CELEX: 51981PC0385
Language: en
Date: 1981-07-15
Title: Modification of the Proposal for a COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION concerning the recovery and reuse of waste paper and board (Submitted to the Council by the Commission pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty)

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                              Modification of the
                                Proposal for a
                             COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION
               concerning the recovery and reuse of waste paper
                                  and board
               ( Submitted to the Council by the Commission
                 pursuant to the second paragraph of Article
                 149 of the EEC Treaty )
C0M(81 ) 385 final
 ---pagebreak--- The European Community Action Programme on the. Environment , 1977-1981 ,
which was approved by a declaration of the Council of the European
Communities and representatives of. the Member States, meeting in Council
on 17 May 1977.(1 ), explains the need for an " active anti-waste policy "-
and sets out priorities in this field ~ the recycling of paper and board
is one such priority . The Commission has , on the 14 May 1980 , submitted
to the . Council a proposal for a Recommendation on the recovery arid reuse
of paper and board ( 2 ).
The purpose of this proposal is to encourage the greater use of products
made from recycled paper and board and , as a corollary, the recovery and
reuse of waste paper and board .                                    N
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The European Parliament has given its opinion on this proposal during the
session of 16 January 1981 .             . '
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The Commission has carefully studied this opinion and as a result has decided ,
pursuant to Article 149., second paragraph , of the Treaty to present a proposal
for modification of the initial proposal for a Recommendation ,
The proposal for the modification concerns :
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      -  3rd indent of Preamble ;
      -  5th indent of Preamble ;
      -  Recommendation ;
      •  1st indent of Recommendation .
These modifications enlarge the scope of the Recommendation , and highlight
the problem of the Community 's deficiency and its dependence on imports' of
raw materials for the manufacture of paper and board .                 *    .
( 1 ) O.J. No : C 139 of 13 June 1977 .
( 2 ) O.J. No : C 135 of 6 June 1980 .
 ---pagebreak---                   f'.OD \ f J. CAT I ON OF THE PROPOSAL FOR A
                                         COUNCIL
                   RECOMMENDATION CONCERNING THE RECOVERY
                  A WO REUSE OF V'ASTE PAPER AND BOARD .
 Preamble :
 1st and 2nd Recital - unchanged . '
                                        3rd . Recital
                 Whereas waste paper constitutes a significant
                 percentage of urban waste and is technically
                  recoverable on a selective basis as a secondary
                  raw material          for the manufacture of certain
                 paper and board products ;
4th 'Recital *■ unchanged .
                                        5th Recital
              . «
                Whereas there is a deficiency ( over 50% ) in the
                Community 's present needs of raw materials for
                paper and board manufacture which has to be made
                 up by imports from non-member countries of both
                pulp and of paper products , the latter being
                manufactured mainly from virgin fibre ;
                                        Recommendation
                Recommends that Member States and Community I nstit-
                utions define and implement policies to promote
                the use of recycled paper and board and particularly :
                                        1st indent of Recommendation
                 A
                       encourage the use of recycled - and recyclable -
                      paper and board , especially in the Community
                      Institutions and in the national administrations ,
                      public bodies and those national official services
                      which can set an example ;
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th indent of Recommendation - unchanged .