16 Amendments of María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS related to 2021/2011(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the European strategy for critical raw materials, underlines the need to urgently develop Horizon Europe R&I projects on waste processing, recycling, advanced materials and substitution, processes for exploitation and processing of critical raw materials in order to significantly reduce environmental impacts;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reiterates the opportunities that lie in the optimised use of products and services, in addition to measures that extend life-cycles and material use; in this context, stresses in particular the opportunities to combine circular economy solutions and digitalisation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop policies to support new sustainable and circular business models, such as product-as-a-service (PaaS) approaches that save resources and reduce environmental impacts while ensuring protection for consumers; Invites the Commission to facilitate such PaaS approaches in the new Sustainable Products Initiative and calls on the Commission and Member States to remove undue regulatory and fiscal barriers to them and promote the development of infrastructures that enable circularity and a sustainable digital economy;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Reiterates the need to create economic incentives and the right regulatory environment for innovation in circular solutions, materials and business models, while at the same time eliminating market-distorting subsidies and environmentally harmful subsidies, and calls for support for this in the new industrial strategy for Europe and the SME Strategy; emphasises the specific role that first movers, SMEs and start-ups are playing in the transition to a circular economy; underlines that research in sustainable materials, processes, technologies and products, as well as their industrial scale-up, can provide European companies with a global competitive advantage; emphasises that policies are needed at the EU and national levels to support the frontrunners in circular economy and circular business models;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Underlines the need to ensure sustainable and ethical sourcing of raw materials, including critical raw materials in order for metals and minerals to supply the technologies required for Green Deal goals; underlines the role of CRM in the recovery of the European economy and calls upon Member States to include a CRM strategy within their National Recovery Plans;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Notes the increased demand for producing more from less raw materials, to satisfy the aspirations of societies for prosperity, well-being and development against the backdrop of a growing global population;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Believes continued secure supply of ethically sourced raw materials to be the foundation to Europe’s material wealth and an indispensable building block for innovative and clean processes that enable Europeans to lead healthy and comfortable lives in line with the EU Green Deal;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Believes that research and innovation must lie at the centre of a successful CRM strategy; Furthermore emphasizes that innovative recycling processes and the development of new substitution materials will help revitalize Europe’s raw material industries in line with the EU Industrial Strategy and also reduce dependence on CRM imports from third countries.
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
1h. Suggests that different yet complementary options to overcome raw material criticality exist, such as increasing European supply, ensuring access to imports, circularity, diversification or substitution; notes however, that substitution is still rarely used in practice and thus requires consistent multidisciplinary research support and incentives.
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1i. Calls on the Commission to include SMEs in the CRM Strategy as they play a fundamental role in the Union’s economic resilience, asks the Commission to assess and factor in SME contributions systematically; furthermore underlines that relevant EU funds and support tools must be easily accessible for SMEs.
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 j (new)
Paragraph 1 j (new)
1j. Notes the need for a level-playing field for both primary and recycled materials both on EU and international level; Understands that in order to create this level playing field, the European Union needs to increase its domestic capacity of Critical Raw Materials, when possible, to a minimum of 20%.
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asks the Commission to set ambitious product design requirements for easy removal of parts or components containing CRMs; calls for ambitious minimum recycled CRM content targets; requests that the Commission propose new collection schemes to increase collection rates of waste products containing CRMs; asks the Commission to propose dedicated recycling targets for CRMs, byased on life- cycle assessments, and extending the approach suggested in the proposal for a regulation on batteries and waste batteries (COM(2020)0798) to other product groups;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Welcomes the ambition of becoming a global leader in sustainable raw materials production; underlines that this requires policy coherence between all relevant policy initiatives and EU legislation.
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to fully address illegal export of waste shipments to third countries containing CRMs in the review of the Waste Shipments Regulation; Therefore calls for overall requirements that waste products containing CRMs are only exported when treated under similar conditions to Europe in the country of destination.
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Recognises the need of upskilling and reskilling people in order to enable professionals to transition from 'brown' skills to 'green' skills.
Amendment 167 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that mining should be forbidden in nature conservation areasRecalls that according to international recommendations by the IUCN, environmentally damaging industrial activities and infrastructure development should be prohibited in all categories of protected area, therefore believes that mining should be prohibited in protected areas, which at the EU level corresponds to those areas comprised within the Natura 2000 Network; calls on the Commission to evaluate legislative optionshow to ensure that local communities are fully involved in the permit procedures for new industrial and new mining projects and that are compensated if necessary.
Amendment 176 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to develop Sustainable Finance taxonomy criteria which enables the transition to a EU climate-neutral scenario whilst also enhancing European Resilience and Open Strategic autonomy; realises that diversification is key to the security of supply of CRMs and that the mining and processing sectors are necessary for supplying Green Deal technologies.