5 Amendments of Stéphanie YON-COURTIN related to 2022/0396(COD)
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) Packaging should be designed so as to minimise its volume and weight while maintaining its ability to perform the packaging functions, as listed in Article 3(1) of this Regulation, and without compromising respect of registered intellectual property rights . The manufacturer of packaging should assess the packaging against the performance criteria, as listed in Annex IV of this Regulation. In view of the objective of this Regulation to reduce packaging and packaging waste generation and to improve circularity of packaging across the internal market, it is appropriate to further specify the existing criteria and to make them more stringent. The list of the packaging performance criteria, as listed in the existing harmonised standard EN 13428:200057 , should therefore be modified. While marketing and consumer acceptance remain relevant for packaging design, they should not be part of performance criteria justifying on their own additional packaging weight and volume. However, tThis should not compromise product specifications for craft and industrial products and food and agricultural products that are registered and protected under theby intellectual property rights, including EU geographical indication protection scheme, as part of the Union’s objective to protect cultural heritage and traditional know-how. These products shall nevertheless aim to optimise packaging weight in line with the overall ambitions of this proposal. On the other hand, recyclability, the use of recycled content, and re-use may justify additional packaging weight or volume, and should be added to the performance criteria. Packaging with double walls, false bottoms and other characteristics only aimed to increase the perceived product volume should not be placed on the market, as it does not meet the requirement for packaging minimisation. The same rule should apply to superfluous packaging not necessary for ensuring packaging functionality. __________________ 57 Packaging – Requirements specific to manufacturing and composition – Prevention by source reduction.
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 122 a (new)
Recital 122 a (new)
(122a) The Commission shall ensure that when it conducts its activities, it observes a balanced participation of Member States’ representatives and all interested parties involved with packaging industry, including waste treatment industry representatives, manufacturers and packaging suppliers, distributers, retailers, importers, SMEs, environmental protection groups and consumer organisations. These parties shall contribute in particular to preparing the delegated and implementing acts provided for in this Regulation to develop and further detail the sustainability requirements and examining the effectiveness of the established market surveillance mechanisms. To that end, the Commission shall establish an expert group, in which those parties shall meet, referred to as the ‘Packaging Forum’.
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. Packaging not necessary to comply with any of the performance criteria set out in Annex IV and packaging with characteristics that are only aimed to increase the perceived volume of the product, including double walls, false bottoms, and unnecessary layers, shall not be placed on the market, unless the packaging design is subject toroduct is subject to registered intellectual property rights, including geographical indications of origin protected under Union legislation.
Amendment 334 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) the identification of the design requirements, including those related to registered Intellectual Property Rights referred to in Article 9, which prevent further reduction of the packaging weight or volume, for each of these performance criteria;
Amendment 582 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 3
Article 38 – paragraph 3
3. For the purpose of paragraph 2, Member States may use economic instruments and other measures to provide incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy, such as measures referred to in Annexes IV and IVa to Directive 2008/98/EC, or other appropriate instruments and measures, including incentives through extended producer responsibility schemes and requirements on producers or producer responsibility organisations to adopt waste prevention plans. Such measures shall be proportionate and non-discriminatory and be designed so as to avoid barriers to trade or distortions of competition in conformity with the Treaty and with article 4 of this Regulation.