21 Amendments of Ville NIINISTÖ related to 2020/2077(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Notes that achieving a circular economy is crucial in reaching our climate targets, as focusing on reducing demand, and focusing on energy efficiency requires the least increase in electricity generation and the least investments in the energy supply sectors, as identified in the EC communication(COM/2018/773) A Clean Planet for All;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to review Directive 2009/125/EC; stresses that broadening its scope should not lead to any watering down of the results achieved in the field of energy efficiency; Underlines that nearly half of the energy efficiency savings that will be achieved by 2020 is due to the application of the Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC; stresses that a number of products -which are highly relevant from the perspective of their energy use(e.g. mobile network stations & subsystems or networking equipment)- have not yet been subject to ecodesign rules; notes further that a number of other products covered by ecodesign rules are outdated and should be updated (e.g. rules for decoders, heaters or rules on stand-by consumption); welcomes the Commission’s intention to review Directive 2009/125/EC; stresses that broadening its scope should be coupled with measures aimed at achieving further energy efficiency gains by energy-related products and services; insists that the expansion of scope to cover not only products but also structures, such as data centres or services such as used for cloud services, gaming or streaming;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Supports policy measures to make sustainable products the norm, including an expansion and an adjustment of the scope of eco-design with legislation making products more durable, repairable, reusable, toxic free and recyclable, while ensuring the definition of a strong ecodesign and energy labelling work programme 2020-2024 focused on energy products still to be presented in 2020 and to adopt the measures for each specific product group as soon as they are ready, including for smartphones and other IT equipment; asks the Commission to implement digital product passport conveying material and chemical contents, circularity performances and carbon and environmental foot printing of products and materials, including secondary raw materials, placed on EU market; stresses the need to promote local consumption and production based on the principles of refuse, reduce, reuse, repair and recycle while extending the producer responsibility to ensure an end to harmful practices, to stop planned obsolescence business strategies where products are designed to have a short life span and need to be replaced, and to set a binding material footprint headline target to adapt consumption of resources at EU level to the carrying capacity of the planet as well as to make sustainable and ethical purchasing mandatory for public authorities and private organisations;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that research into materials, processes, technologies and, products and innovative circular business models, as well as into their industrial scale-up and societal take-up, can provide European companies with a worldwide competitive advantage; believes that shortening a number of, diversifying and making more sustainable value chains would make European industrial ecosystems more resilient, competitive and profitable, as well as promote the EU’s strategic autonomy; stresses further that research in prevention, reuse, remanufacture and repair have been limited, disadvantaged and underfinanced compared to research in recycling; in that regard, stresses the importance of significantly increasing the prioritising and funding of research in prevention, reuse, reparability, upgradability and remanufacture of products, value chains, as well as circular business models and product infrastructures;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of also boosting research efforts in the field of chemical recycling which, paired withhigh quality material recycling, especially focusing on upcycling, which, paired with efforts to place on the market durable and reusable plastics, decontamination and organic and mechanical recycling, will complete a technology-neutralmore sustainable framework;
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to step up its efforts to make more small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) fit for the circular economy, by supporting them through adequate incentive schemes and financing tools, capacity building and technical assistance, as well as by reducing their administrative and legal burdens;, exchange of best practices, linking of various actors and potential business partners, including from a circular economy perspective, and technical assistance, as well as by reducing their administrative and legal burdens; emphasises that the circular potential for SMEs is not limited to increased resource efficiency and circular resource flows but also includes new circular business models which prevent the production of material products in the first place
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines that the implementation of the Circular Economy Action Plan offers great employment and competitiveness opportunities to SMEs, which maximises benefits for sustainable, local agri-food, textile and construction SMEs, but also provides major business and innovation opportunities for SMEs in response to enhanced eco-design standards or increased durability, reusability, repairability of products, including ‘right to repair’;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is of the opinionNotes that the transition towards a digital economy in all sectors can reduce their environmental footprint, while also boosting the green transimight reduce the environmental footprint of some sectors; however, acknowledges with concern that the digital sector has a far from negligible environmental footprint since it is responsible for the fastest growing waste stream in the world1a,some 3.8% of total greenhouse gas emissions2a and 0.2% of global water consumption3a; points out that measures are nevertheless needededed to ensure environmental sustainability of digital solutions from energy, environmental and resource use perspectives, as well as to deal with the short- and medium- term costs of the transitions and to make them just; _________________ 1ahttps://globalewaste.org/news/surge- global-waste/ 2ahttps://www.greenit.fr/environmental- footprint-of-the-digital-world/ 3ahttps://www.greenit.fr/environmental- footprint-of-the-digital-world/
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Asks the Commission to assess the potential environmental impact of the massive development of digital solutions and to put energy efficiency and circular economy requirements at the heart of the development of digital technologies and data centres; asks the Commission to propose concrete avenues for digital solutions to serve the ecological transition and to establish a methodology for monitoring, quantifying and reducing the increasing environmental impact of digital technologies;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Welcomes the Commission's goal of achieving highly energy-efficient, sustainable and climate-neutral data centres by 2030; hence urges the Commission to put forward without delay corresponding regulatory and other necessary measures, and to implement governance and market instruments to support standardised documentation and transparency about the circularity, environmental and climate footprint of datacentres and communication networks; insists that these new measures and instruments should promote energy efficiency, resource-efficiency, best available technologies for cooling and for waste heat utilization in district heating or other applications, and the use of renewable energies via mandatory standards at system and component level; advises that these measures and instruments should also aim at mitigating the impact of data centres on the electricity network and the greenhouse gas footprint induced by network congestion;
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that the positive role played by social economy enterprises, which are paving the way to circular economy models, should serve as an inspiration to other companies, and that such best practices should be made more visible and supported through targeted incentives;
Amendment 131 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Asks the Commission to support a sustainable digital transition that builds on maximising the value of data, while ensuring personal data protection, and deploying digitally- enabled solutions to permit the efficient, circular and sustainable use of resources and, use of a circular approach to maintain the value of products and materials for as long as possible., notably by making available and accessible information on materials, chemical contents, toxicity, circularity performances and environmental footprint;
Amendment 143 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Considers it important to link digital and climate considerations in training programmes in digitalisation, for instance by facilitating digital tracking and hence transparency throughout value chains or creating an Internet-of-Things that accelerates the circular economy and help raise awareness about potential energy and resource savings, including of the IT system itself;
Amendment 147 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Considers that the circular economy combined with the zero pollution agenda must be at the centre of the Union's economy, prioritising waste prevention and the reduction of its energy and resource consumption along whole industrial sectors, their products, production processes, business models and their value chains, thereby fostering the dematerialization and detoxification of the Union’s economy and making Europe less dependent on primary materials while incentivising innovation, the creation of new markets as well as a huge potential for new safe, fair paid and sustainable quality jobs at local level and in particular for SMEs; highlights the strong synergies between climate action, just transition and the circular economy, in particular in energy- and resource- intensive industries;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Asks the Commission to progress towards a reinforced integration between the Circular Economy and the Industrial strategy to help achieving an accelerated zero greenhouse gas emission of the industry and its move towards a zero pollution, regenerative industry, notably by considering setting specific energy and resources efficiency best available technologies and defining minimum performances requirements for intermediary materials and products out of intensive industry;
Amendment 162 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Paragraph 7 d (new)
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Believes that sustainably-sourced renewable materials will play an important role in the transition to a climate-neutral industry and overall economy, and highlights the need to stimulate investments in the development of a sustainable and circular bio- economy, where fossil-intensive materials are replaced with renewable and bio- based materials which are sustainably sourced and that are kept in use as long as possible in, for example, buildings, textiles, chemical products, packaging, shipbuilding and energy production; stresses that this will have to be done within ecological limits;
Amendment 172 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 f (new)
Paragraph 7 f (new)
7f. Calls on the Commission to fully integrate circular economy principles in the upcoming strategies on the renovation wave and on a sustainable built environment, and the update of the energy performance of buildings directive, the renewable energy directive;
Amendment 173 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 g (new)
Paragraph 7 g (new)
7g. Stresses the need for the adequate management and reduction of construction and demolition waste; notes that the improvement of transparency and traceability of construction and demolition waste is necessary to improve waste identification, build trust in the quality and safety of the reused or recycled materials, ensure the appropriate and safe handling of all construction waste and substitution of hazardous substances in waste streams in order to protect the health of occupants and workers, as well as the environment; notes that the existing Environmental Product Declaration approach must be widened and that it should be used as input for building assessment such as the Level(s) framework; calls on the Commission to propose concrete measures on these issues as part of the circular economy action plan and the strategy for a sustainable built environment;