16 Amendments of Gaston FRANCO related to 2011/2068(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
– having regard to the report of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety on the review of the 6th Environment Action Programme and the setting of priorities for the 7th Environment Action Programme – A better environment for a better life,
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of resource efficiency to achieving the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy; underlines the fact that decoupling absolutely economic growth from resource consumption, notably of materials1, is essential to improve Europe’s industrial 1 (Materials constitute a specific class of resources: the different forms some natural resources (biomass, extraction minerals, metallic minerals, fossil energy resources) pass through from extraction to elimination. competitiveness and reduce its relative dependence on imported resources;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to produce as quickly as possible a life-cycle based indicator for materials consumption, one which integrates hidden flows, namely the possible transfer of environmental pressures outside the EU and shifts in scarcities and dependencies, there being limits to the flagship indicator for resource productivity;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the fact that boosting resource efficiency requires a profound change in consumption and production patterns, achievable through new solutions for smarefficient resource management; calls, therefore, for investment in sustainable product design, in resource recycling and waste management, substitution and re-usesubstitution and re-use, and in waste recycling and management;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for swift implementation of the Waste Framework Directive and in particular of the waste hierarchy, which should aim at prioritising prevention, reuse, recycling and other recovery over disposal methods whilst continuing progressively to reduce landfill;
Amendment 42 #
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 creation of a ´Schengen area´ for waste in order to move waste for recycling more freely between the Member Sta, together with other market instruments, and to facilitate the movement of waste for recycling on the basis of the green list provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1418/2007 concerning the export for recovery of certain wastes;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the EU to promote the use of biomass, a renewable raw material, in the production and use of bio-sourced products;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Stresses the need to boost forestry protection in the European Union and strengthen the associated risk prevention methods, as forestry resources and the environmental qualities of wood constitute important natural capital; asks for a financial instrument for forest-fire and parasite prevention measures to be set up; calls on the Commission, together with the timber industry, to examine the scope for taking specific measures aimed at the sustainable exploitation of forestry resources, in particular via pilot projects; advocates a better use of the forestry measures already in place under the EU’s various policies, in order to improve the economic value of forests and ensure greater availability of wood, for example through replanting work under rural development programmes;
Amendment 67 #
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 that take account of climate change, biodiversity and resource efficiency by the end of 2012 and to look into the possibility of revising the Waste Statistics Regulation in order to provide a sound and reliable basis on which to promote recycling;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for environmental information requirements to be extended to cover conventional mass consumer goods; supports national tests for environmental labelling and urges the Commission to work on developing a harmonised European method for calculating a product’s environmental footprint, with a view to providing consumers with more information on products not covered by existing schemes such as the eco- labelling, energy labelling and organic farming labelling schemes;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, Member States and businesses to base their economic strategies on radically improved resource efficiency leading to a complete decoupling of economic growth from resource consumption; believes also that there is a need to focus on both the efficiency and effectiveness of resource use;, with particular reference to materials1; __________________ 1 Materials constitute a specific class of resources: account needs to be taken of the different forms some natural resources (biomass, extraction minerals, metallic minerals, fossil energy resources) pass through from extraction to disposal. Materials include all that is extracted or derived from natural resources, whether organic or inorganic, at any point in their life cycle.
Amendment 116 #
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, by promoting, for example, ISO 14001-type approaches for environmental management systems, as well as measures to extendapply to best effect the producer responsibility principle and to remove barriers that hold back resource efficiency;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to streamline and fully implement the waste acquis and to introducemplement a progressive landfill banreduction in the landfill of waste that can be efficiently recovered by other means, in accordance with the waste hierarchy, accompanied by appropriate transition measures;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to take steps to combat the illegal shipment of waste, in particular hazardous waste, to non-EU countries, in accordance with the Waste Shipment Regulation and the Basel Convention;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Commission to adopt robust and easily understandable indicators, based on integrated accounting tools, in order to monitor progress towards the targets; those indicators should measure the volume of the various types of resources entering the economy and enable the economic, geo- strategic and environmental aspects of resource scarcity to be addressed;
Amendment 256 #
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 carbon; underlines that these must be based on a footprint approach that takes the full life cycle impacts into account, one which integrates hidden flows, namely possible transfers of environmental pressures outside the EU and scarcity and dependency shifts;