10 Amendments of Françoise GROSSETÊTE related to 2011/2068(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
– having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on the review of the 6th Environment Action Programme and the setting of priorities for the 7th Environment Action Programme – A better environment for a better life,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and Member States to stimulate the secondary materials market and to foster the demand for recycled materials by developing end-of- waste criteria and economic incentives, such as reduced VAT rates for secondary materials, by 2013; calls also therefore for the creation of a ´Schengen area´ for waste in order to move waste for recycling more freely between the Member Sta, together with other market instruments, and to facilitate the movement of waste for recycling on the basis of the green list provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1418/2007 concerning the export for recovery of certain wastes;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Commission and Member States to develop and use clear and measurable indicators for economic activity that take account of climate change, biodiversity and resource efficiency by the end of 2012 and to look into the possibility of revising the Waste Statistics Regulation in order to provide a sound and reliable basis on which to promote recycling;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for environmental information requirements to be extended to cover conventional mass consumer goods; supports national tests for environmental labelling and urges the Commission to work on developing a harmonised European method for calculating a product’s environmental footprint, with a view to providing consumers with more information on products not covered by existing schemes such as the eco- labelling, energy labelling and organic farming labelling schemes;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, Member States and businesses to base their economic strategies on radically improved resource efficiency leading to a complete decoupling of economic growth from resource consumption; believes also that there is a need to focus on both the efficiency and effectiveness of resource use;, with particular reference to materials1; __________________ 1 Materials constitute a specific class of resources: account needs to be taken of the different forms some natural resources (biomass, extraction minerals, metallic minerals, fossil energy resources) pass through from extraction to disposal. Materials include all that is extracted or derived from natural resources, whether organic or inorganic, at any point in their life cycle.
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop incentives that encourage companies to measure, benchmark and continuously improve their resource efficiency, by promoting, for example, ISO 14001-type approaches for environmental management systems, as well as measures to extendapply to best effect the producer responsibility principle and to remove barriers that hold back resource efficiency;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to streamline and fully implement the waste acquis and to introducemplement a progressive landfill banreduction in the landfill of waste that can be efficiently recovered by other means, in accordance with the waste hierarchy, accompanied by appropriate transition measures;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take steps to combat the illegal shipment of waste, in particular hazardous waste, to non-EU countries, in accordance with the Waste Shipment Regulation and the Basel Convention;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Commission to adopt robust and easily understandable indicators, based on integrated accounting tools, in order to monitor progress towards the targets; those indicators should measure the volume of the various types of resources entering the economy and enable the economic, geo- strategic and environmental aspects of resource scarcity to be addressed;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Supports the proposal by the Commission to establish a lead indicator complemented by a set of indicators on land, water, materials and carbon; underlines that these must be based on a footprint approach that takes the full life cycle impacts into account, one which integrates hidden flows, namely possible transfers of environmental pressures outside the EU and scarcity and dependency shifts;