15 Amendments of Adriana MALDONADO LÓPEZ related to 2022/2171(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas garments lifespan decreased by 36%1a; __________________ 1a A new textiles economy: redesigning fashion’s future, cited in European Environmental Agency (2022), Textiles and the environment: the role of design in Europe’s circular economy
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated unfair trading practices in the textile sector1a, revealing the profound power imbalances along textile value chains; __________________ 1a https://news.industriall- europe.eu/documents/upload/2021/9/6376 84400585561764_210106%20Draft%20Le veraging%20UTP%20transposition_2021 0927.pdf
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the establishment of pre- approval schemes for sustainability labels and sustainability information tools by competent national authorities to protect consumers from misleading advertising and greenwashing;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Regrets the repeated delays in the presentation of the long-awaited Commission’s proposal on substantiating green claims;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Welcomes the announced initiatives to strengthen consumer information regarding durability, reusability, reparability and recyclability of textile products;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the digital product passport goes hand in hand with the simplification of existing labels tomust ensure that consumers receive coherent and, reliable and comprehensive information on the environmental and social footprint of products, including human rights and environmental impacts throughout their value chain, as well as on their origin, circularity performance, and material and chemical content; in this regard, calls for ensuring transparency and credibility of and accountability for labels;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Welcomes the proposed ban of the destruction of unsold goods, stresses that for it to be effective in tackling overproduction, the ban should be as wide as possible, encompassing all types of businesses, including SME;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that fast fashion puts enormous stress on suppliers and their workforce through unfair trading practices; such as late payments, unilateral changes, negotiation of unreasonable low prices, below-cost selling, last-minute confirmation, cancellation or changes of orders, or unreasonable penalties for late deliveries; calls for regulatory measures at EU and national level to combat unfair trading practices; calls for ensuring that market surveillance authorities have a mandate to enforce these measures;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Welcomes the announced efforts to promote circular business models, such as products as service models, take-back services, second hand collections and repair services;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to locally develop repair and upcycling as well as innovative selling practices to boost reuse;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Encourages the measures aiming at promotion of promoting green and transferable skills and lifelong learning opportunities in the textiles sectors, highlights the importance of social enterprises in this context;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
7d. Calls on the Commission to encourage Member States to introduce incentives for the repair and sale of second-hand supply of textile goods and services;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for mandatory environmental and social criteria on responsible consumption to apply to public procurement; calls for the promotion of reserved contracts for social enterprises in public tenders;
Amendment 87 #
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, calls for the development of tools for individuals and organisations to flag non- compliant products to market surveillance authorities; calls for greater transparency of customs data to enable better enforcement by market surveillance authorities and improve consumer information, including by revising the Union Customs Code (Regulation (EU) No 952/2013).