Activities of Sandro GOZI related to 2020/2077(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
New Circular Economy Action Plan (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on New Circular Economy Action Plan
Amendments (11)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Welcomes the Circular Economy Action Plan and the intention of the Commission to come up with specific measures to address the need to improve product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability, as well as to tackle the premature obsolescence of products; stresses the need to empower consumers to better guide their consumption patterns by providing them with clear and reliable information on lifespan, environmental performance and reparability of products; calls on the Commission to support and develop economic tools that give an economic advantage to sustainable choices;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Stresses that completing and deepening the Single market is a precondition for the success of Europe’s transition to sustainable and circular economy; calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the existing regulatory and non-regulatory barriers stemming from restrictive and complex national rules, limited administrative capacities, and inadequate transposition and enforcement of EU rules; calls for more flexible and transparent governance of the internal market with more effective peer reviews and improved monitoring and performance tools.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that placing sustainable products on the internal market should be the norm and; calls for a horizontal Sustainable Product Framework Directive settingthat sets mandatory minimum requirements for durability, interoperability, reparability, upgradability, reusability and recyclability for all products alongside further product- specific requirements; while differentiating between different categories of products and taking into account market and technological developments; stresses the importance of ambitious sectoral EU policies, as well as the proper implementation and effective enforcement of existing rules for a well- functioning sustainable single market;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to empower consumers to further engage in sustainable consumption practices; calls for mandatory labelling on product durability and reparability, and the development of a repair score, in addition to minimum information requirements; asks for both the legal guarantee rights and the reversed burden of proof rules to be extended based on the lifespan of products, the introduction of following Commission assessment of the impact of these proposals on the level of prices, the estimation of products' lifespan, the system of commercial guarantees, and independent repair services; calls for measures that will encourage manufacturers to consider the durability and reparability of products from design stage, and assessing the feasibility of introducing direct producer liability, and; calls for legislative measures to ban practices resulting in premature obsolescence;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports the establishment of an EU-wide ‘right to repair’; calls, in this context, for measures to provide unrestricted and free access to repair and maintenance information and to spare parts to all market participants, to define a mandatory minimum period of time for the availability of spare parts and/or updates, a maximum time-limit for their delivery, and for repair to be given priority under the legal guarantee regime; asks the Commission to assess the existing barriers preventing repairs, resales, donations and reuse and to propose measures to address those; calls for a clear definition of reconditioned goods and for the possibility to extend guarantees after a product is repaired; stresses that sellers should always inform consumers of the option of repair as well as the associated right of guarantee; highlights the role of the service sector in increasing accessibility and affordability of repairs and stresses that completing the internal market for services will contribute to the transition to a more sustainable market;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that products from outside the EU often do not comply with EU rules on sustainability and safety and that effective enforcement is crucial to making sure that products placed on the market comply with sustainability requirements; calls, therefore, on the Commission and Member States to step up their efforts to ensure compliance of products with mandatory environmental criteria through enhanced market surveillance, including for product sold online; calls for greater EU oversight, through setting harmonised rules on the minimum number of checks and their frequency, and by empowering the Commission to monitor and audit the activities of national authorities, as well as to carry out regular tests and inspections;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Insists that for this purpose the Commission ensures that custom controls throughout the EU follow the same standards, by means of a direct unified customs control mechanism, in coordination with Member States and in full compliance with the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of clear, transparent and reliable information on product characteristics for consumers, businesses and market surveillance authorities, and; calls for developing a multi- criteria life cycle environmental performance index, which will provide information to consumers on the reparability, durability and recyclability of products, including its packaging; welcomes the Commission’s intention to develop a digital product passport; calls, in this regard, for mandatory information requirements to apply throughout the supply chain, covering not only aspects such as durability and reparability, but also social and environmental conditions;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses the importance of online platforms and online marketplaces for promoting sustainable products and services and encouraging sustainable consumption; notes that online platforms could further deliver on their responsibility to provide consumers with reliable information on sustainability of products and services they offer; calls for proactive measures to tackle misleading practices and disinformation regarding products and services offered online, including false ‘environmental claims’;
Amendment 99 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for a revision of EU public procurement legislation introducing mandatory minimum targets, throughStresses that ambitious public procurement in terms of sustainability of products and services could support innovative efforts of private sector and sets the right incentives for boosting sustainable production and consumption; calls for uptake of green public procurement by contracting authorities through introducing mandatory sustainability criteria in public offers, defining a certain percentage for procurement based on environmental, and social and ethical criteria, and introducing a hierarchy of award criteria, together with sector-specific targets.criteria, introducing a hierarchy of award criteria, together with sector-specific targets; calls for ensuring effective reciprocity in public procurement with third countries; calls for priority to be given to reused and recycled goods, and low-energy consumption software programmes and to improve the access to public procurement of SMEs and social economy enterprises; stresses the potential benefits of an instrument for screening 'green' tenders to ensure the compatibility of large-scale infrastructure projects with EU's climate commitments and to tackle 'greenwashing', including in the context of public procurement; calls for mandatory reporting obligations for the Commission and the Member States with regard to their sustainable procurement;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of mobilising sufficient funding to finance R&D in sustainable products and circular economy business models, that will minimise destruction of products and promote repair and reuse;