{"id":2604,"date":"2019-05-22T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T09:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&p=2604"},"modified":"2019-05-22T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T09:49:11","slug":"it-tikketti-fuq-l-ikel-ghall-konsumaturi","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/it-tikketti-fuq-l-ikel-ghall-konsumaturi\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Labelling for Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A\u00a0<\/span>study<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>commissioned by the PETI Committee of the European Parliament<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>found that\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a0<\/span>provision of a more consolidated food information is needed which takes individual fundamental rights, Member States\u2019 different interests and findings from political science (especially policy mix), economics and\u00a0<\/span>behavioural<\/span>\u00a0science into account.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Food information law should increasingly\u00a0<\/span>be seen as<\/span>\u00a0part of a policy mix instead of a preferred method of regulation. The \u201cpermit but inform\u201d rationale of food law risks overloading consumers with information. Article 4 II FIR, which requires a check that information is\u00a0<\/span>actually needed<\/span>\u00a0on the part of the majority of consumers, needs to be given a more prominent role, leading to careful realignment of information provisions with insights of economics,\u00a0<\/span>behavioural<\/span>\u00a0science and political science. A switch from a focus on text to increasing use of visuals in information law needs to be elaborated.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Food information law needs to be increasingly designed relevant to specific target groups of food consumers. The exception of alcohol labelling should be questioned. The current voluntary agreement does not go far enough. Voluntary claims need to be regulated more intensively. GMO labelling provisions\u00a0<\/span>have to<\/span>\u00a0be made workable. Existing policy initiatives, where an imperative for intervention is already justified by science, need to be taken on more effectively.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a response to the petitions, the study found that the exemption from labelling for pre-packaged foods in Art. 44 FIR should be reinvestigated. Country of origin labelling in the EU should be consolidated. Information regulations which make the consumer aware in case meat was slaughtered in an un-stunned way could be a way to\u00a0<\/span>realise<\/span>\u00a0the goal of Art. 13 TFEU. The Commission should make use of its conferred powers in Art. 36 III b) FIR to clarify the use of the words \u201cvegan\u201d and \u201cvegetarian\u201d.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Adequate rules on Member State enforcement of EU consumer food law at the EU level are warranted. The use of sugar in foods should be regulated more strictly. Sugar sweeteners in foods for young children should be prohibited. The EU should refrain from introducing a traffic light system, but instead seriously\u00a0<\/span>take into account<\/span>\u00a0the introduction of Nutri-Score labelling.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  A\u00a0study\u00a0commissioned by the PETI Committee of the European Parliament\u00a0found that\u00a0a\u00a0provision of a more consolidated food information is needed which takes individual fundamental rights, Member States\u2019 different interests and findings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2595,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[111],"issuem_issue_categories":[8],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2604"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2606,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2604\/revisions\/2606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}