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Mr President, the aim of the proposed regulation on nutrition and health claims is to harmonise European legislation in that area. That should combine two elements: firstly, introducing the general rule that in the interests of consumers, nutrition and health claims must be clear, accurate and meaningful; secondly, protection of truthful producers from unfair competitors.
After a very controversial debate we now have a compromise package for second reading. Does it meet the original aims? We believe it does. We may not be entirely happy with the result, but we have to take into consideration various interests such as the fears of small and medium-sized enterprises, the danger of procedures that are too long and too bureaucratic, the interests of producers and genetic descriptors – provided the main objective of improving public health is maintained.
Some of the restrictions proposed by the Commission were unclear and open to interpretation. In order to avoid legal uncertainty, the European Parliament adopted a large number of amendments, inserting clauses designed to make application of the regulation easier. Some of them have become part of the compromise package that the ALDE Group supports, together with other political groups.
On one of the two most controversial issues – nutrient profiles and in particular the derogation in Article 4(2) – we consider that a workable compromise has been reached. Therefore we wish to support the wording of Amendment 17.
The same goes for the proposal concerning trademarks and brands and for Article 4(3) on nutrition claims about alcohol, linked to the provision that health claims supporting national authority or Community messages about the dangers of the misuse of alcohol should not fall within the scope of the regulation.
This is a good result. I should like, in particular, to thank Mrs Poli Bortone for her successful work."@en1
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