24 Amendments of Bas EICKHOUT related to 2011/2068(INI)
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the creation ofCommission to establish Joint Task Forces for the three key areas of food, housing and mobility: these should consisting of experts from the Commission, Member States, industry and civil society andin order to develop European Resource Efficiency Action Plans with clear benchmarkresource reduction actions within one year;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and Member States to stimulate the secondary materials and reuse market and to foster the demand for reuse and recycled materials bythrough developing end-of- waste criteria and economic incentives, such as reduced VAT rates for secondary materials, by 2013; calls also thereforetherefore also calls for the creation of a ´Schengen -area´ for waste in order to move waste for recycling and reusing (excluding incineration and landfilling) more freely between the Member States;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Urges the Commission to examine the effects of a tax on resources and virgin raw materials, and in particular on any side effects, such as non sustainable substitution, tax evasion or a shift of economic activities to third countries and to present proposals for EU instruments to this effect in line with the resource efficiency priority; the taxation of resources must serve the purpose to promote reuse and recycling instead of the extraction of virgin materials and would help shift the tax burden from labour to resources;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission to boost research and technological innovation to speed upsupport and promote innovation and sustainable business models, such as leasing, including the development of sectoral industrial strategies needed to assist the transition to a gresource efficient economy; underlines that the ‘"Innovation Union’ is one of" and the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials are among the engines for a rResource-e Efficient Europe;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges the Commission and Member States to develop andagree to use clear and measurable indicators, i.e. the land footprint, water footprint, material footprint and carbon footprint for economic activity that take account of climate change, biodiversity and resource efficiency by the end of 2012, and calls for the Commission to come forward with concrete legislative initiatives necessary to meet binding, country- specific reduction targets, supported by funds and financial mechanisms by 2013;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to extend the scope of the eco-design directive to non- energy related products and to come forward with additional eco-design requirements on the performance of products, including recyclability and recycled content, durability, reparability and reusability, in order to improve their environmental impact and promote recycling markets;.
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Emphasises that resource efficiency is a cross-cutting issue; calls on the Commission to integrate this agenda into other policies, especially the overarching governance economic policies, such as Europe 2020.
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines the fact that decoupling economic growth from resource consumption is essential to improve Europe's competitiveness and reduce its resource dependency;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission, by the end of 2012, to propose a new Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) policy framework, establishing a process to identify those priority products or services that contribute the most to key global consumption areas water, land, materials and carbon to be coherent with the consumption indicators as laid down in the Resource Efficiency Roadmap accompanied by legislative proposals addressing priority products and services with the relevant tools, including mechanisms that can improve supply chain resource efficiency, and the possibility to set minimum requirements or best performance benchmarks through implementing measures;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission, Member States and businesses to base their economic strategies on radically improved resource efficiency and resource productivity, leading to an absolute decoupling of economic growth from resource consumption; believes also that there is a need to focus on both the efficiency and effectiveness of resource use;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the urgency of taking action nowto act now in order to support innovation and investments in new techniques and business models and to create the incentives that will bring both short- and long- term benefits for the economy; emphasises the key role of the private sector in delivering green economic growth;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to develop incentives that encourage companies and public bodies to measure, benchmark and continuously improve their resource efficiencywater-, land-, material- and carbon footprints, as well as measures to extend the producer responsibility principle and to remove barriers that hold back resource efficiency;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for stronger requirements on Green Public Procurement (GPP) for products with significant environmental impacts and products and services that contribute the most to consumption of key global resources water, land, materials and carbon, as laid down in the Resource Efficiency Roadmap, and urges the Commission to assess where GPP could be linked to EU- funded projects; calls for efforts toand promote joint procurement, and networks of public procurement officers in support of GPP by the end of this year;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Urges Member States to ensure full implementation of the EU waste acquis, including minimum targets, through their national waste prevention and management strategies; urges the Commission to use the 2014 Waste Framework Directive revision to set revised 2020 recycling targets based on best performing EU regions, and to set residual waste reduction targets; urges Member States to set national waste prevention targets and abandon commingled collections in favour of segregated collections by 2015;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls on the Commission to ensure policies drive cascading use of natural raw materials and favouring highest value added and resource efficient products over energy generation, taking into account in particular ghg mitigation potential;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13b. Stresses that to be meaningful a lifecycle approach must be based on accounting which is as accurate as possible; in this context insists that in the implementation of Fuel Quality Directive suppliers apply a separate default value for tar sands;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges Member States to shift towards environmental taxation in public revenues accounting for an EU average of more than 10% by 2020, in line with the best performing Member States; emphasises that this will allow for cuts in other taxes such as on labour, increase competitiveness and create a level playing field;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission and Member States to presenadopt concrete plans by 2014 for phasing out all environmentally harmful subsidies before 2020 including subsidies that incentivise inefficient use of renewable resources;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the importance of sustainable agriculture, and dietary changes to reduce animal protein intake and, leading to diminishing imported land use and a reduction in Europe's carbon footprint;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Believes that consumer awareness plays a crucial role in improving resource-efficiency in food consumption and supports initiatives at local, national and EU levels to promote more sustainable food consumption patterns such as dedicated vegetarian meal days
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates the importance of a set of coherent, measurable and clear sectoral targets, includingas well as country-specific and overall EU targets, in order to implement the vision and the milestones of the Roadmap; calls on the Commission to bring forward a concrete proposal for such targets for the EU by 2013 at the latest and to ensure that all EU policies are consistent with the targets set; considers that the milestones included in the Roadmap should be considered as targets until more detailed targets are set; calls on Member States to include corresponding targets in their own resource efficiency strategies;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges the Commission to adopt robust and easily understandable indicators, based on integrated accounting tools, in orderthe land footprint, water footprint, material footprint and carbon footprint as robust and easily understandable indicators to monitor progress towards the targets;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Supports the proposal by the Commission to establish a leadset of indicator complemented by a set of indicators on land, water, materials and carbon; underlines that these must be based on a footprint approach that takes the full life cycle impacts into accounts on land, water, materials and carbon and calls for these four consumption-driven indicators to be the land footprint, water footprint, material footprint and carbon footprint based on full life cycle impact, integrating hidden flows as well as any transfer of environmental pressures outside the EU; cautions that the resource productivity indicator will not provide the information required, and should not be selected just because data is already collected;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls on the Commission to screen EU policies, and assess inter alia the National Renewable Action Plans and Common Agricultural Policy, regarding their impact on resource efficiency;