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Mr President, on behalf of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), I would like to support the line taken by the rapporteur and also offer our sincere thanks for her work. We agree with the Commission that we urgently need to tidy up this legislation, in the face of the uncontrolled growth in diabetic foods and specialist food products now on the internal market. Our position is that ordinary food legislation has now developed to such an extent that most products can just be covered by it. We do, however, want to protect the most vulnerable groups in our society.
We are thus discussing a separate regime for food for medical purposes and for food intended for infants and young children, but we are specifically adding, in this regard, dietetic foods and also gluten, as it is not fully clear to us precisely how and when the Commission will be regulating these foodstuffs under the general legislation on foodstuffs.
I want to call on the Commission, and above all the Council, too, to act quickly. We have now done our homework; we have a report that has been adopted with a large majority, and I expect that the same will shortly be true of the plenary. It is thus now up to the Council to bring about a balanced negotiating mandate.
While we sit here talking, all kinds of new food products come on the market, such as growing milk for one to three-year-olds. Parents in Europe are confused about this product. Is this really an indispensible product in the diet of a young child that we therefore need to regulate through special legislation? Or is it actually just long-life milk with some added vitamins? Or – worse still – is it perhaps bad for children owing to the fact that it has a very sweet vanilla taste, giving children a tendency towards sweet things for the rest of their lives?
Commissioner, Europe sometimes seems so far removed from the citizens. I call on you to shed light on this issue via the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Every parent in Europe will be grateful."@en1
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