11 Amendments of Biljana BORZAN related to 2023/0105(COD)
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Honey needs to be valued as a high quality food to ensure a level playing field for Union honey producers and protection for consumers and nature. Bees, along with butterflies and beetles, are vital to our ecosystems by pollinating plants and enriching soil.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
(3b) Coordinated action is needed to develop and improve highly sensitive testing methods that will enable to test the authenticity of honey and help to identify suspicious honey samples and detect fraudulent adulteration of honey with added sugar syrup. This also includes the collection of traceability information and investigations at the place of import, processing, blending, and packaging.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Member States and Commission should respect the results of the EFSA study on Tolerable upper intake level for dietary sugars1a, especially that free and added sugars need to be classed together in terms of the health outcomes for citizens. _________________ 1a https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/ep df/10.2903/j.efsa.2022.7074
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 b (new)
Recital 4 b (new)
(4b) Member States and Commission should take into account the One Health approach to ensure that the links of human and animal health and the environment are respected. Food needs to be healthy for humans, animals and the planet by taking into account animal welfare and planetary boundaries including GHG emissions to ensure that the binding targets as set by the European Climate Law are fully respected.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In 2012, Directive 2001/112/EC was amended by Directive 2012/12/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council22 to reflect the new rules on authorised ingredients, such as those pertaining to the addition of sugars, which were no longer authorised in fruit juices. In the light of this change of compositional requirements for fruit juices, the fruit juice industry was allowed to use, for one year only, a statement indicating that no fruit juices contain added sugars, in order to inform consumers and enable them to make an immediate clear distinction between fruit juices and other certain similar products in terms of the addition of sugars in the products. This short time-span proved insufficient to inform society that, following the new rules on authorised ingredients, the addition of sugars is no longer authorised in fruit juices. As a result, for some of the consumers and health practitioners, it is still not clear that fruit juices, contrary to fruit nectars, cannot contain added sugarlthough fruit juices do not contain added sugar they are still high in sugars. As a result consuming too much sugar is linked to an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, dental cavities and some types of cancer. This has to be made clearer to consumers and health practitioners, as this misleading information tends to encourage substitution of fruits or other nutritious food with fruit juices, particularly among children and other vulnerable groups. _________________ 22 Directive 2012/12/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 April 2012 amending Council Directive 2001/112/EC relating to fruit juices and certain similar products intended for human consumption (OJ L 115, 27.4.2012, p. 1).
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 b (new)
Recital 6 b (new)
(6b) Changing lifestyles had an impact and changed our eating habits, which also led to increased production of processed foods. Statistics show that the consumption of foods high in energy, fat, free or/and added sugar and salt/sodium has increased significantly and that many people do not consume enough fruits, vegetables and other fiber such as whole grains. Therefore, any accelerated improvement in transparency to consumers is important, including the banning problematic and misleading labelling information on various products. Products such as juices or nectars that promote reduced sugar levels are often not a healthier option than products with natural or low added sugar and are not suitable to substitute fresh fruits or vegetables.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Therefore, considering, in particular, that consumers are increasingly aware of health concerns linked to the consumption of sugar, it is appropriate to revise the rules on the use of statements on sugar for fruit juices to allow consumers to make informed choices. It is therefore appropriate to reintroduce, without a time limitation, the possibility for the industry to use the statement indicating that no fruit juices contain added sugars, accompanied by the indication contains 'naturally occurring sugars’, as listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a. _________________ 1a Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (OJ L 404, 30.12.2006, p. 9).
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) Member States and the Commission should take full account of the negative health effects of aspartame as it is possibly carcinogenic to humans according to International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization's (WHO). EFSA should review aspartame following the WHO announcements by 31 December 2024.
Amendment 235 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c
Directive 2001/112/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Without prejudice to Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council**, the statement ‘no fruit juices contain added sugars’ may only appear together with the indication 'contains naturally occurring sugars’, as listed in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a, on the label in the same field of vision as the name of the products referred to in Part I, point 1, of Annex I to this Directive.
Amendment 262 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)