Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

AddedDirective 2008/98/EC

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 9a – paragraph 7 a (new): 7a. Member States are encouraged to coordinate their actions to prevent food waste and share best practices.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 9a – paragraph 7 b (new): 7b. By 31 December 2025, the Commission shall conduct an assessment on the appropriate levels for the setting of targets for the reduction of all primary production food waste, including mature food left unharvested or used on farms. To that end, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, accompanied, if appropriate, by a legislative proposal.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4, Article 9a – paragraphs 7 c (new): 7c. By 31 December 2027, the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of the possibility to introduce a binding target of at least 30% with respect to Article 9a(4), point (a), and at least 50% with respect to Article 9a(4), point (b), to be reached by 2035 and submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council which may be accompanied by appropriate legislative proposal to implement such target.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new), Article 10 – paragraph 2 a (new): (4a) In Article 10, the followingparagraphis inserted: / 2a. Member States are encouraged, where appropriate, to introduce prior sorting of municipal mixed waste to prevent waste, which can be recovered for preparing for re-use, or recycling, from being sent to waste incineration or disposed in landfills.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 b (new), Article 10 – paragraph 4: (4b) In Article 10, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following: / "4. Member States shall take measures to ensure that waste that has been separately collected for preparing for re-use and recycling pursuant to Article 11(1) and Article 22 is not incinerated or landfilled, with the exception of waste resulting from subsequent treatment operations of the separately collected waste for which incineration delivers the best environmental outcome in accordance with Article 4."

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5, Article 11 – paragraph 1 –subparagraph 3: 5) in Article 11, paragraph 1, the third subparagraph is replaced by the following: / Subject to Article 10(2) and (3), Member States shall set up separate collection at least for paper, metal, plastic and glass, and, by 1 January 2025, for textiles, and shall be encouraged to set up separate collection for wood.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 5 a (new), Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new): 5a) In Article 11, the following subparagraph is inserted after the third subparagraph: / Member States shall undertake necessary measures to ensure sufficient infrastructure is in place for separate collection of waste and is made easily accessible, for all kinds of waste, and where appropriate, shall increase the number of points of separated waste collection. Where municipal waste collection systems are necessary for improvement, Member States shall do so without undue delay."

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 1: 1. Member States shall ensure that producers have extended producer responsibility for textile products articles of apparel, clothing accessories and footwear, apparel and clothing accessories listed in Annex IVc (“textile, textile-related and footwear products”) that they make available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State, in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 1 a (new): 1a. By 31 December 2024, the Commission shall adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 38a to supplement this Directive as regards laying down further rules on the establishment of extended producer responsibility for personal protection equipment as referred to in Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council*. / --------------- / * Regulation (EU) 2016/425 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on personal protective equipment and repealing Council Directive 89/686/EEC (OJ L 81, 31.3.2016, p. 51).

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 1 b (new): 1b. By 31 December 2027, Member States shall ensure that producers of carpets and mattresses as referred to in Part 2a (new) of Annex IVc, whose main composition is textile, that make available those carpets and mattresses on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State, shall have extended producer responsibility in accordance with Articles 8 and 8a. Member States may decide to establish a separate extended producer responsibility scheme specifically for those items.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 2: 2. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 38a to expand the scope of Annex IVc and to amend Annex IVc to this Directive in order to bring the Combined Nomenclature codes listed in Annex IVc to this Directive in line with the codes listed in Annex 1 to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87*.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 3: 3. Member States shall define in a clear, inclusive and balanced way, in accordance with Article 8a (1), point (a), the roles and responsibilities of relevant actors involved in the implementation, monitoring and verification of the extended producer responsibility scheme referred to in paragraph 1. Member States shall ensure that all relevant actors are fully involved in the decision-making process of the extended producer responsibility scheme. Those relevant actors shall include: / (a) producers placing products on the market of the Member State; / (b) organisations implementing extended producer responsibility obligations on their behalf; / (c) private or public waste operators; / (d) local authorities; / (e) re-use and preparing for re-use operators; / (f) social enterprises, including local social enterprises;

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 4 – point a – point 1: (1) the collection of used textile products for re-use and the separate collection of waste textile products for preparing for re-use and recycling in accordance with Articles 22c and 22d

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 4 – point a – point 2: (2) transport of collected loads referred to in point (1) for subsequent sorting for re-use, for preparing for re-use and recycling operations in accordance with Article 22d,

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 4 – point a – point 3: (3) sorting, preparing for re-use, recycling and other recovery operations and disposal of collected loads referred to in point (1),

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 4 – point a – point 4: (4) collection, transport and treatment referred to in points (1) and (2) of waste generated by social enterprises and other operators that are part of the collection system referred to in Article 22c, paragraphs 5 and 11;

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 4 – point c: (c) providing information, including via appropriate information campaigns and communication work, on sustainable consumption, waste prevention, re-use, preparing for re-use, recycling, other recovery and disposal of textiles and footwear products in accordance with Article 22c(13), (14) and (17);

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 4 – point e: (e) support to research and development to improve the sorting and recycling processes in line with the waste hierarchy referred to in Article 4, in particular, in view of scaling up fibre-to-fibre recycling, without prejudice to Union state aid rules.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 4 – point e a (new): (ea) reuse and repair operations, including research and development for their improvement.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 5: 5. Member States shall ensure that producers of textiles, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc cover the costs referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article in relation to the used and waste textiles, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc deposited at the collection points set up in accordance with Article 22c, points 5 and 11, where such products were made available on the market for the first time within the territory of a Member State after [P.O. insert date of entry into force of this amending Directive], including any used and waste textiles that may be collected through private take-back schemes and later aggregated with textiles collected pursuant to Article 22c(5).

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 6: 6. The costs to be covered referred to in paragraph 4 shall not exceed the costs that are necessary to provide the services referred to in that paragraph in a cost-efficient way consistent with the waste hierarchy and shall be established in a transparent way between the actors concerned.

AddedDirective 2008/98EC

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 6 a (new): 6a. Providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders shall ensure that producers of textile, textile-related and footwear products listed in Annex IVc shall be registered in the register of the producers referred to in Article 22b in the Member State where the consumer is located, before placing products from those producers onto their platforms.

AddedDirective 2008/98EC

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22a – paragraph 8: 8. Member States shall ensure that the extended producer responsibility schemes laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article are established by [P.O insert date eighteen months after the entry into force of this amending Directive] in accordance with Articles 8, 8a, 22a to 22d.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22b – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2: Member States shall ensure that the register provides links to other national registers to facilitate the registration of producers in all Member States. The register shall be easily accessible and free of charge to the public online.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22b – paragraph 2 a (new): 2a. Member States shall inform the other Member States about the link to the national register within 30 days of the launch of that register.

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AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22b – paragraph 6 – point a: (a) receives applications for the registration of producers referred to in paragraph 2 via an electronic data-processing system the details of which shall be prominently made available on the competent authorities’ website;

AddedDirective 2008/98/EC

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22b – paragraph 9: 9. The information in the register of producers shall be publicly accessible, machine readable, sortable and searchable, respecting open standards for third party use. Member States shall ensure that providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with producers are granted access, free of charge, to the register.

AddedDirective 2008/98/EC

AddedArticle 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7, Article 22b – paragraph 9 a (new): 9a. No later than 31 December 2026, the Commission shall assess the feasibility of establishing a Union-wide register for producers of textile, textile-related, and footwear products listed in Annex IVc. That assessment shall encompass the potential benefits, challenges and administrative capacity required for the implementation of such Union-wide register.