Activities of Gerben-Jan GERBRANDY related to 2012/2294(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Eco-innovation - Jobs and Growth through environmental policy PDF (240 KB) DOC (127 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. Whereas environmental challenges, such as climate change, resource scarcity and biodiversity degradation, require a radical transition of our economy in which clean technologies play a key role;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. Whereas resource prices have increased extensively over the past years and competitiveness of companies is therefore increasingly determined by their resource efficiency;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Believes that a speedy development of clean technology is required in order to increase companies' competitiveness; therefore calls on the Commission to place eco-innovation at the centre of its industrial policy;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Commission to include specific eco-innovation recommendations in the European Semester in order to promote sustainable growth;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop eco-standards for public procurement to increase the launching customer role of public institutions;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that EU eco-innovation stimulates greater resource efficiency outside our borders, thereby reducing the depletion of global resources; therefore urges the Member States to strengthen their national resource efficiency strategies and to share their knowledge in international forums;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Strongly urges the Commission to define environmentally harmful subsidies as 'a result of a government action that confers an advantage on consumers or producers, in order to supplement their income or lower their costs, but in doing so, discriminates against sound environmental practices'1; Calls on the Commission and Member States to adopt, without delay and by 2014, concrete plans based on this definition for progressively phasing out all environmentally harmful subsidies by 2020, including subsidies that incentivise inefficient use of renewable resources and subsidies on fossil fuels, and to report on progress through the National Reform Programmes; __________________ 1 Adapted from OECD (1998 and 2005) in IEEP et al. 2007, see http://ec.europa.eu/environment/enveco/ta xation/index.htm