12 Amendments of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2011/2175(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas food waste has not just ethical but also economic, environmental, social, nu, economic, social and nutritional but also health and environmental implications, since unconsumed food mountains make a major contributional and health implications to global warming and food waste produces methane, which as a greenhouse gas is 21 times more powerful than carbon dioxide,
Amendment 14 #
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 bothan ethical, economic and ethical and an environmental point of view; calls for measures to be taken to reduce the waste of food products in the food industry, trade, public restaurants, healthcare establishments, schools and other establishments, as many types of biowaste arise as a result of the consumption of food by communitiews;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asks the Commission to clarify food date labelling (‘Best before’, ‘Use by’) in order to reduce uncertainty regarding food edibility; notes that, owing to a lack of information, consumers often throw away food when it has lost its ideal form, even though it is still suitable for consumption;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Encourages initiatives on waste prevention that teach consumers to adopt better food behaviour and reinforce signals about the value of food and consumers’ own judgment on edibility – visual, olfactory and taste –, starting with teaching schoolchildren;
Amendment 26 #
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 investments not only in technology but also in our behaviour, with the aim of avoiding the least desirable options, i.e. landfill and incineration; believes that, in order to protect human health, the precautionary principle must be uppermost in the treatment and use of biowaste, particularly in the light of its possible indirect return to food / the food chain and its utilisation in imported foods and feedstuffs.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on stakeholders to continue to take shared responsibility; encourages them to enhance coordination along the food supply chain and to improve logistics, stock management and packagingby paying particular attention to food storage and transport; believes that discount offers should to a greater extent target excess stock and food near expiry;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers it vital to reduce food waste along the entire food chain, from the field to the fork; stresses the need to adopt a coordinated strategy followed by practical action at European level in order to improve the efficiency of the food supply chain, firstly by promoting direct relations between producers and consumers and shortening the food supply chain;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, when drawing up development policies, to support measures aimed at reducing waste along the entire food supply chain in developing countries where production methods, post- harvest management, processing and packaging infrastructure and processes are problematic and inadequate; suggests encouraging the modernisation of this agricultural equipment and infrastructure in order to reduce post-harvest losses and extend the shelf-life of food;
Amendment 41 #
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 legislation to improve the situation 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 support to campaigns aimed at those goals; urges the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to lend their support to campaigns aimed at those goals, particularly stressing educational initiatives which cultivate awareness among producers and consumers of the connection which exists between consumption and production and their awareness of costs, waste, the environment and health;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission to publish a user- friendly manual on the use of discarded and expired products for food donation and animal feed, building on best practices in the food supply chainto encourage consumers to cooperate with animal welfare organisations;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the initiatives already taken in various Member States aimed at recovering, locally, unsold agricultural products and foodstuffs in order to redistribute them to groups of citizens who lack purchasing power; points out in this regard the valuable contribution made, on the one hand, by volunteers in sorting and distributing such products and, on the other, by professional companies that are developing anti-waste systems and measures; calls on the Commission to examine in detail best practice in the Member States and third countries before drawing up a coordinated strategy to tackle food waste;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that small local producers and local producer groups can take part in public procurement procedures for the implementation of specific programmes promoting, in particular, the consumption of fruit and dairy products in schools;