27 Amendments of Biljana BORZAN related to 2016/2272(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas jobs have been lost in many industrial sectors in Europe, and whereas there is a need, on the one hand, for some production to be relocated, and, on the other, to promote the repair and reuse sector in order to generate non- relocatable jobs;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas there has been an increase in the number of national initiatives to remedy the problem of premature obsolescence of goods, and whereas there is a need to develop a common strategy for the single market on the issue;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. whereas, according to Eurobarometer data, 90 % of citizens believe that products should be clearly labelled to indicate their useful lifespan;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to establish minimum resistance criteria for each product category from the design stage, by working in the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (CENELEC) to lay down standards which cover product robustness, reparability, upgradeability, etccovering among others robustness, reparability, and upgradeability, for each product category from the design stage, facilitated by standards developed by all the European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) CEN, CENELEC and ETSI.;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the eco-contribution to be geared to compliance with product lifetime extension criteria, in order to reward the efforts of the best manufacturers and boost consumer's confidence;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 1
Paragraph 4 – indent 1
- by urging that priority be given to repairing goods which are stillgranting consumers throughout the EU the freedom in choosing the remedy of their preference in cases of contractual non-conformity of goods under guarantee, except withere therough repair is not expedient or would come at a proven additional cost, of the defect, through price reduction or termination of the contract or through replacement of the defective product;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 4 – indent 1 a (new)
- by encouraging and facilitating measures that makes the choice of repair attractive to the consumer
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 2
Paragraph 4 – indent 2
- by guaranteeing that the guarantee canshould be extended by a period equivalent to the time required to carry out the repair,
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 4 – indent 2 a (new)
- by promoting the design and manufacturing of durable products with reparable and environmental friendly materials;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 2 b (new)
Paragraph 4 – indent 2 b (new)
- by making fixing-in of essential components such as batteries and LEDs into products illegal;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – indent 5 a (new)
Paragraph 4 – indent 5 a (new)
- by enforcing obligation to provide maintenance and repair guides in different languages to licenced repair shops,
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 1
Paragraph 5 – indent 1
- by guaranteeing access to affordable individual parts rather than assemblies,
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 2
Paragraph 5 – indent 2
- by obliging marketers to supply essential parts at a reasonable price and within a reasonable period of time, for a minimum periodincluding after having placed the last product on the market;,
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – indent 3
Paragraph 5 – indent 3
- by developing a clear and harmonised labelling system which provides information as to whether spare parts for goods are available or not, on what relevant terms and for how long;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Encourages the Member States to take fiscal measures to promote durable high-quality products that are reparable, repairs and second-hand sales, and to develop repairs training;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Stresses the importance of investing in 3D printing, in order to provide parts for professionals and consumers who wish to repair their own goods, and of encouraging the free dissemination of the catalogues for these parts; urges in this regard that product safety, counterfeiting and copyright protection have to be safeguarded;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 1
Paragraph 10 – indent 1
- to consult with the relevantall stakeholders concerned in order to develop a usage- based sales model which benefits everyone,
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 2
Paragraph 10 – indent 2
- to step up their efforts at regulatory simplificationmeasures and implement a fiscal policy which promotes the development of the functional economy, via reduced VAT rates, tax credits or endowments which encourage the rental, exchange and borrowing of goods;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – indent 3
Paragraph 10 – indent 3
- to support local and regional authorities that are investing in the functional and collaborative/sharing economies and in economic models that promote the durability of goods and strengthen the repair, re-use and recycling sectors;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Urges the Member States to use their public policies to promote such economical models as the functional economy, to ensure that the durability and reparability of products isare taken into account in public procurement and to increase the re-use rate of equipment purchased by public authorities;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. EncourageCalls the Commission and the Member States to respect the waste hierarchy established in EU legislation (Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC)), and in particular to view re-usable and reconditionable electrical and electronic devices not as waste, but as resources, in order to make it easier for them to be passed on to social enterprises and associations that can make use of such goods and their components;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – indent 2
Paragraph 14 – indent 2
- mandatory labelling to indicate a product’'s expected useful life, on the basis of standardised criteria set by selected stakeholders,;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. suggests to promote notification platforms for consumers for early failing and non-repairable products, such as the 'Trop vite usé-Platform initiative;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for a definition to be drawn up of planned obsolescence, for hardware and software, so that products whose lifespan is deliberately shortened can be banned; calls, in that connection, for better legal protection for ‘whistle-blowers’; and strong dissuasive measures for producers;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – indent 2
Paragraph 17 – indent 2
- by considering extending the length of the EU-level legal guarantees of conformity beyond the current two-year minimum for families of energy-using products on the basis ofthose products for which the reasonably expected lifespan of the product is longer, such as families of energy-using products or movable fixed assets, taking into account among others the product life cycle study carried out as part of the eco-design process, and introducing a while leaving the Member States free to mainimum period of five years for large household appliances and movable fixed assets gradually, so that companies can comply,tain or introduce more stringent provisions; highlights in this context the strong consumer protection measures taken already in some Member States;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – indent 2 a (new)
Paragraph 17 – indent 2 a (new)
- by improving the link between the eco-design legislation and contract law
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – indent 4 a (new)
Paragraph 17 – indent 4 a (new)
- by reversing the burden of proof of non-conformity of a product from the consumer to the manufacturer