The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI) in association with the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) organised a public hearing entitled "Labelling of Origin for Agricultural and Food Products”.
The aim of this hearing was to discuss on the one hand the implementation of national labelling schemes, with experiences from Italy, Finland and France and, on the other hand, whether the implementing act laying down rules for indicating the country of origin or place of provenance of foods (pursuant to Article 26(3) of Reg. 1169/201), published on 29 May in the Official Journal, is a sufficient response to consumers' demand for transparency and the needs of actors throughout the food supply chain.
- Programme (PDF - 2 MB)
- Video recording
- Meeting documents
- Background document: 2015 Resolution P8_TA(2015)0034 (PDF - 140 KB)
- Background document: 2016 Resolution P8_TA(2016)0225 (PDF - 179 KB)
- Background document: Implementing Regulation 2018775
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Panel I: Case Studies
- COOL, practices from Italy - R. Moncalvo, Coldiretti (PDF - 243 KB)
- Finnish decrees on indicating the country of origin of certain foods - S. Hielm, Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (PDF - 88 KB)
- Taking stock of national COOL trials: the consumer perspective - C. Perrin, BEUC (PDF - 887 KB)
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Panel II: Implementing act
- Commission Implementing Regulation - food processors' perspective - D. Kozłowska, Polish Federation of Food Industry (PDF - 265 KB)
- Country of origin labelling: perspectives and experiences from the European food and drink manufacturing sector - D. Jacobs, FoodDrink Europe (PDF - 1 MB)
- Italian rice is not a commodity - P. Carrà, Ente Nazionale Risi (PDF - 1 MB)