Activities of Delara BURKHARDT related to 2022/2171(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT on an EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles
Amendments (29)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
Citation 12 a (new)
— having regard to the report of the Hot or Cool Institute "Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: Resizing Fashion for a Fair Consumption Space"
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas women and girls are frequently exposed to additional gender- specific factors and barriers that consistently render them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and disasters;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on an EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles and the vision it presents for 2030; stresses that actions following the publication of the Strategy should be fully aligned with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives, in particular that of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and of halting and reversing biodiversity loss; welcomes that textiles have been identified as priority product category for action under the Circular Economy Action Plan;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission communication on an EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles and the vision it presents for 2030; stresses that actions following the publication of the Strategy should be fully aligned with the Union’s climate and environmental objectives, in particular that of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest and of halting and reversing biodiversity loss; calls on the Commission to set specific targets for textiles for achieving compliance with the Biodiversity Strategy 2030.
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt measures to put an end to fast fashion; underlines the need to achieve a paradigm shift in the fashion industry to end overproduction and to make fast fashion go out of fashion; A holistic strategy for sustainable textiles can only be genuine, if we reduce the absolute quantity of natural resources used and at the same time reduce the quantity of waste.
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to support consumers in moving away from fast fashion and the excessive consumption of clothing and in making responsible and sustainable textile consumption choices; calls on the Commission and the Member States to reduce aggressive and false advertisement and develop and implement awareness-raising programmes on sustainable consumption and the environmental and climate and social impacts of the textile and clothing industry, in collaboration with civil society;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Draws attention to the fact that imports of non-compliant products sold through online platforms and other digital services are widespread, and calls on those service providers to ensure that the textile products they sell comply with EU law; calls for online marketplaces to be included in definitions of the types of economic operators that market surveillance authorities can take action;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that hazardous chemicals are widely used in various textile production processes that have severe impacts on the environment and workers; calls for stringent regulation and enforcement limiting the use of hazardous chemicals in the production process;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses concern that from a consumption point of view, over their life cycle, textiles have on average the fourth highest negative impact on the climate and the environment, after food, housing and mobility7 ; points out that in 2020, the textiles sector was responsible for the third highest impact on water and land use and the fifth highest impact on the use of raw materials and greenhouse gas emissions8 ; stresses the need to reduce the impact of manufacturing and wet processing stages where 60% of the climate impact occurs; calls for a resource use reduction target with specific objectives for textile products. __________________ 7 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-and-the-environment-the 8 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-and-the-environment-the
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that textiles are the fourth biggest contributor to climate change from an EU consumption perspective, and that the industry’s emissions are only expected to increase9 ; calls for further legislation to fully decarbonise the industry, starting with more transparency on scope 3 emissions in textile supply chains; calls for ambitiousupports science- based and calls for ambitious targets to be set by 2024 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the textiles sector, covering their entire lifecycle, and associated reduction of material throughput in the fashion system, including the numbers of units produced and the amount of waste generated1b, in line with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures; recalls that around 70 % of the emissions related to the Union’s textile consumption take place outside of the EU10 ; calls for more robust information and disclosure on the impacts on biodiversity; __________________ 1b https://hotorcool.org/wp- content/uploads/2021/10/Hot_or_Cool_1_ 5_lifestyles_FULL_REPORT_AND_ANN EX_B.pdf 9 https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular- economy/pdf/new_circular_economy_actio n_plan.pdf 10 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-in-europes-circular-economy
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that textiles are the fourth biggest contributor to climate change from an EU consumption perspective, and that the industry’s emissions are only expected to increase9 ; calls for further legislation to fully decarbonise the industry, starting with more transparency on scope 3 emissions in textile supply chains; calls for ambitious science-based targets to be set by 2024 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the textiles sector, covering their entire lifecycle, in line with the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures; recalls that around 70 % of the emissions related to the Union’s textile consumption take place outside of the EU10 ; calls for more robust information and disclosure on all environmental and climate impacts, including the impacts on biodiversity; __________________ 9 https://ec.europa.eu/environment/circular- economy/pdf/new_circular_economy_actio n_plan.pdf 10 https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/tex tiles-in-europes-circular-economy
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to regulate all textile products under the Ecodesign Regulation, starting with garments and footwear as a priority; calls for requirements to be set by building on and going further than existing voluntary measures and not new voluntary schemes;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that ecodesign requirements should address the textiles sector comprehensively across product parameters; including parameters on the social impact of textile products such as information on wages, unionisation, gender and working conditions; notes that measures such as improved resource efficiency are not sufficient as that these do not address the issue of overproduction and overconsumption of textiles;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that consumption of new textiles, such as clothes, depends largely on the availability of the products and their pricing, and not only on the need to replace a product that is no longer functional; calls for the policy framework to take a holistic view of durability, including the emotional durability of textile products put on the market, which describes the garment design that takes into account long-term relevance and desirability to consumers; calls for a binding material resource use reduction target with specific objectives for textile production; and calls to support the re-use sector as a strong alternative to purchasing new goods;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Hazardous chemicals used in the manufacturing of textiles are harmful to workers and the environment. They can also remain in garments and household textiles exposing consumers to a cocktail of hazardous chemicals. As foreseen in the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability, the EU should adopt binding targets through the REACH Regulation to ensure that by 2026 all the most harmful chemicals are banned in textiles. Through Ecodesign and the Digital Product Passport, the EU should also ensure full traceability of chemicals used in manufacturing processes and disclosure of any hazardous substances present in textiles. Textiles should be safe and sustainable by design.
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to develop measures for improved implementation and control of implementation for all requirements and in particular for the use of hazardous chemicals used in textiles products; requires the Commission to set up additional requirements if the existing ones are not delivering the expected results.
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)
Paragraph 13 c (new)
13c. Calls for greater harmonisation of the REACH Regulation with the principles of the circular economy with regard to the specificities of the textile sector on order to prioritise efforts to reduce the use of hazardous chemicals, disclose information on chemicals used in finished products and ensure traceability. Calls for the ecodesign criteria to favour the use environmental friendly manufacturing processes (wet processes, cutting, dyeing, printing).
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the intention of the Commission to set out harmonised EU rules on extended producer responsibility for textiles, with eco-modulation of fees as part of the revision of the Waste Framework Directive, and in particular that a significant proportion of the contributions made to extended producer responsibility schemes will be used for waste prevention and preparation for re-use measures; and calls for EPR scheme to support the activities of social enterprises active in used textiles management as well as to cover the costs of residual waste disposal following a preparation for re-use process;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that separate collection of textiles will be mandatory from 1 January 2025; underlines that the revision of the Waste Framework Directive planned for 2024 should consider specific separate targets for textile waste prevention, textile reuse, preparation for reuse, and recycling; and promote social economy enterprises collecting and re-using textiles as a partner in the collection and waste management obligations and targets;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Agrees with the Commission that the production of clothing from recycled bottles is not consistent with the circular model for PET bottles and calls for extended producer responsibility schemes and other measures for textiles to incentivise investment in fibre-to-fibre recycling solutions and investments in sorting for reuse, ideally local; and reuse activities, ideally local; calls for stricter rules to be set on green claims made around the use of rPET
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for preventive measures to ensure that the likely increase in collected textiles after the introduction of separate collection in 2025 does not lead to an increase in the export of used textiles to thirds countries, and that only pre-sorted textiles that have been approved by the recipient country can be exported.
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Expresses its regret that the proposal on substantiating environmental claims using standard product and organisation environmental footprint methods has been delayed; calls on the Commission to publish the proposal without further delay; ensuring that methods used to the substantiate green claims, including the Product Environmental Footprint, in textiles are holistic, address all relevant environmental and social impacts of textiles and are developed through independent processes.
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights the potential of the digital product passport to support full value chain coverageincluding upstream and downstream operations, traceability, transparency and facility disclosure coverage, as well as provision of environmental and social information as part of a coherent framework with corporate due diligence legislation on sustainability; calls on the Commission to require companies to use the digital product passport to publicly disclose and submit site information throughout their supply chains, as well as information on the use of materials and chemicals; calls for environmental information to be complemented by information on social aspects and labour and working conditions;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Underlines that an immediate ban that does not exempt SMEs on the destruction of unsold and returned textile goods should aim at reducing production in the first place and be enacted without delay under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation; considers that full disclosure of the numbers of textile products placed on the market every year and of unsold textile products is necessary;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Insists that the green and digital transition of the European textiles sector is a Just Transition which leaves no worker or region behind, with supportive measures needed to help businesses, the majority of which are SME´s, transform into sustainable and resilient businesses, with quality social dialogue and engagement and support from regional and national authorities to adequately plan for the transition and ensure that mitigating measures are put in places and that the change is managed socially responsible way, including ensuring that newly created jobs in the circular economy are good jobs.
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that the textile sector is plagued by a broad range of labour rights abuses in particular women and other marginalised groups, including poverty wages, wage theft, undue limitation to the right to join or form a union of choosing child labour, forced labour, exposure to unsafe working conditions, sexual harassment, and so on. requests a strong inclusion in the textile strategy and concrete actions to address these issues.
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Regrets that the strategy does not envisage any action against the harmful purchasing practices of companies; points out that according to the International Labour Organization, the current power imbalance between garment buyers and their suppliers causes overproduction and exploitation of workers in the industry11 ; considers that unfair purchasing practices such as last minute changes in design or lead times, unilateral amendments to contracts and last minute cancellation of orders should be banned for companies active in the single market through a revision of existing legislation; such legislation should have effective enforcement. __________________ 11 https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public /---ed_protect/---protrav/--- travail/documents/publication/wcms_5611 41.pdf
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines that the transition to a more sustainable and circular ecosystem within the textile industry offers the opportunity to improve the working conditions and remuneration of workers, who will play a central role in the transition; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the provision of sectoral training and education in the field of sustainable textiles to safeguard current jobs, improve worker satisfaction and ensure the availability of a skilled workforce; support social economy actors, among which social enterprises active in circular activities, in their reskilling and upskilling activities.
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)