21 Amendments of Tiziana BEGHIN related to 2014/2208(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the circular economy has the potential to generate millions of new jobs across Europe, resulting in net job creation;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas an excessive and unsustainable use of resources is the root cause of various environmental hazards, such as climate change, desertification, deforestation and loss of biodiversity; whereas the global economy uses the equivalent of 1.5 planets’ worth of resources to produce global output and absorb waste and this figure is estimated to reach the equivalent of two planets’ worth of resources by the 2030s;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that investing on landfills and waste incineration diverts resources that can be invested on job creating activities such as waste prevention, re-use, repair and preparation for re-use; calls for the Commission to ensure that funding under EU cohesion policy targets circular economy activities and is not provided to landfills and waste incineration;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes the importance of training and re-qualifying workers especially in resource-efficient sectors and the importance of social dialogue on the circular economy agenda;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the cancellation of environmentally harmful subsidies, including direct and indirect subsidies to fossil fuels, would substantially reduce GHG emissions, help in the fight against climate change and allow the uptake of the circular economy;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CStrongly believes that the shift to a circular economy requires decisive action and incentives by both Member States and the EU; calls on the Member States and the EU to put in place a regulatory environment and fiscal incentives that encourage the development of a circular economy, such as establishing a legislative framework for reuse, repair and preparation for reuse, elaborating legal definitions of "waste" that do not prevent reuse of materials, reducing or lifting taxation on renewable resources, including labour, and differentiating VAT rates in accordance with the waste hierarchy.
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas waste prevention, waste hierarchy and the cascading use of materials should be promoted as important principles to foster a resource- efficient and sustainable management of resources;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that stimulating the market for recovered materials is necessary to allow the uptake of the circular economy; therefore, envisages measures, such as zero rate or reduced VAT for reused and recycled products as well as products with a minimum recycled content;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that by 2050 the EU’s use of resources needs to be sustainable; this includes fully implementing a cascading use of resources, sustainable sourcing, a waste hierarchy, creating a closed loop on non-renewable resources, using renewables within the limits of their renewability and phasing out toxic substances;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission to develop and introduce by 2019 a lead indicator and a number of sub-indicators on resource efficiency, including ecosystem services; these binding indicators should measure resource consumption, including importsed and exports, ated goods in the EU, Member State and industry level, and take account of the whole lifecycle of products and servicesenvironmental impacts (such as air pollution, water pollution, solid waste, embodied energy), take account of the whole lifecycle of products and services, and include tools to facilitate prioritisation of resources whose use should be cascaded;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that the amount of resources used by a product over its lifetime isas well as its reusability and recyclability are largely determined during the design phase;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Commission to propose a review of the Ecodesign Directive by the end of 2016, incorporating the following important changes: broadening the scope to cover all main product lines; gradually including all relevant resource-efficiency features in the mandatory requirements for product design, such as minimum threshold of recycled content; introducing a mandatory product passport based on these requirements and reporting on the energy needed to manufacture the product; implementing self- monitoring and third-party auditing to ensure that products comply with these standards; and defining horizontal requirements on, inter alia, reusability and recyclability;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the introduction of a certificate of origin, sustainability and legality wherever applicable to raw materials, as it is already existing for timber products following Regulation (EU) No 995/2010;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the Commission to submit the announced proposal on the review of waste legislation by the end of 2015 and to include the following points: setting extended producer responsibility requirements; endorsing the ‘pay-as-you- throw-principle’ prioritising separate collection schemes in order to facilitate the development of business based on the reuse of secondary raw materials; introducing separate reuse targets; increasing recycling targets to at least 70 % of municipal solid waste, based on the output of recycling facilities, using the same harmoniseand setting recycling targets for other type of waste whenever possible using the same clear and harmonised definitions and method for all Member States with externally verified statistics; introducing a ban on landfilling and incineration (with or without energy recovery) of recyclable and biodegradable waste by 2025 and a ban on all landfilling and incineration by 2030; introducing mandatory fees on landfilling and incineration;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Commission for greater transparency and better controls to avoid shipping of waste to countries with lower environmental and social standards than those in the EU;
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to propose the full implementation of the circular economy principles and requirements in the building sector and to further develop the policy framework on resource efficiency in buildings; this includes developing indicators, standards and methods as regards land use and urban planning, architecture, structural engineering, construction, maintenance, adaptability, energy efficiencyand carbon efficiency of construction materials and construction methods, renovation and reuse and recycling; targets and indicators on sustainable buildings should also include green infrastructure, such as green roofs;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the Commission, in the framework of the Construction Products Regulation, to prepare a common and sound basis for environmental product declaration (EPD) of building products;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on Member States to prioritize renovation of existing building and, when this is not possible, to promote demolition methods which allow material recovery to be reused or recycled; urges Member States to set mandatory national demolition waste plans;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the Commission to establish a permanent resource-efficiency platform which includes representatives from all sectors of the economy, both public and private and civil society, to encourage and facilitate the application of the latest research findings, the exchange of best practices and the emergence of new industrial synthesis and industrial ecosystems;
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Stresses that all EU funding, including funding through EFSI, Horizon 2020, cohesion funds and the EIB, must be mobilised to promote resource efficiency and, circular economy and to phase out hazardous substances; urges the Commission and Member States to abolish all environmentally harmful subsidies, including direct and indirect subsidies to fossil fuels to reduce GHG emissions, help in the fight against climate change and allow the uptake of the circular economy;
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Urges the Commission to examine whether existing legislation is hindering the circular economy or the emergence of new business models, such as a lease economand lending economy for goods and services; calls on Member States to support a community based non-profit shared economy and property;