Activities of Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ related to 2020/2021(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on towards a sustainable single market for business and consumers
Amendments (9)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to include, in its economic recovery roadmap and financial support schemes, EU guidelines for the Member States on how to design their investment plans so that they are consistent withcomply with the European Climate Law, the European Green Deal and the Paris Agreement; stresses that such guidelines would enable the EU to save and transform itsmove away from the carbon economy and ecologically transition to a new carbon- free economy (i.e. take the EU out of the crisis and accelerate the transition towards climate neutrality);
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. PNotes with deep concern that the EU’s consumption rate is at a level that the EU is consuming as if there were three planets and welcomes that the Commission acknowledges this in the New Circular Economy Action Plan; points out that both sustainable production and consumption should be promotedguaranteed through this Action Plan; considers in this regard that resource efficiency should be improved by increasing the circularity of value chains, reducing the consumption of resources, and cutting down on waste generation; stresses that a new economy comprising circular services should be developed; stresses the need to reduce overall resource use and introduce measures in this regard to reduce the EU’s resource footprint;
Amendment 22 #
2a. Insists that in order to truly achieve a circular economy, waste management policy must be based on reduction, reuse and recycling, eliminating from the cycle both the burning of waste with or without energy recovery (incinerators, cement plants, industries) and the dumping (both within the European Union and on other continents); considers that priority should be given to reducing the production of plastics and to including actions for reuse and reduction in the generation of waste, improving its selective collection, implementing systems for the return of packaging and developing management plans for all agricultural, forestry and livestock waste that guarantee its reuse and material and energy recovery;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Stresses that as part of a highly globalised economy, the EU cannot become an isolated sustainable market if it is causing or contributing to unsustainable practices beyond its borders; calls for transformative measures to be introduces by the Commission in relation to the sustainability of products, resources and services exported outside the EU, to ensure the same sustainability standards and circularity;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that it is crucial to ensure that the ‘sustainable choice’ will be the default choice – which is affordable, attractive, accessible and sustainable – for all consumers in the EU as soon as possible; calls on the Commission to encouragsure the development, production and marketing of products that are suitable for multiple use, technically durable and easily and affordably repairable and, after having become waste and having been prepared for reuse or recycling, suitable to be made available or placed on the market in order to facilitate the proper implementation of the waste hierarchy; calls on the Commission to support and develop economic tools that givo ensure an economic advantage to the ‘sustainable choice’for the most sustainable choices; considers that there cannot be a sustainable market if there is production that meets sustainability criteria but cannot access the market because it is not sufficiently profitable; insists on the need to promote sustainable options with public funding, ensuring fair prices for consumers and producers;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that consumers should be able to fully participate in the ecological transition; calls on the Commission to develop legislative proposals on the tools needed to achieve this goal, including improved product information through labelling, green claims, extended legal guarantees and definitions, as well as measures againstto end planned obsolescence and greenwashing; calls on the Commission to guarantee the right for people in the EU to have their goods repaired and to ensure that this right allows people to repair their products in an easy and affordable manner; highlights that such tools must be based on sound environmental criteria, which enable consumers to assess accurately the environmental impact of products on the basis of their life cycle, their environmental footprint, their lifespan and their quality; stresses that the transition to a circular economy cannot be consumer-led and must have a strong regulatory dimension;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that the energy market is one of the least sustainable due to the resources from which energy is extracted, the very dysfunctional working of the market, its organisation in the form of an oligopoly and the high prices of that energy; considers that the right to affordable and accessible energy, which is a basic and essential good, should be recognised; believes that a common European definition of energy poverty should be established; calls for the necessity to eradicate this poverty which is suffered by approximately 54 million of Europeans;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Considers that sustainability for businesses and consumers is not only environmental, it must also be labour- based, incorporating the working conditions of the workers involved in the entire process, from processing, transport and sale to arrival at the consumer; Stresses that the sustainable option must be that offered and/or made in accordance with the highest labour standards and with full respect for human rights, gender equality and non- discrimination;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the role of Green Public Procurement (GPP) to accelerate the shift towards a more sustainable and circular economy, and the importance of promoting the uptake ofimplementing GPP during the EU’s economic recovery; recalls the commitments of the Commission to propose further legislation on GPP.;