DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 35 /X

DRAFTING OF THE SECOND NATIONAL FOOD SURVEY

The first national food survey was carried out in 1980. Already there go 25 years!

Since then there have been no more national studies on food behaviours

of the Portuguese.

This absence of knowledge is due fundamentally, in the perspective of the Greens,

to the simultaneous absence of a food policy in the context of the intervention of the

successive Governments, even though it is contained in some documents in the meantime

elaborate, but never realized.

The right one is that diverse appartments give today account that the eating habits of the

Portuguese are changing deeply, fruit specifically from the lack of

quality of the food supply that prolifera in the market of a country that is dependent on the

outdoor, in food terms, at about 70%, in addition to other issues such as

meal / time ratio available.

Apart from that, it is known that malnutrition is an evil that also nurses our

society, fruit in particular of high and intolerable levels of poverty.

From here they arise consequences that are held by many experts as

directly related to the generalization of some diseases that are noticing

an expressive form in the Portuguese population.

Given the circumstances, it is not understood how it is that in the space of 25 years not if

has promoted the second national food survey, all the more so as in other countries,

as in France, these studies take place on a regular basis (4 in 4 years). In Portugal

it is known that, for quite a long time, the Ricardo Jorge Institute has been scheduling the

realization of that investigation, not having, however, obtained until the date funding for that

project, which is totally incomprehensible.

'The Greens' believe that it is urgently necessary to carry out the second survey

national food, which allows to create a knowledgeable and real basis on the

food behaviours of the Portuguese, so as to guide a much-needed

food policy in this country, determinant, inter alia, in the definition of a

pedagogy and creation of means for a healthy diet.

Thus, in the applicable constitutional and regimental terms, the Assembly of the Republic

deliberating to recommend to the Government:

1. The unlocking of funding for the realization of the second survey

national food.

2. That the survey starts and develops from 2006, so as to constitute

a solid foundation for the definition of a food policy.

3. That, once the second national food survey is completed, the Government

retarget its conclusions to the Assembly of the Republic, for consideration,

accompanied by the first national food survey, held in 1980, to

comparative effects.

Palace of S. Bento, May 24, 2005

The Deputies