37 Amendments of Andrus ANSIP related to 2022/0095(COD)
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 23
(23) ‘environmental footprint’ means a quantification of a product’s environmental impacts, whether in relation to a single environmental impact category or an aggregated set of impact categories based on the Product Environmental Footprint method or other scientifically validated and verifiable lifecycle based standards;
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point d
(d) subject to adequate protection of confidential and sensitive information, requiring manufacturers, their authorised representatives or importers to collect, anonymise, or report to the Commission the in-use data referred to in point (c), in accordance with Article 31(3);
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
A horizontal ecodesign requirement established pursuant to the second subparagraph shall not cover products falling in scope of a mandatory vertical ecodesign measure, but may cover products falling in the scope of a self- regulation measure established as a valid alternative pursuant to Article 18(3), where the Commission considers that that self- regulation measure does not address the product aspect covered by that horizontal ecodesign requirement.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point a – point ii
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point a – point ii
(ii) relevant Union legislation, including the extent to which it addresses the relevant product aspects listed in paragraph 1; , to ensure harmonisation and assure the avoidance of double regulation or overregulation;
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point d
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point d
(d) there shall be no disproportionate negative impact on the competitiveness of economic actors, at leastin particular of SMEs;
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point f a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point f a (new)
(f a) there shall be evidence that the requirements will deliver the intended environmental benefits;
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point f b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point f b (new)
(f b) they shall be technically feasible in accordance with commercially available technologies.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 6 – introductory part
6. The Commission shall, where appropriate, require supply chain actors to:
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) This Regulation will contribute to making products fit for a climate-neutral, resource-efficient and circular economy, reducing waste and ensuring that the performance of frontrunners in sustainability progressively becomes the norm. It should provide for the setting of new ecodesign requirements to tackle products’ premature obsolescence, through improveing product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability, improveing possibilities for refurbishment and maintenance, addressing the presence of hazardous chemicals in products, increaseing their energy and resource efficiency, reduceing their expected generation of waste materials and increaseing recycled content in products, while ensuring their performance and safety, enabling remanufacturing and high- quality recycling and reducing carbon and environmental footprints.
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 6 – point a
(a) provide, upon request, from manufacturers, notified bodies andor competent national authorities with available information related to their supplies or services that is relevant in order to verify compliance with ecodesign requirements;
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 6 – point b
(b) allow, in the absence of information referred to in point (a) and in line with intellectual property considerations, manufacturers to assess their supplies or services in order to verify compliance with ecodesign requirements and give access to relevant documents or facilities to those manufacturers;
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3
Priority should be given to providing the information via electronic means. Information ensuring the traceability of substances pursuant to paragraph 5 shall be given either on the product or be accessible through a data carrier included on the product (Digital Product Passport) and, where possible, given on the product.
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Any supplier of an article, a substance or a mixture shall provide the recipient of that article, substance of mixture with sufficient information, free of charge, to allow the manufacturers to comply with information requirements related to the product aspects listed in Article 5(1).
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall set up and maintain a registry storing information included in the product passports required by delegated acts adopted pursuant toa list of the data carriers and unique product identifiers referred to in Article 49(1).
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The Commission shall, in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4, specify the information which, in addition to being included in the product passport, shallInformation required to be stored in the registry referred to in paragraph 1, taking into account at least shall be justified for the following criteriareasons:
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. In the context of programmes from which SMEs can benefit, the Commission shall take into accountoffer initiatives which help SMEs to integrate environmental sustainability aspects including energy efficiency in their value chain.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 37
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 37
(37) ‘unsold consumer product’ means any consumer product that has not been sold or unused consumer product that has been returned by a consumer in view of their right of withdrawal in accordance with Article 9 of Directive (EU) 2011/83/EU;
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 59
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 59
(59) ‘product presenting a serious risk’ means a product presenting a risk for which, based on an assessment, the degree of the relevant non-compliance or the associated harm is considered to require rapid intervention by the market surveillance authorities, including cases where the effects of the non-compliance are not immediate.as identified by the Regulation ON GENERAL PRODUCT SAFETY
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
When establishing ecodesign requirements in delegated acts referred to in the first subparagraph, the Commission shall also supplement this Regulation by specifying the applicable conformity assessment procedures from among the modules set out in Annex IV to this Regulation and Annex II to Decision No 768/2008/EC, with the adaptations necessary in view of the product or ecodesign requirements concerned, in accordance with Article 36. The economic operators shall be provided with sufficient time to prepare for the implementation of new requirements.
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point a – point ii
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point a – point ii
(ii) relevant Union legislation, including the extent to which it addresses the relevant product aspects listed in paragraph 1, to ensure harmonisation and assure the avoidance of double regulation or overregulation;
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point a
(a) there shall be no significant negative impact on the functionality and safety of the product, from the perspective of the user;
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 5 – point a
(a) there shall be no significant negative impact on the functionality or safety of the product, from the perspective of the user;
Amendment 302 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point c
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) (d new) improve traceability of products along the value chain. without compromising data security of economical actors. To protect confidential business information and comply with requirement (b) of paragraph 3, actors in the value chains should make a specific request to the manufacturer when the information cannot be shared publicly, and the information needs to be shared in a secure way.
Amendment 306 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
(c a) (a new) be justified to significantly improve the environmental sustainability of products and to ensure free movement in the internal market;
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
(f a) (g new) where relevant, it shall rely on existing databases, including Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products) and the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling and established industry solutions.
Amendment 333 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall set up and maintain a registry storing information included in the product passports required by delegated acts adopted pursuant toa list of the data carriers and unique product identifiers referred to in Article 49(1).
Amendment 334 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 335 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. The Commission shall, in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4, specify the information which, in addition to being included in the product passport, shallInformation required to be stored in the registry referred to in paragraph 1, taking into account at leastshall be justified for the following criteriareasons:
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 20 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) health and safety concerns, including of counterfeit goods;
Amendment 359 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 7
Article 21 – paragraph 7
7. Manufacturers shall ensure that that a product covered by a delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 4 is accompanied by instructions in the digital format that enable consumers and other end-users to safely assemble, install, operate, store, maintain, repair and dispose of the product in a language that can be easily understood by consumers and other end-users, as determined by the Member State concerned. Such instructions shall be clear, understandable and legible and include at least the information specified in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4 and pursuant to Article 7(2)(b), point (ii).
Amendment 370 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 4
Article 23 – paragraph 4
4. Importers shall ensure that the product is accompanied by instructions in the digital format that enable the consumer to assemble, install, operate, store, maintain, repair and dispose of the product, in a language that can be easily understood by consumers and other end users, as determined by the Member State concerned. Such instructions shall be clear, understandable and legible and shall include at least the information specified in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4. The obligations set in Article 21(7a) and (7b) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Amendment 377 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 24 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) the product is accompanied by the required documents and by instructions in the digital format, to enable the consumer to assemble, install, operate, store, maintain, and dispose of the product, in a language that can be easily understood by consumers and other end- users, as determined by the Member State in which the product is to be made available on the market, and that such instructions are clear, understandable and legible and include at least the information set out in Article 7(2), point (b), point (ii), as laid down in the delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 4; The obligations set in Article 21(7a) and (7b) shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Amendment 427 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 30 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
When requiring, upon a reasoned request from a national authority, manufacturers, their authorised representatives or importers to make parts of the technical documentation related to the relevant product digitally available pursuant to Article 4, third subparagraph, point (a), the Commission shall take into account the following criteria:
Amendment 435 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 32 – paragraph 1
Article 32 – paragraph 1
1. For the purposes of compliance and verification of compliance with ecodesign requirements, tests, measurements and calculations shall be made using actionable, reliable, accurate and, reproducible and standardised methods that take into account the generally recognised state-of- the art methods. Such methods shall fulfil the test, measurement and calculation requirements set out in the relevant delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 4.
Amendment 443 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 35 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
The Commission may, where there is agreement with the standardization organisations that is appropriate, adopt implementing acts laying down common specifications for ecodesign requirements, the essential requirements for product passports referred to in Article10 or for test, measurement or calculation methods referred to in Article 32, in the following situations: