Activities of Anne-Sophie PELLETIER related to 2022/2171(INI)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles
Amendments (14)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital -A (new)
Recital -A (new)
-A. whereas textile production and consumption in Europe has a particularly high environmental, climate and social cost, accounting for the fourth negative impact on the environment and climate change, while on an upward trend putting serious stress on available resources, especially water and other raw materials;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas 79% of consumers agreed that it is important for brands to share detailed information about the environmental impact of their products, and a majority of them are willing to pay more and ready to change their purchasing patterns for sustainable options but can be misled by greenwashing practices, provided that clear and reliable labels are at their disposal;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas fast-fashion models encourages mass consumption of poor quality clothes, often unrecyclable, at the expense of workers' social rights, luring consumers through greenwashing practices such as false environmental claims and in-house misleading labels;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas fragmented andhighly complex, non- transparent and fragmented value -chains at a global level in the garment sector further complicates the work of market surveillance authorities, consumers associations as well as resellers by hindering compliance with relevant Union law andon quality of products as well as on manufacturing conditions, including on forced labour, and by weakening the accountability of economic operators;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas well-informed choices can help drive demand to quality clothes, less damageable for the environment and a supply chain that respect nature and workers;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the paramount importance of protecting consumers by addressing misleading claims and greenwashing practices, by immediately withdrawing of the market textile products that do not respect Union law, and by putting more surveillance especially on regular offenders being entities or region of production;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls in this regard for the implementation of a trusted-flagger alert and notification mechanism and, of an appropriate European redress mechanism and the possibility of enhanced collective redress for consumers affected by misleading labels and by textile products that do not comply with Union law;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the introduction of the digital product passport in the proposal for a regulation on ecodesign requirements for sustainable products; calls for this important tool to aim for full transparency and reliable information to consumers as well as intermediaries; believes that in order to be relevant, this passport needs to be available on the product itself and be easy to read; favours open, easily accessible, regularly updated and trustworthy data ensuring traceability down to factory levelalong the whole supply chain down to factory level on the components and substances, with particular attention to chemicals, used in their products; considers that a social labelling for textiles including on the working conditions of production should be added in the digital passport;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the digital product passport goes hand in hand with the simplification of existing labels to ensure that consumers receive coherent and reliable information on the environmental and social footprint of products; regrets in this regard the postponement by the European Commission of the ‘Green Claims’ proposal in the last Circular Economy Package, which is a missed opportunity to empower consumers and inform them about the content of the products they purchase;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages initiatives to help consumers switch to more sustainable and responsible consumption patterns by providing quality products at an affordable price and reducing waste through inter alia repair, collection of used clothes, pay back schemes, second hand sells, renting options, clothes swapping as well as initiatives by producers to produce sturdy clothes, with extended warrantees and easy to recycle clothes;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that textile producers and brands, including luxury and haute- couture brands, should be drivers of sustainability by being transparent in their practices all along their value chains and respecting human rights and the environment;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the business model of fast fashion puts enormous stress on suppliers, which are often SMEs, and their workforce through unfair trading practices;, including late payment, short-term delivery times, and important cost pressure. Those practices cannot be viewed as enduring as they forbid decent living wages, can encourage the violation of human rights and international labour law and are environmentally inadequate particularly through the destruction of unsold goods; calls in this respect for a legislative proposal tackling unfair trade practices in the textile sector, drawing inspiration from the UTP Directive existing for the agri-food sector.
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for public procurement purchases to show the lead through mandatory criteria oin responsible consumption toand to favour sustainable tenders with quality and eco-designed products as well as socially and environmentally responsible production conditions, and calls to flag multiple- offenders actors and prohibit them from applying to public procurement; tenders; calls for a revision of the 2014/24/EU Directive on public procurement in order to align it with the upcoming European due diligence legal framework;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls the paramount importance of ensuring that market surveillance authorities have sufficient human and financial resources at their disposal in particular to fight against counterfeit products and ensure proper application of Union law through regular and random checks for textile products entering and made available on the internal market.