, storage, retail and consumer levels, with the exception of primary production losses";
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas food wastage has high social
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 c (new) 2c. Stresses the importance of providing a clear definition of food waste; this definition should contribute to the overall objectives of prevention and the high-quality valorisation of food (waste) streams throughout the chain;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission to apply a systemic approach to food waste addressing the wide range of relevant areas and all the stages of the food chain and their interrelationships; therefore calls on the Commission to establish an action plan on food waste covering the various policy areas and outlining the strategy for the years ahead;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls in this regard for the development of an EU Action Plan to prevent and reduce food waste which encompasses the relevant policy areas;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission to make a policy proposal to create a comprehensive and integrated EU food policy;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Stresses the responsibility of the competent authorities in the Member States to develop a tailored approach to combat food waste, within the EU framework; acknowledges the important work already conducted in several Member States;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to put the financial support that already exists for combating food waste on a permanent footing; calls on the Member States to make better use of the opportunities offered in this area by the various European Union policies and funding programmes;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) 2b. Urges the Commission to involve all relevant Commission services dealing with food waste such as DG ENV, DG MARE, DG AGRI, DG SANTE and to ensure continued and strengthened coordination at Commission level;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls for a binding food waste reduction target of
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B B. whereas food wastage has high social
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls for
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls for a binding food waste reduction target of 50 % by 2030 and reiterates its call for a binding food waste reduction target of at least 30 % by 2025; calls for the introduction of legal provisions to make this objective feasible, including, but not limited to, tax regulations to simplify distributing food in the form of donations;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls for a binding food waste reduction target of 50 % by 2030 and reiterates its call for a binding food waste reduction target of at least 30 % by 2025, with a focus on edible food waste;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls for a binding food waste reduction target of 50 % by 2030 and reiterates its call for a binding food waste reduction target of at least 30 % by 2025, compared to the 2014 baseline;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 3. Calls for a binding food waste reduction target of 50 % by 2030 and reiterates its call for a binding food waste
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Calls on Member States to take measures to reduce food losses along the whole supply chain, including primary production, transportation and storage;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common definition for and methodology to measure food waste; urges, furthermore, the Commission to start developing a common definition for and a methodology to measure food loss, taking into account the whole supply chain, including primary production, losses due to poor animal welfare, transportation and storage;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas, according to recent studies, for every kilogram of food produced, 4,5 kg of CO2 are released into the atmosphere; whereas in Europe the approximately 89 Mt of food wasted produce 170 Mt CO2 eq./yr, broken down thus: food industry 59 Mt CO2 eq./yr, domestic consumption 78 Mt CO2 eq./yr, other 33 Mt CO2 eq./yr; whereas the production of the 30% of food which ends up not being consumed accounts for an additional 50% of use of water resources for irrigation, while producing a kilogram of beef requires 5-10 tonnes of water;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly propose definitions for food waste and food losses, and to adopt a common methodology to measure food waste;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common definition and methodology to measure food waste;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common methodology to measure food waste and make the data public; stresses that compiled data would make it possible to investigate better the issue of food wastage and to develop methods to combat it head-on;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common methodology to measure food waste; calls on the Member States to support the collection of unused food for charities or to reuse these food articles for secondary purposes;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4.
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common methodology to measure food waste, in line with global existing methodologies such as the Food Loss and Waste Standard;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common methodology
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common methodology to measure food surpluses, the re-use of the surpluses and food waste;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to swiftly adopt a common methodology to measure
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas according to the World Food Programme (WFP) 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy and active life; whereas poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) or approximately 3.1 million of deaths in children under the age of five; whereas one in six children in the world are underweight and one in four is stunted; whereas it is therefore not only an economic and environmental but also a moral obligation to reduce food waste1a ; _________________ 1a https://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats.
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 4. Urges the Commission to
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to make a strict distinction in its future policies between food waste, which is the result of consumer activity and can be reduced through the right initiatives and awareness campaigns, and food loss, which force majeure, for instance, severe weather, makes unavoidable during initial production;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to include food losses in the agricultural and other primary production sectors in its calculations in order to ensure an approach which takes into account the entire supply chain; notes, nevertheless, that quantifying losses at the primary production stage can be difficult and calls on the Commission to identify best practices to assist Member States in gathering such data;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to include food losses in the agricultural sector in its measurements;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Calls on the Commission to work on a common definition of the concept of ‘loss’ at each step in the food chain, and a common measurement methodology in collaboration with the Member States and all the parties involved;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the establishment in EU legislation of
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the establishment in EU legislation of a hierarchy for the management of unsold food such as: a) source prevention; b) edible food rescue, prioritizing human use over animal feed and the reprocessing into non-food products; c) organic recycling; d) energy recovery; e) disposal;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas almost 793 million people in the world today are malnourished1a, and more than700 million people live below the poverty line1b with incomes less than USD 1.90 per day, and therefore any irresponsible treatment of natural resources intended for food production and any food wastage should be considered morally unacceptable; _________________ 1a The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015, FAO, UN. 1bDevelopment Goals in an Era of Demographic Change, Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016, World Bank.
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the establishment in EU legislation of a
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the establishment in EU legislation of a
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the establishment in EU legislation of a hierarchy for the management of unsold food giving priority to re-use for the purpose of human consumption;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the establishment in EU legislation of a hierarchy for the management of unsold food; calls for the establishment, as soon as possible, of a favourable environment for food donors in all EU Member States, as current legislation often requires donors to ‘subsidise philanthropy’ and effectively makes them disinclined to donate food that is fit for consumption;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the establishment
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 5. Calls for the establishment in EU legislation of a hierarchy for the management of
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Considers that, in order to reduce food waste as much as possible, it is necessary to involve all participants in the food supply chain and to target the various causes of waste sector by sector; calls on the Commission, therefore, to make an analysis of the whole food chain in order to identify in which food sectors food waste is occurring most, and which solutions can be used to prevent food waste;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses that successfully combatting food waste also requires strong recycling levels in the revised Waste Framework Directive and the integration of the cascading principle for biomass in EU energy policy;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Stresses the need to include an obligation for the Member States to annually notify the European Commission of the total level of food waste generated in a specific year;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas the amount of crops discarded could be reduced if they were sold more directly to consumers, without having to comply with the strict quality standards laid down by supermarkets regarding weight, size and appearance; whereas they could be sold, for example, at farmers’ markets or in farm shops;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Calls for price reductions on products whose expiry date is approaching, as this would make it possible, to a certain extent, to avoid large food losses;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Is convinced that mechanical biological mixed waste treatment with stabilised food waste should be spread only on non-agricultural lands - provided that the necessary contamination norms are respected;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) 5b. Calls for the involvement of local authorities of EU Member States in distributing unsold goods which are still fit for consumption to citizens who cannot afford them;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 b (new) Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 c (new) 5c. Believes that disposal through landfill and incineration should not be considered as an option;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that food safety is paramount and that food waste reduction measures must not compromise current food safety standards; reminds about the recent outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis in eight EU/EEA countries which have reported hundreds of confirmed cases;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 6. Stresses that food safety is paramount and that food waste reduction measures must not compromise current food safety standards; calls for a reduction in the use of chemical agents in the process of food manufacturing;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Calls on the Commission to encourage competent authorities in Member States to adopt measures to control the safety of food from the point of view of health when and where necessary in order to gain citizens’ and consumers’ trust in policies which contribute to food wastage reduction;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Underlines the important role of safe food packaging materials in preventing food waste and recalls that fresh wood fibres produce packages that are strong, clean and safe for direct food contact;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B a (new) Ba. whereas according to several studies extensive change of diets prove most effective method to reduce environmental impact from food consumption; whereas achieving a sustainable food production and consumption system in Europe requires comprehensive and integrated food policy;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Points out that relevant food contact material legislation should enable a maximum level of consumer protection for all packaging material, including imported material from third countries; therefore, calls upon the Commission to present EU harmonised rules for food contact materials and to prioritise the drawing-up of specific EU measures for paper and board in line with Parliament´s Resolution of 6 October 2016 on the implementation of the Food Contact Materials Regulation (EC) No 1953/2004;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the recent creation of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste; reiterates the importance of exchanging best practices, combining knowledge and avoiding duplication with other relevant forums such as for example the EU Retail Forum on Sustainability, the European Food Sustainable Consumption and Production Roundtable, the High Level Forum for a Better Functioning Food Supply Chain, the Consumer Goods Forum;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the recent creation of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste, which enables information to be exchanged between the operators involved; calls on the Commission to provide Parliament with a precise list of the measures currently being taken and the objectives and sub-objectives pursued, as well as the state of progress of the work being done on a common methodology and on donations;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the recent creation of the EU Platform
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 7. Welcomes the recent creation of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste; considers that it could be the right tool for measuring not only how much is wasted but also the quantities of food surpluses and food recovery;
Amendment 195 #
7. Welcomes the recent creation of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste; is however convinced that this can only be a very first step to address the problem of food waste;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the Platform inter alia to support the development of a variety of consumer information channels as well as consumer information and foodstuff education programs; urges the Platform to facilitate local stakeholder cooperation on food waste prevention and donation initiatives with a focus on reducing respective transaction costs;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the European Commission, in the framework of the research projects financed by the EU budget, to promote innovative technologies able to extend the shelf-life of food products;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) - having regard to the European Court of Auditors' Special Report 'Combating Food Waste: an opportunity for the EU to improve the resource- efficiency of the food supply chain' (2016),
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas industrial food production lines often use trimming processes to ensure that the end product is of an appropriate shape and size; whereas food spoilage on the production line is another reason for the loss of food during production;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates; asks
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving consumers
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates; stresses the importance of empowering consumers in order to make informed decisions; asks the Commission to assess whether current EU legislation and current practice in use with ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates in different Member States are fit for purpose;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates and in making these markings easy to understand and clearly visible to consumers; asks the Commission to assess whether current EU legislation and current practice in use with ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates in different Member States are fit for purpose;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates and the usability of foodstuffs after the 'best before' date; asks the Commission to assess whether current EU legislation and current practice in use with ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates in different Member States are fit for purpose;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders and consumer associations, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates; asks the Commission to assess whether current EU legislation and current practice in use with ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates in different Member States are fit for purpose;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with stakeholders, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates; asks the Commission to swiftly assess whether current EU legislation and current practice in use with ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates in different Member States are still fit for purpose;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution Recital B b (new) Bb. whereas less food waste would mean more efficient land use, better water resource management, and positive repercussions for the whole agricultural sector worldwide, as well as boosting the fight against undernourishment in the developing world;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 8. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to engage, in cooperation with all stakeholders, in improving consumers’ understanding of ‘use by’ dates and ‘best before’ dates; asks the Commission to assess whether current EU legislation and current practice in use with ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates in different Member States are fit for purpose;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission, as part of the evaluation that it is currently carrying out, to assess, in particular: whether current EU legislation and the use currently made in various Member States of the ‘best before’ date and the ‘use by’ date are fit for purpose; whether a revision of the ‘use by’ and ‘best before’ dates terminology, according to the Member States, should be considered to make it easier for consumers to understand them; whether it might be beneficial to remove certain dates for products where no risk to health or the environment exists; whether it might be advisable to introduce European guidelines on this issue;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Asks the Commission to assess current EU legislation and current practices concerning date marking in different Member States and conduct a research study in order to evaluate the link between date marking and food waste prevention;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the Member States, to issue recommendations regarding refrigeration temperatures, based on evidence that non-optimal and improper temperature leads to food becoming prematurely inedible and causes unnecessary waste; underlines the fact that harmonised levels of temperature throughout the supply chain would improve product conservation and reduce food waste for products transported and sold cross-border;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Believes that food labels should contain information on the full cycle of the product with a view to providing information to consumers on each key event in the production cycle, such as the place and time of: birth, breeding and slaughter of the animal when it comes to meat, or farming, processing and production when it comes to other food products.
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Welcomes the initiative taken by some large retail operators to promote schemes for making changes to prices for the sale of goods to be consumed in line with the products’ expiry dates, with a view to increasing consumer awareness and encouraging the purchase of products which are close to their expiry dates;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Encourages the Commission and Member States to cooperate with regional and local authorities and other stakeholders in order to provide information to the authorities acting as mediators between donors and recipients of donations;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Asks the Commission to update the list of foods currently exempt from 'best before' labelling in order to prevent food waste;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C.
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management and consumption of food; calls for the introduction of education programmes and campaigns to schools that would not only touch upon the issue of a balanced diet, but also make individual consumers aware of the need to appropriately store and prepare food and to use unconsumed leftovers; calls for the issue of food wastage and hunger, a serious problem today, to be properly addressed; points out the need for solidarity and the need to share with those most in need;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management and consumption of food; supports schemes to this end such as the School Milk Programme and the School Fruit Scheme, which are also designed to raise awareness about nutrition by giving children the opportunity to learn about fresh food and agricultural production processes;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States in cooperation with stakeholders to promote consumer understanding of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management (including storage) and consumption of food;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management and consumption of food; stresses that these initiatives should emphasise that combating food waste brings benefits not only for the environment but also in economic and social terms;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of food waste
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management and consumption of food; stresses the importance of educational measures to achieve conscious food purchase and consumption;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management and consumption of food and to encourage consumers to buy local products, which have not been over- processed, in local markets;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management and consumption of food as a key priority of food waste prevention given the predominant share of food waste in households;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of the value of food, food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their consumption patterns, management and consumption of food;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 is aimed at halving per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030 and reducing food losses along production and supply chains, including
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote consumer understanding of how to prevent the generation of food waste, food safety, and good practices in relation to their management and consumption of food;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls on all actors in the food supply chain to take their shared responsibility and implement the Joint Food Wastage Declaration 'Every Crumb Counts' and 'Retail agreement on waste'; points out that the retail sector meets millions of consumers every day, and is in a unique position to increase knowledge and raise awareness related to food waste, thereby facilitating informed choices; underlines that marketing practices such as "buy one, get one for free" increases the risk that consumers buy more than they can use; in this regard also highlights the need to offer smaller package sizes for smaller households; welcomes that some retailers sell food items with short use-by dates at discount prices but believes that practice should be more widespread;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. In view of the fact that many food products, in the days following their date of expiry, still retain their organoleptic and nutritional characteristics, although to a reduced extent, and continue to be consumable, provided food safety principles are complied with, calls on the Commission to identify logistical and organisational models that could make it possible to recover, in total safety, all the types of products that are unsold to date;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Stresses the need for Member States to develop and support publicity campaigns to raise the awareness of citizens and operators in the food sector with a view to encouraging the prevention of food waste; also stresses the need to promote training campaigns intended to provide education on healthy food and environmentally sustainable food production;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Urges the Council and the Commission to designate a European Year against Food Waste, as a key information and awareness-raising initiative for European citizens and to focus national governments' attention on this important topic, with a view to allocating sufficient funds to tackle the challenges of the near future;
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to continue to support projects and promotional and educational campaigns such as the EAThink2015 project, which teaches children to consume healthy, fresh and locally produced food from an early age; this type of promotion should be expanded to educational institutions through schemes to deliver milk, fruit and vegetables;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Encourages local authorities who provide basic school education and other education services to include the issue of food waste and related mitigation tools as part of the curriculum, for instance through theme days, study visits and by teaching students how food can best be managed;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Calls on the Member States to include food waste-related educational messages in the accompanying measures of the school fruit and milk schemes with the aim of encouraging good eating habits in young people;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote successful practices of food waste reduction and resource conservation methods already
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote successful practices of food waste reduction and resource conservation methods already used by stakeholders; welcomes the establishment of food establishments where it is possible to leave food that is fit for consumption to those in need ('foodsharing') and calls for procedures to be simplified to make the establishment of such facilities easier;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C C. whereas the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 is aimed at halving per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030 and reducing food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses; whereas the UN estimates that world population will increase from 7.3 billion people today to 9.7 billion in 20501a ; whereas reducing food waste is an essential step in reducing world hunger and a necessity to feed an ever growing world population; _________________ 1a http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/n ews/population/2015-report.html
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and the
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote an exchange of successful practices of food waste reduction and resource conservation methods already used by local authorities and stakeholders;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to exchange and promote successful practices of food waste reduction and resource conservation methods already used by stakeholders; encourages Member States to consult the relevant stakeholders on targeted sectorial measures to be taken in the context of preventing food waste;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote and exchange successful practices of food waste reduction and resource conservation methods already used by stakeholders;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to raise awareness and promote successful practices of food waste reduction and resource conservation methods already used by stakeholders, often by tailored actions at local level;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote successful practices of food waste reduction and resource conservation methods already used by stakeholders, together with shorter distribution channels;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 10. Calls on the Commission
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consider variable pricing according to expiry dates as a tool for reducing the quantity of edible food products which become waste; considers that waste in the distribution stage can be reduced considerably by adopting discounts in proportion to the time remaining before the expiry of the product; believes that such a practice, which is currently carried out on a voluntary basis, should be laid down in legislation;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Points out that large quantities of perfectly edible fruits and vegetables do not reach the market due to aesthetic reasons and marketing standards; notes that there are successful initiatives that utilize such products and encourages stakeholders from the wholesale and retail sector to promote such practices; calls on the Commission to undertake research on the relation between marketing standards and food waste in this context;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution Recital C a (new) Ca. whereas the Consumer Goods Forum representing 400 retailers, manufacturers, service providers, and other stakeholders across 70 countries has adopted a public resolution to halve food waste from their members´ own operations by 2025, five years ahead of SDG 12.3;
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Member States to encourage local governments, civil society, supermarkets and other relevant stakeholders to support food waste reducing initiatives and contribute to a local food strategy, for example, by informing consumers, via a mobile application, about unsold foods, aligning demand and supply;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to motivate households to combat food wastage by promoting a weekly leftovers day and by giving information on the best shopping and cooking practices for consumers to follow to reduce their food wastage;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Stresses that local and regional authorities and stakeholders have a key responsibility in implementing food waste reduction and prevention programmes and asks the Commission and the Member States to take this into account at all stages of the process;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Is concerned that "clarification of relevant EU legislation related to waste, food and feed in order to facilitate food donation and utilisation of former foodstuffs for animal feed", as announced for 20161a , has not yet been tackled; _________________ 1aAnnex to the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the regions: „Closing the loop- An action plan for the Circular Economy (2015).
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Emphasises the role of packaging in food waste prevention and stresses that paper and board, the leading food packaging material, is recyclable, derives from renewable sources and therefore presents various environmental benefits;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls for a reduction in the transport of fruits and vegetables from distant countries, as the practice requires harmful chemical substances to be used and they lead to the loss of valuable nutritive values and diseases;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to use European development funds to improve the food chain infrastructure to reduce food waste in developing countries;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt measures to reduce losses due to poor animal welfare and to the use of human-edible crops as animal feed.
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Calls on the Member States to ensure institutional and financial support to social supermarkets, as they are a key mediator in food donation;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to facilitate local and regional stakeholder cooperation on food donation by reducing transaction costs to lower the threshold for participation, e.g. by offering template tools that can be adapted to specific local needs and used by local actors to match supply and demand of surplus food and to organise logistics more efficiently;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Reiterates that egg waste is still one of the main issues for retailers; asks the Commission to look into ways to reduce egg waste taking into account the scientific assessment from EFSA as well Member States to properly inform consumers on this important issue;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 b (new) 10b. Calls for the promotion of seasonal fruits and vegetables in every Member State, as they do not require the use of chemical agents;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 c (new) 10c. Calls for particular attention to be devoted to animal welfare, particularly with regard to protection against excessive stress, which results in low meat quality and leads to consumers' wasting it;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the draft EU guidelines on food donation as a first step in the right direction; however, with a view to the various barriers to food donation contained in EU legislation, believes that the donation of unsold food along the entire food supply chain needs to be promoted further by enacting legislative changes; calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of assessing legislative measures designed to promote the donation of food products which have labelling issues, but not in cases where these issues relate to the information on the expiry date or substances or products that trigger allergies or intolerances;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the draft EU guidelines on food donation as a first step in the right direction; However,
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the draft EU guidelines on food donation as a first step in the right direction; however, with a view to the various barriers to food donation contained in EU legislation, believes that the donation of unsold food along the entire food supply chain needs to be promoted further
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 11. Welcomes the draft EU guidelines on food donation as a first step in the right direction; however, with a view to the various barriers to food donation contained in EU legislation, believes that the donation of unsold food along the entire food supply chain needs to be promoted further
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Commission to recognise the contribution of socially responsible initiatives, such as ‘Healthy Nutritional Standard’, whose objective is to provide better information on food to different groups of consumers with special food needs or preferences through voluntary and co-regulated food labelling in restaurants and tourism in order to reduce food wastage in that field;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Calls on the Commission to explore the modalities for donating food to charities from companies in the country of production, regardless of the language on the product packaging; points out that donations of said goods should be made possible when the information critical for maintaining food safety, e.g. on allergens, is made available to recipients in official languages of their Member States;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D D. whereas estimates show that 88 million tonnes of food are wasted in the EU each year, equating to 173 kg of wasted food per person; whereas the costs associated with this level of food waste are estimated to amount to around
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Notes that food sector operators which carry out free transfers of food surpluses must abide by sound operational practices in order to guarantee food safety in terms of hygiene and health, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 a (new) 11a. Stresses the important role of national authorities to help actors along the food supply chain to use edible food and food close to expiry, taking a promotional instead of punishing approach when implementing food safety rules;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Welcomes the establishment of "Social Grocery Shops", as well as public and private partnerships with charity organizations, to make the best possible use of edible but not sellable food;
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 11 b (new) 11b. Calls on the Member States to consider further schemes to encourage donation by food sector operators of food surpluses to organisations with social purposes and non-profit organisations, including through tax incentives relating to national taxation of waste;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Points out, however, that food donations cannot be seen as a self-evident measure to solve the core problems of poverty; thus unrealistic expectations cannot be set on food donations to mitigate social problems on one hand, and prevent food waste on the other; therefore calls on the Commission to take more determined actions in prevention of poverty;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Calls on the Commission to promote the creation in Member States of agreements stipulating that the retail food sector shall distribute unsold products to charity associations;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to propose as a matter of urgency a change in the VAT Directive that would explicitly authorise tax exemptions on food donations; taxation of food donations is contrary to the public interest, and removing those taxes would reduce considerably the wastage of food that is still fit for consumption, and would, therefore, assist the poorest;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to propose and the Member States to implement a change in the VAT Directive that would explicitly authorise tax exemptions on food donations in particular for food banks and for charitable organisations;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 13. Calls on the Commission to propose a change in the VAT Directive that would explicitly authorise tax exemptions on food donations; calls on the Member States to follow the Commission’s recommendations and to set a VAT rate that is low or close to zero if the donation is made close to the recommended ‘use by’ date or if the food is unsaleable;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas, according to the data from 2015, 118.8 million people, or 23.7% of the EU-28 population, are at risk of poverty or social exclusion; whereas, with the adoption of the Europe 2020 Strategy, the European Union set a quantitative target for the reduction of poverty and social exclusion to lift more than 20 million people out of poverty by 2020 compared with 2008;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Calls on the Commission to consider the issue of food waste in future impact assessments of its policies;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Calls on the Commission, when conducting an impact assessment on new relevant legislative proposals, to evaluate their potential impact on food waste;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Calls on the European Commission to include food waste in future impact assessments to ensure a coordinated policy response;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States not to divert resources of the Fund for European Aid to the most Deprived (FEAD) for food banks and charitable organisations towards other target groups, in particular in response to the migration challenge; welcomes in this regard the Commission's proposal for additional financing to tackle the migration challenge in the European Union;
Amendment 284 #
13a. Calls on the Commission to identify the European legislation that might hamper the effective combating of food waste and analyse how it might be adapted to meet the food waste prevention objective;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 b (new) 13b. Calls on the Commission to undertake a study on the impact of reforms of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) on the generation and reduction of food waste;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 c (new) 13c. Encourages Member States to use the European Agriculture Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) to reduce food waste in primary production and the processing sector;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 d (new) 13d. Encourages Member States to use the full potential of the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) in order to reduce food waste in the context of fish discards and improve survival rates of aquaculture-grown organisms;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 e (new) 13e. Calls on the Commission and Member States to explore how unfair trade practices in the food supply chain generate food waste and, where necessary, take action at the appropriate level to reduce it;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 f (new) 13f. Calls on the Commission to explore the potential of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) to help reduce food waste;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 g (new) 13g. Calls on the Commission to complete the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) regulation with an implementing act that will regulate using intervention stocks generated under CAP and promote the use of FEAD to facilitate food donation in the context of financing the costs of collection, transport, storage and distribution; encourages local, regional and national authorities to support the setting up of food donation infrastructure in regions and areas where it is non- existent, inadequate or under capacitated;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to create
Amendment 293 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to create economic incentives for limiting food waste and to adopt specific food waste prevention programmes within their waste prevention programmes;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to create economic incentives for increasing the donations, promote the recovery and the re-use of food chain surpluses and limiting food waste;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to create economic incentives for limiting food waste and to support food banks;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to create economic incentives for donating food and limiting food waste;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 14. Calls on the Member States to create
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to encourage the exchange of best practice and promote awareness- raising campaigns to inform the public of the value of food and agricultural produce, the causes and effects of food waste and ways of reducing it, thereby fostering a scientific and civic culture guided by the principles of sustainability and solidarity; calls on Member States to encourage the introduction of food education courses, at all levels of education, including colleges, explaining for example how to store, cook and dispose the food, thereby encouraging better behaviours; stresses the important role played by local authorities and municipal enterprises, in addition to retailers and the media, in providing information and support to citizens on preventing and reducing food waste;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Is hopeful that the landing obligation in the Common Fisheries Policy, currently being phased in, will lead to more selective fishing gears and practices and thereby to less fish being discarded at sea; notes, however, that the landing obligation does not apply to all fish and therefore further measures are needed;
Amendment 3 #
- having regard to the special report no 34/2016 of the European Court of Auditors "Combating Food Waste: an opportunity for the EU to improve the resource-efficiency of the food supply chain",
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas in 2014 122 million people (24.4% of population) in the EU were at risk of poverty and social exclusion, and 55 million people (9.6% of population) were not able to afford a quality meal every second day1a; _________________ 1aEurostat 2015, 'People at risk of poverty or social exclusion'.
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Recommends promoting the use of voluntary codes of good practice in business developed by sectorial organisation in the food, catering and hotel sectors to aim to make optimal use of products and to promote donation to schemes aimed at collecting excess food for social purposes;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to encourage innovation and investment in processing technologies in agricultural production in an effort to reduce food wastage in the food supply chain and to reduce losses in food production on family farms;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 c (new) 14c. Urges Member States to provide incentives for the prevention of food waste, such as setting up voluntary agreements, facilitating food donation or where appropriate, taking financial or fiscal measures;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14a (new) 14a. Calls on the European institutions and the Member States to promote exemplary behaviour by public authorities in relation to combating food waste in public catering;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, in order to provide alternative uses for products that fall below the standards set, to boost the development of markets for such food;
Amendment 306 #
14a. Calls on restaurants, catering services and public establishments to make available to-go boxes and encourage customers to bring their leftovers home;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Proposes that part of the funds available under the FEAD be reallocated to the transport of surplus food during implementation;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 a (new) 14a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote the higher- grade use of food waste streams for the production of animal feed;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 14 b (new) 14b. Is concerned about the level of waste in fish post capture, given its perishable nature and the often extreme voyages that the fish make for processing, frequently going from Europe to Asia and back to Europe for final sale;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that innovative and environmentally friendly solutions in areas including the management of co- and by- products of food production, food storage, digital technologies, and packaging can offer significant potential for food waste reduction; calls on the Commission, therefore, to assess increasing the use of environmentally friendly food packaging, including the feasibility of gradually replacing food packaging with bio-based and biodegradable, compostable material in accordance with European standards;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that innovative and environmentally friendly solutions in areas including the management of co- and by- products of food production, food storage, digital technologies, and packaging can offer significant potential for food waste reduction; encourages public and private stakeholders to support research in these areas and promote sustainable and effective solutions;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 15. Stresses that innovative and environmentally friendly solutions in areas including the management of co- and by- products of food production, food trade, food storage, digital technologies, and packaging can offer significant potential for food waste reduction;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Stresses the positive contribution of packaging materials and solutions to the prevention of food loss and food waste along the supply chain, e.g. packaging that reduces food loss in transport and storage, that preserves the quality and hygiene of food for longer, or that extends shelf life; however, underlines the need of making packaging fit for purpose (i.e. no over- or under- packaging) while considering the life-cycle-perspective on the packaged product as a whole, including the design and use of packaging; therefore encourages the Commission and the Member States to support the development and deployment of innovative packaging materials and solutions with a positive contribution to resource efficiency and the circular economy;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Underlines the positive contribution of innovative packaging materials to prevent food losses and food waste along the supply chain, first and foremost packaging which reduces food loss in transport and storage, which preserves the quality and hygiene of food for a longer period, or which extends shelf life; encourages the Commission and the Member States to support the development, deployment and use of various forms of inert and innovative packaging materials (both permanent and non-permanent) which, when recycled into food contact materials, will sustainably reduce food waste, do not endanger human health and contribute significantly to resource efficiency and the circular economy;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Stresses the importance of packaging that is appropriate for the product and for consumers’ needs, taking into account the functions fulfilled by the packaging throughout the distribution chain, in order to avoid food waste, and taking into account an approach based on the packaging life-cycle;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on Member States to take action in order to encourage food business operators to use active and intelligent food contact materials, which actively contribute to extending the shelf- life of products and provide clear information about freshness of the food;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Supports the promotion of bio- based packaging as an environmentally friendly solution that effectively contributes to limiting food waste; thus, calls upon the Commission and Member States to encourage measures to increase the use of bio-based packaging that is appropriate for direct contact with food;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Member States to introduce in their national waste prevention plans measures to reduce food waste with the aim of achieving an EU- wide food waste reduction target of 30% by 2025 and of 50% by 2030; to this end, invites Member States to set out national specific food waste prevention programs, describing at least the implementation of the measures and the economic instruments adopted to achieve the reduction of food waste;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Member States to encourage the conclusion of agreements or memoranda of understanding to promote responsible conduct and good practices designed to reduce food waste, including equipping catering operators with reusable containers, made of recyclable material, to enable customers to take home their leftover food;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas reducing food waste can improve the economic situation for households without lowering the standard of living;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Recommends that, when appropriate, local and regional products and seasonal products be used in the catering and hospitality sector to shorten the production and consumption chain as to reduce the number of processing stages and thus the waste generated during the various phases;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the European Commission, within the actions of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food waste, to assess the best practices already implemented in the different Member States, in order to better define effective instruments to reduce food waste;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 a (new) 15a. Calls on the Commission to set up a clear phase out of food waste incineration and landfilling by 2018;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to allocate adequate funds to innovative projects, including projects relating to research and technological development in the sphere of the shelf life of food products and packaging materials;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to consult all relevant stakeholders on the statistical methodology and other measures to be implemented to prevent food waste throughout the Union and in all sectors;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Urges all institutions and bodies of the European Union to include the requirement of having food waste management and reduction plans in catering related tenders;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Stresses the importance, with a view to reducing waste, of ensuring that food is distributed and kept using methods which are appropriate to each product’s characteristics;
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15c. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and stakeholders to provide consumers with better information on methods for keeping and/or reusing products;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 b (new) 15b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to engage in awareness raising and communication campaigns on how to prevent food waste;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15c. Stresses the fact that developments in the digital sector offer many opportunities for preventing the generation of food waste, in particular the creation of online ‘food rescue’ platforms, which make it possible for the catering sector to offer unsold dishes at reduced prices; highlights the fact that experiments such as these have produced significant results in the Member States in which they have been developed;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas unfair trade practices and price dumping in the food sector frequently lead to food being sold at a price that is lower than its actual value, which in turn creates more waste, and whereas a ban on selling food under its purchase price would significantly help to raise consumer awareness of the real value of food;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 c (new) 15 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to provide economic incentives to support the collection of un- used food which can be either redistributed to charities or re-used for another secondary purpose which prevents food waste, such as the valorisation of un-used food in the production of feed for livestock and domestic animals;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 d (new) 15d. Stresses that more effective European legislation on by-products in Directive 2008/98/EC could help to significantly reduce food waste; to that end, calls on the European Commission to support, particularly through the Horizon 2020 programme, projects designed to facilitate synergies between agriculture and industry that involve agri-food companies;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 d (new) 15d. Stresses that recovering co- and by-products may be considered one way to combat food waste;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 e (new) 15e. Notes that preventing the generation of food waste is the priority measure to be pursued, when correctly managing waste in line with the principles of the circular economy; stresses, however, that at the moment it is impossible to bring generation of food waste down to zero; considers that it is necessary, therefore, to lay down mandatory EU measures to ensure that food waste can be turned into new resources; considers, specifically, that, with a view to ensuring a high level of environmental protection and an output, including digestate and compost, with high quality standards, the Member States should encourage home composting and should separate out bio-waste at source, and ensure that this waste is subject to bio-recycling; considers that the Member States should also prohibit the placing of bio-waste in landfills;
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 e (new) Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 f (new) 15f. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to be vigilant with regard to donations and to make sure that they are not used to create an alternative market, as that could lead to those in need not benefiting from these food donations and discourage businesses from donating;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 f (new) 15f. Stresses that food waste reduction objectives must be consistent with the measures and objectives in Directive 94/62/EC and, in particular, the need for the Member States to take measures to achieve a significant reduction in the consumption of non-recyclable packaging and in overpackaging;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 15 g (new) 15g. Reiterates the need for the Commission to adopt, by 31 December 2018, horizontal regulatory measures in the sustainable consumption and production sector, and to draft an impact report to identify the regulations whose interaction is acting as a barrier to the development of synergies between sectors, including the agri-food sector, and is hindering the use of by-products;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 a (new) 16a. Considers the digital revolution and innovation a possibility to further reduce food waste; believes that collaborative economy services such as co-cooking, smart packaging and the Internet of things are important to increase awareness and promote sustainable consumption;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution Recital D a (new) Da. whereas there is no common consistent definition of 'food waste' nor a common methodology for measuring food waste at Union level yet, which makes it difficult to compare different datasets and to measure progress in reducing food waste;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas food is lost or wasted at all steps of the
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas food is lost or wasted at all steps of the supply and consumption chain; whereas estimates from the FUSIONS project indicate that the sectors contributing the most to food waste within the EU are households, at 53%, and processing, at 19%, the other contributors being retailers at 12%, primary production at 10%, and wholesalers at 5%;10
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas food is lost or wasted at all steps of the supply and consumption chain; whereas estimates from the FUSIONS project indicate that the sectors contributing the most to food waste within the EU are households (53%) and processing (19%)10 ; _________________ 10 FUSIONS, Estimates of European food waste levels, March 2016.
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas food is lost or wasted at all steps of the supply and consumption chain; whereas estimates from the FUSIONS project indicate that the sectors contributing the most to food waste within the EU are households and processing10; whereas humans play a crucial role in these processes and whereas they should be educated about them to make them aware that any minor and improper action may result in food losses, small or large; _________________ 10 FUSIONS, Estimates of European food waste levels, March 2016.
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas food is lost or wasted at all steps of the supply and consumption chain; whereas estimates from the FUSIONS project indicate that the sectors contributing the most to food waste within the EU are households and processing10 ; whereas food waste in developing countries mainly occurs due to infrastructure and technological limitations; _________________ 10 FUSIONS, Estimates of European food waste levels, March 2016.
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 9 a (new) - having regard to the European Court of Auditors report "Combating Food Waste: an opportunity for the EU to improve the resource-efficiency of the food supply chain" (2016)1a , _________________ 1a http://www.eca.europa.eu/en/Pages/DocIt em.aspx?did=40302.
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E E. whereas food is lost or wasted at all steps of the supply and consumption chain; whereas estimates from the FUSIONS project and the Refresh project indicate that the sectors contributing the most to food waste within the EU are households and processing10; _________________ 10 Fusions. FUSIONS, Estimates of European food waste levels, March 2016.
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the European Court of Auditors, in a special report, comes to the conclusion that the EU currently does not effectively combats food waste, and recommends to the Commission to develop an action plan for the years ahead; to consider food waste in its future impact assessments and better align the different EU policies which can combat food waste; and to clarify the interpretation of legal provisions that can discourage donation of food, as well as to consider how to facilitate donation in other policy areas;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the European Court of Auditors' Special Report examined the question 'Does the EU contribute to a resource-efficient food supply chain by combating food waste effectively?'; whereas the findings of the report indicate that currently the EU does not combat food waste effectively, and that existing initiatives and policies could be used more effectively to address the problem of food waste1a ; _________________ 1aEuropean Court of Auditors’ Special Report ‘Combating Food Waste: an opportunity for the EU to improve the resource-efficiency of the food supply chain’ (2016) p.44.
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the recent special report from the European Court of Auditors stated that the Commission's ambition level to tackle food waste has decreased despite several requests from the European Parliament and the Member States to address the issue; whereas the report considers Commission's action taken to date fragmented and intermittent, lacking clear coordination;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the FUSIONS project noted that there are few measurements of food losses in primary production activities such as agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture or fisheries1a ; whereas this prevents an accurate assessment of the overall scale of food waste in Europe; _________________ 1aFUSIONS, Estimates of European food waste levels, March 2016.
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas a targeted measure, tailored to the operators and the step in the chain, is more appropriate to combating food waste, as the problems encountered are not the same across the board;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the food catering sector and tourism generate around 12% of the total amount of wasted food in the EU1a; _________________ 1aFUSIONS, Estimates of European food waste levels, March 2016
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E a (new) Ea. whereas the FUSIONS project concluded that there are very few measurements of waste in agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, fisheries or other primary production activities; whereas this prevents a good assessment of the actual size of food loss and waste in Europe;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas a WRAP study in the UK indicated that at least 60% of the household food waste is avoidable and could have been eaten if it had been managed better1a ; _________________ 1aWRAP, 2015. Household Food Waste in the UK, 2015.
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E c (new) Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 10 a (new) - having regard to the study "Comparative Study on EU Member States' legislation and practices on food donation" by the European Economic and Social Committee (2014),
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas the Commission, after having invested a lot of resources, and having held a very successful public consultation in 2013, finally decided not to publish the communication entitled "Building a Sustainable European Food System", although it had already been finalized and agreed by three Commissioners (DG Environment, DG SANCO, and DG AGRI); whereas this communication contains many good approaches to address the problem of food waste;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E b (new) Eb. whereas operators in the food supply chain often internalise the cost of food waste and include it in the final consumer price of the product1a ; _________________ 1aEuropean Court of Auditors’ Special Report ‘Combating Food Waste: an opportunity for the EU to improve the resource-efficiency of the food supply chain’ (2016), p. 14.
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution Recital E c (new) Ec. whereas some losses at farm level are the result of retailer standards regarding product specifications, cancelled orders relating to changes in consumer demand, and over-production as a result of requirements to meet seasonal demands;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F Amendment 55 #
F. whereas there is no common consistent definition of ‘food waste’ nor a common methodology for measuring food waste at Union level yet, which makes it difficult to compare different datasets and to measure progress in reducing food waste; whereas
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas there is no common consistent definition of ‘food waste’ or ‘food surpluses’, nor a common methodology for measuring either food waste or food surpluses at Union level yet, which makes it difficult to compare different datasets and to measure progress in reducing food waste; whereas in the FUSIONS project, food waste was defined as ‘any food, and inedible parts of food, removed from the food supply chain to be recovered or disposed (including composted, crops
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas there is no common consistent definition of ‘food waste’ and for 'food chain surpluses' nor a common methodology for measuring food chain surpluses and food waste at Union level yet, which makes it difficult to compare different datasets and to measure progress in reducing food waste; whereas in the FUSIONS project, food waste was defined as ‘any food, and inedible parts of food, removed from the food supply chain to be recovered or disposed (including composted, crops ploughed in/not harvested, anaerobic digestion, bio-energy production, co-
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F F. whereas there is no common consistent definition of ‘food waste’ nor a common methodology for measuring food waste at Union level yet, which makes it difficult to compare different datasets and to measure progress in reducing food waste; whereas in the FUSIONS project, food waste was defined as ‘any food, and inedible parts of food, removed from the food supply chain to be recovered or disposed (including composted, crops ploughed in/not harvested, anaerobic digestion, bio-energy production, co- generation, incineration, disposal to sewer, landfill or discarded to sea)’11 ; whereas for the purpose of this report, 'food waste' means food intended for human consumption, either in edible or inedible status, removed from the production or supply chain to be discarded including at primary production, processing, manufacturing, transportation, storage, retail and consumer levels; _________________ 11 FUSIONS Definitional Framework for Food Waste, 3 July 2014.
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas the Food Loss and Waste Protocol is a multi-stakeholder effort that has developed a global accounting and reporting standard (known as the FLW Standard) for quantifying food and associated inedible parts removed from the food supply chain2a; _________________ 2aFood Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard, 2016.
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 15 a (new) - having regard to the petition ‘Stop Food Waste in Europe!’
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas fruit and vegetables damaged by a natural disaster and fruit and vegetables which are destroyed or ploughed over on family farms owing to the loss of a market or low prices represent a loss of investment and income for the farmer;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F b (new) Fb. whereas a distinction needs to be made between edible food waste and inedible parts of waste in order to avoid misleading conclusions and ineffective measures; whereas the focus of reduction efforts should be on avoiding edible food waste;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas a distinction needs to be made between edible food waste and inedible parts in order to ensure appropriate and effective measures are taken to address both types of food waste;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F a (new) Fa. whereas the data from the FUSIONS project come from a number of sources and are based on the use of various definitions of ‘food waste’;
Amendment 64 #
Fa. whereas food surpluses may be recovered for use as food for humans with the appropriate incentivising policies;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution Recital F b (new) Fb. whereas monitoring not only of how much is wasted but also of how large surpluses are and the quantities of food recovered can provide a more complete picture, which could be useful in launching good policies at EU level;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the waste management hierarchy established by the Waste Framework Directive12 (prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, recovery and disposal) cannot be applied in full to food waste
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the waste management
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the waste management hierarchy established by the Waste Framework Directive12 (prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, recovery and disposal) cannot be applied in full to food waste; whereas currently there is no specific
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution Citation 16 a (new) - having regard to the Charter of Milan adopted during the Expo Milano 2015,
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the waste management hierarchy established by the Waste Framework Directive12 (prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, recovery and disposal) cannot be applied in full to food waste; whereas currently there is no specific hierarchy for the management of unconsumed food at EU level; whereas a food waste hierarchy which takes into account the entire supply chain should be established; _________________ 12 Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3).
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the waste management hierarchy established by the Waste Framework Directive12
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the waste management hierarchy established by the Waste Framework Directive12 (prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, recovery and disposal) cannot be applied in full to food waste; whereas currently there is no specific hierarchy for the management of unconsumed food at EU level; whereas prevention ought to be the priority measure in combating food waste; _________________ 12 Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3).
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G G. whereas the waste management hierarchy established by the Waste Framework Directive12 (prevention, preparing for re-use, recycling, recovery and disposal) cannot be applied in full to food waste; whereas currently there is no specific hierarchy for the management of unconsumed food at EU level and whereas harmonised rules at EU level would bring substantial benefits when it comes to the issue of food wastage; _________________ 12 Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3).
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas food waste incineration and landfilling are still ongoing practices in some areas of the EU and are in contrast with the circular economy;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution Recital G a (new) Ga. whereas there is the potential for optimisation of the use of former foodstuffs and by-products from the food chain in animal feed production;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas date marking on food products is
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas date marking on food products is poorly understood; whereas ‘best before’ labelling indicates the date after which an item of food may still be eaten but may not be at its best in terms of quality, and ‘use by’ labelling indicates the date after which an item of food is no longer safe to eat; whereas not even half of EU citizens understand the meaning of ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ labelling14; whereas the use of these concepts and the understanding of them vary from one Member State to another, but also, for the same product, vary between different producers, processors and distributors; _________________ 14 Flash Eurobarometer 425, ‘Food waste and date marking’, September 2015.
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I. whereas date marking on food products is poorly understood and often badly placed on the product; whereas ‘best before’ labelling indicates the date
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I I whereas date marking on food products is poorly understood by consumers; whereas ‘best before’ labelling indicates the date after which an item of food may generally still be eaten but may not be at its best in terms of quality, and ‘use by’ labelling indicates the date after which an item of food is no longer safe to eat; whereas not even half of EU citizens understand the meaning of ‘best before’ and ‘use by’ labelling;14 _________________ 14 Flash Eurobarometer 425, ‘Food waste and date marking’, September 2015.
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A A. whereas the FAO estimates that each year
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas the exchange of good practices at European and international level, as well as assistance for developing countries, are of major importance in combating food waste worldwide;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution Recital I a (new) Ia. whereas labelling concerning the full cycle of foodstuffs would help to improve the provision of food information to consumers;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas the donation of unsold food along the entire supply chain leads to considerable reductions in food waste, while helping people in need who are otherwise financially unable to purchase particular food products or a sufficient quantity of food of the same quality;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas the donation of unsold food along the entire supply chain leads to considerable reductions in food waste, while helping people in need; whereas supermarkets and gastronomic outlets could play a distinctive role in this process;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas the donation of unsold food with a valid consumption date along the entire supply chain leads to considerable reductions in food waste, while helping people in need;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J whereas the donation of unsold food along the entire supply chain may lead
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas the donation of unsold food along the entire
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J J. whereas the donation of unsold food along the entire food supply chain leads to considerable reductions in food waste, while helping people in need;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas getting consumable surplus food to those in need is hindered by a bottleneck in the capacity of the distribution channel, or sometimes the complete lack of capacity of that channel; whereas charitable organisations and institutions performing social work and maintained by the State or local authorities do not have sufficient financial and human resources to be able to transport and distribute consumable food offered for charitable purposes; this is especially true of the most disadvantaged regions;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution Recital A a (new) Aa. whereas food is a precious commodity; whereas, as the „food system" utilises a lot of resources such as land, soil, water, phosphorous and energy, the efficient and sustainable managing of these resources is of utmost importance; whereas food waste causes massive economic and environmental costs (1.7 trillion USD per year on global scale according to FAO estimates1a); whereas preventing and reducing food waste provides economic benefits for households and society while at the same time decreasing environmental damage; _________________ 1aFAO „Food waste Foodprint. Impacts on natural resources"; FAO Rome, 2013.
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas European funds facilitate the donation of food, such as the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD), which enables finance to be provided for, among other necessities, storage and transport infrastructure for food donation bodies; whereas not enough use is made of these means by the Member States;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas social and bottom-up programmes, for example food banks or eating places operated by charitable organisations, reduce food wastage and assist the poorest people, and therefore help to establish a responsible and aware society;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Recital J a (new) Ja. whereas in the Single Market many companies produce food for more than one country; whereas unsold products from such companies in some instances cannot be donated in the country of production due to labelling in foreign languages;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution Recital K a (new) Ka. whereas the European Commission is currently working on a clarification of European legislation on donations;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas countries such as Italy
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas countries such as Italy and France have adopted legislation that facilitates food donation by excluding donor liability for food that is donated in good faith and known to be fit for consumption at the time of donation;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L L. whereas countries such as Italy have adopted legislation that defines the food chain surpluses, provides a hierarchy for the recovery of surpluses, giving priority to human consumption, and for that reason facilitates food donation by excluding donor liability for food that is donated in good faith and known to be fit for consumption at the time of donation;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution Recital L a (new) La. whereas countries may also adopt national voluntary guidelines for food donations, such as the one prepared by the food safety authorities in Finland, which is aimed at reducing avoidable food waste;
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Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph -1 (new) -1 Notes that the Draft Opinion includes in its title, resource efficiency, reducing food waste, and improving food safety; believes that the current model of industrial agriculture: is neither resource efficient, in that current agricultural practices are consuming the earth's natural resources at an unsustainable rate leading to environmental degradation; does not contribute to reducing food waste, in that current agricultural policy promotes mass production of products often below the cost of production, to be sold on again at discounted prices which encourages over consumption and waste; neither does it improve food safety, as within a globalized food chain there is a lack of transparency in the origin of food stuffs and increased difficulty in regulating the products within it;
Amendment 10 #
Amendment 100 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Emphasises that educational and awareness-raising initiatives and measures, especially for the household sector, can significantly lower food wastage and increase social initiatives aimed at collecting excess foodstuffs;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Considers it essential to work towards preventing food from becoming a by-product;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Is of the view that the concepts of food wastage, food waste and discards (or residue) from a production process in the food chain need to be clarified;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 c (new) 6c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage exchanges of best practices and to promote public awareness campaigns on the value of foodstuffs and agricultural produce and the causes and consequences of food wastage and on the ways of reducing it, whilst promoting a scientific, public- spirited culture based on the principles of sustainability and solidarity; calls on the Member States to encourage the introduction of food education courses at all educational levels, including higher education, explaining, for example, how to preserve, cook and dispose of food, thereby encouraging better behaviour; underlines the important role of local authorities and municipal enterprises, alongside that of retailers and the media, in providing information and assistance to citizens on preventing and reducing food waste;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes that
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes that farmer-led initiatives can offer
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes that farmer-led initiatives that tailor production to demand can offer viable economic solutions and
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes that farmer-led initiatives can offer viable economic solutions and provide value for products which might otherwise go to waste, and highlights the potential of farmer-led social innovation projects such as gleaning and donation of excess foodstuffs to food banks but notes that these initiatives risk devaluing food further and that programmes to repurpose food waste should not absolve the obligation of Member States to meet their citizens' right to food;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes that farmer-led initiatives can offer viable economic solutions and provide value for products which might otherwise go to waste, by developing markets for products that would normally be excluded from the food chain, and highlights the potential of farmer-led social innovation projects such as gleaning and donation of excess foodstuffs to food banks;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes that farmer-led initiatives can offer viable economic solutions and provide value for products which might otherwise go to waste
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses that food waste must be analyzed in a cross-cutting manner, as it affects several policies at the same time, including agriculture, fisheries, food safety, environment, social affairs and tax policy; insists therefore on the need to better harmonize the different policies and establish the reduction of food waste as a clear objective of existing policies;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes that farmer-led initiatives can offer viable economic solutions and provide value for products which might otherwise go to waste, and highlights the potential of farmer-led social innovation projects such as gleaning and donation of excess foodstuffs to food
Amendment 111 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 – point 1 (new) (1) Calls on the Commission to revise the VAT Directive (2006/112/EC) with a view to ensuring that all Member States offer tax exemptions on food donations;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the Member States to contact supermarkets to make sure that any food that is about to expire is donated to charity or used for animal feed and for the production of compost for agriculture; calls, therefore, on the Member States to provide for a mandatory agreement between supermarkets and organisations; supports good examples of food waste reduction such as the Last Minute Market project in Italy, whereby unsold produce is recovered and donated to charities and the needy;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Notes that unfair trade practices and price dumping in the food sector result in food often being sold at below its real value, thus leading to more wastage, and that a ban on selling at below the production price is urgently needed, partly in order to raise consumers' awareness of the true value of food;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Stresses however that the use of stocks and food that would otherwise be wasted, either for the vulnerable poor in food banks or in energy production, does not preclude the need for good supply management and wise management of the food chain which avoids systematic structural surpluses and which matches EU production with demand;
Amendment 115 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Notes that the food industry has already taken initiatives to reduce food waste by strengthening cooperation with food banks throughout Europe; notes, however, that there are still barriers to donations, mainly of legal nature; calls on the Commission to clarify the interpretation of the legal provisions discouraging donations;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7 a. Believes in the polluter pays principle and calls on the Commission to review the VAT Directive in order to allow Member States to put sustainable products in the low VAT rate category and products that incur environmental damage and animal suffering in the high VAT rate category;
Amendment 117 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Stresses that, in order to reduce wastage at the production stage, innovative techniques and technologies should be used to optimise performance in the fields and convert those products that do not meet market standards into processed goods;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to establish institutional and financial means of support for social shops and supermarkets;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 b (new) 7 b. Stresses that, in the context of food aid, VAT on food donations is due, but Member States may consider that the value used for the calculation of VAT is low or close to zero if the donation is made close to the recommended date of consumption or if the foodstuffs are unsaleable; notes that in practice VAT on food aid is treated differently from one Member State to another; calls, therefore, on the Commission to clarify the rules on the application of the VAT Directive in the case of food aid;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Calls on the Commission to draw a clear distinction in its future policies between food wastage, which is caused by consumer behaviour and can be minimised by appropriate initiatives and awareness-raising campaigns, and food loss, which is unavoidable at primary production level owing to force majeure events such as storms;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 c (new) 7 c. Stresses that price volatility, extreme or unusual climate events and the prolongation of the Russian embargo are responsible for food waste in the agricultural sector; stresses the importance of building bridges between farmers and food banks to encourage the development of agricultural donations;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 d (new) 7 d. Calls for the restoration of an effective policy to regulate agricultural markets in order to better match supply to demand and thus reduce food waste;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that some wastage at farm level is also due to the role played by retailers
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that some wastage at farm level
Amendment 124 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that some wastage at farm level is also due to the role played by retailers in relation to retailer standards regarding product specifications, cancelled orders owing to changes in consumer demand, and over-production as a result of requirements to meet seasonal demands
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that some wastage at farm level is also due to the role played by retailers in relation to retailer standards regarding product specifications, cancelled orders owing to changes in consumer demand, and over-production as a result of requirements to meet seasonal demands; applauds the role of national authorities such as the Groceries Code Adjudicator in the UK in tackling these practices where they exploit farmers.
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that some wastage at farm level is also due to the role played by retailers in relation to retailer standards regarding product specifications, cancelled orders owing to changes in consumer demand, and over-production as a result of requirements to meet seasonal demands; encourages producer groups to conclude contracts with retailers in order to obviate unwanted effects of this kind.
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that some wastage at farm level is also due to the role played by retailers in relation to retailer standards regarding product specifications, cancelled orders owing to changes in consumer demand, and over-production as a result of requirements to meet seasonal demands
Amendment 129 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that some wastage at farm level is also due to the role played by retailers in relation to retailer standards regarding product specifications, cancelled orders owing to changes in
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses that local and regional products, as well as community-supported agriculture schemes, enable shorter supply chains, which increase the quality standards of products and support seasonal demands, thus having considerable social, environmental and economic benefits;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Notes that some wastage and loss at farm level is also due to the role played by retailers in relation to retailer standards regarding product specifications, cancelled orders owing to changes in consumer demand, and over-production as a result of requirements to meet seasonal demands.
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1 (new) Emphasises that food wastage at the production stage can also stem from the deterioration of our agricultural production base resulting from the degradation of land, biodiversity (reduced pollination) and natural resources of all kinds, and that due account needs to be taken of this in the future development of farming and the common agricultural policy.
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 – point 1 (new) (1) Notes the importance of access to plant protection products for farmers to ensure that crop quality is maintained and harvests are not lost due to adverse weather conditions, pests and diseases;
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 – point 1 (new) (1) Believes it important to ensure that land is properly managed under the common agricultural policy and national policies in order to contain food losses caused indirectly by poorly managed urbanisation and infrastructure development or the abandonment of farmland that has become economically unattractive to farm.
Amendment 134 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 – point 2 (new) (2) Notes the role and objectives of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste in relation to optimisation of use of former foodstuffs and by-products from the food chain in feed production and its importance for primary production;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 – point 3 (new) (3) Notes the UN Sustainable Development Goals target to reduce food waste by 2030;
Amendment 136 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 – point 4 (new) (4) Highlights that the FUSIONS project noted that there are few measurements of food losses in primary production activities such as agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture or fisheries and this may prevent an accurate assessment of the overall scale of food waste in Europe.
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes that, under the pressure of dumping from within and outside the EU and discount wars between supermarket chains, producers are often obliged to leave their crops to rot in the fields so as not to incur further costs or sustain further losses; points out, furthermore, that contractual systems are not always a satisfactory response to improper practices of this kind; calls accordingly for swift action to introduce regulatory measures and ban excessive discounting of fresh produce in supermarkets;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Calls on the Member States to encourage and support initiatives geared to stimulating sustainable small- and medium-scale production that is linked to local and regional markets and consumption; acknowledges that local markets are environmentally sustainable and contribute to the stability of the primary sector; asks that the common agricultural policy earmark, in the future, the necessary funding to promote stability in the primary sector, for example by means of direct sales, local markets and all measures to promote low or zero food miles 1a ; _________________ 1aEP resolution of 19.01.2012 on how to avoid food wastage: strategies for a more efficient food chain in the EU (2011/2175 INI)
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Points out that the current production system, which is largely based on industrial agriculture, has helped obscure the awareness of the intrinsic value of food, encouraging its wastage; considers, therefore, that a greater focus on family, small-scale and sustainable farming could reverse this perception and prompt farmers to produce only the quantities that are really necessary, paying greater attention to the needs of consumers and the environment;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Stresses that around 88 million tonnes of food are wasted in the EU every year, with associated costs estimated at 143 billion euros; stresses that reducing food waste is one of the key strategies to combat hunger in the world;
Amendment 140 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Notes that market standards contribute to food waste. Therefore, asks the Commission to promote research on the relation between marketing standards and food waste; calls upon the Commission and the Member States to influence the UNECE public standards with the aim of avoiding the waste of resources by preventing the generation of food waste.
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Stresses the importance of the new "school schemes programmes" and in particular the introduction of compulsory accompanying measures, such as promotion of conscious food consumption in education; stresses the importance of using these accompanying measures to convey educational messages about food waste and its prevention.
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Points out that Regulation 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council includes among foods even water 'intentionally incorporated into the food during its manufacture, preparation or treatment' and that water is a key strategic resource for the entire agri-food industry;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Highlights the findings of the Special Report No 34 of the European Court of Auditors "Combating food waste: an opportunity for the EU to improve the use of resources in the food chain"', stressing that Commission's action regarding food waste has so far been sporadic and fragmented;
Amendment 144 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Notes that the amount of rejected crops could be reduced if they were sold closer to consumers, for example in farmers' markets and farm shops, where marketing circuits are short and the products purchased are local products with little processing;
Amendment 145 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Points out that fairer pay to producers would increase the value of the products, resulting in a reduction of food wastage in the final links of the supply chain;
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Stresses the importance of tailoring distribution, conservation and packaging procedures closely to the features of each product and to consumer needs, in order to limit product wastage;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8 a. Calls on the EU Commission and Member States to launch a campaign to raise awareness among the EU citizens on the serious economic, social and environmental implications of food wastage;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Supports those methods of reducing food wastage which have hitherto proved effective, for example selling food locally and short food supply chains;
Amendment 149 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Believes that the quality requirements regarding appearance, laid down by both EU or national legislation and internal company rules, which stipulate the size and shape of fresh fruit and vegetables in particular, are the reason behind a great deal of unnecessary discards, which increase the amount of food wasted; calls on stakeholders to know and to explain the nutritional value of agricultural products with imperfect shapes or sizes in order to reduce waste products;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Points out that farmers are already being hit by loss of investment and income owing to the effects of the Russian embargo, declining market shares, natural disasters, price volatility, and unfair trading practice within the food supply chain;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Notes the significant waste of resources and money, including input cost and vet bills, involved with feeding high protein grains to ruminants, especially when farmers are suffering from an overproduction in milk; notes that ruminants have evolved to eat grass and other vegetation and obtain protein by digesting bacterial fermentations; calls for information to farmers and promotion of less input-dependent systems based predominantly on grazing;
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Calls for a comparative study to be conducted into the various means of reducing food wastage, such as: - ensuring that unsold food fit for human consumption may still be used by donating or processing it, - use in animal feed, - use as compost for farms or to produce energy, in particular through fermentation;
Amendment 152 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to continue supporting projects and promotion-oriented educational campaigns that teach children from an early age to consume fresh, wholesome locally produced food, one example being the EAThink2015 project; considers that promotion of this kind should be extended to encompass educational institutions through schemes for delivering milk, fruit, and vegetables to such institutions;
Amendment 153 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Encourages EU citizens to change their eating habits, in particular with regards to meat and dairy products in order to minimize food wasted for production of animal feed, rationalize food purchases and do not waste food in order to contribute to the overall reduction of the food waste and thereby to combat climate change;
Amendment 154 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8 b. Regrets that the implementation of the Member States' obligation to report on their food waste has been delayed by the Commission, as well as the Commission's deadline to adopt an implementing act laying down a common methodology for the evaluation of the food quantities.
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Stresses that food wastage, depending on the quality, type and quantity of water used for food production, also involves a substantial waste of water;
Amendment 156 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and stakeholders to improve the provision of information to consumers on how best to keep and/or use food;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) 8 c. Notes also the resource waste involved in feeding grain to animals and the trophic losses and inevitable energy inefficiencies involved in rearing animals for food; notes in this context the relative resource-efficiency of reducing meat consumption from current historically high levels and replacing meat with more pulses, legumes, whole grains and seeds and for optimal human nutrition with less environmental impact;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) 8c. Calls on the Commission to determine where and to what extent food wastage occurs among individual agricultural sectors and within given links of the food supply chain; calls on the Member States to exchange information and experience related to effective measures; calls on the Commission to propose guidelines based on proven data and best practice;
Amendment 159 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) 8 c. Regrets the lack of a common definition of 'food waste' at the European level, despite repeated calls from the European Parliament, the Council, the Committee of the Regions and the G20; calls, therefore, on the Commission to reflect on the establishment of such a definition.
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1 a. Recognises that many farmers are in a difficult economic situation due to low food prices and a failed agricultural policy that is based on mass production of cheap food for the world market rather than on the supply for EU demand;
Amendment 160 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) 8c. Points to the importance of improving water management in agriculture, developing 'water-smart' food production systems and increasing water and food safety and security in areas that are most at risk because of climate change;
Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 c (new) 8c. Stresses that the utilisation of by- products should be regarded as one means of combating food wastage;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 d (new) 8d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to coordinate their efforts as quickly as possible and put forward a framework for a Europe-wide solution to the problem of unfair trading practices in the food supply chain, proceeding from the recommendations set out in Parliament's resolution of 7 June 2016; believes that resolving this problem will improve the position of farmers, the weakest links in the chain, and, by lowering overproduction and the accumulation of surpluses, could help not only to stabilise prices and incomes, but also to reduce both food wastage along the entire chain and losses generated on family farms;
Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 d (new) 8d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States closely to monitor food donations in order to make sure that the food is not siphoned off and sold on alternative markets, as this would prevent it from reaching those in need and discourage people in the trade from making donations, on account of the risk of this resulting in unfair competition;
Amendment 164 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 d (new) 8 d. Stresses that the agriculture sector has a key role to play in reducing food waste and notes with concern that the Commission has never conducted a study to determine the impact of the different reforms on the volume of agricultural production and its effect on food waste; calls, therefore, on the Commission to integrate the issue of food waste into the next review of the CAP;
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 d (new) 8 d. Notes the absurdity of mass producing evermore limited range of staple food commodities and shipping them around the world where identical cargoes pass each other in container ships; notes this is the antithesis of short food chains and is completely wasteful of limited resources, yet is the basis for international trade deals like TTIP and CETA;
Amendment 166 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 d (new) 8d. Reiterates the importance of the 'water footprint' concept for food and feed;
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 e (new) 8 e. Notes that we already massively overproduce as between and third and half of all food produced ends up as waste, therefore questions the presentation of the supposed need to increase production still further by 2050; therefore considers that emphasis should rather be placed on promoting less wasteful production, processing and distribution methods.
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 e (new) 8 e. Stresses the importance of the new "school schemes programmes" and in particular the introduction of compulsory accompanying measures, such as the promotion of conscious food consumption in education; stresses the importance of using these accompanying measures to convey educational messages about food waste and its prevention;
Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 e (new) 8e. Points out that the EU provides funding to facilitate the donation of food, including under the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD), which is used, inter alia, to finance storage and transport facilities for food aid organisations; takes the view that Member States do not make sufficient use of the opportunities on offer in this area;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Notes that producers to some extent accept the wastage or destruction of food as part of the balance of profitability;
Amendment 170 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 e (new) 8e. Calls on the Member States to support short food supply chains and in- home selling of agricultural products, thereby helping to reduce food wastage;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 f (new) 8f. Calls on the Commission to bring forward an amendment to the VAT Directive that would explicitly authorise tax exemptions on food donations; calls on the Member States to follow the recommendations made by the Commission and set VAT at a lower or close-to-zero rate for donations made close to the 'best before' date or where food is unsaleable;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 g (new) 8g. Points out that 'buy one, get one free' marketing strategies increase the risk of consumers buying more than they need, thus increasing the risk of foodstuffs that are not close to the 'use by' date going to waste; welcomes the fact that some retailers discount products coming up to the 'use by' date, and believes that this should become the general practice;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Points out that food wastage is caused by a range of factors and cannot be attributed solely to agricultural policy and rural development;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Calls for the establishment in EU legislation of a comprehensive food waste hierarchy with a clear focus on source prevention; stresses that prevention at source is the top priority in the waste hierarchy for food waste; notes that thereafter comes use for the human diet, and only then feedstuffs for animals, then composting and anaerobic decomposition, i.e. a) source prevention; b) edible food rescue, prioritising human use over animal feed and the reprocessing into non-food products; c) organic recycling; d) energy recovery; e) disposal;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Emphasises that
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Emphasises that unfair trading practices in the supply chain can result in food wastage; draws attention to Parliament's call for the Commission to establish a legislative framework providing an effective means of addressing such practices;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Calls on the Commission to carry out an impact assessment of the different policies to tackle food waste such as agriculture, fisheries, food safety, environment or tax policy;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1 b. Stresses that food wastage has huge environmental consequences, contributes to climate change and represents a waste of limited resources such as land, energy and water;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new) 1b. Notes that the processing industry to some extent accepts the wastage or destruction of food as part of the balance of profitability;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Welcomes the recent establishment of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste to allow stakeholders to share information on this issue; calls on the Commission to supply Parliament with a detailed schedule of the measures under way and the objectives and sub-objectives set, as well as a progress report on the work on a common methodology and on donations;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. stresses that the use of food waste for energy production must not cause a clash between food and fuel, and energy needs should be met rather by using waste and by-products that are not useful in any other process higher up the waste hierarchy (e.g. organic waste ought to act as input for composting/topsoil creation);
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1 c. Notes that the global food production is more than enough to feed the growing world population, but highlights that the production is not sustainable and that large volumes of food go to waste;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new) 1c. Notes that consumers to some extent accept the wastage or destruction of food for reasons of convenience;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1 d. Stresses that the industrialization of European agriculture has led to the sector putting heavy pressure on natural resources such as water, soil and energy to an extent that is not sustainable; stresses that, in terms of circular economy and resource efficiency, it is not appropriate to use natural resources for the production of food, only to subsequently waste a considerable share of it, even in order to generate additional income;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new) 1d. Stresses in this connection that cognitive education and practical cooking knowledge and skills are the best prevention against food wastage in the private sphere;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Emphasises that farmers’ livelihoods depend on getting produce to the market and that
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use of
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use of former foodstuffs and by- products from the food chain, in particular those of animal origin, in feed production and its importance for primary production
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use of former foodstuffs and by- products from the food chain in feed production and
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use of former foodstuffs and by- products from the food chain in feed production and its importance for primary production, but stresses the need for increased traceability, so as to secure indications of provenance in connection with processing, production and sale of the final product to consumers;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use of former foodstuffs and by- products from the food chain in feed production and its importance for primary production, but stresses the need for increased traceability; calls on Member States to monitor and communicate in good time food losses in the consumption process;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use of former foodstuffs and by- products from the food chain in feed production and its importance for primary production, but stresses the need for increased traceability and compliance with zootechnical and biosecurity standards;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use of former foodstuffs and by- products from the food chain in feed production and its importance for primary production, but stresses the need for increased traceability and for steps to prevent improper practices ;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Emphasises that farmers’ livelihoods depend on getting their produce to the market and the level of tax on farm incomes and that loss of produce at farm level equates to loss of investment, jobs (since, for every job in the primary sector, between five and eight jobs at least are secured and safeguarded in the secondary and tertiary sectors) and income;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Notes the potential for optimisation of use of former foodstuffs and by- products from the food chain in feed production and its importance for primary production, but stresses the use of waste hierarchy and need for increased traceability;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Takes the view that regulation of agricultural production needs to be established as an instrument for matching supply and demand, and at the same time measures need to be introduced that will guarantee decent prices for producers and avoid the need constantly to increase the level of production in order to maintain a minimum level of income;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Highlights the initiatives contained in the Circular Economy Action Plan covering measures for establishing a financial support platform to attract investment and innovations aimed at reducing losses, as well the guidelines addressed to the Member States for converting food losses into energy;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new) 2 a. Stresses that it is unacceptable to produce a surplus of animal products; calls on the Commission to put an end to buy-up schemes for these products;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new) 2 b. Stresses that the majority of food waste is caused by feeding animals with food that is also suitable for human consumption;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of co
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of cooperation, for example via Producer Organisations, for increased access to finance for innovation and investment in treatment technologies such as composting and anaerobic digestion or further processing of
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of cooperation, for example via Producer Organisations or other bodies such as interbranch organisations and cooperatives, for increased access to finance for innovation and investment in treatment technologies such as composting and anaerobic digestion or further processing of products which could allow farmers to access new market and customers; points out in this connection that better sectoral organisation results in better production management and more effective action against food wastage;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of cooperation, for example via Producer Organisations, for increased access to finance for innovation and investment in treatment technologies such as composting and anaerobic digestion or further processing of products which could allow farmers to access new market and customers; believes that it is essential that this is done at local or regional level to respect the proximity principle and also so that local populations can retain control of and benefit from new income streams that might be generated;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Emphasises that farmers’ livelihoods depend on getting produce to the market and that loss of produce at farm level equates to loss of investment and income; acknowledges that farm subsidies do not encourage farmers or supply chain actors to consider supply and demand dynamics and considers that the supply chain needs to take more responsibility for the commercial output of farms;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of cooperation, for example via Producer Organisations, for increased access to finance for innovation and investment in treatment technologies such as composting and anaerobic digestion or further processing of damaged products which could allow farmers to access new market and customers, while pointing to the importance of using waste to regenerate land that has been farmed;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Highlights the importance of cooperation, for example via Producer Organisations, for increased access to finance for innovation and investment in treatment technologies such as composting and anaerobic digestion or further processing of products which could allow farmers to access new products, market and customers;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Draws attention to the role public agencies providing services of general interest play in waste management and in efforts to combat food wastage, and calls for the Commission to recognised the efforts of undertakings, such as SMEs, that make a direct contribution to the circular economy;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Highlights the importance of redirecting aid towards production models based on agro-ecology, linking production to the land, and eliminating imports of animal feed that lead to the production of surpluses which flood the markets and destroy small farms in the European Union and in third countries;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3 a. Stresses the importance of bringing together farmers in cooperatives or professional associations in order to reduce food losses by strengthening their knowledge of markets, allowing more efficient programming, economies of scale and improving their capacity to market their production;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes the benefits of
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes the benefits of
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes the benefits of access to data and forecasts and developing advance production programmes for farmers, enabling them to better match supply to demand and minimise wastage; emphasises the need for state-coordinated or EU supported measures for dynamic and reactive supply management in the event of a crisis induced by over- production, in order to align production with EU demand, thus stabilising prices and reducing waste;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes the benefits of access to data and forecasts and developing advance production programmes for farmers, enabling them to better match supply to demand and minimise wastage; believes that short supply chains can play a vital role in reducing food waste, reducing food miles, providing higher quality food, transparent food chains and in doing so underpin the economic viability of rural communities;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes the benefits of access to data and forecasts and developing advance production programmes for farmers, enabling them to better match supply to demand and minimise wastage; insists that a coordinated forecasting body be established at EU level with a view to averting overproduction bottlenecks and price volatility;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Emphasises that farmers’ livelihoods depend on getting produce to the market and that loss of produce at farm level equates to loss of investment and income; points out in this connection that price volatility on agricultural markets affects production and farmers' incomes and can result in food going to waste, and that appropriate tools to address price volatility therefore need to be built in to the CAP;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes the benefits of access to data and forecasts and developing advance production programmes for farmers, enabling them to better match supply to demand and minimise wastage; stresses that as zero tolerance with food waste is challenging to achieve, effective use of food waste in bio economy shall be promoted;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes the benefits of digitalization which allows better access to data and forecasts and developing advance production programmes for farmers, enabling them to better coordinate with the other sectors of the food supply chain and better match supply to demand and minimise wastage;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Notes the benefits of access to data and forecasts and developing advance production programmes for farmers, and highlights the need to restore public instruments to regulate production, enabling them to better match supply to demand and minimise wastage;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 (new) Stresses the importance of making production forecasting tools available under the CAP in order to match supply as closely as possible to demand and thereby avoid situations in which agricultural and food surpluses result in food wastage;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Takes the view that in order to better match product supply to demand, labelling rules that provide appropriate information on the origin of the ingredients and the production and processing techniques used would enable consumers to make more informed purchases, thereby having an indirect influence also on production factors, which would have a positive impact in environmental, economic and social terms;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses that agricultural incomes should be increased by providing farmers with fair and remunerative farm gate prices, using public funds to pay for services provided to society, and aligning production with EU demand (to avoid the low prices caused by over-production or foreign policy changes);
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Notes, likewise, the need to create cooperative channels enabling surplus crops from one farm to be used to remedy the shortage of crops on another, with the aim of guaranteeing prices in the event of surplus harvests;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Draws attention to the important role the programme for the distribution of fruit, vegetables, bananas and milk in schools plays in raising public awareness; calls on the Member States to make greater use of the opportunities afforded by these programmes;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4 a. Stresses the fact that, in general, the EU produces more food than domestic consumption demands and thereby it contributes to the food-wastage phenomenon with agricultural overproduction as one of its causes;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Calls for a tailor-made approach in the EU agricultural production, so that production is adjusted to the demand in order to avoid over-supply and food wastage, with positive effects also on the environment;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Emphasises that farmers’ livelihoods depend on getting produce to the market and realizing a return for their produce and that loss of produce at farm level equates to loss of investment and income;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4 b. Calls on the EU-Commission and Member States to provide additional incentives for the prevention of food waste;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4 c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to better inform farmers and consumers about more efficient management of energy, water and natural resources throughout the food chain, so as to significantly reduce waste of resources and food, with the aim of reducing input costs and nutrient wastage and increasing innovation and sustainability within farming systems;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research and information is needed on
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research and information is needed
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research and information is needed on enabling access to secondary market opportunities and alternative uses for by-products
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research and information is needed on enabling access to secondary market opportunities and alternative uses for products which would otherwise be ploughed back into the soil or wasted; in this regard, those products that can still be used for non- food purposes should be clearly distinguished from that which is considered to be waste, in order not to jeopardise their re-use;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research and information is needed on enabling access to secondary market opportunities and alternative uses for products which would otherwise be ploughed back into the soil or wasted, e.g. during the Russian embargo; stresses that, in order to keep food waste to an absolute minimum, farmers should be put into a position both technically and economically to use their products in the most resource efficient way;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research and information is needed on enabling access to secondary market opportunities and alternative uses for products which would otherwise be ploughed back into the soil or wasted, such as selling at lower grade for processed foods, selling at local markets or use in animal feed;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research and information
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Emphasises that farmers’ livelihoods depend on getting produce to the market at remunerative prices and that loss of produce at farm level equates to loss of investment and income;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Considers that increased research and information is needed on enabling access to secondary market opportunities and alternative uses for products which would otherwise be ploughed back into the soil
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Takes the view that the greatest barrier in the EU to the delivery of still edible surplus food to those in need - and this is the second level of the food-wasting hierarchy - is the shortage, or sometimes complete lack, of capacity in the distribution channel; notes that charitable organisations and state- or local government-run social work bodies do not have enough material or human resources to transport and distribute the still edible food offered for charitable purposes; notes that this is true in particular of the most disadvantaged regions;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Notes the contamination risk involved from plastic and metal in food waste inputs to compost and soil, and onwards to freshwater and marine ecosystems, and urges that this pollution route be minimised; Recalls in addition the intention of the sewage sludge in agriculture directive, to minimise contamination in agricultural soils; calls therefore for caution when considering mixing of waste streams and for appropriate safeguards;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Emphasises that the Commission and the Member States should first and foremost consult with all key stakeholders - including the agricultural sector - on any proposed measures to be implemented to prevent food waste throughout the Union;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Expresses concern for a binding food waste hierarchy and calls instead for the establishment of guidelines and the sharing of best practices in order to determine the most resource efficient use of food waste and food loss;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5 a. Encourages Member States and the Commission to promote local and organic food and short food supply chains which can contribute to the reduction of the food waste;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Considers that donated food should be exempted from VAT and that the EU VAT Directive should be amended accordingly;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Notes that, under the EU's food aid programme (FEAD), it is also possible for material resources allocated to the programme to be used for the delivery of surplus food to its destination; recommends, in the light of the above, that, when implementing FEAD, resources available under the programme be reallocated for the delivery of surplus food; notes that by reallocating resources - according to a previous model drawn up by European charitable organisations - the value of the food delivered to the most in need could be increased 14 times as compared with the current utilisation of the FEAD programme;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new) 5 b. Stresses that fight against food wastage should not compromise food safety and environmental standards, nor animal protection standards, notably animal health and welfare;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Emphasises that farmers’ livelihoods depend on getting produce to the market at fair conditions and that loss of produce at farm level equates to loss of investment and income;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes the difficulty in quantifying food wastage and food loss at the primary production stage
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes the difficulty in quantifying food wastage at the primary production stage, and calls on the Commission to identify and disseminate to Member States best practice in relation to gathering data on food loss and food waste on farms with a view to conducting information campaigns, without placing an additional administrative burden on farmers; calls on the Commission to have the proceedings of the EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste made available in the 24 EU languages;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes the difficulty in quantifying food wastage at the primary production stage, and calls on the Commission to identify and disseminate to Member States best practice in relation to gathering data on food loss and food waste on farms and ports without placing an additional administrative burden on farmers
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes the difficulty in quantifying food wastage at the primary production stage and the need for an agreed technical definition of 'food wastage', and calls on the Commission to identify and disseminate to Member States best practice in relation to gathering data on food loss and food waste on farms without placing an additional administrative burden on farmers;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes the difficulty in quantifying and preventing food wastage at the primary production stage, and calls on the Commission to identify and disseminate to Member States best practice in relation to gathering data on food loss and food waste on farms without placing an additional administrative burden on farmers;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Notes the difficulty in quantifying food wastage at the primary production stage, and calls on the Commission to identify and disseminate to Member States best practice in relation to gathering data on food loss and food waste on farms without placing an additional administrative burden on farmers and saddling them with additional costs;
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Notes that food waste is a problem at every stage of the chain, whether it is production, processing, marketing, transport or consumption; insists therefore on the need to improve communication between all actors in the food supply chain, in particular between suppliers and distributors, in order to match supply and demand, the discrepancies of which are one of the main causes of food waste;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6 a. Calls on all stakeholders in the food production, supply and consumption chains, from consumers and retailers to the food processors and producers, including farmers, to use various best practices from the EU Member States to combat food losses and prevent food waste generation on different levels along the food production, supply and consumption chains;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Considers that when fruit and vegetables are damaged in a natural disaster or are destroyed or ploughed in on family farms because a market has been lost or prices are low, this amounts to a loss of investment and income for farmers;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Points out that at farm level, the products that are not placed on the market can find other outlets, such as the fertilisation of fields, conversion into feed, or use for the production of compost and energy;
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