Activities of Linea SØGAARD-LIDELL related to 2020/2077(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
New Circular Economy Action Plan (debate)
Amendments (61)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
— having regard to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),including SDG 12 “Responsible consumption and production” and SDG 15 “Life on land”,
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas only 12% of the materials used by the EU’s industry come from recycling;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas the International Resource Panel, in its report ‘Global Resources Outlook 2019’, estimates that the extraction and processing of world’s material resources (biomass, including food crops, metals, minerals, and fossil fuels) has an impact on global biodiversity and water stress (accounts for more than 90%), on global climate change emissions (approximately half), and health impacts (about one third); whereas these figures illustrate the central role of resource management and the need to step up action at all levels and across the world;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas European companies and economies are expected to be at the forefront of those implementing, but also benefiting from, a global race towards circularity, due to the EU´s well developed business models, our circular knowledge and recycling expertise;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s new Circular Economy Action Plan; highlights the fact that the circular economy is key to reducing the overall environmental footprint of European consumption and production, and to reaching the climate goals of the Paris Agreement and to fostering EU competitiveness and innovation;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to bring forward the initiatives under the Action Plan in a timely manner in line with the dates set out in the Communication, and to base each legislative proposal on a comprehensive impact assessment;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that a circular economy is the way for the EU and European companies to remain competitive in a global market; therefore urges the Commission and the Member States to direct investments in order to scale up circular economy initiatives; considers that the EU’s economic recovery plan (Next Generation EU) should be used to put in place circular economy initiatives and, infrastructure and technologies;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that the Union is both the world’s second largest economic power and the world’s largest trading power; points out that the single market is a powerful tool that must be used to develop sustainable and circular products or technologies that will become tomorrow’s standards, thus enabling citizens to purchase affordable products that are safer, healthier and more respectful of the planet;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to propose an EU target for a reduction in the use of primary raw materials “with the aim of reducing the environmental and resource footprint of EU production and consumption;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Underlines that the path towards a full circular economy and sustainable production and consumption can be long, but nevertheless encourages all relevant actors not to focus only on long-term goals but also take short term and pragmatic actions that deliver immediate results, such as waste reduction;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the opportunities to combine circular economy solutions and digitalisation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop policies to support existing and new sustainable, and circular, business models, based on product-as-a-service (PaaS) approaches; invites the Commission to facilitate product-as-a-service approaches in the new Sustainable Products Initiative and remove potential regulatory and fiscal barriers to PaaS-Models;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that sustainable products should become the norm in the EU market, and that a reduction in resource use, the retention of value in the economy, waste prevention, the and an increase in product reuse, ‘designing out of waste’ and consumer benefits should guide the new sustainable product policy framework as well as the Industrial Strategy;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that safe and sustainable-by-design substances, materials and products should become the norm in the EU market, and that a reduction in resource use, the retention of value in the economy, waste prevention, the ‘design out of waste’ and consumer benefits should guide the new sustainable product policy framework;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that, in addition to legal minimum standards for product design, strong policies are needed at the EU and national levels to support the frontrunners in circular economy and circular business models; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop supporting policies and well-designed economic incentives, including clear fiscal incentives, for resource efficient solutions and for circular products and materials;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Strongly endorses the broadening of the scope of the Ecodesign Directive to include non-energy-related products and set standards for durability, reusability, reparability, upgradability, recyclability, recycled content and resource and energy efficiency, and invites the Commission to present a proposal for this in 2021; at the same time, reiterates its call on the Commission to be ambitious in the implementation of the current Ecodesign Directive, including with regard to circular economy aspects;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Strongly endorses the broadening of the scope of the Ecodesign Directive to include non-energy-related products and set standards for safety and sustainability by design, durability, reusability, reparability, upgradability, recyclability and resource and energy efficiency, and invites the Commission to present a proposal for this in 2021;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses that the Commission should define in this proposal minimum performance requirements and targets – including by imposing minimum periods for the supply of spare parts according to product category – for the design, production and marketing of products that are sustainable and safe, suitable for multiple use, technically durable and easily repairable, do not contain hazardous substances, 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;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages the Commission to propose resource efficiency and environmental foot print targets for each product category, including the most carbon-intensive semi-products such as steel, chemicals, cement and plastics, and to introduce product- specific and/or sector-specific targets for recycled content, while ensuring the performance and safety of the products concerned;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Encourages the Commission to propose resource efficiency and environmental footprint targets for each product category and to introduce product- specific targets for recycled content, while ensuring the performance and safety of the products concerned; and to ban the destruction of unsold goods to promote reuse, redistribution and recyclability,
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Supports the plan to introduce digital product passports in order to help companies and consumers to keep track of a product’s environmental impacts throughout the value chain and calls for the interoperability of such passports with existing informative tools, such as the SCIP database;
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises the right of consumers to more precise and accurate information about the environmental impacts of products and services, and calls on the Commissstrongly supports the Commission's intention to make proposals to substantiate green claims through solid and harmonised calculation methodsEnvironmental Footprint criteria; calls on the Commission to support the development of digital tools in order to provide consumer information as an opportunity for consumer empowerment in the digital age;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Highlights that consumer information should create awareness and knowledge of the “responsibility of the consumer”, how their consumption behaviour plays a role in a successful circular economy and how consumption behaviour and habits have an effect on the supply and demand mechanism in the value chain.
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Highlights the need to reinforce the EU Ecolabel as a benchmark for equivalent high resource efficient criteria, by increasing market awareness and recognition and the potential to extending the scheme to more products and services relevant for consumers and procurers;
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to consider extending legal guarantees to align them with the estimated lifetime of a product category and definitions, and to consider banning practices aimed at intentionally shortening the lifetime of a product (planned obsolescence), such as preventing repair at the design stage or causing a slowdown in performance after a software update;
Amendment 384 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Welcomes the Commission's intentions to introduce legislation banning destruction of unsold durable goods unless they pose a safety or health threat; underlines that recycling, reuse and redistribution of non-food items should be the norm and enforced by legislation
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to set up reparability index as part of the digital product passport to inform consumers about the level of reparability of products;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines the need to boost the internal market for sustainable products and believes that the public sector should lead the way; supports the establishment of minimum mandatory criteria and targets for green public procurement in sectorial legislation; making use, whenever possible, of the EU Ecolabel and equivalent high resource efficient criteria, in order to optimise procedures;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines the need to boost the internal market for sustainable products and believes that the public sector should lead the way; supports the establishment of minimum mandatory criteria and targets for green public procurement with the aim to foster demand and competitiveness of sustainable products;
Amendment 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission and the Member States to support theresearch and development ofin new innovative technologies, in particular enhanced recycling, and to enable digital technologies, such as blockchain that, and make them interoperable so that they can support the development of the circular economy through the tracking, tracing and mapping of resources;
Amendment 447 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Requests the Commission and Member States to support the development of high quality waste management infrastructure and to encourage the research and development in new technologies that could enhance the yield of recyclable and reusable material;
Amendment 458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses the need for policy coherence and calls on the Commission to critically review existing policies to ensure a level playing field for circular production processes and business models; emphasises the need for Member States to review and if necessary revise any relevant, national legislation that represents a barrier or directly contradicts the aim of the Circular Economy Strategy or any future EU-legislation resulting from the strategy. To this effect, Member States are encouraged to consider Circular Economy objectives into any future relevant legislation they pass.
Amendment 470 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses the need for policy coherence and calls on the Commission to critically review existing policies to ensure a level playing field for circular production processes and business models while fostering EU competitiveness and innovation;
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Supports the Circular Electronics Initiative, which will address the shortcomings in durability, circular design, waste prevention, and waste collection and recycling, inter alia through longer product lifetimes, enhanced recyclability and recycled content in electronics; calls for the harmonisation and improvement of recycling infrastructure for waste electrical and electronic equipment in the EU;
Amendment 542 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for a new regulatory framework for batteries that includes eco- design, improved collection, reuse and recycling, recovery of valuable materials, consumer information, life cycle environmental impacts, and sustainable sourcing; supports the creation of competitive and resilient value chains for batteries production and recycling in the EU;
Amendment 572 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates the objective to make all packaging reusable or recyclable in an economically viable way by 2030 and calls for the Commission to present a legislative proposal without delay, including withaste prevention targets, and other measures to reduce excessive packaging and promote reuse;
Amendment 578 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Commission to support and explore the potentials for compatible national deposit return schemes to reach the needed collection rate of 90 % of plastic beverage containers and as a step towards establishing a single market for packaging, especially for neighbouring Member States. Compatible schemes could be reached by serialisation and codified and unified labelling. If a Member State does not have a scheme in place or plans to redesign their scheme, they should be encouraged to choose, by means of best practises and relevant scientific evidence, a scheme that is similar to or compatible with those of other Member States
Amendment 588 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the essential role of packaging for product safety, in particular food safety, and hygiene; asks the industry, however, to commit to reducing the amount of packaging it produces and to develop more efficient and circular packaging solutions, and encourages initiatives such as the Circular Plastics Alliance; underlines further the need to continue development of enhanced recycling technologies to improve circularity of material that cannot be reused for safety or product performance reasons;
Amendment 593 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the essential role of packaging for product safety, in particular food safety, and hygiene; asks the industry, however, to commit to reducing the amount of packaging it produces and to develop more efficient, to facilitate the use of reusable transport packaging and to develop more efficient formats, to use less complex materials and circular packaging solutions, and encourages initiatives such as the Circular Plastics Alliance and the European Plastics Pact;
Amendment 601 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the essential role of packaging for product safety, in particular food safety, and hygiene; asks the industry, however, to commit to avoid unnecessary packaging and to reducing the amount of packaging it produces and to develop more efficient and circular packaging solutions, and encourages initiatives such as the Circular Plastics Alliance;
Amendment 640 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Urges the Commission to tackle microplastics in a comprehensive way, including by adopting a comprehensive phase-out of intentionally added microplastics and through new measures, including regulatory measures, against the unintentional release of plastics, for example from textiles, tyres and plastic pellets; stresses the need to close the gaps in scientific knowledge on microplastics and nanoplastics; highlights that these new insights will foster innovation towards the development of safer alternatives and develop competitive markets with microplastics-free products;
Amendment 691 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance of a new comprehensive EU strategy for textiles to promote sustainability, traceability and transparency in the EU textile and clothing sector and address the full range of environmental impacts throughout the value chain, inter alia by improving its resource efficiency as well as the recyclability and reuse of textiles and by promoting the use of high quality fibers;
Amendment 693 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Underlines the importance of a new comprehensive EU strategy for textiles to promote reusability and sustainability in the EU textile sector and address the full range of environmental impacts throughout the value chain; Calls on this strategy to consider developing an Extended Producer Responsibility scheme for textiles.
Amendment 748 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Welcomes the Commission’s commitment to consider a revision of material recovery targets set in EU legislation for construction and demolition waste and its material-specific fractions; welcomes also the announcement of a Strategy for a Sustainable Built Environment in 2021;
Amendment 762 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Urges the Commission to make proposals to implement the goal of halving food waste by 2030 in line with the Waste Framework Directive and with the commitments under the Farm to Fork Strategy to set up a target to reduce food waste;
Amendment 785 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Underlines the need to maximise value of biomass including by increasing separation of organic waste and by improving its management; Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure high levels of separation of organic waste and to incentives returns of nutrients from organic waste back to the soils, its use for production of renewable energy, green chemicals and other products where feasible and environmentally beneficial;
Amendment 799 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to take measures to close the agricultural nutrient loop, and to allow the increased use of recycled animal manure, compost and digestate and other organic nutrients instead of chemical fertiliser, while taking into account the protection of the environment and ecosystems;
Amendment 827 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Underlines the importance of prioritising waste prevention, in line with the EU waste hierarchy, and calls on the Commission to propose a waste prevention target and specific binding waste reduction targets and targets to cap the generation of residual waste;
Amendment 855 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Believes that non-competitive prices and a lack of high quality secondary raw materials are among the main barriers to a circular economy; asks the Commission to assess measures to make secondary raw materials more competitive, such as economic incentives, including rewards for CO2 savings, tax measures, public procurement and the further application of a harmonised extended producer responsibility;
Amendment 860 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)
Paragraph 32 a (new)
32a. Considers the private sector as a strong partner in increasing the demand and customer interest in circular solutions and products, and urges Member States to support companies that have business models, services or products that reduce waste and resource use, and make use of their services;
Amendment 863 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Strongly endorses the ambition to establish a well-functioning EU market for secondary raw materials and underlines that this will require common standards; calls on the Commission to propose European harmonised end- of-waste criteria for key waste streams in line with the Waste Framework Directive, in order to remove market barriers and ensure high-quality waste recovery;
Amendment 897 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Recalls that industrial symbiosis is a key element to achieve circular economy by promoting interconnected networks where the waste of an industry becomes the raw material of another and energy and material can cycle continuously, keeping resources in productive use as long as possible; calls therefore for increased efforts to scale up industrial symbiosis at the EU level and make the industrial value chain more efficient and more competitive;
Amendment 898 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
Paragraph 34 a (new)
34a. Underlines the importance of Carbon Capture Storage and Utilisation (CCS/U) for reaching the European Green Deal objectives, supporting the circular economy, the evolution of CO2- capture systems, and efforts for tackling climate change; supports an integrated policy context and incentive system to stimulate the uptake of environmentally safe CCS/U applications that deliver a net reduction in greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 907 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)
Paragraph 34 b (new)
34b. Highlights that developing industrial symbiosis would require territories to better understand and manage their local flow of resources and lead them to implement new strategies of spatial planning in collaboration with industries, stakeholders, local administration and citizens, urges Member States to require local and regional governments to identify industrial symbiosis opportunities through a thorough mapping of economic activities and compulsory flow analysis of resources,
Amendment 911 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)
Paragraph 34 b (new)
34b. Calls on the Commission to define a common EU-wide approach for the management of residual waste;
Amendment 919 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Acknowledges the important role that regional governments and, local communities play in waste managementand SMEs play in the circular economy; calls on the Commission to support the establishment of circularity hubs in all European regions and local communities in the spirit of the Renovation Wave, providing support to the development of circular models in design, procurement and waste management;
Amendment 973 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36a. Welcomes the Global Alliance for Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency to accelerate the global transition to a climate-neutral, resource- efficient and circular economy, and invites the Commission to initiate discussions on an international agreement on the management of natural resources to stay within a ‘safe operating space’ for natural resource use;
Amendment 975 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 b (new)
Paragraph 36 b (new)
36b. Supports the Commission’s efforts at international level to reach a global agreement on plastics, and to promote the uptake of the EU’s circular economy approach on plastics;
Amendment 978 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Calls on European producers to accept responsibility when selling products in third countries and proposes that industrial stakeholders commit to waste compensation programmes through the set-up of separate collection systemon the basis of a global extended producer responsibility to financing or organising the set-up of separate collection systems for their products when becoming waste, combined with schemes for eco- modulation fees;
Amendment 982 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37a. Underlines the importance of requiring that primary and secondary raw materials imported within the EU comply with human rights, human health and environmental protection standards that are equivalent to the upcoming legislative proposal of the Commission on sustainable corporate governance and due diligence;
Amendment 994 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 b (new)
Paragraph 37 b (new)
37b. Underlines the importance of the implementation of article 8a(1) in the Waste Framework Directive wherein it is clearly stated that Member States are obliged to precisely define the responsibilities and roles for Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs);