Activities of Elisabetta GARDINI related to 2008/0241(COD)
Plenary speeches (5)
Explanations of vote
Explanations of vote
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate)
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (debate)
Explanations of vote
Amendments (5)
Amendment 84 #
Council position
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) This Directive should cover all EEE used by consumers and EEE intended for professional use. This Directive should apply without prejudice to Union legislation on safety and health requirements protecting all actors in contact with WEEE, as well as specific Union waste management legislation, in particular Directive 2006/66/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 September 2006 on batteries and accumulators and waste batteries and accumulators, and Union product design legislation, in particular Directive 2009/125/EC. The preparing for re-use, recovery and recycling of waste cooling equipment and the substances, mixtures or components thereof should be in accordance with the relevant legislation of the Union, in particular, Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on substances that deplete the ozone layer and Regulation (EC) No 842/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on certain fluorinated greenhouse gases. The objectives of this Directive can be achieved without including large-scale fixed installations such as oil platforms, airport luggage transport systems or elevators within its scope.
Amendment 94 #
Council position
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c – point iii
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c – point iii
(iii) can only be replaced by the same specifically designed equipment with equivalent functionalities;
Amendment 107 #
Council position
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
For this purpose, Member States may require that collection schemes or facilities, as appropriate, provide for the separation at the collection points of WEEE that is to be prepared for re-use from other separately collected WEEE.
Amendment 116 #
Council position
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that producers provide at least for the financingmay, when necessary in order to improve the collection of WEEE, provide for adequate financial resources to cover the costs of collecting WEEE produced by private households to be collected at the time of final sale of new EEE on the basis of the c'pollection, treatment, recovery and environmentally sound disposal of WEEE from private households that has been deposituter pays' principle, considering that it is retailers, consumers and manufacturers who pollute, not tax-payers. If a Member State decides to collect such financial resources: – the financial resources generated shall be used solely to improve the management of WEEE and shall not exceed the cost actually incurred; – the costs of collecting WEEE and the costs of the information provided shall be published, to ensure their transparency; – the financial resources generated shall be made available solely to operators who are legally required ato collection facilities set up under Article 5(2). WEEE; – the criteria for distributing the financial resources among the parties involved shall be determined by each Member State.
Amendment 127 #
Council position
Article 23 – paragraph 3
Article 23 – paragraph 3
3. The costs of appropriate analyses and inspections, including storage costs, of used EEE suspected to be WEEE may be charged to the producers, to third parties acting on their behalf or to other persons arranging the shipment of used EEE suspected to be WEEE only in cases where the used EEE analysed and inspected indeed proves to be WEEE.