Based on its assessments of such impacts, the Commission could consider relevant policy options for addressing them.

The aim of the report shall be to assess the impact of appropriate means that could enable consumers to make healthier food and overall dietary choices or that could promote the provision of healthier food options to consumers, including, among others, the provision of information on trans fats to consumers or restrictions on their use.

11. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) becomes an integral part of the institutional framework of the Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean, adding its own parliamentary dimension. In this new phase of development of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, consolidation of its democratic credentials is essential and will be achieved through underpinning the role of the EMPA, the only parliamentary assembly encompassing the 27 EU Member States and all other parties; stresses the importance of endowing the EMPA with an official status as a consultative body called upon to make recommendations and carry out assessment ...[+++]s;

62. Calls on the Commission, in the context of its proposal for the revision of the sustainable development strategy, to put forward more ambitious proposals for the monitoring of that strategy; stresses that the revised strategy must be subject to an annual assessment, as decided at the Gothenburg European Council in 2001; calls for the assessment to be complemented, halfway through and in case of need, by measures and proposals to ensure achievement of the goals originally set; welcomes the participation of Parliament in this assessment;

62. Calls on the Commission, in the context of its proposal for the revision of the sustainable development strategy, to put forward more ambitious proposals for the monitoring of that strategy; stresses that the revised strategy must be subject to an annual assessment, as decided at the Gothenburg European Council in 2001; calls for the assessment to be complemented, halfway through and in case of need, by measures and proposals to ensure achievement of the goals originally set; welcomes the participation of Parliament in this assessment;

63. Calls on the Commission, in the context of its proposal for the revision of the sustainable development strategy, to put forward more ambitious proposals for the monitoring of that strategy; stresses that the revised strategy must be subject to an annual assessment, as decided at the Gothenburg European Council in 2001; calls for the assessment to be complemented, halfway through and in case of need, by measures and proposals to ensure achievement of the goals originally set; welcomes the participation of Parliament in this assessment;