Commission for Natural Resources
Pārtikas izšķērdēšana
Opinion factsheet
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Opinion number:
CDR-6646-2015
Status:
Pieņemtie
Objective
Setting a specific target at the EU level: reduction objective of at least 30% by 2025 (following up on the CoR resolution of Sustainable food)
Common methodology and measurements at the EU level
CoR membership at the new EU Platform on food waste
Common methodology and measurements at the EU level
CoR membership at the new EU Platform on food waste
Impact
The Committee of the Regions was officially invited to participate in the work of the EU Platform for food losses and food waste. At its meeting on 27 September 2016, the Commission for Natural Resources appointed Mr Ossi Martikainen, the rapporteur on Food waste, as the CoR representative of the Platform.
On 29 November 2016, the European Commissioner on Health and Food Safety, Mr Andriukaitis launched the European Platform on food losses and food waste, as planned within the EU Action Plan to promote Circular Economy. The Platform is composed of 70 members representing public and private sectors: competent authorities from Member States; EU umbrella organisations and federations involved in food waste prevention in the food supply chain; relevant NGOs; EU bodies and relevant international organisations. Its main mission is to "support the Commission, Member States and all actors in the food value chain in achieving the SDG 12.3 food loss and waste reduction targets without compromising food safety, feed safety and/or animal health". At the first meeting of the Platform, the CoR rapporteur presented the CoR opinion on Food waste, adopted in June 2016.
The European Parliament adopted an own-initiative report on Initiative on resource efficiency: reducing food waste, improving food safety during its Plenary session on 15 May 2017.
In the EP report, many paragraphs include ideas and wording orginating from the amendments channeled through the CoR. More in particular, it contains few paragraphs on the key role to play of local and regional authorities in reducing food waste.
On 29 November 2016, the European Commissioner on Health and Food Safety, Mr Andriukaitis launched the European Platform on food losses and food waste, as planned within the EU Action Plan to promote Circular Economy. The Platform is composed of 70 members representing public and private sectors: competent authorities from Member States; EU umbrella organisations and federations involved in food waste prevention in the food supply chain; relevant NGOs; EU bodies and relevant international organisations. Its main mission is to "support the Commission, Member States and all actors in the food value chain in achieving the SDG 12.3 food loss and waste reduction targets without compromising food safety, feed safety and/or animal health". At the first meeting of the Platform, the CoR rapporteur presented the CoR opinion on Food waste, adopted in June 2016.
The European Parliament adopted an own-initiative report on Initiative on resource efficiency: reducing food waste, improving food safety during its Plenary session on 15 May 2017.
In the EP report, many paragraphs include ideas and wording orginating from the amendments channeled through the CoR. More in particular, it contains few paragraphs on the key role to play of local and regional authorities in reducing food waste.
Essential points
THE EUROPEAN COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS
- reminds the European Commission of its past call for more specific objectives to be set for reducing food waste by 30% by 2025 and urges the Commission to develop uniform methodologies for data collection in order to review the food waste reduction targets;
- recommends that the European Commission set up a European platform bringing together different levels of government and relevant stakeholders for the purpose of preventing and reducing food waste and improving the ways in which food waste is managed; expresses its interest in being involved in activities relating to benchmarking of practical measures and promoting best practice;
- calls on the European Commission to promote and encourage the creation of conventions between the retail food sector and charity associations in EU Member States;
- invites local and regional authorities, regarding foodstuffs withdrawn or removed from the primary distribution, to establish effective secondary distribution chains (like the model of social grocery stores) and guaranteeing access for disadvantaged people to still usable food; recommends that financial support be granted for charities and food banks to increase their operating capacity;
- recommends that as far as possible local and regional products and seasonal products be used as raw materials for catering services (including public catering services, tourist facilities and guest houses, restaurants and other establishments carrying out similar activities) and advocates lobbying on behalf of locally produced food to shorten the production and consumption chain, which reduces the number of processing stages and thus also the waste generated during the various phases.