29 Amendments of Paul BRANNEN related to 2018/0172(COD)
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) To focus efforts where they are most needed, this Directive should only cover the most found single-use plastics products, which are estimated to represent around 86% of the single-use plastics found, in counts, on beaches and the most used agricultural plastic products in the Union.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) For other single-use plastic products, suitable and more sustainable alternatives that are also affordable are readily available. In order to limit the adverse impact of such products on the environment, Member States should be required to prohibit their placing on the Union market. This should, among other specific types of plastic, cover all oxo- degradable plastic which does not safely biodegrade and therefore fails to deliver environmental benefit. By doing so, the use of those readily available and more sustainable alternatives as well as innovative solutions towards more sustainable business models, re-use, compostable alternatives and substitution of materials would be promoted.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) While agricultural plastic products constitute low percentage of the overall amount of plastic used and plastic waste generated, their use is concentrated geographically. Moreover, categories of agricultural plastic products have a very homogeneous composition, rendering the waste stream very valuable to the recycler. Large part of agricultural plastic is currently buried in the soil, burned in the fields, discarded infields, or it ends up in landfills. This represents an imminent threat for irreversible soil contamination, degradation of soil quality characteristics and, possibly, for the safety of the food produced. During burning harmful substances are released, including substances found having endocrine disrupting or carcinogenic properties. Therefore, this Directive should cover the most single-used agricultural plastic products in respective member states.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 b (new)
Recital 17 b (new)
(17 b) Member States should ensure enhanced compliance with the obligation to collect waste separately, including agricultural plastic waste. They should also consider introduction of conditionality related to treatment of plastic waste in Annex III to the Regulation [CAP Strategic Plans Regulation].
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 c (new)
Recital 17 c (new)
(17 c) In the CAP Strategic Plans the problem of agricultural plastic waste should be addressed and the European Commission should, as appropriate, introduce a standard for good agricultural and environmental condition of land on plastic waste as a new element of enhanced conditionality in the mid-term, by2023. Farmers would be under the new cross-compliance requirement bound to use an authorised waste management business to arrange collection and recycling of plastic, and keep evidence that plastic waste has been handled correctly.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) To focus efforts where they are most needed, this Directive should only cover the most found single-use plastics products, which are estimated to represent around 86% of the single-use plastics found, in counts, on beaches and further the most used agricultural plastic products in the Union.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) agricultural plastic product means any piece of plastic material or equipment used or plastic packaging of a product used with the intention to improve productivity of agricultural area1a _________________ 1aagricultural area as defined in Regulation (EU) 1307/2013 (or Regulation [CAP Strategic Plans Regulation])
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2 b) agricultural plastic products´ waste means any agricultural plastics product covered by the definition of waste in Directive 2008/98/EC
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) For other single-use plastic products, suitable and more sustainable alternatives that are also affordable are readily available. In order to limit the adverse impact of such products on the environment, Member States should be required to prohibit their placing on the Union market. This should, among other specific types of plastic, cover all oxo- degradable plastic which does not safely biodegrade and therefore fails to deliver environmental benefit. By doing so, the use of those readily available and more sustainable alternatives as well as innovative solutions towards more sustainable business models, re-use, compostable alternatives and substitution of materials would be promoted.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shall take the necessary measures to collect separately, by 2025, an amount of waste single-use plastic products listed in Part F of the Annex equal to 90% of such single-use plastic products placed on the market in a given year by weight. For the products in point ba) the amount of the single-use plastic products collected as % of placed on the market the given year is proportionate to the standard life- span of the product. In order to achieve that objective Member States may inter alia:
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) establish separate collection points for the most used classes and materials geographically and/ or seasonally concentrated plastics products´ waste, in particular agricultural plastic products´ waste
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) While agricultural plastic products constitute low percentage of the overall amount of plastic used and plastic waste generated, their use is concentrated geographically. Moreover, categories of agricultural plastic products have a very homogeneous composition, rendering the waste stream very valuable to the recycler. Large part of such waste is currently buried in the soil or burned in the fields, or discarded infields, or it ends up in landfills. This represents an imminent threat for irreversible soil contamination, degradation of soil quality characteristics and, possibly, for the safety of the food produced. During burning harmful substances are released, including substances found having endocrine disrupting or carcinogenic properties. Therefore, this Directive should cover the most single-used agricultural plastic products in respective member states.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17 b (new)
Recital 17 b (new)
(17 b) Member States should ensure enhanced compliance with the obligation to collect waste separately, including agricultural plastics. They should also consider introduction of conditionality related to treatment of plastic waste in Annex III to the Regulation [CAP Strategic Plans Regulation]. In the CAP Strategic Plans the problem of agricultural plastic waste should be addressed and the European Commission should, as appropriate, introduce a standard for good agricultural and environmental condition of land on plastic waste as a new element of enhanced conditionality in the mid-term, by2023. Farmers would be under the new cross-compliance requirement bound to use an authorised waste management business to arrange collection and recycling of plastic, and keep evidence that plastic waste has been handled correctly.
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part B – indent 1 a (new)
Annex I – part B – indent 1 a (new)
- oxo-degradable plastics in all applications
Amendment 206 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part E – indent 1 a (new)
Annex I – part E – indent 1 a (new)
- agricultural plastic products, e.g. protected cultivation films, mulching and silage films, irrigation and drainage pipes, input bags and containers, etc
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part E – indent 4 a (new)
Annex I – part E – indent 4 a (new)
- caps and lids with significant part made of plastic
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part F – indent 1 a (new)
Annex I – part F – indent 1 a (new)
- geographically or seasonally concentrated plastics products, in particular agricultural plastic products´ waste material (e.g. protected cultivation films, mulching films, anti- hail nets, bale twines, irrigation pipes, fertilizer and agrochemical packaging etc.)
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) 'plastic' means a material consisting of a polymer within the meaning of Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, to which additives or other substances may have been added, and which can function as a mains a structural component of final products, with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified;
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
(1 a) ´coatings´ means materials or articles composed of one or more non- self-supporting layer or layers, applied on a material or article in order to impart special properties on it or to improve its technical performance.
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) 'single-use plastic product' means a product that is made wholly or partly from plastic with the plastic functioning as the structural component and that is not conceived, designed or placed on the market to accomplish, within its life span, multiple trips or rotations by being returned to the producer for refill or re- used for the same purpose for which it was conceived;
Amendment 266 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) agricultural plastic product means any piece of plastic material or equipment used or plastic packaging of a product used with the intention to improve productivity of agricultural area1a __________________ 1aagricultural area as defined in Regulation (EU) 1307/2013 (or Regulation [CAP Strategic Plans Regulation]).
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2 b) agricultural plastic products´ waste- means any agricultural plastics product covered by the definition of waste in Directive 2008/98/EC
Amendment 434 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shall take the necessary measures to collect separately, by 2025, an amount of waste single-use plastic products listed in Part F of the Annex equal to 90% of such single-use plastic products placed on the market in a given year by weight. For the products in point ba) the amount of the single-use plastic products collected as % of placed on the market the given year is proportionate to the standard life- span of the product. In order to achieve that objective Member States may inter alia:
Amendment 446 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(b a) establish separate collection points for the most used classes and materials geographically and/ or seasonally concentrated plastics products´ waste, in particular agricultural plastic products´ waste
Amendment 561 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part B – indent 1 a (new)
Annex I – part B – indent 1 a (new)
- oxo-degradable agricultural mulch films
Amendment 623 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part C – indent 1
Annex I – part C – indent 1
— Beverage containers, i.e. receptacles used to contain liquid such as beverage bottles including their caps and lids, except containers intended and used for food for special medical purposes as covered by Regulation (EU) No 2016/128
Amendment 654 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part E – indent 4 a (new)
Annex I – part E – indent 4 a (new)
- caps and lids with a significant part made of plastic
Amendment 671 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part E – indent 1 a (new)
Annex I – part E – indent 1 a (new)
- agricultural plastic products, e.g. protected cultivation films, mulching and silage films, irrigation and drainage pipes, input bags, and containers
Amendment 687 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – part F – indent 1 a (new)
Annex I – part F – indent 1 a (new)
- geographically or seasonally concentrated plastics products, in particular agricultural plastic products´ waste material (e.g. protected cultivation films, mulching films, anti-hail nets, bale twines, irrigation pipes, fertilizer and agrochemical packaging etc.)