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Bill: Consumer Rights Act
Details
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 3284
Description[?]:
| To give increased legal protection and security for consumers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Listing of controversial ingredients, such as genetically modified (GM) ingredients (if food labelling is applied).
Old value:: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing must be listed. There is no requirement to disclose GM ingredients.
Current: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Proposed: Any chemicals used in agrigulture or processing, and any GM ingredients must be listed.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
Scope of food ingredient labeling (if present).
Old value:: Only the major ingredients and those with specific labelling requirements must be listed.
Current: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Proposed: All ingredients and corresponding nutritional information must be listed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:53:32, April 04, 2012 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Consumer Rights Act |
| Message | Article 1 is acceptable to us, because GM crops are a controversial issue. We have a problem with article 2, because it is not the responsibility of the producer to provide a diet plan for the buyers, this is a responsibility of the customer himself. We see the second measure rather as an attempt to stigmatize certain products, what we do not favor. Juan Felipe Castillo (GNP) Minister of Trade and Industry |
| Date | 16:20:37, April 04, 2012 CET | From | Unity | To | Debating the Consumer Rights Act |
| Message | Nutritional value has a greater value than formulating diets for people. They are also a part of showing the nature of the food stuff and therefore provide important information about goods that every consumer ought to haveá right to be infromed of. If the consumer then rejects or prefers the item in question is up for her or him to decide. |
| Date | 17:38:13, April 04, 2012 CET | From | Grand National Party | To | Debating the Consumer Rights Act |
| Message | I fully agree that every customer has the right to decide upon the ingredients whether he/she chooses to buy a product or not, but in order to get detailed information, there are enough other sources of information. It is not within the responsibility of corporations to explain what effects certain ingredients have (this having been assessed by a governmental regulatory body before allowing their usage). Juan Felipe Castillo (GNP) Minister of Trade and Industry |
| Date | 12:41:45, April 05, 2012 CET | From | Unity | To | Debating the Consumer Rights Act |
| Message | Nutritional value is also a part of what makes up a food stuff, that is a fact we cannot look beyond. Thus, the consumers also have a right to know it as they do with any other ingredient. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 56 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 130 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 64 |
| Random fact: "Spamming", or the indiscriminate posting of unsolicited messages, is not allowed. |
| Random quote: "The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." - John Dalberg-Acton |