Farm to Fork strategy - An overview of Parliament’s positions

 KEY FINDINGS

The aim of this briefing is to give an overview of positions the European Parliament has taken over the last twenty years that are relevant to the Farm to Fork strategy, the component of the European Green Deal that aims for a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system. Despite it being a new strategy, most of its 27 actions are connected to already existing legislation and as such, Parliament has previously given its opinion on the subjects covered by the strategy. This briefing presents a short summary of Parliament’s most relevant positions in the past.

In 2019, the European Commission presented an initial roadmap of the key policies and measures needed to achieve the European Green Deal. The food system is one of the areas in which a transition onto a more sustainable path is needed, and European food should become the global standard for sustainability. The Commission sees new opportunities for all operators in the European food chain to tackle pollution, loss of biodiversity, climate change, food waste, and unhealthy diets. The Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy should pave the way for this transition, a proposal welcomed by the European Parliament in its 2020 Resolution on the European Green Deal. The Strategy was presented later on 20 May 2020 with an action plan consisting of 27 measures, on most of which the European Parliament had previously expressed its opinion.

 In full: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=IPOL_BRI(2020)658206