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Supermarkets quickly want sustainability in the chain law
Marc Jansen, director of the Central Bureau for Food Trade (CBL) hopes that the new House of Representatives will soon adopt the Room for Sustainability Initiatives Act as a hammering piece. "Then we as industry, farmers and retail can make society a little better." What does that law do?
Jansen made his plea for the sustainability law last Tuesday at the end of the Food Election Debate. In addition to CBL, this debate was organized by the Dutch Food Industry Federation (FNLI) and LTO Nederland.
with the law Is it possible to convert sustainability initiatives into regulations? This should give entrepreneurs and residents more room to work together on solutions that have less of a burden on the environment or combat climate change. Jansen: "As a business community, we want to work together in a chain to solve problems that society believes exist. We want to take steps towards sustainability and animal welfare. The Room for Sustainability Initiatives Act is necessary because we are limited by the Competition Authority. we found it very annoying, because we had society behind us with the entire chain to apply improvements."
Cees-Jan Adema, director of FNLI since the beginning of this year, did not specifically discuss the law, but did say that the demand for issues such as health and sustainability from society has accelerated. "As a consumer-driven organization, we are not worth a cut of the nose if we don't take that very seriously."
VVD very critical
The sustainability law has been declared controversial by the House of Representatives and will therefore no longer be voted on in the current parliament. The law was discussed in a debate with representatives of the VVD, the Party for the Animals, PvdA and GroenLinks. Laura Bromet indicated that GroenLinks has been asking for this law for 4 years now. "It's important that farmers can unite and form market power."
Frank Wassenberg (PvdD) is in favor of 'with ifs and buts'. He indicates that innovations have also reduced the number of farmers. Joris Thijssen of PvdA thinks it is a 'terribly good idea'. "It is crazy that it is determined: you are not allowed to take sustainability steps, because then the market will be disrupted. The market is completely disrupted. We must ensure that it does not drive up prices. The law must protect consumers."
Jan Klink of the VVD says: "We will be very critical of the law and its implementation. If you do something like this, it must be about really improving the revenue model for farmers and horticulturists. be assured if you want to continue with that."
Linda van Eekeres
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