We urgently need the building sector on board of the Green Deal transition.
That's why I'm happy that we voted a key legislative proposal on construction products in the environment committee of the EU Parliament today.
Here's a quick round-up of what we achieved.👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/msaraswati/status/1623658945935024129
The building sector creates 1/3 of all waste and 10% of climate emissions. It uses half of all raw materials, while only 1% of construction products are reused.
Hence the regulation will set product requirements to improve circularity and reduce environmental impact of products👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/msaraswati/status/1623658948753518594
We found agreement in the environment committee to strengthen these 'ecodesign' obligations across the board. Importantly, we also improve the way these are set.
The Commission should create standards & obligations, instead of outsourcing it to a broken standardisation process👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/msaraswati/status/1623658951148552196
This standardisation process doesn't live up to the environmental urgency. Hardly any harmonized EU standards were published in over the last 10 years. That is why we insisted on maximum alignment with another key regulation on ecodesign. That law has delivered a lot of impact.👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/msaraswati/status/1623658953539215362
We convinced our colleagues in the environment committee that the much better performing ecodesign law should be able to set environmental requirements for key construction products.
We want this in particular for cement, which comprises 3% of all EU carbon emissions.👇
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/msaraswati/status/1623658955942555648
As a next step, the internal market committee will negotiate and vote the text by the end of May, after which we will have a plenary vote of the European Parliament.
As rapportrice of the ENVI committee, I will keep defending the points above in the coming months!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/msaraswati/status/1623658958639464448