Procedure
Ensuring food quality - Harmonisation or mutual recognition of standards
Subjects: Foodstuffs, foodstuffs legislation · Food safety
Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): PETRE Maria (PPE-DE)
Summary
An own-initiative report on ensuring food quality through harmonisation or mutual recognition of standards. Amendments address EU quality and origin marks (PDO, PGI, TSG and Organic Farming), fair competition with third-country imports, food safety, animal welfare and environmental standards, the CAP, producer organisations and cooperatives, certification schemes, country-of-origin labelling, local and farmers' markets, and WTO negotiations.
Procedure timeline
- Committee amendments tabled22 Jan 2009 – 30 Jan 2009
- Procedure completed
151
Amendments
distinct, in window
25
Members
tabled at least one
2
Committees
22 Jan 2009 – 30 Jan 2009
Dates
Official amendment documents
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Members who amended this procedure
25 Members · by amendment count1

























Jan MULDER
ALDE · 🇳🇱 Netherlands
18(18 solo)
2
Katerina BATZELI
PSE · 🇬🇷 Greece
17(17 solo)
3
María Isabel SALINAS GARCÍA
PSE · 🇪🇸 Spain
14(14 solo)
4
Elisabeth JEGGLE
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇩🇪 Germany
14(14 solo)
5
Vincenzo LAVARRA
PSE · 🇮🇹 Italy
11(11 solo)
6
Maria PETRE
PPE-DE · 🇷🇴 Romania
9(9 solo)
7
Joseph DAUL
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇫🇷 France
9
8
Véronique MATHIEU HOUILLON
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇫🇷 France
9
9
Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇵🇱 Poland
8(8 solo)
10
Ioannis GKLAVAKIS
PPE-DE · 🇬🇷 Greece
7(7 solo)
11
Esther HERRANZ GARCÍA
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇪🇸 Spain
6
12
Carmen FRAGA ESTÉVEZ
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇪🇸 Spain
6
13
Antonio DE BLASIO
PPE-DE · 🇭🇺 Hungary
6(6 solo)
14
Brian SIMPSON
Socialists & Democrats · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
5
15
Lily JACOBS
PSE · 🇳🇱 Netherlands
5
16
Friedrich-Wilhelm GRAEFE zu BARINGDORF
Greens / EFA · 🇩🇪 Germany
4(4 solo)
17
Constantin DUMITRIU
PPE-DE · 🇷🇴 Romania
4(4 solo)
18
Satu HASSI
Greens / EFA · 🇫🇮 Finland
4(4 solo)
19
Rosa MIGUÉLEZ RAMOS
PSE · 🇪🇸 Spain
3(3 solo)
20
Alyn SMITH
Greens / EFA · 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
3(3 solo)
21
Astrid LULLING
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
3
22
Christa KLASS
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇩🇪 Germany
3
23
Alojz PETERLE
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇸🇮 Slovenia
3(3 solo)
24
Renate SOMMER
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇩🇪 Germany
2(2 solo)
25
Elisabetta GARDINI
European People's Party (EPP) · 🇮🇹 Italy
1(1 solo)
The amendments, in full text
151 amendmentsEvery amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.
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