10 Amendments of Kateřina KONEČNÁ related to 2015/0276(COD)
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Waste prevention is the most efficient way to improve resource efficiency, to reduce the environmental impact of waste. Member States shall ensure that packaging is so manufactured that the packaging volume and weight be limited to the minimum adequate amount to maintain the necessary level of safety and hygiene and avoid product wastage.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 b (new)
Recital 4 b (new)
(4b) Increased re-use of packaging may bring a reduction of the overall costs along the supply chain and reduce the environmental impact of packaging waste. However, the decision to do so should be based on life-cycle thinking.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 c (new)
Recital 4 c (new)
(4c) Fostering a sustainable bioeconomy may contribute to decreasing Europe's dependence on imported raw materials. However, the decision to do so should be based on life-cycle thinking.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Reliable reporting of statistical data concerning waste management is paramount to efficient implementation and to ensuring comparability of data among Member States. Therefore, when preparing the reports on compliance with the targets set out in Directive 94/62/EC, Member States should be required to use the most recent common methodology developed by the Commission and, the national statistical offices of the Member States and national authorities responsible for waste management.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point d
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point d
Directive 94/62/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
In addition, the definitions of ‘waste’, ‘waste producer’, ‘waste holder’, ‘waste management’, 'collection', 'separate collection', ‘prevention’, ‘re-use’, 'treatment', ‘recovery’, ‘preparing for re- use’, ‘recycling’, 'final recycling process' and ‘disposal’ laid down in Article 3 of Directive 2008/98/EC shall apply.
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 94/62/EC
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Such other measures may consist of national programmes, incentives through extended producer responsibility schemes to minimise the environmental impact of packaging or similar actions adopted, if appropriate, in consultation with economic operators, and designed to bring together and take advantage of the many initiatives taken within Member States as regards prevention. They shall comply with the objectives of this Directive as defined in Article 1(1).
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Directive 94/32/EC
Article 4 – paragraph 3a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3a (new)
(2a) In Article 4, the following paragraph 1a is inserted: 3a. By 31 December 2018, the Commission shall produce a report assessing the global environmental, social and economic impacts of increased European consumption of all bio-based packaging, including impacts on land use, forests and the aquatic environment. On the basis of this report, the Commission shall adopt legislative measures to reduce these impacts, abiding by the principles of cascading use of biomass. The Commission shall also produce a report by 31 December 2018 assessing the environmental, social and economic benefits of reducing and reusing packaging in comparison to (a) continuing to use non-bio-based packaging and (b) gradually replacing non-bio-based packaging with bio-based packaging.
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 e (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 e (new)
Directive 94/62/EC
Article 5 – paragraph 1a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1a (new)
(2e) In Article 5, the following paragraph 1a is inserted: 1a. Member States shall attain the following targets for re-used packaging and a deposit-refund scheme covering the whole of their territory: (a) no later than 31 December 2025 a minimum of 10% by weight of all packaging waste will be re-used; (b) no later than 31 December 2030 a minimum of 15% by weight of all packaging waste will be re-used.
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 94/62/EC
Article 6a – paragraph 5
Article 6a – paragraph 5
5. For the purposes of calculating whether the targets laid down in Article 6(1)(f) to (i) have been achieved Member States may take into account the recycling of metals that takes place in conjunction with energy recovery and incineration in proportion to the share of the packaging waste incinerated provided that the recycled metals meet certain quality requirements. Member States shall use the common methodology established in accordance with Article 11a(6) of Directive 2008/98/EC.
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 d (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 d (new)
Directive 94/62/EC
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
(5d) In Article 8, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: "2. To facilitate collection, reuse and recovery including recycling, packaging shall contain information useful for that purpose. In particular, packaging shall indicate for the purposes of its identification and classification by the industry concerned the nature of the packaging material(s) used on the basis of Commission Decision 97/129/EC[1]. [1] OJ L 50, 20.2.1997, p. 28."