Food losses and food waste: Council conclusions
Met dank overgenomen van Raad van de Europese Unie (Raad) i, gepubliceerd op dinsdag 28 juni 2016.
On 28 June 2016 the Council adopted conclusions on food losses and food waste.
Every year nearly a third of all the food is lost or wasted. In its conclusions the Council sets out a series of initiatives to reduce waste and losses in the future. These measures include calls on member states and the Commission to improve monitoring and data collection to better understand the problem, to focus on preventing food waste and losses and enhancing the use of biomass in future EU legislation, and to facilitate the donation of unsold food products to charities.
While the Council conclusions support the current EU initiatives, they also urge the Commission to extend the scope of its action to include food losses.