16 Amendments of Reinhard BÜTIKOFER related to 2011/2068(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the importance of resource efficiency to achieving the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy; underlines the fact that decoupling economic growth from resource consumption is essential to improve Europe'’s industrial competitiveness and reduce its relative dependence on imported resources; calls on the Commission to provide further details on how the Members States’ progress towards greater resource efficiency will be concretely assessed in the European Semester process; calls on Member States to adopt National Resource Efficiency Roadmaps including specific measures and targets, along the objectives of the EU Roadmap;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the success of resource efficiency policy greatly depends on its being consistent with all relevant internal and external EU policies and on the political commitment of Member States to implementing it; urges the Commission to come forward with clear targets and measures, including specific objectives and concrete legislative initiatives, underpinned by the funds and financial mechanisms needed to support them, to ensure that the flagship proposal will be successful;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Supports the Commission's idea of shifting taxation away from labour towards resource consumption; welcomes the intention to encourage Member States to phase out environmentally harmful subsidies (EHS) by preparing plans and timetables and report on those as part of their National Reform Programmes;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the fact that boosting resource efficiency requires a profound change in consumption and production patterns, achievable through new solutions for smart resource management; calls, therefore, for investment in product design, resource recycling and waste management, substitution and re-use; in particular calls on the Commission to strongly consider extending the eco-design directive to cover criteria such as resource efficiency, recycled material rates, durability and reusability; believes that standardisation has an important role to play in this context; calls on the European Commission to consider a top-runner programme as an efficient incentive mechanism for performance improvement;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to streamline resource efficiency in the Integrated Industrial Policy flagship and the Innovation Union flagship initiatives, which should include the development of long-term sectoral industrial strategies and policies needed to assist the transition to a low-carbon, resource and energy- efficient economy;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4b (new)
Paragraph 4b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission to finally put forward the new Eco-Innovation Action Plan foreseen to be published since 2010 but continuously delayed;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the European Commission to consider how near net shape manufacturing technologies can be promoted amongst the manufacturing industry;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Calls on the Commission to require Member States to actively promote industrial symbiosis activities and the development of eco-industrial parks and to support these activities through a specific programme addressed at the industrial actors and the responsible local development agencies or authorities in this field;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 e (new)
Paragraph 4 e (new)
4e. Calls for sufficient funding to be dedicated to resource efficiency research and innovation programmes in the Horizon 2020 programme, both under the societal challenges and the industrial competitiveness programmes, as well as in the specific instruments for SMEs; welcomes the establishment of a Resource Efficiency Finance Round Table;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 f (new)
Paragraph 4 f (new)
4f. Calls for the European Innovation Partnerships and Knowledge Innovation Centres that are foreseen to be established on the topic of Raw Materials, to not only address the aspect of sustainable exploitation, management and recycling of resources but also prevention, reuse and substitution;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 g (new)
Paragraph 4 g (new)
4g. Believes that green public procurement is an important instrument to promote resource efficiency and the uptake of more resource efficient products; believes that activities to develop criteria and their uptake by public authorities should be strengthened at EU and Member States level;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 h (new)
Paragraph 4 h (new)
4h. Calls on the Commission to investigate how resource efficiency can be increased among the EU's mining and processing industry in order to increase competitiveness and sustainability by inter alia promoting the uptake of new technologies and enhancing the production of by-products alongside base metals;
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 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the increased global competition for resources and ‘technology metals’; stresses that European ‘green leadership’ globally and the ‘green jobs’ potential in the EU are highly dependent on a secure supply of these imported resources; calls for an EU industrial innovation policy based on the principles of reduce, re-use, recycle and substitution, as well as an EU trade policy based on transparency, reciprocity and respect for democracy, the environment and sustainable development in exporting countries;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen advisory services on resource efficiency, particularly for SMEs, for example by strengthening such programmes in the European Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI); calls on the Commission to support SMEs in this field by promoting the sharing of best practice among Member States, providing access to relevant research under FP7 and Horizon 2020;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the importance of skills and training; calls on the Commission and the Member States to engage in a close dialogue with the social partners, academia and industry in this context; calls on the Commission and Member States, in collaboration with industry and academia, to support resource efficiency through special university programmes and scholarships; further supports, in this context, exchange programmes in this field such as the Erasmus Mundus Minerals and Environmental Programme;