25 Amendments of Stanislav POLČÁK related to 2022/2171(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to Decision (EU) 2022/591 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 April 2022 on a General Union Environment Action Programme to 2030,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8
Citation 8
— having regard to the 2017 report of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation entitled ‘A New Textiles Economy: Redesigning fashion’s future’,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas global textile production almost doubled between 2000 and 20152; whereas less than 1 % of all textiles worldwide are recycled into new products3 , and even ‘downcycling’ is affected by insufficient, often even negative, purchase prices for materials and a lack of demand for the resulting products, which means that only around 20 % of textiles in Europe are downcycled; __________________ 2 https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/a- new-textiles-economy 3 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-in-europes-circular-economy
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas 92 million tonnes of textile waste is generated worldwide each year, the vast majority of which ends up in landfills; whereas 5.8 million tonnes of textile products are discarded each year in the EU, which amounts to approximately 11 kg per person;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas clothing comprises the largest share of EU textile consumption, with 81 %4 ; whereas the trend of using garments for ever shorter periods before throwing them away is the biggest contributor to unsustainable patterns of overproduction and overconsumption5 ; __________________ 4 https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reposit ory/handle/JRC125110 5 https://textileexchange.org/app/uploads/20 22/10/Textile-Exchange_PFMR_2022.pdf
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas global consumption of clothing and footwear is expected to increase by 63 %, from the current 62 million tonnes to 102 million tonnes, by 2030;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. E. whereas between 1996 and 2018, although clothing prices in the EU fell relative to inflation by more than 30 %, average household expenditure on clothing increased, i.e. there were no cost savings, suggesting that unsustainable patterns of overproduction and overconsumption have a strong influence on consumer behaviour in the EU;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the pressure to minimise production costs in third countries continues to raise concerns about low levels of worker protection, poor working conditions and the use of child labour; whereas the majority of low-wage and unskilled labour in the textile sector in both the Union and third countries is made up of women;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas textile products have a significant negative impact on the climate and the environment during their life cycle;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas the textile and clothing sector is economically important in the Union and plays a key role in achieving the EU’s circular economy objectives;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on an EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles and the vision it presents for 2030; stresses that actions following the publication of the Strategy should be fully aligned with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives, in particular that of accelerating the transition to a non-toxic circular economy in which growth is regenerative, resources are used efficiently and sustainably, and the waste hierarchy is applied, and achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and of halting and reversing biodiversity loss;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt measureseek ways to put an end to fast fashionthe trend of fast fashion, including in relevant international fora; underlines the need to achieve a paradigm shift in the fashion industry to end overproduction and to make fast fashion go out of fashion; points out that such a change requires international cooperation and the involvement of all relevant actors, including the textile industry, civil society and consumers;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to support consumers in moving away from fast fashion and the excessive consumption of clothing and in making responsible, informed and sustainable textile consumption choices; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop and implement awareness-raising programmes on sustainable consumption and the environmental and climate impacts of the textile and clothing industry, in collaboration with civil society;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Draws attention to the fact that imports of non-compliant products sold through online platforms and other digital services are widespread, and calls on those service providers to ensure without delay that the textile products they sell comply with EU law;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that textiles are the fourth biggest contributor to climate change from an EU consumption perspective, and that the industry’s emissions are only expected to increase9 ; calls for further legislation to fully decarbonise the industry, starting with more transparency on scope 3 emissions in textile supply chains; calls for ambitious science-based targets to be set by 2024 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the textiles sector, covering their entire lifecycle, in line with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures; recalls that around 70 % of the emissions related to the Union’s textile consumption take place outside of the EU10 ; calls for more robust informationtransparency and disclosure on the impacts on biodiversitythe climate and environment, including on water, land and biodiversity in order to help promote more rational behaviour among consumers; __________________ 9 https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular- economy/pdf/new_circular_economy_actio n_plan.pdf 10 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-in-europes-circular-economy
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that the strategy makes a link between fast fashion and the use of fossil fuel-based synthetic fibres, which in turn has major implications for microplastic pollution; points out that microplastics release climate pollutants such as methane and ethylene into the environment, contributing to climate change, and that microplastics undermine the resilience of the ocean and the environment in generalsubstances that contribute to climate change, such as methane and ethylene; points out, in this context, that most microplastics from textiles are released during the first five to 10 washes, which only solidifies the link between fast fashion and microplastic pollution, and that microplastics undermine the resilience of the ocean and the environment in general and can pose a risk to human health; draws attention, in this context, to an October 2022 study in which scientists detected microplastics for the first time in the breast milk of 75 % of the mothers who took part in the study, which shows the true extent of the problem of microplastic pollution;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Welcomes the fact that a review of the Best Available Techniques Reference Document (BREF) for the textile industry is currently underway; stresses that this review should fully reflect the best available data and contribute to achieving a high level of environmental performance;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that ecodesign requirements should address the textiles sector comprehensively across product parameters; notes that measures such as improved resource efficiency are not sufficient in and of themselves as that these do not address the issue of overproduction and overconsumption of textiles;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls foron the ecodesign requirements for textiles to setCommission, when setting horizontal ecodesign requirements swiftly, targeting a comprehensive group of products, to focus firstly on textiles, and particularly on the most important textile product groups, starting with garments and footwear, and later, when needed, to focus on differentiated requirements between different textile product groups;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that consumption of new textiles, such as clothes, depends largely on their availability of the products and theirand pricing, and not only on the need to replace a product that is no longer functional; calls for the policy framework to take a holistic view of durability, including the emotional durability of textile products put on the market, which describes thethereby promoting garment design that takes into account long-term relevance and desirability to consumers;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that separate collection of textiles waste will be mandatory in the EU from 1 January 2025; underlines that the revision of the Waste Framework Directive planned for 2024 should consider specific separate targets for textile waste prevention, textile reuse, preparation for reuse, and recycling;
Amendment 311 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the potential of the digital product passport to support full value chain coverage as part of a coherent framework with corporate due diligence legislation on sustainability; calls on the Commission to require ecompanienomic operators to use the digital product passport to disclose and submit site information throughout their supply chains, as well as information on the use of materials and chemicals; calls for environmental information to be complemented by information on social aspects and labour and working conditions;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines that an immediate ban on the destruction of unsold and returned textile goods should be enacted without delay under the Ecodesign Regulation; considers that full disclosure of the numberit essential for economic operators to disclose fully and annually the quantities of textile products that they have placed on the market every year and, the quantities of unsold textile products is necessary, and the way in which unsold textile products have been disposed of;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to revise the Textile Labelling Regulation; believes that a suitably expansive revision, together with the introduction of a digital product passport, could help to ensure that EU citizens are at least empowered to make responsible consumer choices;