14 Amendments of Marita ULVSKOG related to 2011/2068(INI)
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 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 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to extend the scope of the eco-design directive to non- energy related products and to come forward with additional eco-design requirements on the performance of products, including recycled contentability, end-of- life recycling, durability and reusability, in order to improve their environmental impact and promote recycling markets;
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 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for stronger requirements on Green and Sustainable Public Procurement (GPP) for products with significant environmental impacts and urges the Commission to assess where GPP could be linked to EU- funded projects; calls for efforts to promote joint procurement and networks of public procurement officers in support of GPP by the end of this year;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges Member States to ensure full implementation of the EU waste acquis, including minimum targets, through their national waste prevention and management strategies; reiterates that targets that have already been set in several Directives regarding the collection and separation of waste, should be further elaborated and set for the highest and most qualitative recovery of materials in each of the phases of recycling: collection, dismantling, pre-processing and recycling/refinery;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to further develop standards for the treatment of waste on the basis of Life Cycle Analysis thinking and the waste hierarchy to further reduce the amount of recoverable and recyclable waste going to the landfill until its phasing out at the end of this decade;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to present measures for securing environmentally sound collection, pre-processing and recycling of raw materials per category;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission and Member States to present concrete plans to be adopted by 2014 for phasing out all environmentally harmful subsidies before 2020;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Emphasizes that nutrient losses to the environment through agricultural production creates heavy external costs for ecosystems, human health and the climate, calls for the Commission to introduce modern nutrient management techniques to reduce nutrient losses as production intensifies;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Welcomes the initiative of the Commission on the Transparency Directive, following the US Dodd-Frank bill and urges the Commission to include sustainability criteria;