Activities of Françoise GROSSETÊTE related to 2008/0241(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Explanations of vote
Amendments (18)
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point j – point iii
Article 3 – point j – point iii
(iii) is established within the Community and places electrical and electronic equipment from a third country on a professional basis onto the Community Marketmarket of a Member State or imports or exports such equipment on a professional basis.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point k
Article 3 – point k
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point l
Article 3 – point l
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point m
Article 3 – point m
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point n
Article 3 – point n
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point o
Article 3 – point o
(o) “making available on the market” means any supply of a product for distribution, consumption or use on the Community marketmarket of a Member State in the course of a commercial activity, whether in return for payment or free of charge;
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – point p
Article 3 – point p
(p) “placing on the market” means the first making available of a product on the Community marketmarket of a Member State;
Amendment 119 #
Council position
Article 14 – title
Article 14 – title
Amendment 121 #
Council position
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may require producers to show purchasers, at the time of sale of new products, the costs ofIn order to raise users' awareness, Member States shall ensure that producers of EEE: (a) put in place, in conjunction with distributors, appropriate collection schemes for very small volume WEEE, which (i) enable end-users to discard very small volume WEEE at an accessible and visible collection point in the retailer’s shop; (ii) require retailers to take back very small volume WEEE at no charge; (iii) do not involve any charge to end- users when discarding very small volume WEEE, nor any obligation to buy a new product of the same type. (b) may show purchasers, at the time of sale of new equipment, the differing costs associated with collection, treatment and disposal of waste in an environmentally sound way. The costs mentioned shall not exceed the best estimate of the actual costs incurred. , in order to make the actual costs of collection and recycling of WEEE more transparent. These differing costs shall not exceed the best estimate of the actual costs incurred, based on how easily products and the strategic raw materials they contain can be collected and recycled. (c) actively inform end-users of where and how they may return their very small volume WEEE. Distributors who make EEE available on the market solely by means of distance communication directly to private households or users other than private households shall only be subject to the obligations under points (a)( ii) and (iii). The collection scheme put in place by these distributors shall enable end-users to return very small volume WEEE without those users having to incur any charges, including delivery or postal charges. No later than ...*, the Commission shall adopt, by means of delegated acts in accordance with Article 20, a definition of 'very small volume WEEE', taking into account the risk of such waste not being separately collected due to its very small size. The obligations in this paragraph shall not apply to micro enterprises operating on a very small surface area. No later than ...*, the Commission shall adopt, by means of delegated acts in accordance with Article 20, a definition of 'micro enterprises operating on a very small surface area'. ______ * 12 months after the entry into force of this Directive.
Amendment 132 #
Council position
Annex 3 – point 3 – heading
Annex 3 – point 3 – heading
3. Lamps and luminaires
Amendment 134 #
Council position
Annex 3 – point 4
Annex 3 – point 4
4. Large equipment (one length greater than 50cm) including: Householdappliances other than cooling appliances; IT and telecommunication equipment; consumer equipment; luminaires; equipment reproducing sound or images, musical equipment; electrical and electronic tools; toys, leisure and sports equipment; medical devices; monitoring and control instruments; automatic dispensers; equipmentradiators, screens and monitors and lamps and luminaires. Large appliances are all those appliances which are not in principle movable or which are intended in principle to remain in their place of use for the geneduration of electric currents. This category does not include equipment included in categories 1 to 3their service life.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice to Article 5(1), Member States shall ensure that producers or third parties acting on their behalf achieve a minimum collection rate of 65%. The collection rate is calculated on the basis of the total weight of WEEE collected in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 in a given year in that Member State, expressed as a percentage of the average weight of electrical and electronic equipment placed on the market in the two preceding years in that Member State. This collection rate shall be achieved annually and starting in 2016. It shall also include WEEE collected separately with a view to reuse.
Amendment 138 #
Council position
Annex 3 – point 5
Annex 3 – point 5
5. Small equipment (no length more than 50cm) including: Householdappliances other than cooling appliances; IT and telecommunication equipment; consumer equipment; luminaires; equipment reproducing sound or images, radiators, screens and monitors, lamps and luminaires and IT and telecommusnicaltion equipment; electrical and electronic tool; toys, leisure and sports equipment; medical devices; monitoring and control instruments; automatic dispensers; equipment. Small appliances are all those appliances which are in principle movable and which are not intended in principle to remain in their place of use for the geneduration of electric currents. This category does not include equipment included in categories 1 to 3their service life.
Amendment 149 #
Council position
Annex 4 – point 3
Annex 4 – point 3
3. Lamps and luminaires – Straight fluorescent lamps, – Large luminaires and other appliances for spreading light – Small luminaires and other appliances for spreading or controlling light – Compact fluorescent lamps, – Fluorescent lamps, – High intensity discharge lamps - including pressure sodium lamps and metal halide lamps, – Low -pressure sodium lamps, – LED.s – Large and small luminaires and other appliances for spreading or controlling light
Amendment 154 #
Council position
Annex 4 – point 4
Annex 4 – point 4
4. Large equipment Wappliances – Large appliances used for cooking and other processing of foods (e.g. electric hot plates, electric ovens, electric stoves, microwaves, fixed coffee machines) – Extractor hoods – Large machines for cleaning (e.g. washing machines, Cclothes dryers, Ddish washing machines, Cookers) – Large heating appliances (e.g. large heat blowers, Eelectric stoves, Electric hot plates, Luminaires,systems for heating marble and natural stone, swimming-pool heating systems and other large appliances for heating rooms, beds and seating furniture) – Large body-care appliances (e.g. solariums, saunas, massage chairs) – Large IT and telecommunications appliances (e.g. large computer mainframes, servers, fixed network installations and appliances, large printing machines, copying equipment, coin- operated telephones) – Large sports and leisure appliances (e.g. sports equipment with electrical or electronic components, large coin slot machines) – Equipment reproducing sound or images, – Musical equipment (excluding pipe organs installed in churches), Appliances for knitting and weaving, Large computer- mainframes, Large printing machines, Copying equipment, Large coin slot machines, – Large electrical and electronic industrial tools and machinery except large-scale stationary industrial tools and non-road mobile machinery and appliances intended exclusively for professional users (e.g. appliances for knitting and weaving) – Large appliances for generating or transferring current (e.g. generators, transformers, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), inverters) – Large medical devices, – Large monitoring and control instruments, – Large measuring instruments and installations (e.g. scales, fixed machines) – Large appliances whichfor automatically deliver products and moed product sales or dispensing and for the automated provision of simple services (e.g. product dispensers, cash machineys, Photovoltaic panels. machines for the return of empties, photo machines)
Amendment 159 #
Council position
Annex 4 – point 5
Annex 4 – point 5
5. Small equipment Vacuum cleaners, Carpet sweepers, Appliances for sewing, Luminairappliances – Small appliances used for cooking and other processing of foods (e.g. toasters, hotplates, electric knives, electric kettles, immersion coils, chopping machines, Mmicrowaves, Ventilation equipment) – Small cleaning appliances (e.g. vacuum cleaners, carpet sweepers, Iirons, Toasters, Electric knives, Electric kettles, Clocks, Electric shavers, Scales, Appliances for hair andetc.) – Fans, air fresheners, ventilation equipment – Small heating appliances (e.g. electric blankets) – Clocks, watches, alarm clocks and other time-measuring instruments – Small body -care, Personal computers, Printers, Calculators, Telephones, Mobile phones, Radio sets, Vide appliances (e.g. electric shavers, toothbrushes, hairdryers, massage machines) – Cameras (e.g. video cameras) – Consumer electronics appliances (e.g. radios, audio cameras, Vplifiers, car radios, DVD players, video recorders, Hhi-fi equipment,) – Musical instruments, Equipment reproducing sound or images, Electrical and electronic toys, S and sound equipment (e.g. amplifiers, mixing desks, headphones and speakers, microphones) – Toys (e.g. model railways, model aircraft, etc.) – Small items of sports equipment, C (e.g. computers for biking, diving, running, rowing, etc., Smoke detector, Heating regulators, Thermostats,) – Small leisure appliances (e.g. video games, fishing and golf equipment etc.) – Small Eelectrical and electronic tools, Small medical devices, including gardening equipment (e.g. drills, saws, pumps, lawn-mowers) – Sewing machines – Small appliances for generating or transferring current (e.g. generators, battery chargers, uninterruptable power supplies (UPS), converters) – Small medical devices including veterinary devices – Small Mmonitoring and control instruments, Small Appliances which automatically deliver products, (e.g. smoke detectors, heating regulators, thermostats, movement detectors, monitoring appliances and products, remote handling and control devices) – Small measuring appliances (e.g. scales, display devices, telemeters, thermometers) – Small appliances for automated product sales or dispensing – Small equipment with integrated photovoltaic panels.
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that producers are allowed to show purchasersIf they have arranged for purchasers to be informed, at the time of salpurchase of new products, about the costs of collection, treatment and disposal in an environmentally sound way, Member States shall ensure that producers may continue to apply such arrangements. The costs mentioned shall not exceed the actual costs incurred.
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2 - point b
Article 14 – paragraph 2 - point b
(b) the return and collection systems available to them, encouraging the coordination of information serving to identify all available collection points, irrespective of the producers which have set them up;