6 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2017/2087(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas, according to the Commission’s Ecodesign Working Plan 2016-2019, the ecodesign and energy labelling framework will deliver 175 Mtoe per year of primary energy savings by 2020; those savings will result in lowering the energy bills of each household by €490 per year, while delivering €55 billion yearly extra income for industry, wholesale and retail sectors and creating 800.000 possible new direct jobs in those sectors; it will also help reach our energy and climate goals by reducing the energy import needs by 1.3 billion barrels of oil, eliminating 320 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas measures should cover the whole lifecycle of products in order to improve resource efficiency in the Union; given that more than 80% of the environmental impact of a product is determined at the design stage, circular economy aspects, durability, reparability, re-use and recycling need to be taken into account from the start;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas, aside from making our products more sustainable and resource efficient, we need to drastically dematerialise our society, strengthening the principles of the sharing economy and the service economy;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the transition to a sustainable and circular economy will present many opportunities but also social challenges; nobody should be left behind, and Member States should pay special attention to low-income households at risk of energy poverty when they present programmes to encourage the uptake of the most resource-efficient products;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Acknowledges that the technology of ICT products is fast-evolving, which may result in legislation on those products already being outdated when it comes into force; urges therefore the Commission to speed up the ecodesign regulatory processes for those products and look into alternatives, which can be complementary to ecodesign measures, in order to monitor resource efficiency when products are in use, for instance by using big data techniques; 1a __________________ 1a Some ICT products, such as mobile phones, are so fast-moving and their technologies change so quickly, that ecodesign legislation, which can take up to 4 to 5 years to be established, is already outdated when it comes into force. Therefore, an accelerated process is required. Moreover, the resource use of some ICT products varies according to who uses them and how, or which applications are run on them. It might be useful to measure resource efficiency when the products are in use, for instance by using big data techniques to gather information from different users at different points in time (while of course respecting privacy aspects).
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Urges the Commission to look into the concept of product passports, attaching RFID tags or dynamic QR codes to products containing information on materials used, reparability, modularity, and other elements which are useful in case of change of ownership or at the product’s end of life;