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The
White Paper on Food Safety 2000 proposed a
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‘comprehensive
and coherent nutritional policy’ for the EU
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and
a ‘nutrition action plan’
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Creation
of the European Food Safety Authority 2002
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The
Council Resolution (French Presidency) on Health and
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Nutrition
(December 2000) invited EC to:
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“allow
for nutritional health to be taken into account when drawing up
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and
implementing any relevant community policies and develop tools
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for
assessing the health impact of community policies
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The
Eurodiet Project (1998-2001) developed a set of
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population
dietary goals for Europe
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A
statement by Commissioner Byrne, in which he identified
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combating
obesity as a key issue for his Directorate in a
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speech
at the (at the European Health Forum, Gastein,
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2002).
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