18. Emphasises the need for the Commission and the Member States to promote responsible and sustainable consumption, in line with the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, and to make markets fully accessible to consumers from the perspective of a highly competitive social market economy, in a Union based on solidarity; considers it necessary to tackle food waste, make the lifespan of consumer products more durable, promote recycling and consumption of second-hand goods, and further improve the energy efficiency of products available in the single market; ...[+++]

Let me recall in more detail the most important elements of these policies, already in place or under examination in this House: the draft directive guaranteeing 20% renewables in our final energy consumption by 2020; the new rules to expand and strengthen the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), ensuring that we meet our target of a 20% greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 and establishing the ETS as driver for change; the proposal for reducing CO2 emissions from cars and the Fuel Quality Directive that will oblige oil suppliers to progressively reduce their CO2 and energy consumption in the products they sell; and, most importantly, the ...[+++] Energy Efficiency Action Plan, covering all sectors, at all levels, from the International Partnership for Energy Efficiency Cooperation to the Covenant of Mayors at the local level, to specific measures such as labelling of consumer goods or requirements for the energy efficiency of buildings.

33. Stresses the need to raise public awareness of the total environmental costs of consumer products; calls on the Commission and the Council to propose measures for the provision of information on the energy consumed, and GHGs emitted, during the manufacture and transport of products placed on sale within the EU, such as the proposal made by the UK Government to introduce carbon footprint product labels displaying the level of CO2 emission caused by the production, transport and eventual disposal of a product;

"Consumer goods" means any goods, excluding buildings, normally intended for final use or consumption.

According to Kesko´s proposal the operative part of Tuko's daily consumer goods business will be sold to Wihuri Oy, Sentra Oy, Oy Stockmann Ab and Heinon Tukku Oy, all of which have extensive experience of the daily consumer business sector in Finland.

KESKO - a Finnish group active in the sale of daily consumer goods - has presented a proposal for the divestiture of the daily consumer goods business of the TUKO group, which it acquired in May 1996.