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"Mr President, it is quite clearly in the interests of consumers when purchasing drinks to be able to tell whether they are purchasing genuine fruit juice or just a drink made from a concentrate – a so-called nectar. This is clearly about tightening up the directive, and it is a step in the right direction.
I nevertheless followed with concern proposals to introduce a new requirement to label nectars with the terms ‘sweetened’ or ‘with added sugar’, followed by an indication of the maximum quantity of sugar added, calculated as dry matter and expressed in grams per litre. Such a change would greatly confuse consumers, and would obviously have a negative impact on producers. Nectars would become the only category of non-alcoholic drinks subject to a mandatory statement of the quantity of added sugar, which would put these products at a significant disadvantage compared to other drinks. I am therefore pleased that common sense has prevailed, and that the proposal did not go through.
The citizens of the Czech Republic will also surely be pleased that, despite the euro crisis, European institutions have managed to solve a key long-term dispute as to whether tomatoes are a vegetable or a fruit. This European directive has established once and for all that tomatoes are the same as guava fruit. I nonetheless have doubts over Amendment 22, under which carrots are considered a fruit. I am afraid I will not be able to convince Czech gardeners on that score."@en1
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