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Towards a sustainable food labelling framework to empower consumers to make sustainable food choices

Igangværende (updated on 26/04/2022)
Reference: 
NAT/857-EESC-2022
Rapporteur: 
Andreas THURNER (Diversity Europe - GR III / Austria)
Plenarforsamling: 
573 -
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 27, 2022

The aim of this OIO is to identify avenues for a transparent and credible sustainability-labelling framework, which is easy to understand and empowers consumers to make more sustainable food choices. The OIO would contribute to achieving more sustainable and healthy food systems in practice by exploring potential avenues to empower the consumer to make more sustainable buying decisions.

Informationsnote: Towards a sustainable food labelling framework to empower consumers to make sustainable food choices

Sustainable food in the EU during the crisis on the basis of the new CAP: the contribution of conventional and organic farming to ensuring sustainable food sufficiency in EU Member States

Igangværende (updated on 01/04/2022)
Reference: 
NAT/858-EESC-2022
Rapporteur: 
Jarmila DUBRAVSKÁ (Diversity Europe - GR III / Czech Republic)
Plenarforsamling: 
573 -
Oct 26, 2022 Oct 27, 2022

The aim of the opinion is to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of both conventional and organic farming in order to identify the policy levers that are most effective and most likely to attain food sufficiency in EU Member States, while ensuring the transition to more sustainable food systems.

Informationsnote: Sustainable food in the EU during the crisis on the basis of the new CAP: the contribution of conventional and organic farming to ensuring sustainable food sufficiency in EU Member States

Towards a sustainable plant protein and plant oil strategy for the EU

Igangværende (updated on 30/03/2022)
Reference: 
NAT/856-EESC-2022
Rapporteur: 
Lutz RIBBE (Diversity Europe - GR III / Germany)
Plenarforsamling: 
572 -
Sep 21, 2022 Sep 22, 2022

The aim of this own-initiative opinion is to develop a strategy to achieve a sustainable plant protein and plant oil open autonomy in the EU by analysing the potential of EU-grown plants. It will also discuss the potential of pure plant oil as a sustainable source for running heavy tractors and other agriculture and forestry machines in a sustainable energy system.

Informationsnote: Towards a sustainable plant protein and plant oil strategy for the EU

Aligning food business strategies and operations with the SDGs for a sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery (own-initiative opinion)

Vedtaget on 08/12/2021
Reference: 
NAT/821-EESC-2021
Rapporteur: 
Andreas THURNER (Diversity Europe - GR III / Austria)
Co-rapporteur: 
Peter SCHMIDT (Workers - GR II/Germany)
Plenarforsamling: 
565 -
Dec 08, 2021 Dec 09, 2021

The own-initiative opinion aims to contribute to the Farm to Fork Strategy objective to stimulate sustainable food processing, wholesale, retail, hospitality and food services practices by providing the views and experience from organised civil society and stakeholders from across the food supply chain and by highlighting producers' good practices to increase the availability and affordability of healthy, sustainable food options. 

Udvalgets udtalelse: Aligning food business strategies and operations with the SDGs for a sustainable post-COVID-19 recovery (own-initiative opinion)

Improving the food supply chain

Vedtaget on 19/09/2018
Reference: 
NAT/734-EESC-2018-02438
Referral: 
COM(2018) 173 final 2018/0082 COD
Rapporteur: 
Peter SCHMIDT (Workers - GR II / Germany)

The Commission's initiative follows one of the recommendations of the Agricultural Markets Task Force that the EU should legislate in the areas of UTPs for agricultural products, and responds to some of the conclusions of the 2016 EESC opinion on "A fairer food supply chain".

Udvalgets udtalelse: Improving the food supply chain

Civil society's contribution to the development of a comprehensive food policy in the EU (own-initiative opinion)

Vedtaget on 06/12/2017
Reference: 
NAT/711-EESC-2017-02234-00-00-AC-TRA
Rapporteur: 
Peter SCHMIDT (Workers - GR II / Germany)

The own-initiative opinion, prepared by the EESC Permanent Study Group on Sustainable Food Systems, will aim to identify existing challenges, policy inconsistencies and obstacles to a more coherent food policy approach at EU level; to provide examples of ongoing transitions to more sustainable food policies at local/regional/national level; to highlight the role of civil society in building partnerships among stakeholders across the food supply chain; and to define how a comprehensive food policy for the EU should look, including an indicative roadmap.

Udvalgets udtalelse: Civil society's contribution to the development of a comprehensive food policy in the EU (own-initiative opinion)

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