Activities of Nicola CAPUTO related to 2016/2272(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A longer lifetime for products: benefits for consumers and companies (short presentation) IT
Amendments (10)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Seventh Environmental Action Programme calls for specific measures to improve durability, repairability and reusability and to extend the lifetime of products;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas it is both economically and environmentally necessary to preserve raw materials and limit the production of waste;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that extending the lifetime of products is one of the main factors in a transition to a circular economy, which should be pursued by means of strategies to promote the reuse and reconditioning of products and their components;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the Commission’s Ecodesign Work Plan 2016-2019; welcomes especially the inclusion of product durability and recyclability as a possible environmental standard of its own;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Reiterates its call on the Commission to propose a review of ecodesign legislation in order to extend its scope to all the main product groups and not only to these which use energy, and to gradually include all characteristics relating to efficiency of resource use among product design requirements;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that a longer lifetime for products presupposes the adoption of measures against programmed obsolescence, and requires standardised and modular components to be available, which are easier to replace, together with functional design which, inter alia, takes into account dismantling;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Repeats its call on the Commission to assess, on the basis of a cost-benefit analysis, the possibility of setting minimum values for recyclable materials in new products in ecodesign legislation;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that informed consumer choice may indirectly provide economic incentives to manufacturers, and therefore calls on the Commission to assess the possibility of including in EU ecolabelling information about the lifetime of products, so as to increase consumer awareness of product life aspects;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls for local and regional authorities, companies and associations to be given help in conducting consumer awareness campaigns on extending the lifespans of products;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to adopt economic incentives for product repair services to facilitate the extension of product lifetimes, bearing in mind that tax reductions on product repairs may provide an incentive to reuse products and encourage the repair industry, with possible environmental and social benefits.