Subject Directive on phosphates

Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers

Wednesday night is eating disorders.

Subject EC food surpluses

Debates of the European Parliament

That psychiatrist specialized in eating disorders.

The Commission is considering putting forward a proposal for a directive on phosphates.

It's like the Olympics of food products.

I think you should change your eating habits.

That psychiatrist specialized in eating disorders.

The company produces soy sauce and other food products.

Could we be manufacturing from foodstuffs in the future?

It should also be noted that several Member States have adopted laws or regulations on phosphate concentrations in detergents, which the Commission is currently considering with a view to assessing their impact on phosphate pollution.

What does the Commission recommend that Member Countries do with the EC food surpluses ?

The fact is that GMOs and their derivatives do not amount to a category of food products.

Over the past ten years, people have become increasingly aware that they need to change their eating habits.

The Piadina has been added to the list of the traditional regional food products of Italy of the Emilia Romagna Region.

If action is really wanted, this kind of body can, of course, meet within 24 hours.

The text of the proposed British legislation sets up a mandatory procedure for the licensing and inspection of food irridiation plans with strict provisions for control both of irridiation and the placing on the market of irradiated foods.

But what I have to say concerns the other side of the grand policy, the people who have been affected by this brutal invasion.

And then after that, there are all sorts of compounds and elements that we can extract, like phosphates, that we need to get back into the desert soils to fertilize them.

A similar depreciation last year caused a rise in food prices in Georgia, which is a net importer for food products.

This approach creates a lot of potential benefits. The choice of this approach explains the thrust of the amendments we have put down in addition to those of the rapporteur.

Palm oil which appears in a dizzying amount of food and cosmetic products, and is a feedstock for biofuel poses many environmental problems.

Following the Commission's statement in May 1989 in which an assurance was given that a proposal would be submitted for a directive on phosphates, will the Commission now tell us when this proposal can be expected ?

The first proposal will have a direct impact on phosphate concentration in water with a limit value of 1 mg of phosphorous per litre of water discharged in areas where eutrophication has occurred.

You see, the thing is obesity and diet related disease doesn't just hurt the people that have it it's all of their friends, families, brothers, sisters.

Our group, together with a large majority in Parliament, feels that the policy on production quantities which wc' arc operating in a number of sectors can contribute to this, and wc should very much appreciate it if the Commissioner could give us further information on the scope for maintaining policy on production quantities, such as the quota system in the milk sector.

At EU level, unitary GI protection has been established for wines (1970), spirits (1989), aromatised wines (1991) and other agricultural products and foodstuffs (1992).

The number of farmers in difficulties will increase.

PANDOLFI. (IT) I must first say to Mrs Bettini that I have already answered Mr Raffarin's question concern ing the main conclusions of the third Conference on the treatment of radioactive waste which took place iri Luxembourg during September.

The Council has always been alive to the importance of a quality policy for foodstuffs, from the point of view both of agricultural producers and consumers.

One of the most difficult tasks faced by the Governing Council of the ECB was the prompt and accurate assessment of a gradually changing growth outlook in the euro area , stemming mainly from the global economic slowdown and the impact of oil and food price rises on real disposable income .

We are searching for innovative ways to make the most of the world s finite resources and thereby ensure greater security for our vital energy, water, and food supplies.

Preliminary studies by the European Science Foundation s Forward Look on European Food Systems could prove useful in devising an EU wide policy.

At EC level, there is at present no food legislation dealing explicitly with these products and laying down uniform procedures for their assessment and examination.

The second proposals will have indirect implications, in so far as it sets out to impose limits on the spreading of liquid manure (a major source of phosphate) and or the implementation of an agricultural code of conduct seeking to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers containing nitrates and phosphates.

In recent decades, rising incomes have catalyzed a major shift in people s eating habits, with meat, in particular, becoming an increasingly important feature of people s diets.

Moreover, pigs and poultry are ideal food waste processors, and their effluents can serve again as nutrient and energy sources, turning future food chains into interconnected production cycles.

The Commission intends to establish a regulatory framework, not only for cheeses and ham but also for all agricultural products and foodstuffs, where there is relation between quality and place of origin.

May I say first of all that in the view of the Committee on the Environment the content of the research programme was not sufficiently explicit and our amendments were formulated to make good that deficiency.

In a lot of food items that we have I have only two items here on the slide pink cookies or surimi sticks or, if you like, Campari a lot of our food products that are of a red color are dyed with a natural dye.

First , part of the rise in M3 growth reflected the greater need of economic agents for transaction balances in order to adjust to previous increases in energy and food prices .

In September, India adopted a landmark law on food security, guaranteeing five kilograms of subsidized wheat, rice, and other foodstuffs monthly for two thirds of the population, and enhancing support for pregnant women, schoolchildren, and the elderly.

aspects not related to the genetic modification of substances which are subject to an assessment and a regulatory approval process prior to their inclusion in a positive list or register (such as additives, flavourings, food supplements, etc.).