25 Amendments of Martina ANDERSON related to 2013/2091(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU regulatory framework in place for food safety and the food chain has provided the highest level of food safety for EU consumers until now; however, the current legislation is still fragile and not always reliable and therefore there is a need for improvements on the ground;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas problems also lie in the implementation of the current legislation and there is a need to have more effective official controls on food from animal production at each stage of the food chain;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas transparency is a key component of the Commission and Member States’ approach towards food safety controls;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas recent fraud cases include the marketing of horsemeat as beef, ordinary flour as organic flour, of battery cage eggs as organic eggs, of road salt as food salt and of horsemeat as beef, and the use of methanol- contaminated alcohol in spirits;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the massive-scale fraud of horse meat meals throughout Europe is the symptom of an uncontrollable globalised supply system, cut-price agri- food productivism and an incomplete labelling system;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas the FVO and Member States should include unannounced official controls for the detection of potential food fraud in their national control plans;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas Member States are invited to set and enforce serious penalties for commercial operators that commit fraud and cheat with regard to food. Those penalties should be at least as large as the revenue gains from fraud or cheating;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Stresses that consumer confidence in the food chain is continuously shaken by scandals relating to food safety and that measures must be taken to fight against food fraud in order to strengthen the EU provisions and restore consumer confidence;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the need to gain more insight into the scale, incidence and elements of food fraud cases in the EU; in particular, this involves mapping existing tools and mechanisms to fight food fraud, with a view to developing synergies and contacts among the competent authorities, to raising awareness among relevant actors through a network of food fraud contact points in the Members States and the organisation of trainings and conferences; calls on the Commission and the Member States systematically to collect data on fraud cases and to exchange best practices for identifying and combating food fraud;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that foods which are often subject to fraudulent activities include olive oil, fish, meat, organic products, grains, honey, coffee, tea, spices, wine, certain fruit juices and milk;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Points to the complexity and cross- border character of the food chain, in combination with the predominantly national character of controls, sanctions and enforcement, a situation which is believed to increase the risk of food fraud; believes that a better traceability of ingredients and products within the whole food chain would help combat fraud;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines the need to pay great attention to controls on imported goods from third countries and their compliance with European Union standards on food and feed safety;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Notes that food business operators currently do not always know where the ingredients they use are sourced from;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to enlarge the focus of FVO audits to include food fraud; considers that the FVO should make use of unannounced inspectionand Member States should make use of regular, independent and mandatory unannounced inspections at identifying intentional violations to ensure that the highest standards of food safety are effectively implemented; in order to restore and maintain consumer confidence, it is important to have a transparent approach to how official controls and inspections are carried out and to make public the reports/outcomes of controls and inspections regarding food operators;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Considers that official controls should focus not only on food safety issues, but also on preventing fraud and the risk of consumers being misled; welcomes the fact that the Commission's proposal for a review of official controls incorporates extra controls in respect of food fraud where competent authorities have reason to suspect fraudulent behaviour by an operator;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Considers that the development of a mechanism, similar to the RASFF, capable of managing the specificities inherent to food fraud is a necessary step to ensure proper information flows and the timely detection of fraud;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Rejects any plans to delegate inspection tasks from public authorities to economic operators, as food business operators often focus on profits and lowering costs rather than on food safety and consumer protection;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Acknowledges the importance of clear and transparent business-to-business and business-to-consumer labelling and calls on the Commission to review EU food law in this area where necessary, to reduce the risk of food fraud;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Believes that food business operators should be able to tell where the food or ingredients used are sourced from, meaning that each food business operator within the production chain bears their share of the responsibility for the end product;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Recalls that Regulation 1169/2011 stipulates that the Commission will adopt, by December 2013, implementing acts regarding the mandatory labelling of the country of origin labelling for meat from swine, sheep, goats and poultry as well as on voluntary labelling; believes that labelling the places of birth, rearing and slaughter will help ensure better traceability along the food supply chain, more stable relationships between meat suppliers and processors and increased diligence when food business operators choose their suppliers and products;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Asks the Commission to come up with legislation on the mandatory indication of the country of origin or place of provenance for meat as an ingredient in processed products;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Asks the Commission to establish a centralised European register for horse passports in order to prevent the fraudulent issuing of a duplicate passports;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Underlines that any future mandatory country of origin labelling legislation should include provisions for regions within Member States to allow for flexible and regional origin labelling;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Recalls that Parliament has previously called on the Commission to undertake impact assessmenfor origin labelling for all meat and meat in processed foods, and that the Commission is working on reports on origin labelling for fresh meat and products containing meat; urges the Commission to rapidly to present its impact assessments and report on this issuereports and follow up with legislative proposals; urges the Commission to rely on independent sources of information; stresses that whilst origin labelling is cannot a tool forentirely combating food fraud, although it may indirectlyit will lead to a better-informed and more transparent supply chain and help restore consumer confidence;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Underlines the unique position of the North of Ireland within the EU and stresses that in line with the principles of the Good Friday Agreement, those in the North should remain free to label their produce as Irish if they so wish;