21 Amendments of Fredrick FEDERLEY related to 2014/2208(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that, in order to tackle global challenges and the EU’s resource dependency, it is essential that energy and resource efficiency form the basis of European industrial renewal so that the EU can maintain its competitiveness in the future, recrestimulate manufacturing capacity and generate new jobs for highly skilled workers;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points to the Commission’s analysis which shows that adopting new waste targets would create 180 000 jobs, make Europe more competitive and reduce demand for costly scarce resources2 ; strongly regrets the withdrawal of the legislative proposal on waste3 , and calls for a more ambitious legislative proposal based on the Impact Assessment, addressing not only municipal but also industrial and commercial waste streams, to be put forward by 2015 as part of a more ambitious circular economy package (CEP), as announced by Vice-President Timmermans in Parliament’s plenary part- session of December 20144 ; __________________ 2 Commission staff working document of 2 July 2014 containing an executive summary of the impact assessment accompanying the proposal for a directive amending the waste directives (COM(2014)0397) (SWD(2014)0208). 3 Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 2008/98/EC on waste, 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste, 1991/31/EC on the landfill of waste, 2000/53/EC on end-of-life vehicles, 2006/66/EC on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators, and 2012/19/EU on waste electrical and electronic equipment (COM(2014)0397). 4 Verbatim plenary debate of 16 December 2014 on the Commission work programme 2015.
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Europe is more dependent on imported resources than any other region in the world and its codecoupling economic growth from resource consumpetitiveness can be increased only by getting more added value out of resources in the economyon will make the EU better equipped to deal with high raw material prices and fluctuation in those prices and lead to a low carbon, more prosperous, EU;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the Parliament has repeatedly called on the Commission to set indicators and legally binding targets for resource efficiency;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas it is necessary to develop markets for secondary raw materials in order to achieve resource efficiency objectives and a circular economy;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Emphasises that municipal or other public waste monopolies should not stand in the way of procurement or of private entities’ opportunities to operate on the market;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for the CEP to ensure the implementation of existing legislation and to introduce a sustainable materials management policy at EU level, taking a life-cycle approach and aiming for eco- efficient and environmentally responsible use of materials, including during the extraction, design, production, consumption, and waste management phases;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas an ambitious European circular economy package creates business opportunities, secures access to primary materials, prolongs their productive use (through re-use, re- manufacturing, or as spare parts or recycling), guarantees high quality recycling processes once they reach their end of life, as well as treats all by- products and waste as valuable resource streams for further use;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the potential of reuse and repair policies for quality job creation, resource savings and the development of the social economy and social enterprisesentrepreneurship; calls for further incentives and other support for reuse, the consolidation of reuse, and repair infrastructures and networks;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points to the direct economic impact on businesses and consumers of food waste, owing to the costs of waste disposal and the economic losses caused by throwing away saleable or edible food; recalls that one euro spent on fighting food waste could prevent 250 kg of food, worth EUR 500, from being wasted; highlights the environmental and economic potential of a recirculation of nutrients between urban and rural and of ‘closing the loop’ between cities and the agricultural industry; urges the Commission to address these issue of food wastes within the CEP;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of creating industrial synergies for recyclingcircular economy and of helping companies to discover how their energy, waste and by-products can serve as resources for others; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote approaches such as those taken in the UK as part of the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the European Investment Bank to ensure that the Investment Plan for Europe is underpinned by resource and energy efficiency objectives, provides support for eco-sustainable and innovative SMEs in particular, and strengthens advisory services on resource efficiency; calls for funding for the EU Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME) and Horizon 2020 to be more focused on developing eco-nvironmentally sustainable and innovative solutions and improving product design and process performance.
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and the European Investment Bank to ensure that the Investment Plan for Europe is underpinned by resource and energy efficiency objectives, provides support for eco-innovative SMEs, start-ups and companies with potential of growth in particular, and strengthens advisory services on resource efficiency; calls for funding for the EU Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME) and Horizon 2020 to be more focused on developing eco-innovative solutions and improving product design and process performance.
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that legal certainty and long- term predictability are neededkey to unlocking the potential of the European Fund for Strategic Investments for the circular economy in order to channel investments towards a sustainable economy;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission to set a binding target to increase resource efficiency at EU level by 340 % by 2030 and individual targets for each Member State;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to take other relevant actions to ensure that products are durable, easy to reuse, refit, repair, recycle and eventually dismantle for new resources;
Amendment 273 #
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 minimum 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; increasing recycling targets to at least 70 % of municipal solid waste, based on the output of recycling facilities, using the same harmonised method for all Member States with externally verified statistics; introducing a ban on landfilling limiting landfilling to residual (i.e. non-recyclable and biodegradnon-recoverable) waste by 20250 and a ban on all landfilling by 2030;limiting energy recovery to non-recyclable materials; encouraging Member States to introducinge fees on landfilling and incineration;
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 a (new)
Subheading 4 a (new)
Developing markets for secondary raw materials
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Considers that a long-term and predictable policy framework will help to stimulate the level of investments and action needed to fully develop markets for greener technologies and promote sustainable business solutions. Resource efficiency indicators and targets underpinned by robust data collection would provide the necessary guidance for public and private decision-makers in transforming the economy;
Amendment 396 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Urges the Commission and Member States to start phasing out all environmentally harmful subsidies without delay, as agreed in the 7th Environment Action Programme, and calls on Member States to report on progress through the National Reform Programmes; furthermore underlines the need to increase the use of market-based instruments, such as Member States' taxation policies, pricing and charging, and expanding markets for environmental goods and services, with due regard to any adverse social impacts, using an action- based approach, supported and monitored by the Commission, inter alia, via the European Semester;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19c. Urges the Commission and the Member States to remove the obstacles to a functioning European market in recycling and reuse, moving to a "Schengen for waste", and to stimulate such a market by fostering the demand for and availability of recycled materials and by-products, through measures which should include the swift further development of stringent end-of-waste criteria and economic incentives, such as reduced VAT rates for secondary materials in areas where there is a market failure, or the promotion of innovative collection and sorting technologies;