Clean Industrial Deal

Tabled by Hanna Gedin, Per Clausen, Marc Botenga, Marina Mesure, Anthony Smith, Dario Tamburrano

… access to materials and resources; encourages the Circular Economy Act to include Added: strategies for chemical raw materials to safeguard detoxified material cycles, especially in solutions free of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and measures to increase the use and affordability of strategic secondary materials within … circular business models, particularly those based on waste prevention, reuse, high-quality recycling; Added: stresses that communities living near pollution hotspots, such as areas affected by PFAS, deserve justice through comprehensive measures including pollution prevention, monitoring, soil sanitation, health initiatives and tailored response plans to address their needs; stresses that polluting companies must be held accountable for covering the costs of pollution prevention at its source and providing compensation, and that the ‘polluter pays’ principle should be enforced, requiring companies to contribute to independently managed funds focused on depollution efforts; stresses that this strategy must ensure policy coherence with the upcoming REACH Directive12a and the Water Framework Directive12b; ______________ 11 Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 of the European Parliament and of the … and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1013/2006 (OJ L, 2024/1157, 30.4.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1157/oj). Added: 12a Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/1907/oj). 12b Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2000/60/oj).

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE773.358v01-00