2 Amendments of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2014/2208(INI)
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of creating industrial synergies for recycling and of helping companies to discover how their energy, waste and by-products can serve as resources for others; points to the urgent need to ban the export of recyclable metal waste, including aluminium waste; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote approaches such as those taken in the UK as part of the National Industrial Symbiosis Programme;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the role of environmental tax reform (switching taxation away from labour and towards pollution and resources) in providing the right signals for investment in resource efficiency, and calls for progress in this area to be pursued by the Member States as part of the European Semester process; calls, by way of European environmental protectionism, for imports to be made subject to a tax calculated according to the negative environmental externalities, not least the carbon footprint, and for the resulting revenue to be earmarked to finance recycling policies and to offset the cost differential created by the environmental regulations applying to European industries;