16 Amendments of Renate SOMMER related to 2011/2175(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Indent 1
Indent 1
– whereas in Europe as a whole food losses during the production, post-harvest and processing stages and food waste during the retailing and consumption stages amounts to 280179 kg/year per capita, a large part of which ends up in landfills or incinerators, producing a large quantity of greenhouse gases (GHG)(methane) during the rotting and combustion processes;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Indent 1 – footnote 1
Indent 1 – footnote 1
1. Global Food Losses and Food Waste, FAO, Rom 2011, S. 5, Abbildung 2.Preparatory Study on Food Waste across the EU 27, European Commission, Paris 2010, p. 11
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Indent 2
Indent 2
– whereas in Europe and Northern 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 thatwhere losses pose the main problems;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Indent 2 a (new)
Indent 2 a (new)
- whereas food waste not only gives rise to economic costs but also cannot be justified in ethical and environmental terms;
Amendment 11 #
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, as food is a valuable and scarce resource and millions of people are suffering from hunger;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the EU’s bio waste policy should be thought through and adapted from both an ethical and an environmental point of view;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is aware that to some extent the food loss and waste are unavoidable phenomena which, once they have occurred, have to be taken care of with the best means available to us and which require and can be prevented only to a certain degree through regulation and legislation; stresses therefore the need for improvements to the situation mainly by means of exchanges of best practices, improved routinvestments not only in technology but also in our behaviour, with the aim of avoiding the least desirable options, i.e. landfill and incineration; when dealing with food and a change in behaviour on the part of enterprises and individuals; therefore urges the Commission and the Member States to mount appropriate information and education campaigns;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is aware that young people need well- considered instruction in domestic matters to teach them about food preparation and preservation and dealing with leftovers, thereby ensuring that more of the food is used and less discarded;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is of the opinion that excessive ‘quality requirements’( regarding appearance whether imposed by European or national legislation or by internal company rules), which stipulate the size and shape of fresh fruit and vegetables in particular, are at the basis of many unnecessary discards, which increase the amount of food wasted;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Emphasises that individual consumers can also take responsibility in developing better ways of using leftovers at home;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that a lack of understanding of what is meant by the minimum durability and use-by dates is one of the main reasons for food discards; is aware that, for reasons of legal certainty, food producers are especially cautious when determining minimum durability dates;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Points in this connection to Article 9 and Annex X of the new regulation on the provision of food information to consumers requiring labelling of the minimum durability and sell-by dates and instructions on special conditions of storage and use on packaging; calls on the Member States and the food industry to conduct information campaigns which will enable consumers to understand the labelling and correctly interpret the minimum durability dates in particular;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Considers in this context that there is an overall need for EU citizens to know more about food and nutrition;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Takes the view that incineration of food can only be acceptable if it is linked to energy recovleads to environment-friendly energy and prevents the production of GHG emissionsgeneration;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Asks the Member States to support sustainable and efficient local production and marketing of products, thus avoiding long and sometimes complicated logistics and reducing carbon footprintsdistribution, thus contributing to reducing food waste;