Activities of Claude GRUFFAT related to 2020/2260(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Farm to Fork Strategy (debate)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on a Farm to Fork Strategy for a fair, healthy and environmentally friendly food system
Amendments (24)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the fact that the aim of the Farm to Fork Strategy is to establish a sustainable, healthy and resilient food system which benefits consumers in the EU, who are nowadays placing greater value on their food and seeking to use local producers more in order to improve their health and quality of life;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that promoting healthy and sustainable food consumption that is affordable for all calls for changes to diets, production systems and internal trade in foodstuffs, given the need to reduce long- distance transport, which is currently having an extremely negative impact on our environmental and ecological footprint;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that Europeans’ diets are not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a shift in consumption patterns is therefore needed towards a diet containing more vegetables, less meat, particularly red meat, fewer ultra-processed products, and less sugar, salt and fat; calls on the Commission to produce European guidelines for sustainable and healthy diets, which bring clarity to consumers and help Member States to prepare and implement their national food plans;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes that the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted logistical and seasonal labour issues in agriculture and, at the same time, contributed to an increase in demand for locally produced food;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to step up its support for local and regional food systems and short supply chains, which act as a source of fresh, sustainable and better quality products for consumers; takes the view that legislation on European public procurement should be revised in order to foster local, high-quality food supply systems for school canteens, hospitals and public institutions, which will also be very positive for consumers, farmers and community life;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Commission to promote alternative business models, such as consumer-friendly cooperative scheme based on social innovation and the solidarity economy, such as mono- or multi- stakeholder cooperative schemes, acting in the interests of all consumers;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the establishment of a governance framework and a code of conduct for food and retail businesses, in order to make them accountable and aware of the importance of sustainability and health, given their influence on consumer choices; takes the view that the marketing and advertising strategies of such businesses should not mislead consumers by focusing solely on low prices to the detriment of the real value of food products;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative to promote healthier diets by introducing nutritional profiles, accompanied bywhich involve mandatory and harmonised labelling of the nutritional value of foods on the front of packaging and which are based on sound and independent scientific evidence;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that, given its negative effects on health, the obesity phenomenon affecting nearly half of all adults in the EU requires more decisive action on food; recognises that nutritional labelling on the front of pre-packed foods, although not a silver bullet, has been identified by international health experts, particularly those from the World Health Organization, as a vital tool in helping consumers to make informed and healthier food choices, by enabling them to compare the nutritional value of products at the time of purchase; calls on the Commission to propose this type of labelling and make it mandatory; points out that the available research indicates that Nutri-Score is currently the most effective system for helping consumers to compare products and eat more healthily;
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regards it as essential, further, to keep consumers better informed by introducing mandatory origin labelling of food, which would to respond to the growing and insistent demand of consumers, which has been relayed on numerous occasions by the European Parliament, for better information about the origin of products that they purchase by introducing mandatory origin labelling of all products, including seafood and ingredients used in processed products; considers, further, that this labelling must also be broadened to cover animal welfare, sustainability and pesticide residue levels;
Amendment 130 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Considers that animal welfare labelling, which has been extensively discussed in the EU institutions and which has just been debated under the German Council Presidency, must be transparent about the treatment of animals throughout their lives; considers that it must therefore identify production methods during the rearing period, and must also be based on a set of criteria ensuring animal welfare in all phases of an animal’s life up to its death;
Amendment 142 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Points out that promoting a healthy and sustainable food system does not depend solely on the choices made by individual consumers based on better information about the products in their diet, but also on consistency between various policies (agricultural, trade, environmental, health, education, competition, etc.) and on a series of complementary measures, particularly involving regulation (advertising, taxation, etc.);
Amendment 177 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for more effective implementation of Directive 2005/29/EC1, in order to better address the problem of misleading and unsubstantiated environmental claims in food., which confuse consumers and complicate the identification of the most environmentally friendly products; calls on the Commission to introduce a new regulatory framework, by establishing a clear, rapid and effective pre-approval process for all eco-labels, based on experience gained with the current health claims system; points out that such a framework would protect consumers against misleading environmental claims and would not discriminate against enterprises that have made commendable efforts with regard to the environment; __________________ 1 Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to- consumer commercial practices in the internal market and amending Council Directive 84/450/EEC, Directives 97/7/EC, 98/27/EC and 2002/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, OJ L 149, 11.6.2005, p. 22.
Amendment 188 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Supports the spread of broadband internet access in order to facilitate the free movement of goods and services and the free flow of consumer information.
Amendment 796 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Urges the Commission to strengthen Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, by means of more comprehensive, rigorous and independent scientific assessments covering all the substances contained in the commercial product for which a marketing authorisation application has been made, and a more transparent procedure not subject to any conflicts of interest;
Amendment 1268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that an ambitious plan for European organic farming is needed to achieve a successful transition, meet growing consumer demand for organic products, take more effective action for the climate and environment, and improve farmers’ incomes and regional economies; suggests that the targets for organically farmed land should be set at 30% by 2030 and 100% by 2050, and that the simple announcement of the Commission’s future action plan, which is expected in the spring, is not sufficient to explain how those targets will be achieved; notes that it would be highly desirable for the targets for organically farmed land to be clearly set out in the CAP National Strategic Plans that are currently being prepared, and that the Commission should ensure that those targets are met and that the European and national budgetary resources needed to develop organic farming as a whole are sufficient and considerably increased so as to support as many conversions as possible and invest in small processing and marketing structures, advice, research, promotion among European consumers, and food education;
Amendment 1441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for primary producers to be supported in making the transition to greater sustainability through the encouragement of cooperation and collective actions bas well as through competition rules and the enhancement of possibilities for cooperation within the common market organisations for agricultural, fishered on the consolidation of production, and the adaptation of competition rules applied within the common market organisation (Single CMO) in order to strengthen their market power, generate value based on sustainability and aquaculture products, and thus for farmers’ and fishers’ position lity, and better share that value within the food supply chain to be strengthened in order to enable them to capture a fair share of the added value of sustainable production; calls for the same type of approach to be used for fishers, too;
Amendment 1450 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Believes that it is necessary to create a regulatory environment that encourages the development of sectors in which everyone involved in the food chain is jointly committed, in the long term, to achieving the transition and supplying healthy and sustainable food to all consumers, while reinforcing the resilience of our food system, particularly during times of crisis, as well as our food sovereignty and farmers’ incomes;
Amendment 1610 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls the need to promote effective Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), enabling all food chain actors to become sustainable by speeding up innovation and accelerating knowledge transfer; recalls, in addition, the need for a farm sustainability and farm and food ‘general accountancy’ data network to set benchmarks for farm performance and document the uptake of sustainable farming practices, while allowing for the precise and tailored application of new production approaches at farm level by providing farmers with access to fast broadband connections;
Amendment 1664 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for measures to reduce the burden that highly processed foods with high salt, sugar and fat content place on public health; calls for product labelling to inform consumers, in bold type, of the number of ingredients that products contain; regrets that the introduction of nutrient profiles is greatly delayed and stresses that a robust set of nutrient profiles must be developed to restrict or prohibit the use of false nutritional claims on foods high in fats, sugars and/or salt; calls for a mandatory EU-wide front-of-pack nutrition labelling system based on independent science;
Amendment 1763 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the fact that the strategy rightly recognises the role and influence of the food environment in shaping consumption patterns and the need to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy and sustainable diets; reiterates the importance of promoting sustainable diets by raising consumer awareness of the impacts of consumption patterns and providing information on diets that are better for human health and have a lower environmental footprint; calls, for public health reasons, for all raw and processed foods to have labels indicating the presence of pesticide residues; underlines that food prices must send the right signal to consumers; welcomes, therefore, the strategy’s objective that the healthy and sustainable choice should become the most affordable one;
Amendment 1792 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Believes that it is essential to respond to the growing demand of consumers, relayed on numerous occasions in European Parliament resolutions, for better information about the origin of all of the food products that they purchase by introducing mandatory labelling, including for seafood and ingredients used in processed products; considers that, with regard to processed products, the number of parties involved in their preparation is also information that should be provided to consumers, given their interest in short supply chains;
Amendment 1870 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the recognition in the strategy that Europeans’ diets are not in line with recommendations for healthy eating, and that a population-wide shift in consumption patterns is needed towards more healthy and plant-based foods and less red and processed meat, sugars, salt, and fats, which will also benefit the environment; calls for food product labelling to list natural ingredients separately from artificial ingredients (produced in laboratories or industrially manipulated); emphasises that EU-wide guidelines for sustainable and healthy diets would bring clarity to consumers on what constitutes a healthy and sustainable diet and inform Member States’ own efforts to integrate sustainability elements in national dietary advice; calls on the Commission to develop such guidelines and specific actions to effectively promote healthy plant-based diets;
Amendment 2211 #
26. Recalls the global responsibility of European food systems and their key role in setting global standards for food safety, environmental protection, social and labour law, fair trade and animal welfare; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that all food and feed products imported to the EU fully meet relevant EU regulations and standards, and to providehibit them from accessing the EU market if they do not; calls, too, for development assistance to support primary producers from developing countries in meeting those standards; welcomes the Commission’s intention to take the environmental impacts of requested import tolerances into account;