| Series Title | European Voice |
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| Series Details | Vol.11, No.21, 2.6.05 |
| Publication Date | 02/06/2005 |
| Content Type | News |
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Date: 02/06/05 The Council of Ministers is likely to agree a controversial food labelling plan on 3 June with a crucial clause that MEPs have just voted to remove. Backing from EU environment ministers would send the proposal back to the European Parliament for a second reading. Parliamentarians on 26 May rejected a proposal for nutrition profiling which would only allow claims such as "rich in calcium" if they were backed by scientific evidence to distinguish between healthy and less healthy foods. The European Commission is adamant that nutritional profiling must stay a part of the draft health claims legislation. It wants to end misleading advertising for foods high in salt, sugar and fats, insisting that healthy claims be limited to foods which can prove their credentials. The European consumers' association BEUC said the Parliament had failed its first big consumer test. "Fortunately the position of the Council and the Commission is more enlightened and we turn to them to save the day for consumers," said Jim Murray, BEUC's director . German centre-right MEP Renate Sommer, of the European People's Party (EPP-ED), hailed the Parliament vote saying it had prevented the creation of "yet another bureaucratic monster". "Just imagine a cumbersome and tedious authorisation procedure for each and every slogan in the 25 member states," Sommer added. Article reports that the Council of Ministers was likely to agree a controversial food labelling plan on 3 June 2005 with a crucial clause that MEPs had just voted to remove. Backing from EU Environment Ministers would send the proposal back to the European Parliament for a second reading. Parliamentarians had rejected on 26 May 2005 a proposal for nutrition profiling which would only allow claims such as 'rich in calcium' if they were backed by scientific evidence to distinguish between healthy and less healthy foods. |
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