Lobbying on Evaluation of mandatory country of origin labelling for certain meats

Evaluation of mandatory country of origin labelling for certain meats

Agriculture and rural development

In view of better informing consumers, legislation requires that for certain meats (e.g.: swine, sheep, goats and poultry) an indication of the country of origin or place of provenance is obligatory. This evaluation aims to assess to what extent it is carried out in efficient, effective, coherent and relevant manner and finally, what an EU added value is.

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3 responses

Consultation response

Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs, 15 Oct 2018

BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation, welcomes the opportunity to provide feedback on the EC roadmap for the evaluation of origin labelling rules for fresh meat from pig, poultry, sheep and goat. BEUC has long supported, and continues supporting, aligning rules on the origin labelling of all…

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Association de l'Aviculture, de l'Industrie et du Commerce de Volailles dans les Pays de l'Union Europeenne asbl, 12 Oct 2018

AVEC is supportive of this legislation and believes that the consumer has the right to know the origin of the meat. In relation to that, EU poultry meat producers believe that consumers should have better access to information about the origin of meat consumed in food services/mass catering as…

Consultation response

Carlo Pellacani, 18 Sept 2018

I believe it is a good idea. My only criticism is about the nature of the label on meats. If it is just a paper label to be applied on boxes or directly on meat, I strongly believe that it will be totally inneficient and even dangerous fo the simple reason that its couterfaction will be too easy.…