18 Amendments of Jordi CAÑAS related to 2022/0095(COD)
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 132 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) The information requirements set under this Regulation should include the requirement to make available a product passport. The product passport is an important tool for making information available to actors along the entire value chain and the availability of a product passport should significantly enhance end- to-end traceability of a product throughout its value chain. Among other things, the product passport should help consumers make informed choices by improving their access to product information relevant to them, allow economic operators other value chain actors such as professional repairers or recyclers to access relevant information, and enable competent national authorities to perform their duties. To this end, the product passport should not replace but complement non-digital forms of transmitting information, such as information in the product manual or on a label. In addition, it should be possible for the product passport to be used for information on other sustainability aspects applicable to the relevant product group pursuant to other Union legislation.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) The information requirements set under this Regulation should include the requirement to make available a product passport. The product passport is an important tool for making information available to actors along the entire value chain and the availability of a product passport should significantly enhance end- to-end traceability of a product throughout its value chain. Among other things, the product passport should help consumers make informed choices by improving their access to product information relevant to them, allow economic operators other value chain actors such as repairers or recyclers to access relevant information, and enable competent national authorities to perform their duties. To this end, the product passport should not replace but complement non-digital forms of transmitting information, such as information in the product manual or on a label. In addition, it should be possible for the product passport to be used for information on other sustainability aspects applicable to the relevant product group pursuant to other Union legislation.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) To ensure that the product passport is flexible, agile and market-driven and evolving in line with business models, markets and innovation, it should be based on a decentralised data system, set up and maintained by the European Commission via a central data system and/or economic operators. However, fFor enforcement and monitoring purposes, it mayis be necessary that competent national authorities and the Commission have direct access to a record of all data carriers and unique identifiers linked to products placed on the market or put in service.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) Consumers should be protected from misleading information that could hamper their choices for more sustainable products. For this reasons it should be prohibited to place on the market products bearing a label mimicking the labels provided for in this Regulation. On the other hand, displaying additional labels, such as EU Ecolabel or other existing type 1 - ecolabels, should not be seen as misleading.
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 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) carry out an impact assessment based on best available evidence and analyses, andusing a standardised, comprehensive and scientific approach as appropriate on additional studies and research results produced under European funding programmes. In doing so, the Commission shall ensure that the depth of analysis of the product aspects listed in paragraph 1 is proportionate to their significance. The establishment of ecodesign requirements on the most significant aspects of a product among those listed in paragraph 1 shall not be unduly delayed by uncertainties regarding the possibility to establish ecodesign requirements to improve other aspects of that product;
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 285 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) whether the product passport is to correspond to the model, batch, shipping order or item level;
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) the actors that shall have access to information in the product passport and to what information they shall have access, including customers, end-users, manufacturers, importers and distributors, dealers, and, if data carrier is available in the end of life, also professional repairers, remanufacturers, recyclers, competent national authorities, public interest organisations and the Commission, or any organisation acting on their behalf;
Amendment 292 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point g
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) the actors that may introduce or update the information in the product passport, including where needed the creation of a new product passport, and what information they may introduce or update, including manufacturers, professional repairers, maintenance professionals, remanufacturers, recyclers, competent national authorities, and the Commission, or any organisation acting on their behalf;
Amendment 307 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)
(c a) Improve traceability of products and to ensure free movement in the internal market without compromising data security of economical actors.
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Information that is required by existing EU databases cannot be required by the Digital Product Passport in the product delegated acts. A link to the relevant item in other databases could be considered to make sure that all relevant information is made available in the Digital Product Passport.
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the data included in the product passport shall be stored by the economic operator responsible for its creationEuropean Commission via a central data system and/or economic operators or by operators authorised to act on their behalf;
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(h a) product passports shall be fully interoperable with existing product databases, such as the SCIP database and the EPREL database.
Amendment 332 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point h b (new)
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. When providing the instructions, referred to in paragraph 7, the manufacturer shall: a) present them in a format that makes it possible to download them and save on an electronic device so that he or she can access them at all times. b) make them accessible online for at least 10 years after placing the product on the market .
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) not provide or display other labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions that are likely to mislead or confuse customers with respect to the information included on the label. These restrictions do not comprise the EU Ecolabel and other type 1- ecolabels established in the Member States as long they fulfill the criteria from the Substantiating environmental claims (green claims) Directive (EU) 2022/xxxx.