A9-0416/2023 - Tilly Metz - Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte)

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 1Rejected

   Paragraph 6

   Tabled by Aurélia Beigneux, Silvia Sardone, Sylvia Limmer +1 · ID

   6. Removed: Regrets the lack of Added: Invites the Member States to include at least the basics of healthy and balanced diets, with references to seasonal consumption of agricultural products, in their nutritional education programmes, with the aim of helping children and adolescents to improve their diets; considers that a systematic and Removed: evidence-based approach to creating food environments that help consumers to make informed choices and that stimulate a shift towards healthier diets, including increased consumption of plant-based foods, such as fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes; considers that, in addition to implementing the NHCR correctly, the Commission and the Member States should invest more in food and nutrition education, such as information campaigns, through different programmes, including EU4Health, notably by supporting actions in schools with a view to teaching children and adolescents about healthy and balanced diets; highlights the influence of social determinants in consumers’ literacy with regard to claims on food; points out that information provision, education and awareness campaigns alone are insufficient to ensure informed consumer choices and need to be accompanied by policies that improve food environments; Added: compulsory approach to health and nutrition is always imperfect, as observed wherever such an approach has been tried (for example the Nutri-Score nutritional rating system implemented in several Member States), and above all that it cannot replace nutritional education, which is a basic responsibility of parents;

2. Amendment 2Rejected

   Paragraph 9 a (new)

   Tabled by Aurélia Beigneux, Silvia Sardone, Sylvia Limmer +1 · ID

   Added: 9a. Rejects the insistence on the use of insects for human consumption, as well as the notion that insects could be a viable source of protein and labelled as such on packaging; notes, in addition, that the environmental sustainability of large-scale insect farming for food purposes and the compatibility of insects with certain existing food intolerances have yet to be assessed; stresses, for this reason, that it is essential to report the presence of insects on food labels in an analytical and transparent manner, especially for processed foods in which derived by-products and flours are used; invites the Member States to implement a mandatory labelling scheme for foods that include insects or insect by-products in order to meet the legitimate transparency expectations of European consumers;