15 Amendments of Rosa D'AMATO related to 2017/2211(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas local and regional authorities are at the forefront of the transition to a circular economy and whereas their contribution, together with the adequate informing and active involvement of citizens, is key to the achievement of this shift;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas in the Structural Funds programming period for 2014-20, as much as EUR 5.5 billion is available for waste management; whereas considerable support for the completion of the transition to a circular economy is being provided by other programmes, too, such as LIFE, COSME and Horizon 2020; whereas, moreover, it is vital to establish a synergy between the above-mentioned instruments in order to achieve the goals set out in the Commission's Action plan for the Circular Economy;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas one of the aims of the circular economy is to reduce waste in landfills and whereas the securing and remediation of legal and illegal landfills in the Member States should be regarded as an absolute priority;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Hopes that in the next 2021-2027 programming period a specific thematic objective will be devoted to the circular economy, thus making the need for radical change more explicit with regard to both the drastic reduction of waste and the very way in which products are designed, reused and recycled, with a view to achieving the economic, social and territorial cohesion objectives enshrined in the Treaties;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to take extraordinary action to remediate areas used for the illegal discharge and landfill of hazardous waste, which is adversely affecting the health and economic and social well-being of the populations concerned (for example in the so-called Land of Fires [Terra dei Fuochi] in the Campania Region);
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for easier and better access to finance for local authorities, also through the strengthening of their administrative capacity, to enable investments in green jobs and in local energy transition, including energy efficiency, decentralised distribution of energy and the circular economy;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Regrets the lack or low quality, in some regions of southern Italy, of appropriate waste plans, resulting in risks not only to public health but also to the disbursement of funding from the European Structural and Investment Funds in the areas concerned, owing to the failure to fulfil the relevant ex-ante conditionalities;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses that the Commission has recently clarified that EU funds for energy efficiency concern sectors and economic activities aimed at environmental protection, energy savings, the reduction of CO2 emissions and sectors which do not have polluting production processes and that those funds must therefore support only measures which seek to increase the energy efficiency of facilities in which materials and the relative production cycle are recovered and recycled, excluding activities relating to the collection, disposal, landfilling and incineration of waste;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Takes the view that in order to ensure that the transition to a circular economy takes place in a uniform manner across the EU, the various environmental and administrative problems in EU countries need to be taken into account;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls on the Commission to consider excluding regional and national investments co-financed through the ESI Funds, with a view to achieving the circular economy objectives, from the calculation of government deficits for the European Semester;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission, for the next programming period, to implement a relevant tracking methodology and appropriate indicators to allow accurate monitoring of the contribution of cohesion policy to the achievement of a circular economy;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to design, in the future cohesion policy framework, a new ex ante conditionality provision related to the achievement of a circular economy, for instance through the development of circular economy strategies, shared with the national, regional and local authorities and economic and social partners;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Commission to consider establishing, in the next programming period, a specific fund accessible to regional and local authorities, the purpose of which would be to cover extraordinary expenditure, such as the remediation of legal and illegal sites used for the storage and disposal of waste, including industrial waste;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Hopes that climate-related expenditure will be substantially increased in comparison with the current Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) and that it will account for at least 30% of the next MFF;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22b. Calls on the Commission and the national, regional and local authorities to improve the management and monitoring system for projects relating to the establishment and modernisation of facilities to help achieve the objectives of the circular economy; calls on it, in addition, to increase the transparency of the entire project process in order to prevent the infiltration of organised crime, which would harm the environment and the community;