12 Amendments of John BOWIS related to 2008/0152(COD)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Community Ecolabel scheme is part of the sustainable consumption and production policy of the Community, which aims at reducing the negative impact of consumption and production on the environment, health and natural resources. The scheme is intended to promote those products which have a high level of environmental performance through the use of the Ecolabel. To this effect, it is appropriate to require that the criteria which products must comply with in order to bear the Ecolabel be based on the best environmental performance achieved by products on the Community market. Those criteria should be simple to understand and to use and should therefore be limited to the most significant environmental impacts of products during their full lifecycle, including both the manufacturing and use phases.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) The Ecolabel scheme should take into account existing Community legislation so as to avoid divergent approaches to product safety assessment.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In order to simplify the Community Ecolabel scheme and to reduce the administrative burden linked to the use of the Ecolabel, the assessment and verification procedures should be replaced by a harmonised registration system.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) In particular, the Commission should be empowered to adopt the criteria that products must comply with in order to bear the Ecolabel and to amend the Annexes to this Regulation, provided that such criteria fully respect the basis for their adoption as laid down in this Regulation. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend nonessential elements of this Regulation, inter alia by supplementing it with new nonessential elements, they must be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) In the light of the specificities of food and drink products in terms of health and nutritional characteristics, food products as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council are excluded from the scope of this Regulation. The Commission should work with all stakeholders, including the scientific community, civil society and industry, to establish a sound scientific evidence base to facilitate the development of reliable and uniform environmental assessment methodologies and voluntary communications tools for the environmental performance of processed and unprocessed food products, covering the full product lifecycle, taking into account the specificities of food in terms of health and nutrition, and considering existing and emerging voluntary industry initiatives and legal developments throughout Member States.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The environmental performance of products shall be determined on the basis of the best performing products on the Community market. To this end, only the most significant environmental impacts during the full life cycle of products, in particular shall be considered, which may include the impact on climate change, impact on nature and biodiversity, energy and resource consumption, generation of waste, emissions to all environmental media, pollution through physical effects and use and release of hazardous substances, shall be consideredsubstances of potential risk for the environment as covered by Community legislation. The existing Ecolabel criteria for the different product groups shall be reviewed within 18 months of the adoption of this Regulation to ensure their full compliance with the lifecycle approach set out in this Article.
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall, following consultation of the EUEB, adopt measures to establish specific Ecolabel criteria for each product group, subject to the requirements of Article 6. Those measures, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Regulation, by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 16(2).
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
In the measures referred to in paragraph 1 the Commission shall: a) establish requirements for assessing the compliance of specific products with the Ecolabel criteria; b) indicate, where appropriate, the three key environmental characteristics that shallmay be placed on the Ecolabel; c) specify the period, which shall not exceed 2 years, of validity of the criteria and of the assessment requirements; d) specify the degree of product variability allowed during the period of validity referred to in point (c).
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
(1) In order to use the Ecolabel, manufacturers, importers, service providers, wholesalers or retailers who wish to use the Ecolabel shall register with one of the competent bodies referred to in Article 4 in accordance with the following rules: (a) where a product originates in a single Member State, the registration shall be made with the competent body of thatny Member State; (b) where a product originates in the same form in several Member States, the registration may be made with a competent body in one of those Member States; (c) where a product originates outside the Community, the registration shall be made with a competent body in any of the Member States in which the productthe product has been or is to be or has been placed on the market.: The Ecolabel shall have one of the forms depicted in Annex II. The Ecolabel may only be used in connection with products covered by a registration and complying with the Ecolabel criteria applicable to the products concerned.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 10
Article 9 – paragraph 10