16. Recalls the specificity of agricultural markets and the need to ensure internal and global regulation in the interests of consumers’ purchasing power, farmers’ incomes and processing industries; recognises that the solution to the current crisis is an improvement in access to food for the world’s poorest people, not an increase in agricultural subsidies or in protectionist measures; calls on the Commission to include these considerations through the CAP ‘health check’ and to assess the suitability of existing instruments for the new global realities; recalls, in this connection, that the primary goal of the CAP is to guarantee mar ...[+++]ket stabilisation, supply security and reasonable prices for consumers, and underlines the need for the CAP post-2013 with a view to ensuring the EU’s sustainable food policy while respecting the sustainability, security and quality of agricultural products; considers that the EU should take a leading role in promoting a new rural model of universal agriculture that would separate food policy from measures covering non‑alimentary products;

Regular testing against the criterion is not required in normal circumstances for the following ready-to-eat foods: — those which have received heat treatment or other processing effective to eliminate L. monocytogenes, when recontamination is not possible after this treatment (for example, products heat treated in their final package), — fresh, uncut and unprocessed vegetables and fruits, excluding sprouted seeds, — bread, biscuits and similar products, — bottled or packed waters, soft drinks, beer, cider, wine, spirits and similar products, — sugar, honey and confectionery, including cocoa and chocolate products, — live bivalve mollusc ...[+++]s, ►M2 — food grade salt.

be for Community food quality schemes, or for those recognised by the Member States which comply with precise criteria to be defined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 90(2); schemes whose sole purpose is to provide a higher level of control of respect of obligatory standards under Community or national law shall not be eligible for support.

9. Stresses that Community provisions on food hygiene should only serve to protect consumers and ensure food quality and should not be misused as a pretext for structural concentration in the processing industry; calls, therefore, on the Bulgarian Government to use pre-accession aid for rural development to promote decentralised production of quality foods and their regional marketing;

9. Recalls the interests of European producers and consumers in high food quality, rural development, environmental protection and animal welfare, and insists that agricultural trade rules be consistent with these objectives, making it possible to strengthen equitable and market-oriented multifunctional agriculture throughout the enlarged Union, agriculture which addresses environmental protection, food safety, rural development and employment and is capable of ensuring the production of safe, high-quality products, and the promotion of sustainable rural development;

9. Recalls the interests of European producers and consumers in high food quality, rural development, environmental protection and animal welfare, and insists that agricultural trade rules must be consistent with these objectives, making it possible to strengthen equitable and market-oriented multifunctional agriculture throughout the enlarged Union, agriculture which addresses environmental protection, food safety, rural development and employment and is capable of ensuring the production of safe, high-quality products, and the promotion of sustainable rural development;