REPORT on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods

Tabled by Aurélia Beigneux, Silvia Sardone, Sylvia Limmer, Roman Haider

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;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE756.736