Activities of Josu JUARISTI ABAUNZ related to 2016/2272(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on a longer lifetime for products: benefits for consumers and companies
Amendments (19)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the extension of products' lifetimes is likely to reduce the environmental impacts during their lifecycles and to lead to benefits largely resulting from "avoiding" manufacturing and supply chain impacts;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the first links in the waste management hierarchy, reduction and preparation for reuse, are the most important with a view to launching a zero waste strategy;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas great potential is offered by the repair, second-hand and exchange sector, i.e. the sector working with the aim of extending product lifetimes;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas there is a need to promote longer product lifespans, in particular by tackling planned obsolescence;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to encourage the development, production and marketing of products that are suitable for multiple use, that are technically durable and easily repairable and that are, after having become waste and been prepared for re-use or recycled, suitable to be made available on the market or placed on the market in order to facilitate proper implementation of the waste hierarchy. The measures shall take into account the impact of products throughout their life cycle and the waste hierarchy.
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Notes the role of commercial strategies such as product leasing, at the designing of durable product. Leasing firms retain ownership of the leased units and those can have the incentive to remarket products to invest in designing more durable products, resulting in a lower volume of new production and disposal products;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Notes that a better design for reparability is needed, being crucial that spare parts will be made available primarily for those products where a live- time expansion can be achieved in a cost- effective manner;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the list of new products based on eco-design should be more ambitious and include more products;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to oblige the manufactures to make clear repair instructions publicly available to enable non-destructive disassembly and replacement of key components or parts for upgrades or repairs;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on Member States to foster institutional campaigns to promote activities involving repairing, second- hand buying and selling, renting and exchanging, thus avoiding the purchase of new products;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the European Committee for Standardisation, which promotes voluntary technical standardisation, to integrate the voice of consumers, environmental organisations and trade unions into its work;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Notes that technical standardisation has a threefold role to play to improve durability of goods;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to make better use of the EU Ecolabel to improve product lifetimes and consumers’' understanding of product durability; notes that Ecolabel criteria can be aligned with Ecodesign minimum requirements and therefore provide synergy effects of those two instruments;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on Member States to impose sanctions where products are placed on the market that have a short lifetime owing to poor quality, impossibility of repair or the use of planned obsolescence practices;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to take measures to discourage the placing on the market of products with planned obsolescence;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Notes that upgradability of products can slow product obsolescence and can reduce the environmental impacts and costs for users;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to involve and respect the competences of local and regional authorities;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7 d. Calls on the Commission to encourage a regular and structured exchange of information and sharing of best practices throughout the Union, between the Commission and the Member States, including with regional and municipal authorities;
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7 e. Calls on the Commission to actively support local repair initiatives as they also provide for local green jobs and provide a useful service to consumers.