K. whereas AMR affects both humans and animals and has dangerous implications for human and animal health; whereas there is a link between the use of antimicrobials in animals and the spread of resistance in humans which requires further research as well as a coordinated, multisectoral policy approach to AMR, based on the 'One Health' principle, targeting both practitioners and users in each sector;

4. Calls for supervisory authorities to closely monitor the funding and liquidity risks resulting from foreign currency lending, to take action to prevent excessive risks and to require financial institutions to have effective pricing, capital allocation and liquidity management systems to deal with foreign currency lending and to take account of the consumer’s ability to withstand fluctuations in the exchange rate when assessing the consumer’s creditworthiness; calls for Member States to require financial institutions to allow consumers to convert the loan ...[+++] into an alternative currency, in accordance with a transparent method disclosed to the consumer in pre-contractual information, and for financial institutions to provide a foreign exchange hedging facility at reasonable cost to consumers to limit the risk of adverse currency movement on repayments;

32. Stresses the urgent need to increase the general level of safety of consumer products in the EU, especially in the framework of the forthcoming revision of the General Product Safety Directive; calls on the Commission, in cooperation with the responsible EU agencies, to look more closely into the issues of the impact of chemicals on consumers' health, antibiotic resistance and nanotechnologies, on the basis of existing EU legislation in those fields;

Dismantling them would meet resistance from most Member States and consumers given that they have been used to the current requirements and any change could be seen as an abandonment of a valuable "acquis".

‘Fork to farm’ — food (including seafood), health and well being: Consumer, societal, cultural, industrial and health as well as traditional aspects of food and feed, including behavioural and cognitive sciences; nutrition, diet-related diseases and disorders, including childhood and adult obesity and allergies; nutrition in relation to the prevention of diseases (including increased knowledge of the health bringing compounds and properties of food); innovative food and feed processing technologies (including packaging and technologies from non-food fields); improved quality and safety, both chemical and biological, of food, beverages and feed; enhanced food safety assurance methodologies; integrity (and control) of the food chain; p ...[+++]hysical and biological environmental impacts on and of food/feed chains; impact on, and resistance of, food chains to global changes; total food chain concept (including seafood and other food raw materials and components); traceability and its further development; authenticity of food; development of new ingredients and products.

In particular, the extent to which market forces alone can achieve digitisation will depend on the number and resilience of consumers reluctant to migrate to digital TV.