9 Amendments of Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU related to 2022/0095(COD)
Amendment 112 #
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 improve product durability, reusability, upgradability and reparability, improve possibilities for refurbishment and maintenance, address the premature obsolescence of products, address the presence of hazardous chemicals in products, increase their energy and resource efficiency, reduce their expected generation of waste materials and increase recycled content in products, while ensuring their performance and safety, enabling remanufacturing and high-quality recycling and reducing carbon and environmental footprints.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) products' premature obsolescence.
Amendment 335 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 23
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 23
(23) ‘environmental footprint’ means a quantification of a product’s environmental impacts, whether in relation to a single environmental impact category or an aggregated set of impact categories based on the Product Environmental Footprint method or other scientifically robust and verifiable standards which are lifecycle based;
Amendment 438 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 59 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 59 a (new)
(59a) "premature obsolescence" means marketing a product which is designed with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so that it becomes obsolete after a certain pre-determined period of time upon which it decrementally functions or suddenly ceases to function.
Amendment 539 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
(na) premature obsolescence;
Amendment 588 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – point b
(b) carry out an impact assessment, which shall consider the impact on the environment, economic and social aspects, continued role of innovation and the whole value chain including consumers and manufacturers including SMEs, based on best available evidence and analyses, and 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 743 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Any supplier of an article, a substance or a mixture shall provide the recipient of that article, substance or mixture with sufficient information, free of charge, to allow the manufacturers to comply with the information requirements related to the product aspects listed in Article 5(1).
Amendment 1009 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 a (new)
Article 25 a (new)
Article 25 a Ownership of information When duly justified for the protection of confidential business information or intellectual property, supply chain actors may file a nondisclosure request. In such cases, the economic operator responsible for compliance with information requirement set out by Article 7 shall not be liable for missing information related to the non-disclosure request. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to specify the conditions for a non-disclosure request and its format, in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 67(3).
Amendment 1022 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Suppliers of an article, a substance or a mixture shall provide economic operators responsible for compliance with Articles 6 and 7 with information related to their supplies or services that are relevant to ensure products comply with the performance and information requirements pursuant to Articles 6 and 7. If the recipient of the article, substance or mixture is not the economic operator responsible for compliance with the information requirements set out in Articles 6 and 7, the recipient of the article, substance or mixture shall ensure that the information referred to in the first paragraph of this Article is communicated to the economic operator responsible for compliance with the information requirements set out in Articles 6 and 7.