EU policy review for food waste prevention and valorisation

on food waste measurement encourage the implementation of the food waste hierarchy support awareness raising among the population put food waste on food chain actors’ agendas, promote cooperation, and obtain better data on food losses and waste across the food chain The Council also calls on the Commission to i.a.: use the outcomes of FUSIONS and other research projects to develop a food w. [...] In its 2016 evaluation of the EU’s role in food waste “Combating Food Waste: an opportunity for the EU to improve the resource-efficiency of the food supply chain”, the European Court of Auditors concluded that the EU was not yet effectively combating food waste (ECA 2016). [...] 155/2003) which put the charities collecting the food (and not the food donors) in the situation to be responsible of the correct storage of the donated food and they were responsible of the expiration date (STREFOWA 2018). [...] In the course of revising the Waste Directive, the Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC from 2008 further refined the structure of the ‘Waste hierarchy’ by (see figure 2): enhancing the top priority of preventing waste in the first place; prioritising the re-use and preparation for re-use of a product over the material recycling of product parts and over their composting, while leaving the energy. [...] Since the publication of the amendments proposed by the Commission in December 2015 there is a strong debate ongoing between the Commission, the European Parliament22, the European Council and many non-governmental organisations (such as Friends of the Earth Europe or the EEB) as regards the level of ambition of the proposed amendments.