EU Farm to Fork Policy for Sustainable Food Systems

NESTLÉ POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS

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Marco SettembriCEO Nestlé Europe, Middle East and North Africa

We need a strong EU Farm to Fork policy to help guide all players along the food chain in adopting a sustainable approach.

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NESTLÉ IS READY TO PLAY A

LEADING ROLE

We work directly with 716 000 farmers (5 000 000 indirectly) around the

world through Farmer Connect, which enables us to develop supply

chains that meet high social, environmental and ethical requirements.

We will achieve zero net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050

and halve GHGs by 2030 as a first step.

We joined the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) coalition to

take bold actions in protecting and restoring biodiversity.

We are introducing Nutri-Score on more than 5000 products in Austria,

Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland.

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EU Farm to Fork policy:

To agree on ambitious CAP goals for a greener agriculture

To incentivize all actors to provide transparency as basis for improvement

To define ambitious EU-wide standards for sustainble food systems to boost new business models

To promote investment in sustainability by pursuing a “fairness for all” approach

To guide consumers towards more sustainable and healthier diets

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DEFINE AMBITIOUS EU-WIDE STANDARDS FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS TO BOOST NEW BUSINESS MODELS

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Create a level playing field across

the food supply chain by defining what constitutes

a sustainable food system and by setting ambitious and robust

EU-wide targets

Realign contradicting policy objectives by repurposing existing legislation towards

the common goal of sustainable and healthy

food systems

Horizon Europe to support Food System

Transformation by stimulating new business models and value chain collaborations

Agree on natural capital accounting

framework and promote uptake

amongst investors and busines community

Install multi-stakeholder platform

with all food supply chain stakeholders

to ensure structured dialogue

AGREE ON AMBITIOUS CAP GOALS FOR A GREENER AGRICULTURE

Transform agriculture whilst restoring the environment.

Set EU-wide target for GHG emissions, biodiversity, water quality, animal welfare, etc.

Stimulate carbon farming (eg. carbon sequestration in soils)

by providing technical and financial support for farmers

Promote biodiversity by better

land management, forest

conservation & reforestation,

limit pesticide usage and

encourage crop diversification/

rotation

Invest in digital and sustainability skills across all food supply chain stakeholders

including stimulating agri-preneurship

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55%

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EXAMPLE OF TRANSPARENCY: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN NESTLÉ’S SUPPLY CHAIN

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Use technology to enable end-to-end transparency to track comprehensive and consistent data across the

entire food chain

Use product environmental footprint methodology to improve environmental

performance and introduce circular economy thinking

during product development including packaging

Strengthen non-financial reporting and introduce

mandatory due diligence on human rights and environmental sustainability for all food supply chain actors (except farmers) in local and global supply chains

End-to-end transparency is a key tool to identify issues,

establish and implement action plans and assess

progress against EU target

INCENTIVISE ALL ACTORS TO PROVIDE TRANSPARENCY AS BASIS FOR IMPROVEMENT

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GUIDE CONSUMERS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHIER DIETS5

Set EU-wide voluntary

reduction targets for

product reformulation for

salt, sugars and saturated fat

Recommend revision of national Food Based Dietary Guidelines to

include sustainability criteria and promote consumption

of whole-grain and plant-based proteins

Propose EU Nutrient Profiles

to ensure consistency between

nutrient composition and

nutrition and health claims

Introduce EU-wide

mandatory Front of Pack

nutrition labelling (Nutri-

Score) to guide consumers

and stimulate healthier

product development

Leverage existing product

environmental footprint

methodology to guide

consumers and improve

product offer

Propose EU-wide target to

reduce food loss and waste

by 2025 (at least 50%)

Invest in education:

consider sustainable diets

a cost-effective prevention

tool

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PROMOTE INVESTMENT IN SUSTAINABILITY BY PURSUING A “FAIRNESS FOR ALL” APPROACH

Broaden the definition (and interpretation) of "consumer

welfare" in EU competition law by including other aspects (eg. sustainability) than the lowest

possible consumer price

Competition authorities to assess impact of retail alliances on food system

transformation and innovation

Promote fairness across the food supply chain by extending

the scope of the Unfair Trading Practices Directive to all food

manufacturers to better protect all farmers and workers

Define methodology to better reflect the true value of food in food pricing by integrating environmental, health and

societal costs

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Edited by Nestlé S.A. – Corporate Communications and Government Relations Zone Europe, Middle East and North AfricaRue de Birmingham 221, 1070 Brussels ≤NestleEUTake a look at our global commitments here: www.nestle.com/csv