17 Amendments of Britta REIMERS related to 2011/2068(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls foron the creation of Joint Task Forces for the three key areas of food, housing and mobility: these sCommission and Member States to include all key stakehould consist of experts fromin the Commission, Member States, industry and civil society and develop European Rimplementation of the Roadmap and the transition to a resource E-efficiency Action Plans with clear benchmarks within one yeart economy finding an appropriate balance between ecological, economical and social sustainability;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and Member States to stimulate the secondary materials market and to foster the demand for recycled 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 creaa proper functioning of a ´Schengen area´the internal market for waste in order to move waste for recycling more freely between the Member States;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to make clear that the collection and treatment of separately collected waste for recycling from private households should not be entrusted only to public undertakings;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission to boost in particular basic research and technological innovation to speed up the transition to a gresource-efficient economy; underlines that the ‘Innovation Union’ is one of the engines for a resource-efficient Europe;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Commission and Member States to develop and use clear and measurable indicators for economic activity in consultation with key stakeholders that take account of climate change, biodiversity and resource efficiency by the end of 2012;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission neither to extend the scope of the eco-design directive to non- energy related products andnor to come forward with additional eco- design requirements on the performance of products, including recycled content, durability and reusability, in order to improve their environmental impact and promote recycling markets;
Amendment 94 #
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 allensure that the Member States have fully implemented current legislations first, e.g. on waste and water management, before bringing forward legislative and other initiatives necessary to achieve the milestones and to ensure that all EU policies are aligned to them;
Amendment 107 #
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 and to create the incentives that will bring long- term benefits for the economy; emphasises the key role of the private sector, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, in delivering green economic growth;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop incentives that encourage companies to measure, benchmark and continuously improve their resource efficiency, as well as measures to extend the producer responsibility principleencourage them to autonomously and continuously improve their resource efficiency and to remove barriers that hold back resource efficiency;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Highlights the importance of research, development and innovation for speeding up the transformation to a resource- efficient Europe; notes that greater innovation is particularly needed in environmentally friendly material extraction, chemistry, agriculture, recycling, re-use potential, and the substitution of environmental impacting material, technologies and design for less material and energy use;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges Member States toCalls on the Commission to analyse the impact of a shift towards environmental taxation in public revenues accounting for an EU average of more than 10% by 2020, in line with the best performing Member States; emphasises that this will allow; requests the Commission's analysis to focus on the potential for cuts in other taxes such as on labour, increases in competitiveness and create aion of global level playing field; emphasises that such a possible shift should not lead to an increase of the total tax burden for the private sector;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission and Member States to present concrete plans forovide a definition of "environmentally harmful subsidies" on the basis of objective criteria and to present plans on how to progressively phasinge out all environmentally harmful subsidies before 2020 thereby taking into account all relevant economic, social and ecological impacts;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission and Member States to assess the economic value of ecosystems and integrate these values into reporting and accounting systems by 2015further develop a possible assessment of the economic value of ecosystems;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Emphasises that biodiversity is essential to the existence of human life and the well-being of societies, both directly and indirectly, through the ecosystem services it provides; welcomes and supports the EU biodiversity strategy up to 2020, including all its targets and actions; highlights the importance of mainstreaming biodiversity protection, also within a resource-efficient Europe;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the importance of sustainable agriculture, dietary changes to reduce animal protein intakeinforming consumers of the benefits of a healthy, balanced diet made up of high-quality regional and seasonal agricultural products and diminishing imported land use;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates the importance of a set of coherent, measurable and clear sectoral targets, including an overall target, in order to implement the vision and the milestones of the Roadmap; calls on the Commission to bring forward a concrete proposal for such targets for the EU by 2013 at the latest and to ensure that all EU policies are consistent with the targets set; considers that the milestones included in the Roadmap should be considered as taEmphasises that enterprises have a strong and continuous self-interest in resource efficiency and know best how to improve their resource efficiency; therefore urgets until more detailed targets are set; calls on Member States to include corresponding targets in their ownthe Commission to refrain from setting compulsory resource efficiency strategietargets;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Supports the proposal by the Commission to establish a lead indicator complemented by a set of indicators on land, water, materials and carbonin consultation with all key stakeholders a non-binding lead indicator for resource efficiency complemented by a set of indicators on land, water, materials and carbon; reiterates that these indicators must be based on a robust, consistent, clear and widely accepted methodology; underlines that these mustcould be based on an internationally consistent footprint approach that takes the full life cycle impacts into account only if this will not generate disproportionately additional costs for the private sector, especially small and medium-sized enterprises;