7 Amendments of Mathilde ANDROUËT related to 2022/0092(COD)
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) In order to tackle unfair commercial practices which prevent consumers from making sustainable consumption choices, such as practices associated with the early obsolescence of goods, misleading environmental claims (“greenwashing”), non-transparent and non-credible sustainability labels or sustainability information tools, specific rules should be introduced in Union consumer law. This would enable national competent bodies to address those practices effectively. By ensuring that environmental claims are fair, consumers will be able to choose products that are genuinely better for the environment than competing products. This will encourage competition towards more environmentally sustainable products, thus reducing negative impact on the environmento enable sustainable consumption choices, the products and services offered must be competitive, particularly in terms of their price compared to similar non-sustainable products and services.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Comparing products or services based on their environmental or social aspects, including through the use of sustainability information tools or their greenhouse gas emission balance (‘carbon footprint’), is an increasingly common marketing technique. In order to ensure that such comparisons do not mislead consumers, Article 7 of Directive 2005/29/EC should be amended to require that the consumer is provided with information about the method of the comparison, the products which are the object of comparison and the suppliers of those products, and the measures to keep information up to date. This should ensure that consumers make better informed transactional decisions when using such services. The comparison should be objective by, in particular, comparing products which serve the same function, using a common method and common assumptions, and comparing material and verifiable features of the products being compared.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) Since tThe objectives of this Directive, namely, enabling better informed transactional decisions by consumers to promote sustainable consumption, eliminating practices that cause damage to the sustainable economy and mislead consumers away from sustainable consumption choicessupporting a circular economy with a low carbon footprint, and ensuring a better and consistent application of the Union consumer legal framework, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States individually but can rather, by reason of the Union-wide character of the problem, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve those objectives. It is therefore the responsibility of the Member States to alert the Commission of cases of fraud, deception or practices that mislead consumers about products or services claiming to be sustainable.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 35 a (new)
Recital 35 a (new)
(35a) To maintain the policy of promoting sustainable consumption, a sanctions regime is required for practices listed in Annex I of Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005. Products and services sold by one or more traders who have not ensured that such products and services comply with Annex II of Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005, including products and services that come from outside the EU or are sold by one or more traders from outside the EU, should be prohibited.
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 2011/83/EU
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) where applicable, the reparability score or carbon footprint for the goods;
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 – point b
Directive 2011/83/EU
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point u
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point u
(u) where applicable, the reparability score or carbon footprint for the goods;
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Directive 2011/83/EU
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
(4a) in Article 24 paragraph 1, point (a) is inserted as follows: (a) Member States may suspend or prohibit certain products or services imported from outside the EU or sold by one or more traders from outside the EU, until an audit has been carried out by the competent authorities or, failing that, until compliance with the criteria in Annex II to Directive 2005/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 May 2005 has been duly attested.