7 Amendments of Karen MELCHIOR related to 2020/2077(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Welcomes the Circular Economy Action Plan and the intention of the Commission to come up with specific measures to address the need to improve product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability, as well as to tackle the premature obsolescence of products; stresses the need to empower consumers to better guide their consumption patterns by providing them with clear and reliable information on lifespan, environmental performance and reparability of products; calls on the Commission to support and develop economic tools that give an economic advantage to sustainable choices;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Stresses that completing and deepening the Single market is a precondition for the success of Europe’s transition to sustainable and circular economy; calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the existing regulatory and non-regulatory barriers stemming from restrictive and complex national rules, limited administrative capacities, and inadequate transposition and enforcement of EU rules; calls for more flexible and transparent governance of the internal market with more effective peer reviews and improved monitoring and performance tools.
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to empower consumers to further engage in sustainable consumption practices; calls for mandatory labelling on product durability and reparability, and the development of a repair score, in addition to minimum information requirements; asks for both the legal guarantee rights and the reversed burden of proof rules to be extended based on the lifespan of products, the introduction of following Commission assessment of the impact of these proposals on the level of prices, the estimation of products' lifespan, the system of commercial guarantees, and independent repair services; calls for measures that will encourage manufacturers to consider the durability and reparability of products from design stage, and assessing the feasibility of introducing direct producer liability, and; calls for legislative measures to ban practices resulting in premature obsolescence;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of clear, transparent and reliable information on product characteristics for consumers, businesses and market surveillance authorities, and; calls for developing a multi- criteria life cycle environmental performance index, which will provide information to consumers on the reparability, durability and recyclability of products, including its packaging; welcomes the Commission’s intention to develop a digital product passport; calls, in this regard, for mandatory information requirements to apply throughout the supply chain, covering not only aspects such as durability and reparability, but also social and environmental conditions;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the importance of online platforms and online marketplaces for promoting sustainable products and services and encouraging sustainable consumption; notes that online platforms could further deliver on their responsibility to provide consumers with reliable information on sustainability of products and services they offer; calls for proactive measures to tackle misleading practices and disinformation regarding products and services offered online, including false ‘environmental claims’;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for a revision of EU public procurement legislation introducing mandatory minimum targets, throughStresses that ambitious public procurement in terms of sustainability of products and services could support innovative efforts of private sector and sets the right incentives for boosting sustainable production and consumption; calls for uptake of green public procurement by contracting authorities through introducing mandatory sustainability criteria in public offers, defining a certain percentage for procurement based on environmental, and social and ethical criteria, and introducing a hierarchy of award criteria, together with sector-specific targets.criteria, introducing a hierarchy of award criteria, together with sector-specific targets; calls for ensuring effective reciprocity in public procurement with third countries; calls for priority to be given to reused and recycled goods, and low-energy consumption software programmes and to improve the access to public procurement of SMEs and social economy enterprises; stresses the potential benefits of an instrument for screening 'green' tenders to ensure the compatibility of large-scale infrastructure projects with EU's climate commitments and to tackle 'greenwashing', including in the context of public procurement; calls for mandatory reporting obligations for the Commission and the Member States with regard to their sustainable procurement;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of mobilising sufficient funding to finance R&D in sustainable products and circular economy business models, that will minimise destruction of products and promote repair and reuse;