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"Firstly, I would like to congratulate Mr Caronna and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development on the excellent own-initiative report that they have tabled in this part-session. Secondly, I would like to emphasise the recent words of Commissioner Potočnik on this matter, with which I could not agree more: ‘we have a moral, environmental and economic responsibility to tackle the issue of food waste in the EU’. This is clear. We must act now, before it is too late for humanity as a whole. I therefore support the idea of designating 2013 the European Year against Food Waste. In addition to the comprehensive analysis and striking figures presented throughout this report, various measures are proposed to reduce food waste by 2025. I would emphasise only those that relate to expiry dates and initiatives aimed at encouraging sustainable small- and medium-scale production linked to local and regional markets and consumption. Action must be taken as a matter of urgency. The 50% reduction in food waste by 2020 proposed by the Commission seems to me to be an achievable goal. We will be looking at the way in which the measures that are aimed at achieving the proposed objective take shape and are applied, in the certainty that yesterday was already too late to start."@en1
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