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The European Parliament makes a decision on PVC
The Parliament presents an extensive range of proposals for the Commission’s ongoing work with PVC.
04-04-2001
At its meeting on 3 April 2002, the Commission Green Paper on PVC was finally voted on at the plenary assembly of the European Parliament. Numerous proposals for change were discussed prior to this assembly, partly in the Parliament Committee on the environment, and partly in the Committee on industry. The Parliament’s decision, which spans five pages, mainly consists of 33 recommendations regarding the Commission’s future work with PVC (for a Danish version of this document, see here). These recommendations fall within six main categories. The first part of the document is a general description of the Parliament’s attitude towards the Commission’s treatment of the PVC issue. This is followed by five sections dealing, respectively, with waste collection, additives, recycling, incineration, and landfilling PVC waste.
Overall, the European Parliament expresses its appreciation of the fact that the Commission has, with this Green Book, taken the initiative to search for practical solutions to the problems caused by PVC use. At the same time, the Parliament stresses that it is regrettable that the Commission has not made any comparative analyses of the life cycles of PVC products compared to those of possible alternatives. Consequently, the Parliament states that if substitution policies are to be made for certain PVC product categories, this must be done on the basis of life-cycle analyses of the alternatives. These analyses must be carried out with the same care and attention to detail devoted to PVC analyses.
Before the summer holidays, the Commission will issue a draft of a so-called Communication on PVC, describing the final recommendation on future PVC policy in Europe. This draft will take into account the decisions made by the Parliament.
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