European Union Committee - Tenth Report
Counting the Cost of Food Waste: EU Food Waste Prevention

Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 18 March 2014.


CONTENTS


Terms of Reference

Summary

Chapter 1: Introduction

The impetus behind the inquiry

Evolving European policy

The food waste debate context

What the inquiry covers

Our aim

Chapter 2: Defining, monitoring, and setting targets for food waste

Defining food waste

Figure 1: The language of food waste along the supply chain

Box 1: FAO definition of food waste

Monitoring of food waste throughout the supply chain  

The current state of EU food waste statistics

Figure 2: EU-27 food waste arisings, percentage (%) weight by sector

Data reporting

Box 2: Norwegian ForMat project

Funding data collection

Taking action

Targets

Chapter 3: Food waste from farm to fork

Figure 3: Interactions throughout the supply chain

The role of the consumer in the home

Box 3: North London 'Love Food Hate Waste' project

Retailers and consumers

Box 4: 'Best before', 'use by' and 'sell by' dates

Retailers and producers

The hospitality and food service sector

Improving supply chain cooperation

Box 5: WRAP Product Sustainability Forum Pathfinder project: resource efficiency in the potato supply chain

The Groceries Code Adjudicator

Box 6: UK Groceries Code Adjudicator

Chapter 4: EU regulation

The impact of EU regulation on food waste

Common Agricultural Policy

Ban on the discard of fish

Animal feed

Food hygiene regulations

Box 7: US Good Samaritan Food Donation Act (1996)

Food Information for Consumers Regulation

Packaging and Waste Packaging Directive

Chapter 5: Respecting the 'waste hierarchy'

Figure 4: The 'waste hierarchy'

Figure 5: The 'food use hierarchy'

Box 8: Anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting  

Chapter 6: Strategic EU role

Box 9: Horizon 2020

Chapter 7: Conclusions and recommendations

Appendix 1: List of Members and declarations of interest

Appendix 2: List of witnesses

Appendix 3: Call for evidence

Appendix 4: List of abbreviations

Appendix 5: WRAP initiatives and programmes

Appendix 6: Summary of FUSIONS

Appendix 7: Summary of food waste data types and sources

Appendix 8: List of food waste initiatives and programmes across the EU

Evidence is published online at http://www.parliament.uk/hleud and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 7219 5314)

References in footnotes to the Report are as follows:

Q refers to a question in oral evidence.

Witness names without a question reference refer to written evidence.

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