11 Amendments of Sandro GOZI related to 2022/0095(COD)
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) This Regulation will contribute to making products fit for a climate-neutral, resource-efficient and circular economy, reducing waste and ensuring that the performance of frontrunners in sustainability progressively becomes the norm. It should provide for the setting of new ecodesign requirements to tackle products’ premature obsolescence, through improveing product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability, improveing possibilities for refurbishment and maintenance, addressing the presence of hazardous chemicals in products, increaseing their energy and resource efficiency, reduceing their expected generation of waste materials and increaseing recycled content in products, while ensuring their performance and safety, enabling remanufacturing and high- quality recycling and reducing carbon and environmental footprints.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In order to improve the environmental sustainability of products and to ensure the free movement of products in the internal market, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to supplement this Regulation by setting out ecodesign requirements. Those ecodesign requirements should in principle apply to specific product groups, such as washing machines or washing machines and washer dryers. In order to maximise the effectiveness of ecodesign requirements and to efficiently improve environmental sustainability of products, it should also be possible to set out one or more horizontal ecodesign requirements for a wider range of products groups, such as electronic appliances or textiles. Horizontal ecodesign requirements should be established where the technical similarities of product groups allow their environmental sustainability to be improved based on the same requirements. These requirements should take into account potential environmental benefits stemming from using of one common charger for several products. Therefore, product groups with technical similarities, i.e. gardening tools and power drills or products protected against moisture and water ingress, should be required to be equipped with common chargers.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) The information requirements set under this Regulation should include the requirement to make available a product passport. The product passport is an important tool for making information available to actors along the entire value chain and the availability of a product passport should significantly enhance end- to-end traceability of a product throughout its value chain. Among other things, the product passport should help consumers make informed choices by improving their access to product information relevant to them, allow economic operators other value chain actors such as repairers or recyclers to access relevant information, and enable competent national authorities to perform their duties. To this end, the product passport should not replace but complement non-digital forms of transmitting information, such as information in the product manual or on a label. In addition, it should be possible for the product passport to be used for information on other sustainability aspects applicable to the relevant product group pursuant to other Union legislation.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) Consumers should be protected from misleading information that could hamper their choices for more sustainable products. For this reasons it should be prohibited to place on the market products bearing a label mimicking the labels provided for in this Regulation. On the other hand, displaying additional labels, such as EU Ecolabel or other existing type 1 - ecolabels, should not be seen as misleading.
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point a
(a) there shall be no significant negative impact on the functionality and safety of the product, from the perspective of the user;
Amendment 359 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 7
Article 21 – paragraph 7
7. Manufacturers shall ensure that that a product covered by a delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 4 is accompanied by instructions in the digital format that enable consumers and other end-users to safely assemble, install, operate, store, maintain, repair and dispose of the product in a language that can be easily understood by consumers and other end-users, as determined by the Member State concerned. Such instructions shall be clear, understandable and legible and include at least the information specified in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4 and pursuant to Article 7(2)(b), point (ii).
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. When providing the instructions, referred to in paragraph 7, the manufacturer shall: a) present them in a format that makes it possible to download them and save on an electronic device so that he or she can access them at all times. b) make them accessible online for at least 10 years after placing the product on the market .
Amendment 362 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 7 b (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Upon request of the consumer or other end user at the time of the purchase or up to 6 months after that purchase, the manufacturer shall provide the instructions in paper format free of charge.
Amendment 370 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 4
Article 23 – paragraph 4
4. Importers shall ensure that the product is accompanied by instructions in the digital format that enable the consumer to assemble, install, operate, store, maintain, repair and dispose of the product, in a language that can be easily understood by consumers and other end users, as determined by the Member State concerned. Such instructions shall be clear, understandable and legible and shall include at least the information specified in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4. The obligations set in Article 21(7a) and (7b) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Amendment 377 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) the product is accompanied by the required documents and by instructions in the digital format, to enable the consumer to assemble, install, operate, store, maintain, and dispose of the product, in a language that can be easily understood by consumers and other end- users, as determined by the Member State in which the product is to be made available on the market, and that such instructions are clear, understandable and legible and include at least the information set out in Article 7(2), point (b), point (ii), as laid down in the delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 4; The obligations set in Article 21(7a) and (7b) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) not provide or display other labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions that are likely to mislead or confuse customers with respect to the information included on the label. These restrictions do not comprise the EU Ecolabel and other type 1- ecolabels established in the Member States as long they fulfill the criteria from the Substantiating environmental claims (green claims) Directive (EU) 2022/xxxx.