Activities of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2020/2021(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The gender perspective in the COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis period - The EU Strategy for Gender Equality - Closing the digital gender gap: women’s participation in the digital economy (continuation of debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to include, in its economic recovery roadmap and financial support schemes, EU guidelines for the Member States on how to design their investment plans so that they are consistent with the European Green Deal and the Paris Agreement; stresses that such guidelines would enable the EU to save and transform its economy (i.e. take the EU out of the crisis and accelerate the transition towards climate neutrality); and to create an independent green recovery scrutiny board, building on the lessons to date from the EU’s regulatory scrutiny board, which would be tasked with assessing the adequacy of both EU and member states’ green recovery plans, feed into the semester process and make public and in close to real-time recommendations to support democratic processes and parliamentary scrutiny;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that both sustainable production and consumption should be promoted; considers in this regard that resource efficiency should be improved by increasing the circularity of value chains, reducing the consumption of resources, and cutting down onminimizing waste generation; stresses that a new economy comprising circular services should be developed;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on Member States to invest in more systemic planning for the design of production processes where waste from one process and production stream can be efficiently fed as resources into another production process;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for the extension of the Ecodesign Directive to ensure all products and packaging placed on EU market are upgradable, reusable, reparable, and finally recyclable at the highest level, in a way that the value of the material does not degrade; this needs to be based on extended producer responsibility;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that consumers should be able to fully participate in the ecological transition; calls on the Commission to develop legislative proposals on the tools needed to achieve this goal, including improved product information through compulsory ecolabelling, green claims, extended legal guarantees and definitions, as well as measures againstextended producer liability and rights, and banning and criminalising planned obsolescence and greenwashing, and mandatory deposit systems for certain products, such as PET-bottles; calls on the Commission to guarantee the right for people in the EU to have their goods repaired, including free access to information; highlights that such tools must be based on sound environmental criteria, which enable consumers to assess accurately the environmental impact of products on the basis of their life cycle, their environmental footprint, their lifespan and their quality;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the introduction and use of mandatory deposit systems such as those created for bottles, which allow the quality of the material to be maintained at approximately the same level from one use to the next;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the role of Green Public Procurement (GPP) to accelerate the shift towards a more sustainable and circular economy, and the importance of promoting the uptake of GPP during the EU’s economic recovery; recalls the commitments of the Commission to propose further legislation on GPP, so that in all public procurement the green option should be the default choice, with comply or explain, so that this could be exempted only by acceptable justifications.