16 Amendments of Oreste ROSSI related to 2011/2068(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas intense resource use and dramatically increased global consumption in emerging economies, as well as financial speculation in raw materials markets are pushing up prices of rawthose materials, with real commodity prices having increased by 147% since the turn of the century; whereas the EU is likely to face severe challenges in securing access to, and the uninterrupted supply of, key resources;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas it is essential for the EU swiftly to come out of the recession or economic stagnation currently obtaining in various Member States, and whereas simpler, leaner legislation plays a decisive role in economic recovery;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the creation of Joint Task Forces for the three key areas of food, housing and mobility: these should consist of experts from the Commission, Member States, local authorities, industry and civil society and develop, within one year, European Resource Efficiency Action Plans with clear benchmarks within one yeartechnical and economic benchmarks, in order to enable a detailed cost-benefit analysis to be made;
Amendment 43 #
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 States;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission to boostpromote all possible action at EU and international level, first and foremost in the field of research and technological innovation, to speed up the transition to a green economyenable the EU to regain its competitiveness on world markets; underlines that the ‘Innovation Union’ is one of the engines for a resource-efficient Europe;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, if it intends to propose to extend the scope of the eco- design directive to non- energy related products and to come forward with additional eco-design require, first to make a careful assessments onf the performanceimpact ofn products, including recycled content, durability and reusability, in order to improve their environmental impact and promote recycling markeion costs and end-user costs;
Amendment 92 #
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; recommends that the Commission should ensure that a stable legislative framework is maintained so as not to jeopardise long-term investment, and should propose that legislation that proves to be ineffective, superfluous or an obstacle to economic recovery and growth should be repealed;
Amendment 117 #
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 principle and to remove barriers that hold back resource efficiency;
Amendment 135 #
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;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to streamline the waste acquis and to introduce a progressive landfill banban on the landfill of recyclable waste, accompanied by appropriate transition measures;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to streamline the waste acquis and to introduce a progressive landfill banmeasures to achieve the largest possible reduction in landfill on a gradual basis, accompanied by appropriate transition measures;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the importance of sustainable agriculture, dietary changes to reduce animal protein intake and of diminishing imported land use;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the importance of sustainable agriculture, dietary changes to reduce animal protein intakeimprovements and diminishing imported land use;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the importance of sustainable agriculture, and of dietary changes to reduce animal protein intake and diminishing imported land use;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates the importance of a set of coherent, measurable and clear secto, clear and genuinely achievable general 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 targets until more detailed targets are setensure that all EU policies are consistent with those targets; calls on Member States to include corresponding targets in their own resource efficiency strategies;