13 Amendments of Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ related to 2020/2077(INI)
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for adequate staffing levels and budget for the Commission services tasked with ensuring the successful implementation of the Action Plan; stresses that the allocation of resources must respond to both current and long- term political priorities and thus, in the context of the European Green Deal, expects a significant reinforcement of human resources in the Commission Directorate-General for Environment in particular;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the opportunities to combine circular economy solutions and digitalisation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop policies to support new sustainable business models based on product-as-a-service approaches providing sufficient protection for consumers and ensuring a reduction of resource consumption;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission to develop economic tools that give an economic advantage to the ‘sustainable choice’ as part of this framework;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises the right of consumers to more precise and accurate information about the environmental impacts of products and services associated with all stages in the life cycle of a product, and calls on the Commission to make proposals to substantiate green claims through solid and harmonised calculation methods;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Underlines the need to end the derogations from REACH restrictions for recycled materials to achieve circularity of materials and products; Therefore calls on the Commission to swiftly follow the European Parliament´s Resolution of 5 February 20201a as regards lead and its compounds to end carry-over of lead compounds into a new generation of products; __________________ 1aResolution of 5 February 2020 (B9- 0089/2020), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc ument/B-9-2020-0089_EN.pdf
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the health and environmental impacts of processes and outputs of new recycling and recovery technologies are thoroughly evaluated at the industrial level prior to their incentivization, and to guarantee transparency throughout the evaluation;
Amendment 488 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Supports the Circular Electronics Initiative, which will address the shortcomings in durability, reparability, access to spare parts, circular design, waste prevention, and waste collection and recycling; calls for the harmonisation of recycling infrastructure for waste electrical and electronic equipment in the EU; calls for the integration of issues such as software obsolescence and consumer awareness about the environmental impacts of the use of electronic and digital products;
Amendment 503 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Calls on the European Commission to work on the introduction of measures enabling the development of a universal charger for smartphones in the European Union
Amendment 589 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the essential role of packaging for product safety, in particular food safety, and hygiene; asks the industry, however, to commit to reducing the amount of packaging it produces, to phase out hazardous substances in packaging and to develop more efficient and circular packaging solutions, and encourages initiatives such as the Circular Plastics Alliance; underlines the need for harmonised regulation of all food contact materials to achieve better protection and coherence.
Amendment 601 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the essential role of packaging for product safety, in particular food safety, and hygiene; asks the industry, however, to commit to avoid unnecessary packaging and to reducing the amount of packaging it produces and to develop more efficient and circular packaging solutions, and encourages initiatives such as the Circular Plastics Alliance;
Amendment 670 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24c. Calls for the adoption of a European target to end the placing on the market of single-use plastics.
Amendment 891 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Recalls the EU waste targets and underlines that Member States must – as a first priority –priorities strengthen prevention and preparation for reuse, increase recycling, and ultimately move away from landfilling and incineration of waste, in line with the waste hierarchy;
Amendment 911 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)
Paragraph 34 b (new)
34b. Calls on the Commission to define a common EU-wide approach for the management of residual waste;