Activities of Vlad-Marius BOTOŞ related to 2022/2171(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles
Amendments (22)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas many consumers are ready to change their purchasing patterns for sustainable options but can be misled by greenwashing practices;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the textile sector includes over 160 000 producers, most of them SMEs, that have to respect 16 pieces of European legislation, several implementation methods and national legislation in 27 Member States;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas many producers from the textile industry expressed their interest in developing more sustainable and durable textiles and production technologies, willing to cooperate and find feasible solutions to the challenges brought by the Green Deal;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas market analyses show there is a gap between the intend and the purchasing behaviour, where many consumers still prioritize the price over quality and sustainability;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas non-harmonised legislation leads to a fragmented market and bureaucratic burdens that increases the difficulties on the sector especially on the SMEs working in the sector;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the textile production sector, represented mostly by SMEs, was already under a lot of stress from social dumping due to very low production costs in third countries, more difficulties were added by the Covid-19 pandemic, the energy crisis, the inflation and the economic and social effects of the war in Ukraine;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the bureaucratic burden and difficulties in registering new fibres and technologies are hindering the research and innovation that could lead to the development of a sustainable and durable sector;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas the transition to a sustainable sector will have a major impact on the costs of the textiles that will have to be covered by both the consumers and SMEs;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas the online marketplaces function as a gate into the Single Market for many textiles that do not respect the legislation regarding chemicals in the European Union;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the paramount importance of protecting consumers by addressing over-use of plastic and chemicals in garments and misleading claims, and immediately withdrawing products that do not respect Union laws;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines the importance of protecting the consumers from price escalation due to abrupt and radical changes of legislation and the necessity of swift adaptation of the production processes; calls for both impact assessments and market analyses to accompany the sustainability legislation;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 43 #
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; believes that in order to be relevant this passport needs to be harmonized, available on the product itself and be easy to read; favours open and trustworthy data ensuring traceability down to factory level;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the digital product passport goes hand in hand with the simplification and harmonisation of existing labels to ensure that consumers receive coherent and reliable information on the environmental and social footprint of products and that the costs and bureaucracy of labelling are minimized;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that an increase of the production cost on the producers in the European Union, mostly SMEs, might lead to even more fragilisation of the sector and counteract the European economic autonomy that proved crucial during the Covid-19-pandemic; stresses the importance of a continuous dialogue with the sector and joined solutions for a realistic, feasible, and efficient sustainable transformation of the sector, as well as coherent legislation and achievable targets;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that textile producers and brands should be drivers of sustainability by being transparent in their practices and respecting human rights and the environment, respecting human rights and the environment as well as the tradition of high quality European products; recalls the importance of incentivising the use of all natural and ecological fibres and textile raw materials, facilitating research and innovation and providing flexibility in registering new alternative fibres, technologies and production processes in the sector;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that low quality garments lead to a low lifecycle of the products and increase the textile waste; calls therefore that the industry receives sufficient support to adopt optional classification of the textiles based on durability and sustainability;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Recalls that creativity and innovation are important components to the textile industry and in order to safeguard these components, the recycling requirements and future sustainable legislation should keep into account intellectual property rights, encouraging and incentivizing the creators to recycle the unsold products rather than destroy them;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recalls the importance of creating a feasible and sustainable recycling ecosystem, that includes SMEs and other economic actors, where the textiles and textile fibres are reused and recycled in both classic and innovative manners, transforming the recycling sector into to a profitable, environmentally-friendly industry;
Amendment 89 #
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. and that sufficient facilities and resources are in place to perform and increase proper chemical controls on national and regional levels in order to ensure consumer protection regarding the chemical substances limits in garments, especially in the products bought online from third country producers.