23 Amendments of Kateřina KONEČNÁ related to 2014/2208(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas an excessive use of resources is the root cause of various environmental hazards, such as climate change, desertification, deforestation and, loss of biodiversity, diminishing diversity and weakening of eco-system services; whereas the global economy uses the equivalent of 1.5 planets’ worth of resources to produce global output and absorb waste and this figure is estimated to reach the equivalent of two planets’ worth of resources by the 2030s;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is convinced that improving resource efficiency requires both legislative and economic incentives and further funding ofn research and innovation;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that legal certainty and long- term predictability are neededpre-requisites to channel investments towards a sustainable economy;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that by 2050 the EU’s use of resources needs to be sustainable; this includes fully implementing a cascading use of resources, sustainable sourcing, a waste hierarchy, creating a closed loop on non-renewable resources, using renewables within the limits of their renewability and phasing out toxic substancgradually replacing substances which cause serious concern with safer alternatives;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that by 2050 the EU’s use of resources needs to be sustainable; this includes fully implementing a cascading use of resources, sustainable sourcing, a waste hierarchy, creating a closed loop on non-renewable resources, usingstrengthening the use of renewables within the limits of their renewability and phasing out toxic substances;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission to set a binding target to increase resource efficiency at EU level by 30 % by 2030 and individual targets for each Member State, taking into account their respective economic structures and other specific characteristics;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Points out that the amount of resources used by a product over its lifetime is largely80% of a product's environmental impact is determined duringat the design phasstage;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges the Commission to take other relevant actions to ensure that products are easy to reuse, refit, repair, and recycle and eventuallywith the aim of dismantleing them for new resources;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to propose the extension of minimum guarantees for consumer durable goods, thereby making products more easily repairable and long lasting;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that materials and components of a product can be more easily re-used, refurbished and recycled;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Calls on the Commission to ensure that products are free of hazardous or problematic substances, which can hamper re-use or recycling efforts;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges the Commission to submit the announced proposal on the review of waste legislation by the end of 2015 and to include the following points: setting extended producer responsibility requirements; endorsing the ‘pay-as-you- throw-principle’ prioritising separate collection schemes in order to facilitate the development of business based on the reuse of secondary raw materials; increasing recycling targets to at least 70 % of municipal solid waste, based on the output of recycling facilities, using the same harmonised method for all Member States with externally verified statistics; introducing a ban on landfilling recyclable and biodegradable waste by 2025 and a ban on all landfilling by 2030; introducing fees on landfilling and incineration; calls on the Commission to make it very clear, as it is reviewing waste legislation, that waste must be considered a raw material, and propose a common definition of the term ‘secondary raw materials’, which frequently appears in EU and national texts; the Commission should also work towards establishing a clear and transparent definition of the concept of ‘waste’, including a clear and administratively less demanding approach to determining the process by which waste ceases to be waste and review the relevant existing regulations which define when waste is no longer waste but which are not properly applied as they are too complicated;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Reiterates that incineration does not have a place in a circular economy;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Urges the Commission to introduce overall prevention, and binding re-use targets, also for municipal waste and especially for packaging;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Urges the Commission to address the issue of food waste, by amongst other measures including a compulsory separate collection on organic materials;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Urges the Commission to propose a vision regarding the treatment of plastic packaging especially in view of marine pollution;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -17 (new)
Paragraph -17 (new)
-17. Is convinced that a dedicated approach for buildings, based on long- term objectives and roadmaps, is needed;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Urges the Commission to further develop indicators, capitalising on existing standards and methods, on the basis of a social, economic and environmental sustainability approach, covering the different stages of the building, from extraction of raw materials over the use phase till the final stage of deconstruction;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Urges the Commission to enhance education needs for architecture and engineering, knowledge gathering on the sustainability performance of the building stock;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Considers that, as 90 % of the 2050 built environment already exists, special requirements should be set for the renovation sector in order to have mainlya solid, coordinated and forward looking EU level strategy for renovating existing buildings should be put in place at EU level with special requirements in order to have nearly zero energy buildings in an energy- positive buildings stock by 2050;
Amendment 399 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Urges the Commission to propose compulsory green public procurement procedures; considers that reused, repaired, remanufactured, refurbished and other resource-efficient products and solutions are to be preferred in all public procurement, and if they are not preferred, the ‘comply or explain’ principle should apply;
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls on the Commission to involve local and regional authorities throughout the whole development of the circular economy package;
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to report back to Parliament about all the measures outlined above and to propose next steps by the end of 20187;