EESC Opinion: Distribution of food products to the most deprived persons in the Union

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Tuairimí a glacadh on 08/12/2011
Reference
NAT/532-EESC-2011-1862
Opinion Type
Referral
Referral
COM(2011) 634 final - 2008/0183 COD
Official Journal
OJ C 43, 15.2.2012, p. 94
Rapporteur
Mr Yves SOMVILLE
Civil Society Organisations - GR III
Belgium
Plenary session number
476
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Food security
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The Committee welcomes the Commission's proposal, especially the plans to broaden the legal basis for the implementation of the European food aid scheme for the most deprived (PEAD) in 2012 and 2013. This change would ensure that the scheme was focused on strengthening social cohesion within the Union as well as meeting the objectives of the CAP.

The EESC agrees that it is necessary to continue to implement the scheme under the CAP and to finance it from the CAP budget, with the current level of funding, in 2012 and 2013.

In the Committee's view, this support is truly vital, given that ever increasing numbers of people are now turning to the scheme in the wake of the economic and financial crises

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