European Citizens' Initiative: Commission registers initiative to 'Stop starvation for 8% of the European population'

The College of Commissioners has today decided to register a European Citizens' Initiative entitled 'Stop starvation for 8% of the European population!'.

The stated objectives of the proposed Citizens' Initiative include "to prompt governments to embrace the hunger problem" and to "emphasize the responsibility of governments to eradicate the problem." The organisers of the Initiative have set out a detailed list of actions where they call on the Commission to make legislative proposals. These range from the creation of a food stamp programme to a reform of agricultural derivatives markets, and a new classification system for food waste with associated targets and processing rules.

The Commission's decision to register the Initiative concerns only the legal admissibility of the proposal. The Commission has not analysed the substance at this stage.