13 Amendments of Edina TÓTH related to 2023/0085(COD)
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order to ensure that consumers are provided with reliable, comparable and verifiable information which enables them to make more environmentally sustainable decisions and to reduce the risk of ‘greenwashing, it is necessary to establish requirements for substantiation of explicit environmental claims. SThe substantiation should be based on widely recognised scientific evidence understood as that based on sound methodologies, approaches or studies that (i) have been developed in line with best practices in terms of transparency, stakeholder consultation, involvement of scientific community, industry and civil society; and (ii) have been independently peer reviewed by qualified experts in the field and published in internationally recognised scientific literature. In addition, such substantiation should take into account internationally recognised scientific approaches to identifying and measuring environmental impacts, environmental aspects and environmental performance of products or traders, and it should result including reliable, transparent, comparable and verifiable information to the consumerevant standards developed by standardisation bodies.
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. This Directive does not apply to environmental labelling schemes or to explicit environmental claims regulated by or to environmental labelling schemes substantiated by rules established in:
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point p
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point p
(p) other existing or future Union ruleUnion legislative acts setting out the conditions under which certain explicit environmental claims about certain products or traders may be or are to be made or Union rules laying down requirements on the assessment or communication of environmental impacts, environmental aspects or environmental performance of certain products or traders or conditions for environmental labelling schemes, unless provided otherwise in those other Union legislative acts.
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
(2) ‘explicit environmental claim’ means an environmental claim that is made in written form or orally, including textual formhrough audiovisual media, or contained in an environmental label;
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3
(3) ‘trader’ means trader as defined in Article 2, point (b), of Directive 2005/29/EC, excluding cooperatives and trade associations;
Amendment 275 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall ensure that the traders that generates an explicit environmental claim carryies out an assessment to substantiate explicit environmentalthat claims. This assessment shall:
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) rely on widely recognised scientific evidence, peer reviewed by qualified experts in the field, use accurate information and take into account relevant international standardsmethods and standards as defined in Article 2 paragraph 1 of Regulation (EU) No 1025/201246;
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) identify whether improving environmental impacts, environmental aspects or environmental performance subject to the claim leads to significant harm in relation to environmental impacts on climate change, resource consumption and circularity, sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, pollution, biodiversity, animal welfare and ecosystems;
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) separate any greenhouse gas emissions offsets used from greenhouse gas emissions, as well as emissions reductions targets and mitigation plans, as additional environmental information, specify whether those offsets relate to emission reductions or removals, and describe how the offsets relied upon are of high integrity and accounted for correctly to reflect the claimed impact on climate;
Amendment 420 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the information and data, data and method used for assessing the environmental impacts, environmental aspects or environmental performance of the products or traders against which the comparison is made, are equivalent to the information and data, data and method used for assessing the environmental impacts, environmental aspects or environmental performance of the product or trader which is subject to the claim;
Amendment 566 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 615 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallThe European Commission shall adopt implementing acts to set up procedures for verifying the substantiation and communication of explicit environmental claims against the requirements set out in Articles 3 to 7.
Amendment 646 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 6
Article 10 – paragraph 6
6. Upon completion of the verification, the verifier shall draw up, where appropriate, a certificate of conformity certifying that the explicit environmental claim or the environmental label complies with the requirements set out in this Directive. The certificate of conformity shall be valid for a maximum period of 5 years unless the substantiation is reviewed in line with Article 9.