Activities of Max ORVILLE related to 2022/0396(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Packaging and packaging waste (debate)
Amendments (33)
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Citation 1
Citation 1
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 114 and 192 thereof,
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
Amendment 233 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The European Parliament’s Resolution of 10 February 2021 on the New Circular Economy Action Plan39reiterated the objective of making all packaging reusable orandrecyclable in an economically viable way by 2030 and called on the Commission to present a legislative proposal including waste reduction measures and targets and ambitious essential requirements in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive to reduce excessive packaging, including in e-commerce, improve recyclability and minimise the complexity of packaging, increase recycled content, phase out hazardous and harmful substances, and promote re-use. _________________ 39 https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/TA-9-2021-0040_EN.html
Amendment 235 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) This Regulation is in line with the objectives set out in Regulation (EC) 2023/0085 on environmental claims, and directive (EC) 2022/0092 on Empowering Consumers in the green transition. It aims to promote and support substantiated alternatives for more sustainable packaging solutions.
Amendment 271 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Packaging should be designed, manufactured and commercialised in such a way as to allow for its re-use orand high- quality recycling, and to minimise its impact on the environment during its entire life-cycle and the life cycle of products, for which it was designed.
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) This Regulation should not enable the restriction of substances based on reasons of chemical safety, or for reasons related to food safety, with the exception of the restrictions on lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium that were already established on the basis of Directive 94/62/EC and should continue to be addressed under this Regulation, given that such restrictions are addressed under other Union legislation. It should, however allow for the restriction, primarily for reasons other than chemical or food safety, of substances present in packaging and packaging components or used in their manufacturing processes, which negatively affect the sustainability of packaging, in particular as regards its circularity, especially re-use orand recycling.
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) Designing packaging with the objective of its recycling, once it becomes packaging waste, is one the most efficient measures to improve the packaging circularity and raise packaging recycling rates and the use of recycled content in packaging. Packaging design for recycling criteria have been established for a number of packaging formats under voluntary industry schemes or by some Member States for the purpose of the modulation of extended producer responsibility fees. In order to prevent barriers to the internal market and provide industry with a level playing field, and with the objective to promote the sustainability of packaging, it is important to set mandatory requirements regarding the recyclability and reusability of packaging, by harmonising the criteria and the methodology for assessing packaging recyclability and reusability based on a design for recycling and reusability methodology at the Union level. In order to meet the objective set out in the CEAP that, by 2030, all packaging should be recyclable orand reusable, in an economically viable manner, packaging recyclability performance grades should be established based on design for recycling criteria for packaging categories as listed in Annex II. However, packaging should comply with them only as of 1 January 2030 in order to give sufficient time to the economic operators to adapt.
Amendment 485 #
(82) Manufacturers should draw up an EU declaration of conformity to provide information on the conformity of packaging with this Regulation. Manufacturers may also be required by other Union legislation to draw up an EU declaration of conformity. To ensure effective access to information for market surveillance purposes, a single EU declaration of conformity should be drawn up in respect of all Union acts. To reduce the administrative burden on economic operators, it should be possible for that single EU declaration of conformity to be a dossier made up of relevant individual declarations of conformity. The responsibility of compliance with the provisions for the declaration of conformity should lie with the economic operator that places the packaging on the market.
Amendment 507 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 92
Recital 92
(92) Member States may achieve these targets by economic instruments and other measures to provide incentives for the application of the waste hierarchy, including measures to be implemented through extended producer responsibility schemes such as the creation of a specific fund within producer responsibility organisations or deposit return schemes dedicated to reuse, and by promoting the setting up and effective operation of systems for re- use and encouraging economic operators to offer the end users further possibilities to refill. Such measures should be adopted in parallel and in addition to other measures under this Regulation aiming at packaging and packaging waste reduction, such as requirements on packaging minimisation, re-use and refill targets, volume thresholds and measures to achieve the sustained reduction of consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags. A Member State may, while observing the general rules laid down in the Treaty and complying with the provisions set out in this Regulation, adopt provisions which go beyond the minimum targets set out in this Regulation.
Amendment 648 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 22
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 22
(22) ‘re-use’ means any operation by which recyclable and reusable packaging is used again for the same purpose for which it was conceived;
Amendment 682 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32 a (new)
(32a) ‘recyclability' of a packaging is defined by its possibility at the end of its life of being integrated into an organised collection network, possibly extended by a sorting operation, so that the material of which it is composed can be regenerated in existing recycling units producing a new raw material of a quality compatible with its incorporation in a new product or packaging.
Amendment 732 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 37 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 37 a (new)
Amendment 760 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 43 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 43 a (new)
Amendment 795 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States have the right to adopt additional sustainability requirements deemed necessary to reduce their volume of packaging waste per capita in order to reach the targets set under Article 38.
Amendment 828 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Food packaging containing Bisphenol A (BPA, CAS 80-05-7) shall not be placed on the market [OP: Please insert the date = 18 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation].
Amendment 908 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Point (a) shall apply from 1 January 2030 and point (e) shall apply from 1 January 2035. Point (a) shall apply from 1 January 2027 for products placed on the EU market for the first time.
Amendment 1037 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
Where a unit of packaging includes integrated components, the assessment of compliance with the design for recycling criteria and with the at scale recyclability requirements shall include all integrated components. If an integrated component of the packaging unit is easily separable by hand and there are clear instructions for the consumer, the overall recyclability should be a combination of the assessments for each individual component.
Amendment 1083 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 11 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Where a claim is made in relation to the recyclability of the packaging, it must be aligned with the new definition of recyclability set out in this Regulation and established in relation to the design criteria for recycling. Any reference to recyclability must be prohibited if the packaging does not meet these criteria.
Amendment 1194 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Economic operators shall be exempted from the obligation to meet the targets in paragraphs 1 and 2 if, during a calendar year, they comply with the definition of microenterprise in accordance with the rules set out in the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC
Amendment 1502 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
From [OP: Please insert the date = 42 months after the entry into force of this Regulation], packaging shall be marked with a label containing information on its material compositionthe destination of each separate component of the packaging in order to facilitate consumer sorting. This obligation does not apply to transport packaging. However, it applies to e-commerce packaging.
Amendment 1601 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Before placing packaging on the market, manufacturers shall carry outhave the relevant conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 33, or have it carried out on their behalf, and by an accredited notified body, draw up the technical documentation referred to in Annex VII.
Amendment 1682 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Space filled by filling materials such as paper cuttings, air cushions, bubble wraps, sponge fillers, foam fillers, wood wool, shall be considered as empty space. Materials such as as polystyrene or Styrofoam chips, shall be considered as empty space cannot be used as filling material. Furthermore, any production of polystyrene’s packaging shall be prohibited.
Amendment 1789 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 1
1. From 1 January 2030, economic operators, including e-market platforms, making large household appliances listed in point 2 of Annex II to Directive 2012/19/EU available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State shall ensure that 90 % of those products are made available in reusable transport packaging within a system for re- use.
Amendment 1858 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In accordance with Article 22 and Annex V, the use of single-use packaging for food and beverages filled and consumed within the premises in the HORECA sector should not be allowed. From January 1, 2025, hotels, restaurants and cafés are required to serve meals and drinks consumed on the premises of the establishment in reusable cups, glasses, including their means of closure and lids, and to provide customers consuming on the premises exclusively with reusable plates and containers as well as with reusable cutlery. The requirements set in this paragraph 3a. shall not apply to microentreprises.
Amendment 1939 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – introductory part
7. Economic operators, including e- market platforms, using transport packaging in the form of pallets, plastic crates, foldable plastic boxes, pails and drums for the conveyance or packaging of products in conditions other than provided for under paragraphs 12 and 13 shall ensure that:
Amendment 1958 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – introductory part
8. Economic operators, including e- market platforms, using transport packaging for the transport and delivery of non-food items made available on the market for the first time via e-commerce shall ensure that:
Amendment 2003 #
10. Economic operators, including e- market platforms, using grouped packaging in the form of boxes, excluding cardboard, used outside of sales packaging to group a certain number of products to create a stock-keeping unit shall ensure that:
Amendment 2032 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 12 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 12 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Transport packaging used by an economic operator, including e-market platforms, shall be reusable where it is used for transporting products:
Amendment 2065 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 13 – subparagraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 13 – subparagraph 1
Economic operators, including e-market platforms, delivering products to another economic operator within the same Member State shall use only reusable transport packaging for the purpose of the transportation of such products.
Amendment 2246 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall implement measures aiming to prevent the generation of packaging waste and to minimise the environmental impact of packaging. In the pursuit of paragraph 1, Member States shall ensure that targets are not achieved through simple substitutions between packaging materials and systematically promote prevention of unnecessary or excessive packaging.
Amendment 2247 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 2
Article 38 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall implement measures aiming to prevent the generaand take the necessary additional sustainability measures to achieve an ambitious and sustained reduction of the packaging waste and to minimise the environmental impact of packaging.generated per capita, in line with the overall objectives of the Union’s waste policy, in particular waste prevention and in order to reach the targets set out in this Article
Amendment 2258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 38 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 38 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States shall include the measures adopted pursuant to this Article in their waste management plans under the conditions laid down in Article 37 of this Regulation.
Amendment 2260 #
4. By [OP: Please insert the date = 85 years after the date of entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall review the targets laid down in paragraph 1. To that end, the Commission shall, on the basis of documents to inform the Commission’s early warning report pursuant to Article 36 of this Regulation as well as all data deemed relevant, review progress towards the targets laid down in paragraph 1 and assess the need to set new targets. To that end, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, accompanied, if the Commission finds it appropriate, by a legislative proposal.