8 Amendments of Pascal CANFIN related to 2023/0085(COD)
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 31
Recital 31
(31) In order to meet both the needs of traders regarding dynamic marketing strategies and the needs of consumers regarding more detailed, and more accurate, environmental information, the Commission mayshall adopt delegated acts to supplement the provisions on substantiation of explicit environmental claims by further specifying the criteria for such substantiation with regard to certain claims (e.g. climate-related claims, including claims about offsetsting, “climate neutrality” or similar,, “carbon neutrality”, “net zero” or similar, as well as claims about recyclability and recycled content). The Commission should be empowered to further establish rules for measuring and calculating the environmental impacts, environmental aspects and environmental performance, by determining which activities, processes, materials, emissions or use of a product or trader contribute significantly or cannot contribute to the relevant environmental impacts and environmental aspects; by determining for which environmental aspects and environmental impacts primary information should be used; and by determining the criteria to assess the accuracy of primary and secondary information. While in most cases the Commission would consider the need for adopting these rules only after having the results of the monitoring of the evolution of environmental claims on the Union market, for some types of claims it may be necessary for the Commission to adopt supplementary rules before the results of this monitoring are available. For example, in case of climate-related claims it maywill be necessary to adopt such supplementary acts in order to operationalise the provisions on substantiation of claims based on offsecarbon removals to align them and make them interoperable with the Carbon Removal Certification Framework and its related delegated acts.
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Within one year after entry into force of this Directive the Commission shall adopt a Delegated Act including the list of all environmental claims which are either fully excluded from the scope or for which only specific articles will apply, clarifying the scope of exemptions set out as pursuant to paragraph 2 of this Article. The list should be updated as needed, when new legislation is adopted or when legislations covered in paragraph 2 of this Article are revised.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Future Union rules (both new and revised) that aim to cover claims outside of this legislation’s scope should provide a level of requirements at least equivalent to the Green Claims Directive.Notably, the principles of reliability, comparability and verifiability of claims should be upheld. The following elements should be at least equivalent: (a) the level of disclosure of information; (b) the requirements on third party verification prior to the claim being put on the market; (c) the level of enforcement. The Commission is empowered to provide this assessment of equivalence, and add new or revised legislation in the list mentioned in paragraph 2a (new) of this Article when at least equivalence is guaranteed.
Amendment 345 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) separate any gnot rely on any ‘offsetting’ for products, traders or as a means to achieve future enhouse gas emissions offsets used from greenhouse gas emissionsvironmental performance, and shall separate any financial contributions to environmental projects from the climate or environmental impact of the product or trader as additional environmental information,. This assessment shall also specify whether those offsetcontributions relate to emission or impact, reductions or removals, and describe how the offseprojects relied upon are of high integrity and accounted for correctly to reflect the claimed impact on climate;
Amendment 369 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
(j a) ensure, for net zero or climate neutrality claims, that only residual emissions are balanced with carbon removal credits certified under Carbon Removal Certification Framework, respecting the like-for-like principle, by indicating the share of residual emissions within total emissions, the share of biogenic and fossil emissions within these residual emissions; and the quantity and storage medium (geochemical or biological) of the certified carbon removal credits that have been retired to balance the residual emissions; provide the relevant certificates and the additional information included in them; show that the credits used to compensate for residual emissions are appropriately retired from the Union Registry developed under the Carbon Removal Certification Framework.
Amendment 387 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. To supplement the provisions on the substantiation of net zero or climate neutrality claims, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act to establish the criteria for such substantiation, including establishing a transparent process for defining and classifying residual emissions based on impact assessments and multi-stakeholder consultations, including with the possible involvement of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.
Amendment 398 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. By ... [1 year from the date of entry into force of this Directive], the Commission shall identify the most common explicit environmental claims made on the Union market and publish a list of claims that the Commission intends to supplement with the delegated act referred to in paragraph 4. That list shall be updated every 3 years.
Amendment 660 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 9
Article 10 – paragraph 9
9. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to set out details regarding the form of the certificate of conformity referred to in paragraph 5 and the technical means for issuing such certificate of conformity. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 19. For net zero and climate neutrality claims, the implementing acts shall ensure the streamlining of certificates of conformity by making them interoperable with the Union Registry and carbon removal certificates under the Carbon Removal Certification Framework.