14 Amendments of Jo LEINEN related to 2011/2068(INI)
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to develop a chain of custody system, subjected to appropriate impact assessments, that instructs producers throughout the entire chain to use a transparent system to record the use of resources, allowing for more intelligence in the use of resources;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on the Commission to encourage more partnerships between actors throughout the value chains based on a good understanding of the value chain's characteristics, challenges and hurdles.
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls onUrges the Commission and Member States to stimulate the reuse of products and the use of secondary materials market and to foster the demand for reuse and recycled raw 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 States;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the European Commission to research the development of a hierarchy model to ensure the highest added value of resource use without compromising the environment in analogy with the Report on an effective raw materials strategy for Europe (2011/2056(INI)); calls on the EC to map the competition for the same materials and to address non-essential consumption of resources;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Urges the Commission to examine the effects of a tax on resources and virgin raw materials, and in particular on any side effects, such as non sustainable substitution, tax evasion or a shift of economic activities to third countries and to present proposals for EU instruments to this effect in line with the resource efficiency priority; the taxation of resources must serve the purpose to promote reuse and recycling instead of the extraction of virgin materials and would help shift the tax burden from labour to resources;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Reiterates that more vigorous monitoring of the implementation of waste legislation is needed;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission to boost research andstimulate disruptive thinking to force breakthroughs in - technological- innovation to speed upin order to accelerate the transition to a greensustainable economy; underlines that the ‘´Innovation Union’ is one of the engines` and more specifically the ´Horizon 2020 Framework program` and the ´European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials` are engines to drive for a resource-efficient Europe;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that resource efficiency is a cross-cutting issue; calls on the Commission to integrate this agenda into other policies, especially the overarching governance economic policies, such as Europe 2020.
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Endorses the Flagship Initiative on a Resource Efficient Europe and the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe and its 2050 vision, including its milestones; calls on the Commission to bring forward swiftly all legislative and other initiatives necessary to achieve the milestones and to ensure that all EU policies are aligned to them; recalls the fact that decoupling economic growth from resource consumption is essential to improve Europe's competitiveness and reduce its resource dependency;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2012, to identify those priority products or services that contribute the most to key global consumption areas water, land, materials and carbon to be coherent with the consumption indicators as laid down in the Resource Efficiency Roadmap.
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the urgency of taking action now to support innovation and investment in new techniques and business models, such as a leasing society, and to create the incentives that will bring both short- and long- term benefits for the economy; emphasises the key role of the private sector in delivering green economic growth;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop incentives that encourage companies and public bodies to measure, benchmark and continuously improve their resource efficiencywater-, land-, material- and carbon footprints, as well as measures to extend the producer responsibility principle and to remove barriers that hold back resource efficiency;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Recalls that an absolute reduction of resource use is urgently needed in order to avoid upcoming problems such as resource scarcity and rising prices of resources;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Considers that the 7th EAP should be aimed at achieving the vision and milestones of the Roadmap towards a resource-efficient Europe and transforming the milestones into targets accordingly;