Traduction de «matière première vierge » (Français → Anglais) :

45. Urges the Commission to examine the effects of a tax on resources and virgin raw materials, and in particular any side-effects, such as non-sustainable substitution, tax avoidance or shifting economic activities to third countries;

45. Urges the Commission to examine the effects of a tax on resources and virgin raw materials, and in particular any side-effects, such as non-sustainable substitution, tax avoidance or shifting economic activities to third countries;

31. Urges the Commission to examine the effects of a tax on mineral resources, unused extracted raw materials, non-energy raw materials , water and land use, and in particular on any side effects, such as non sustainable substitution, tax evasion or a shift of economic activities to third countries and to come forward with proposals for EU instruments to this effect in line with the resource efficiency priority; points out that taxation of primary raw materials like metals would help shift the comparative advantage towards recycling instead of virgin extraction and would help shift the tax burden from labour to resources;

We are talking about the fastest growing waste stream in Europe, and one with huge potential for reducing our dependence on imported or virgin raw materials.

The fibre raw material in the paper may be recycled or virgin fibre.

- A shift of the tax burden onto the use of natural resources, a virgin raw materials tax and the use of other economic instruments such as tradeable permits to encourage the uptake of resource-efficient technologies, products and services.