6 Amendments of Csaba Sándor TABAJDI related to 2011/2175(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Indent 2
Indent 2
– whereas in Europe and Northern America in the previous decades, when food production was abundant, food waste has not been a policy priority, which led to the overall increase of food waste along the food supply chain; whereas in Europe and North America food waste occurs predominantly at the retail and consumption stage, as opposed to the developing world, where production, harvest, processing and transport are the stages that pose the main problems;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is convinced that the prevention of food losses has to be the very first priority of an EU bio-waste policy, from both an ethical and an environmental point of view; points out that there is no harmonised definition of food waste, which leads to serious discrepancies in the statistical data collection and hampers effective action on European and national level;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is aware that in Europe, where the main food waste takes place at the retail and consumption levels, there is relatively little scope for regulation and legonly a coordinated action between the European and national regulators, industry and consumer organislation to improve the situations can achieve tangible results and that the main benefit must come from an exchange of best practice, improved routines in the treatment of food and a change in behaviour on the part of companies and individuals; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to lend their suppo, better packaging requirements (e.g. re-sealable packaging), more consistency in food storage labels and a change in behaviour on the part tof caompaigns aimed at those gonies and individuals;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include measures in the legislative package on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy on the prevention of food waste in the production, harvest, processing and transport stages and to come forward with concrete actions improving public awareness and consumer responsibility in the retail and consumer stages;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is of the opinion that excessive ‘quality requirements’(whether imposed by European or national legislation or by internal company rules), the misinterpretation or confusion over dates on the label and the lack of consistency in the terms employed (“best before”, “use by”, “sell by”, “display until”) are at the basis of many unnecessary discards, which increase the amount of food wasted;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the improvement of EU food waste reporting requirements, more coherence in the labelling of expiration dates of foodstuffs, targeted awareness campaigns on European and national levels and a feasibility study on EU targets for food waste prevention;