6 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2011/2175(INI)
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to assess the impact of a policy of enforcement with regard to food waste; hopes that a waste treatment enforcement policy right along the food chain will be adopted by applying the ‘polluter pays’ principle;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the Commission and the Member States to promote awareness-raising campaigns to inform the public about the causes and effects of food waste and ways of reducing it, fostering a scientific and civic culture guided by the principles of sustainability and solidarity; calls for the introduction of food education courses, particularlyinitially in primary schools, where possible, and then in secondary schools and colleges, so as to encourage better behaviour; stresses the important role played by local authorities and municipal enterprises in providing information and support to citizens on preventing and reducing food waste;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Welcomes the work of companies and professional partnerships in the public, private, academic and community sectors in devising and implementing, at European level, coordinated action programmes to combat food waste;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to ask the agri-food sector to assume its share of the responsibility for the food waste problem, in particular by packaging its products in smaller portions;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission to set an example by addressing food waste within the European institutions, and to take urgent and necessary measures to reduce the particularly large quantity of food discarded every day in the canteens of the various European institutions;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Invites the Commission to assess and encourage measures to reduce food waste upstream, such as dual-date labelling (‘sell by'’ and ‘use by'’) and discounted sales of out-of-date or damaged goods, as well as to reduce packaging so as to achieve eco- friendly products by means of industrial eco-design or the optimisation of food packaging (by means of industrial eco-design), on the basis of ongoing research into matching the product, its contents and the envisaged uses by consumers;