Text tabled : A6-0223/2009

  Šarūnas Birutis (ALDE), in writing. – (LT) The objectives of the marketing standards for poultrymeat are to safeguard the stability of market prices in the sector, to facilitate the marketing of products and to ensure consumer safety and high food-quality standards. The marketing standards for poultrymeat need to be reviewed in the light of technological developments and to include poultrymeat preparations, as consumer habits have changed since the 1990s. The principle that poultrymeat sold ‘fresh’ may not have been frozen beforehand is proposed to be reinforced to cover poultrymeat preparations and products, and I agree with this.