‘refrigerator-cellar’ means a refrigerating appliance where at least one fresh-food storage compartment and one cellar compartment, but no frozen-food storage, chill or ice-making compartments, are present.

‘frozen-food storage cabinet’ means a refrigerating appliance with one or more compartments suitable for the storage of frozen foodstuffs.

45. Stresses the importance of food security for the LAC countries and of adequate food storage capacities in order to face forthcoming food supply challenges;

8. Stresses the importance of food security for the LAC countries and of adequate food storage capacities to face forthcoming food supply challenges;

By subdividing the food chain into five sectors (agricultural production, management and storage, processing, distribution and consumption), we see that different conduct from one sector to another leads to the discarding of perfectly edible food: from losses at the harvesting and storage stages, to insecure transport conditions, to labelling errors, to end-consumers’ bad habits when purchasing and using foodstuffs.

6. Welcomes the assistance of the Food facility established by the EU with a budget of EUR 1 billion to provide from 2009 to 2011 rapid support to over 50 priority countries worldwide facing soaring food prices with the aim to increase the local food production capacity and supply, as well as to create better storage facilities to eliminate the losses which are currently extremely high, thus empowering local farming communities; considers, however, that further extension of this Food facility, or additional allocation of funding to it, should not be automatic, but decided based on an independent impact assessment of the funds disburseme ...[+++]nts' efficiency in improving food security in all the beneficiary countries;