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"Mr President, Commissioners, ladies and gentlemen, I would firstly like to congratulate the rapporteur Mr Perello on the enormous amount of work he has done, on his readiness to collaborate with all the shadow rapporteurs, and also to congratulate the shadow rapporteurs on the way they have all worked with each other. I also praise the Polish Presidency and the Commission for their efforts to reach an agreement on first reading.
Parliament, the Council and the Commission have had divergent positions, sometimes very different, on several issues, and this made the agreement far from easy and not fully satisfactory to everyone, but we can say that it is reasonably satisfactory.
The point that must be highlighted in the amendment of this directive, as already stated, is that, from now on, sugar may not be added to either pressed or concentrated juices. However, fruit nectars will be products sweetened with sugar, honey or sweeteners.
It is clear that the average consumer is unaware of this legislation and, therefore, of the difference between juices and nectars. For this reason, I feel that the agreement between the three institutions to put a statement on packaging for a limited period to say that fruit juices do not contain sugar will not only help consumers to tell the difference between two products, but also make them much better informed.
The objective of this initiative was to amend Directive 2001/112/EC for the second time, bringing it into line with technical progress and the developments in international regulations relating to the Codex Alimentarius.
However, despite the support of all the farming organisations in the Union, as already mentioned, the Council and the Commission, surprisingly, have rejected the possibility of mandarin juice being added to orange juice in amounts less than 10% and mandarin appearing on the list of ingredients, as permitted by the Codex Alimentarius (STAN 45-1981), given that this is common practice in Brazil and the United States, from which we import a large amount of concentrates.
In this regard, another area of conflict during the negotiations was the restoration of flavour, pulp and cells lost during the juice and nectar extraction process. All sides agreed, during the negotiations, to maintain the Commission’s original proposal on restoring flavours, pulp and cells from the same fruit species. However, some members of my political group are going to vote against this report for precisely this reason.
Lastly, I would like to mention two things that worry me. Firstly, imported products marketed within the European Union are not generally required to meet the same quality and food safety standards as our own products, and in a case such as this one, in which such standards are required by the legislation, they are not sufficiently controlled.
The second thing, which also concerns me, is the way the Commission uses delegated acts to substantially amend legislation, as it has recently attempted to do with the regulation on nutrition and health claims with regard to the ‘no added sugar’ claim. This is similar to what it is trying to do at the moment, although it is not the same case, with the Timber Regulation. This is the reason for Parliament’s position on delegated acts."@en1
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