7 Amendments of Vladimir URUTCHEV related to 2014/0014(COD)
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) A trend of declining consumption in particular of fresh fruit and vegetables including bananas and drinking milk has been identified. It is therefore appropriate to focus the distribution under the school schemes on these products. This would in turn also help reduce the organisational burden for schools, increase the impact of the distribution within a limited budget and would be in line with the current practice, as these products are most frequently distributed. Provisions should be made to encourage the distribution of certain other milk products, traditional for the Member States and their regions, such as yoghurt and cheese, which have uncontested beneficial effects to children's health.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure the efficient and targeted use of Union funds, the power to adopt certain acts should be delegated to the Commission in respect of measures fixing the indicative allocations of the Union aid to each Member State and the methods for reallocating aid between Member States on the basis of aid requests received. The indicative allocations should be fixed separately for the fruit and vegetables including bananas and milk in line with the voluntary approach to distribution. The allocation key for fruit and vegetables including bananas should reflect the current allocations by Member States, based on the objective criteria of the number of children in the age group of six- to ten-year olds as a proportion of the population, taking into the account also the development status of regions concerned. In order to allow Member States to maintain the scale of their current programmes and with a view of encouraging others to take up the distribution of milk, it is appropriate to use the combination of two keys for the allocation of the funds for milk, namely the historical use of funds by Member States under the School Milk Scheme and the objective criteria of the number of children in the age group of six- to ten-year olds as a proportion of the population used for the fruit and vegetables including bananas and the additional criteria of the historical use of funds by Member States under the School Milk Scheme. In order to find the right proportion for these two keys, the power to adopt certain acts should be delegated to the Commission in respect of adopting additional rules concerning the balanceweight distribution between the two criteria. Furthermore, considering the recurrent changes in the demographic or development situation of regions in Member States, the power to adopt certain acts should be delegated to the Commission in respect of assessing every three years whether the Member States' allocations, based on those criteria, are still up to date.
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 23 – paragraph 2
Article 23 – paragraph 2
2. Member States wishing to participate in the aid scheme established in paragraph 1 (“the school scheme”) may distribute either fruit and vegetables including bananas or milk falling within CN code 0401, or both. By way of derogation from the provisions of the first paragraph and in accordance with paragraph 7, Member States may also distribute other milk products, traditional for the Member States and their regions, such as yoghurt and cheese, which have uncontested beneficial effects to children's health.
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 23 – paragraph 4
Article 23 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall, in order to make the school scheme effective, also provide for the supporting educational measures, which may include measures and activities aimed at connecting children with agriculture and the distribution of a wider variety of agricultural products, educatingsuch as products derived from fruit and vegetables processed without the addition of sugar, salt, fat or sweeteners, and other local, regional or national specialities, such as honey and olive oil. This would contribute to the education about related issues, such as healthy eating habits, combating food waste, local food chains or organic farming.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 23 – paragraph 5
Article 23 – paragraph 5
5. When drawing up their strategies, Member States shall determine a list of agricultural products, in addition to fruit and vegetables, bananas and milk, that may occasionally be included for distribution under the supporting educational measures. With regard to processed fruit and vegetables, the products containing added sugar, fat, salt and sweeteners, as listed in Annex V, shall not be distributed.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 23 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 23 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 227 determining the level of Union aid that may be paid towards the price of the portion of fruit and vegetables including bananas and milk distributed and laying down the definition of a portion. The Commission shall also be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 227 fixing a minimum amount and a maximum amount for the financing of supporting educational measures from Member States' annual definitive allocations.
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013
Article 23 a – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 23 a – paragraph 2 – point b
b) for milk: the objective criteria based on the number of six- to ten-year old children as a proportion of the population and the historical use of funds under previous schemes for the supply of milk and milk products to children and objective criteria based on their proportion of six- to ten-year old childres an additional criterion.