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