2 Amendments of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2011/2052(INI)
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas the increasing poverty in the EU is currently aggravated by the economic and financial crisis and soaring food prices in the context of almost inexistent food surpluses in the EU, and 43 million people are currently at risk of food poverty, whereas the Scheme for food distribution to the most deprived persons in the Union, set up in 1987, provides currently food-aid for 13 million people suffering from poverty in 19 Member States and involves some 240 food banks and charities in the distribution chains, whereas the recent judgment of the European Court of Justice T-576/08, which deems purchasing food on the market for the Scheme illegal, puts EU food-aid for the most deprived in peril, given the increased dependency of the Scheme on market purchases, and whereas the annulment by the ECJ of Article 2 of Regulation 983/2008 seems to have an immediate negative impact on the Scheme in 2012 and the years to come, leading to an abrupt end of food-aid for the most deprived citizens in 19 Member States,
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to address the urgent problem of food delivery for the Scheme in years 2012 and 2013 on which currently 13 million people are dependent; Calls on the Commission, in the light of the ECJ Ruling, to withdraw its proposal COM(2010)0486 currently under consideration by the Council and replace it by a new one, so that a solution is found with all Member States for the coming years; Underlines that a lasting solution from the Commission should aim at the eradication of food poverty in the European Union;