Activities of Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS related to 2015/0275(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2008/98/EC on waste
Amendments (20)
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The circular economy sector has an enormous job creation potential. Member States should ensure that labour standards are not lowered as a result of the resource transition, which should be based on the creation of quality jobs.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Many Member States have yet to develop the necessary waste management infrastructure. It is therefore essential to set long-term policy objectives and financial and political support in order to guide measures and investments, notably by preventing the creation of structural overcapacities for the treatment of residual waste or for landfilling and lock-ins of recyclable materials at the bottom of the waste hierarchy. In this context it is also essential to use the European Structural and Investment Funds in order to finance the development of the waste management infrastructure needed to meet the relevant targets.
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The different starting positions in the Member States with regard to the progressive increase in the targets mean that different levels of effort will be required to achieve the goals set. Consequently, the Member States should be accorded the necessary time flexibility to guarantee the feasibility of complying with these targets.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 b (new)
Recital 3 b (new)
(3b) The EU should increase the resources at the Member States' disposal to support them in making the necessary investments in order to achieve the goals set.
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Commission and Member States should put in place adequate incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy, in particular, by means of financial incentives aimed at achieving the waste prevention and recycling objectives of this Directive, such as landfill and incineration charges, pay as you throw schemes, extended producer responsibility schemes and incentives for local authorities.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Commission and Member States should develop measures to guarantee the sustainable recovering of landfill area or landfill damaged area;
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Extended producer responsibility schemes form an essential part of efficient waste management, but their effectiveness and performance differ significantly between Member States. Thus, it is necessary to set minimum mandatory operating requirements for extended producer responsibility schemes. Those requirements should reduce costs and boost performance, facilitate better implementation of enforcement of separate collection and sorting, ensure quality recycling, secure cost- efficient access to secondary raw material as well as ensure a level-playing field, including for small and medium sized enterprises, and avoid obstacles to the smooth functioning of the internal market. They should also contribute to the incorporation of end-of-life costs into product prices and provide incentives for producers to take better into account recyclability and reusability when designing their products. The requirements should apply to both new and existing extended producer responsibility schemes. A transitional period is however necessary for existing extended producer responsibility schemes and for Member States without extended producer responsibility to adapt their structures and procedures to the new requirements. Support measures should be provided to those Member States.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) It is necessary to take into account the Food and Agriculture Organization reports entitled “Food wastage footprint: Full-cost accounting” and "Food wastage footprint: Impacts on natural resources “ in order to better assess the real costs of food waste and bear in mind the best practices in this field.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19 a (new)
Recital 19 a (new)
(19a) In order to achieve the objectives of this Directive, the Commission should promote the coordination and exchange of information and best practices both between Member States, civil society organizations, regional and local authorities and social partners including trade-unions, and the waste industry. This could be achieved through the establishment of communication platforms.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) Union funds that are allocated to support the transition to the circular economy could therefore be used for research programmes on the treatment of hazardous waste. Extended producer responsibility schemes should be applied for any hazardous waste putting the burden on the producer of this kind of waste that should be the responsible of their collection and environmental costs.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23 a (new)
Recital 23 a (new)
(23a) The Union is one of the larger importers of raw materials of the world; the circular economy is an opportunity to reduce our dependency on imports; this could lead to a reduction of many conflicts at global level, a better environmental performance and to the development of a more resilient European industry.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26a) The Commission should promote support measures for small establishments or undertakings in order to be able to achieve goals set.
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) Statistical data reported by Member States are essential for the Commission to assess compliance with waste legislation across the Member States. The quality, reliability and comparability of statisticsreported data should be improved by introducing a single entry point for all waste data, deleting obsolete reporting requirements, benchmarking national reporting methodologies and introducing a data quality check report. Therefore, when reporting on the achievement of the targets set out in waste legislation, Member States shall use the most recent methodology developed by the Commission and the national statistical offices of the Member States and the national authorities responsible for waste management. The Commission should provide financial and technical support to the Member States with difficulties to achieve the objectives in terms of data collection.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Directive 2008/98/EC
Article 8a – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1– point b
Article 8a – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1– point b
(b) are modulated on the basis of the real end-of-life cost of individual products or groups of similar products, notably by taking into account their re-usability and recyclability, and the use of permanent materials which can be recycled multiple times without losing its properties;
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Directive 2008/98/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 - indent 5 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 - indent 5 a (new)
- promote the production of organic fertilizers and environmental efficient uses of food wastage, animal by-products and bio-waste such as worm composting.
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point a
1. Member States shall take measures, as appropriate, to promote preparing for re- use activities, notably by encouraging the establishment of and support for re-use and repair networksof preparing for re-use operators and their networks, in particular those which operate as social and solidarity enterprises, and by facilitating the access of such networks to waste collection points and facilities, and by promoting the use of economic instruments, procurement criteria, quantitative objectives or other measures.
Amendment 360 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point a a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point a a (new)
Directive 2008/98/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
(aa) in paragraph 1, the following subparagraph is inserted: “Member States shall promote measures such as VAT reductions, in order to incentivise the uptake of secondary raw materials. Those measures shall encourage, inter alia, the replacement of natural primary raw materials with the secondary ones, and green public procurement criteria”.
Amendment 387 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point e
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point e
Directive 2008/98/EC
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Estonia, Greece, Cyprus, Croatia, Latvia, Malta, Romania and Slovakia may obtain five additional years for the attainment of the targets referred to in paragraph 2(c) and (d). The Member State shall notify the Commission of its intention to make use of this provision at the latest 24 months before the respective deadlines laid down in paragraphs 2(c) and (d). In the event of an extension, the Member State shall take the necessary measures to increase the preparing for re-use and the recycling of municipal waste to a minimum of 50% and 60% by weight, by 2025 and 2030 respectively.
Amendment 395 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point f a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point f a (new)
Directive 2008/98/EC
Article 11– paragraph 5a (new)
Article 11– paragraph 5a (new)
(fa) the following paragraph is added: “5a. In order to build an accurate baseline to set targets for recycling of non-hazardous commercial and industrial waste, the Commission shall gather data on such waste, based on common reporting from Member States. The Union is to provide financial and technical support to Member States with difficulties to achieve these targets.”
Amendment 415 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Directive 2008/98/EC
Article 11 a– paragraph 8
Article 11 a– paragraph 8
8. Waste exported from the Union for preparation for re-use or recycling shall only count towards the attainment of the targets laid down in Articles 11(2) and (3) by the Member State in which it was collected if the requirements of paragraph 4 are met and if, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006, the exporter can prove that the shipment of waste complies with the requirements of that Regulation and that the treatment of waste outside the Union took place in conditions that are equivalent to the requirements of the relevant Union environmental legislation.