A/HRC/43/44/Add.6 Resolutions that, in terms of nutrition, there are no healthy or unhealthy foods but rather healthy and unhealthy diets; it is more correct to speak of a correct or incorrect diet. Italy is strongly in favour of transparent information and food labeling for consumers, in line with relevant EU Regulations (particularly 1169/2011) and current Codex Alimentarius guidelines. On 27 January 2020 Italy notified the European Commission and other EU Member States of draft rules for voluntary front-of-pack food labeling (“NutrInform Battery”). The scheme is based on scientific evidence and experimentation among Italian consumers. Therefore, we call for redrafting or deleting paragraphs 95 to 100. 95. Unhealthy food choice is one of the main causes of overweight in children and adults. Particularly, it is a category of food that contains excessive salt, sugar and saturated fat, defined as “junk food”. 96. In Italy, 17,4% of young people, between 11 and 17 years old, eat junk food. The consumption is highest in the South (19,4% of daily consumption) but also particularly high in the North-West (16,3%) compared to the 8,9% of the Centre. 97. Low-income populations consume more junk food than do high-income ones, spending a greater percentage of their annual income and exposing them to at higher risk of obesity and chronic diseases. Since 2008, the Ministry of Health conducts a survey of the health condition of primary school children (8-9 years) which, according to the Government, is contributing to reducing obesity among students. 37 98. Since 2007, Italy is actively engaged in the fight against childhood overweight and obesity. The Government provides some measures to promote healthy diet (in particular Mediterranean diet) and increase healthy choices food consumption such as the “5 a day” target of fruit and vegetable. The Italian strategy to prevent NCDs and obesity is based on two main programs, strongly inter linked, the Programme “Gaining health: making healthy choices easier” and the “National Prevention Plan”. “Gaining health” is a Government initiative, adopted in 2007 and led by the Ministry of Health, which follows the “Health in all policies” approach, aiming to promote cross-sector actions, to facilitate healthy behaviors, by acting against main modifiable common risk factors (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity.) and create healthy environments for making healthy choices easy. The National Prevention Plan implements at Regional and local level the intersectoral approach of “Gaining Health”, under the leadership of the Local Health Services, once again mainly through the promotion of healthy lifestyles including prevention of overweight and obesity-related health problems, developing intervention along the life course. and the “Guadagnare salute: rendere facili le scelte salutari” (“Gaining in health”) campaign, a multi-component intervention for making healthy choices easy. The main objective is to nudge people towards healthier behaviours, which would decrease the likelihood of developing chronic diseases. Since 2007, Italy is actively engaged in the fight against childhood overweight and obesity. (tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity.) 38 99. In addition, the Ministry of Health confirmed that taxes on junk foods and sweet beverages had been applied, even if the Special Rapporteur was not able to find specific information on the implementation of fat taxes and their impact. article 1 paragraphs from 661 to 676 of the Law of 27 December 2019 n. 60 established the tax on the consumption of sweetened drinks. This tax will be applied from October 2020. 100. Despite these initiatives, the Government still needs to implement some concrete measures to reduce the consumption of junk food such as strict regulation over the advertisement and marketing of such products, especially when addressed to children.39 37 38 39 18 ISTAT AND and UNICEF, Bambini e adolescenti tra nutrizione e malnutrizione, 2013, available at https://www.unicef.it/Allegati/Rapporto_ISTAT_Bambini_malnutrizione_1.pdf. Ministry of Health, CCM, Gaining in Health programme. A/71/282 (2016).