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Tuesday, 14 March 2017 - Strasbourg Revised edition

End-of-life vehicles, waste batteries and accumulators and waste electrical and electronic equipment - Landfill of waste - Waste - Packaging and packaging waste (debate)
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  Benedek Jávor (Verts/ALE). – Mr President, let me remind you that in previous resolutions, Parliament has called for more ambitious targets. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) also recently called for raising the ambition of the current proposal by introducing a binding target to have 70% of municipal waste recycled by 2030 in addition to limiting the amount of municipal waste that can go to landfill to 5%.

The ENVI Committee also called for a minimum of 5% of total municipal waste to be prepared for reuse, a binding target of 80% of packaging to be recycled, and a 10% target of packaging waste to be reused by 2030. I believe that the European Parliament has to send a strong message to the Commission and the Council and stick to this high ambition level, in line with the previous Commission proposal for the package, as this is the only way to trigger action in the Member States.

Dear Mr Timmermans, this is not exaggeration, this is simply the level of braveness of the previous Barroso Commission. We need strong incentives to reduce waste generation, food waste and marine litter as well. It is crucial that investment choices are taken so that they facilitate moving up the waste hierarchy. There is also a pressing need to phase out harmful subsidies, as well as a need for better systemic eco-design measures to counteract planned obsolescence and to substitute for hazardous substances. Last, but not least, the Commission has to do everything it can to ensure the implementation of the existing provisions.

(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 162(8))

 
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