Pietro FIOCCHI

Policy topics Pietro FIOCCHI is active on

What Pietro FIOCCHI has said (14)

• 2026-06-17 “Problematic given the climate issues we face, it is absolutely crucial that we move forward with NTS. This is the solution for the people of Europe and for our farms without having to make use of or indeed reducing the use of pesticides and other products. This is also a way for us to deal with the shortage of water. Honourable members vote in favour of the NGT text. This is totally different from GMOs and this is something that we need to do for the future of our continent. Thank you.”
  New Genomic Techniques
• 2025-07-16 “E-002910/2025 Answer given by Executive Vice-President Séjourné on behalf of the European Commission The Competitiveness Compass 1 and the 2025 Commission Work Programme 2 focus strongly on simplification and on making EU policies and laws work better and faster to strengthen the EU's competitiveness. In line with the above, and as announced in the Action Plan for the Chemicals Industry 3 , the Commission is working on a proposal for a targeted revision of the Regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH) to be adopted by end 2025. The proposal will have the ambition to simplify the rules and speed up the procedures for industry, taking into account competitiveness, safety, security and sustainability considerations, while ensuring a high level of protection of human health and the environment. The discussion at the CARACAL 4 expert group referred to by the Honourable Member was part of the consultation of Member States and stakeholders. The Commission services are following and implementing the commitments of the 2025 Commission Work Programme, in line with the political guidelines. As per the Better Regulation guidelines, the Commission Services have considered and assessed several options to revise the REACH Regulation. To benefit from the discussion, various options were presented at technical level as well as views by CARACAL members and observers invited. The Commission services have always been clear that no decision on those options with respect to the Commission proposal had been taken. Moreover, the final REACH revision will also depend on the final decisions in the European Parliament and the Council during the ordinary legislative procedure. Therefore, the Commission does not consider there was an ‘internal miscommunication’ on the REACH revision. 1 https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/competitiveness-compass_en. 2 https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/strategy-documents/commission-workprogramme/commission-work-programme2025_en#:~:text=The%202025%20Work%20Programme%20sets%20out%20the%20key,to%20build%20a%20s trong%2C%20secure%20and%20prosperous%20Europe. 3 https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/publications/european-chemicals-industry-action-plan_en. 4 Competent Authorities for REACH and Classification, Labelling and Packaging.”
  Overall simplification of regulation in the EU
• 2025-06-12 “P-002370/2025 Answer given by Mr Hoekstra on behalf of the European Commission The Commission agrees that a sufficient supply of switchgear is essential for the electrical power system and the transition to a climate neutral Union. The prohibitions regarding switchgear in Regulation (EU) 2024/573 on fluorinated greenhouse gases 1 aim to prevent the use of high global warming potential F-gases and where possible replace them with alternatives with no or a global warming potential (GWP) of 1. The mechanism is designed to limit the risk of constraining the supply of switchgear, in those cases where there are less than two bids offering switchgear that meet the GWP requirements. To facilitate the implementation of this mechanism, the Commission has made available a document with frequently asked questions and answers 2 . The Commission does not consider that a simplification is relevant in this case and will continue to support an effective implementation of this mechanism. The Commission will also monitor over time, without specific end-date, the progress in the implementation of the F-gas Regulation and the market developments in the switchgear sector, in close cooperation with the sector. The Commission will act, if it is deemed appropriate. 1 OJ L, 2024/573, 20.2.2024, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/573/oj. 2 https://climate.ec.europa.eu/document/download/cfe52d31-9203-435d-b04362f74900fd96_en?filename=policy_f-gases_stakeholders_switchgear_faq_en.pdf.”
  EU energy infrastructure integration · EU approach to electricity market and prices
• “Thank you. Chairman. I would like to go back to the previous point. Safety of toys. We talked about that reach, remember, was the was there to look at the raw materials rather than the objects themselves. You can't use certain toys anymore, but you can import Chinese toys. So that is something to remember that we might well ban things here, but we can import things from elsewhere. So that is important to remember. And. It's important to look at things from all sides. Ica has a fundamental role for the environment and for the health of European citizens, and that's why your work is essential. However, in 99% of citizens and businesses, there's no understanding of the red tape involved in ICA. And that's why it's important to simplify matters as far as possible, we need to simplify the procedures, but also communicate better to the European citizens what the role is of ICA, because the idea is that all ICA is there, but it just bans everything. And citizens don't understand the background to all of these bands and to the work that goes on. But there are other problems as well, simplifying the bureaucratic part of things is not is one thing. I mean, you talk about the management of dangerous substances. It's not just Echa, it's not just reach, but it's also the European Agency on Health. Various agencies come in to that. So what we need to do is make sure we're going in the right direction to ensure that the system works and that it's feasible not just for European governments, but for citizens as well. And another thing, and this is the last thing I just wanted to mention, is that the there's this danger of Echa. Becoming a kind of a chemical grouping, in other words, banning all the substances that have anything to do with chemicals. There's a danger of that. And there's the PFAS, for example, which are relevant to about 70 different sectors in Europe. You don't want to ban the group as a whole. You need to go on a case by case basis, and it's enough time for industry to find a find a solution without having an inordinate impact on the economy. Thank you senator Fiocchi”
  Chemicals regulation
• “Thank you very much. We appreciate, Commissioner Roswell, your effort to simplify. We are going in the right direction, but I don't think he's done enough. Uh, I agree with most of what my colleague said. The importance to look at nuclear biocarbon and technology, technological neutrality, technology also very important to keep in our country, but especially on the strategic approach to reduce dependence from countries that we cannot control. And in this moment, this is very important. But in any case, I want to be focused on something that was not mentioned. I talked to some 200 operators and entrepreneurs across Europe, starting from Spain to Belgium to Hungary, Greece, Italy, of course, and one of the most of them said that their biggest problem was the juridical interpretation of the regulation and directive coming out of Europe and, for example, I had several people that complain the contrasting indication of a CLP critical raw material and single use plastic regulation because we say four different things on the recyclable material and so on. And I think we should not do this. We should have the moral duty to make regulation, which has only one interpretation. Especially on the page, they mentioned that the definition of operator is not clear. The responsibility of the operator and the brand owner is not clear and is subject to interpretation, and so on and so on and so on. And last but not least, which I think was mentioned by some of my colleagues, for example, on the definition of the paper objects. So the paper containers and it is allowed up to 5% of foreign material, which is typically plastic. But there is the news that they want to allow every single state to do modification of this, meaning changing the percentage or changing the definition of the foreign materials inside the cardboard or paper container. This is a nightmare because we need to go for harmonization in Europe, not having 27 different definitions of every single object, because otherwise we're going to kill the commerce between countries. And this is not positive. So again, a focus on juridical let's make it maybe hard legislation but clear to interpret and to apply.”
  EU Single Market harmonisation
• “Thank you very much. Uh, we'll open up now. The the catch the eye. Uh, as the acting president of this commission. I need to add something that I went around and most of the people in Europe, especially entrepreneur, do not understand what is the direction. So in my opinion, the commission should focus a lot in communicating and making everything very clear because there is a lot of confusion and especially like Mr. Vulnerable. Also, some of you as mentioned, energy intensive industry but also other industry have an investment Overlook of 1015 years. So if we are not very clear, we risk that we kill the economy in Europe no matter what. Now we open the catch the eye with, uh, in Turlock.”
  EU public communication strategy
• “Okay. There is anybody else. I will add some of my comments because you, my colleagues have covered most of everything, but I have a few very first question. Number one, the origin of food, Which is very strong and in a very good idea. But there are some holes in, for example, honey and I found out rabbit and rabbit. Rabbit to my. End we talked about. Of course. Uh, do you have a way, for example, to distinguish from the same type of food, but European produced an import because, for example, corn produced in, uh, in Italy you can use so much pesticides. But if I import from Canada, they can use three and a half times. Uh, can you, can you actually manage this type of distinction? And last but not least, uh, when you talk about, uh, artificial meat, uh, one of the things that impressed me is that, uh, they, they shut off a genome that, uh, Stops the infinite multiplying of the cells. Now, how much scientific and medical studies are there to actually make us feel good? Not scary. I finish, uh. I give you the floor, and then I.”
  EU policy on country of origin food labelling
• “So you have the time for the follow up. But in the meantime, if some of the MEPs wants to have a catch the eye, please raise your hand in the next few minutes.”
  EU public communication strategy
• “Mr. President. Efsa is the European Food Safety Authority and has been referred to by two colleagues. It talks about 3mg/kg per adult and 100mg per day as. Daily consumption level for adults. And looks at the consequences of overuse of things like, uh, taurine or other components that we find in energy drinks. The fact that Efsa isn't present here today. Uh, well, we're not going to talk about that as a choice. But I think, legally speaking, we do have to be quite cautious because legally we can't take any decisions that would run counter to what the European Food Safety Authority has decided and has written. That's my first point. Secondly, speaking as a citizen and as a parent, what is the solution here? We all agree that excess use of caffeine and other types of products, uh, such as, uh, smoking and alcohol that we've heard about before, um, they're negative. A total ban on sales across Europe is quite difficult, I think. Whenever we try to ban the sales of any products, it seems to just encourage, uh, criminals, um, or people going around the central authority, which is even worst. So what should we do? Well, what Mr. Andrews referred to, um, working in schools, uh, banning the sales of certain products in schools. Uh, that's something that happens already in Italy. And no one here has talked about, uh, education, uh, awareness raising about, uh, food in schools. Of course, parents have an important role to play. But it's very difficult to control or monitor this type of problem. I know you've studied a lot of European states who some of whom have implemented partial bans. What can we learn from their results? And in terms of what might be the best solution?”
  EU measures on lifestyle-related behaviours (smoking, drinking, eating, etc.)
• “Thank you very much. Some of the points were extremely interesting. Again, as a as a active president of NBA cannot do any political comment. But I will do an engineering comment. A lot of people talked about China, but remember that right now from a social and environmental aspect is much cheaper to go producing turkey for example. No matter what Etsy is doing and I can give you all the proof about that. So we need to be extremely careful. And I talk to the representative of the Commission not to make a regulation that is an invite to the localize and second point, and which is something that nobody talks about, but in Italy is a stronger problem, is the sociological part, because I wasn't surprised that the Italians are against having a nuclear power plants in their backyards, but I was surprised that they did a major manifestation against wind electrical generators. So if you like nuclear, you don't like wind. Hydroelectric is problematic and so on. Uh, what is left? Okay. Solar panels, but you're not going to go 100% renewables in Europe if you just go solar panels. So, uh, mine is not a critique, you know, but I think we need to consider also that we need to consider that. Remember that, for example, in Italy there was a referendum and they voted against nuclear power plants. So if you want to go 100% renewable in Europe, we have to work a lot in all the ways. Also from a communication point of view. I'm the first one working on that, but I have to say, we do not have to diminish this because this could be a problem. Not in my backyard. Could kill going 100% renewable in this country. Please, Mr. Vanderburg, if you still listen. Okay. Thank you. You have eight minutes.”
  Energy (green transition)
• “Well, actually, I already said everything I wanted to say in my previous intervention. I have more experience on the issues of alcohol and smoking, and I know that these are not easy issues. A ban on minors. Um, given the content of some drinks, might be worth looking at. But of course, as we know, when you ban something, then it makes it all the more appealing to minors. So this is not easy to manage in legislative terms. So I'm really here just here to listen to any good advice on what we can do. There's no way to remove all risk. But. Um, if we look at the European strategy against cancer, what the goal is to reduce risk as much as possible. And I'm sure here there is something that we could do.”
  Drinking regulation
• “May I speak Italian? Is that right? Well, in my opinion. We're ready. Go ahead. The ECR Group. Is pushing for a constructive report. Constructive relationship between the EU and the UK. There are several points where my colleague, Mr. Torricelli would like to, uh, really, um, emphasize the first would to have an agreement on implementation of sanitary and phytosanitary, um, rules and a veterinary agreement between the UK and the EU, because this is of crucial importance to make sure that we have food security, public health, to make sure that they are upheld in both territories. It would be excellent, excellent, indeed, if we were if the UK aligned with the Community standards and guarantees, the ECJ has the last word in the interpretation of these customs rules, we know that they're not very easy following Brexit. Now it's important to make sure that quality and security rules are upheld in trade, um relations in supplies and reducing risks related to animal and vegetable health. The second point is to really underscore the youth experience scheme. It's really crucial for the future of our young people and for their ability to train, because those between 15 and 30 years of age, we're talking about across the board. So from menial jobs to university researchers, it's extremely important for them to have contact with English language and the British and Anglo-Saxon education systems. Now, I know this is a point that can be challenging to work on with the UK, but we would hope that as the EU we would really work and push for this to be the case supporting Erasmus+ programmes. Thank you very much. Thank you to you, sir.”
  EU-UK data transfer
• “And, Lisa, we did, uh, the last deadline for amendments on the budgetary opinion and for budget amendments is 16 of July at 10 or 11:00 in the morning. So if you want to do something, move fast. ***Hearing of the candidate for the function of Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority”
  Conditions to access EU budget
• “Mine is a technical comment and I'm talking to Miss Scorpio from the commission. There is a lot of things we can do. Of course, simplification is a good idea on cbam, but, uh, what I see in a strong way is a lot of confusion among the European industry regarding cbam and ETS, uh, delaying, shortening, modification. What is going where and so on. So I do believe that we have a moral duty with the European citizenship that to clarify the application of these two things that every interaction and to go in the right direction. Overall, there are positive applications, but we need to be extremely clear and either black or white. No. 50 Shades of Grey. Thank you.”
  Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)