10 Amendments of Tomas TOBÉ related to 2020/2077(INI)
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the crucial role of wood- based materials in substituting fossil- based alternatives and alternatives with a higher environmental footprint in industries such as fuels transport, construction, textiles, chemicals and packaging, and the need to fully take into account the climate and environmental benefits of this material substitution;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Acknowledges the crucial climate benefits the forest-based sector in the circular economy through carbon storage in wood products and material substitution; stresses the need to promote the use of wood as a sustainable construction material as it enables a transition towards sustainable economy; encourages the Commission to explore different market-based mechanisms in order to incentivise substitution of fossil fuels by renewable raw materials which offer climate benefits;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Highlights the underused advantages offered by the replacement of single-use products, notably plastic products, by sustainable wood-based products; stresses that the circular use of wood-based products should also be increased in order to improve the use of our sustainable resources, promote resource efficiency, reduce waste and extend the carbon life cycle for the deployment of a sustainable and local circular bioeconomy;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Reiterates that the forest-based sector significantly contributes to the development of circular bio-based economies in the EU; emphasises that the forest-based sector and the bio-economy are crucial to achieving the goals of the European Green Deal and climate neutrality by 2050; stresses that in 2015 the bio-economy represented a market estimated to be worth over EUR 2,3 trillion, providing 20 million jobs and accounting for 8.2 % of total employment in the EU; notes that every euro invested in bio-economy research and innovation under Horizon 2020 will generate about EUR 10 in added value;
Amendment 141 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Supports the EU initiative on Sustainable Products as a major action for improving products recyclability, durability and efficiency and endorses the inclusion of a larger set of product groups into the Eco-Design Directive, with a focus to non-energy related products; urges also to apply the same EU products requirements to the materials and goods imported from third countries;
Amendment 148 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Underlines the importance of acting for boosting the EU internal market via the establishment of mandatory criteria for the green public procurement, for incentivising the procurement of recyclable materials and the use of secondary raw materials; Asks the Commission to assess measures, such as economic incentives and tax relieving, for rewarding low-carbon products and materials that will be produced, such as green steel;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Calls on the Commission to assess the environmental attributes of products or services using a robust life cycle assessment based methodology, with a cradle-to-cradle approach; calls on the Commission to take into account different metrics, such as end-of-life recycling or recycled content, for assessing recycling rates of materials and products, taking into account the nature of the material and its recycling value chain;
Amendment 164 #
7d. Strongly endorses the ambition of the EU Commission in creating a well- functioning EU market for secondary raw materials; by identifying and implementing measures depending on the specific needs for each material; stresses the need of supporting the use and recycling of those materials, irrespectively of their legal status, i.e. waste, end-of- waste or by-products, being their final environmental and technical properties the only parameters that count;
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 e (new)
Paragraph 7 e (new)
7e. Supports the plan of defining a circularity test, which should take into account all the circular performances of products such as durability, re-usability, recyclability and recycled content; as the targets for recycled content, the circularity test should be product-specific; encourages the Commission to introduce product-specific targets and measures for recycled content, where appropriate, and recyclability (circularity), while ensuring the performance and safety of the products concerned;
Amendment 171 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 f (new)
Paragraph 7 f (new)
7f. Strongly endorses the European Commission’s ambition to strengthening international cooperation on circular economy because circular economy to a great extent requires an international perspective, as material and product flows are often global and European companies are active on a global market;