Traduction de «à privilégier du point de vue environnemental » (Français → Anglais) :

3. Stresses that improving resource use through better design requirements, and through waste legislation that ensures upward movement in the waste hierarchy (thereby fostering waste prevention, reuse, preparation for reuse and recycling), could bring substantial net savings for EU businesses, public authorities and consumers, estimated at EUR 600 billion, or 8 % of annual turnover, while also reducing total annual greenhouse gas emissions by 2-4 %; emphasises that increasing resource productivity by 30 % by 2030 could boost GDP by nearly 1 % and create 2 million additional sustainable jobs; recalls that resource efficiency is a priority objective of the 7th Environmental Action Pr ...[+++]ogramme, which emphasises the need to stimulate production and consumer demand for environmentally sustainable products and services through policies that promote their availability, affordability, functionality and attractiveness; emphasise that resource scarcity requires aiming at the absolute decoupling in order maintain resource use and GDP increase within the biophysical limits of the planet;

Prevention is generally more environmentally desirable and cost-effective than reaction after the fact, and should be prioritised.

(da) promote the establishment of forms of dialogue with the people and territories concerned in order to highlight and resolve in advance any problems that might be connected to the design of the infrastructure, encouraging solutions that are environmentally sustainable and socially acceptable.

79. Insists that EU support for the ‘green economy’ should recognise the importance of investment by existing industries used to significantly improve the efficiency of resource use and reduce CO2 emissions and to reach the EU 2020 Strategy targets on green jobs creation; underlines that a greener economy should support competitiveness and innovation in all sectors by focusing on areas where improvements are more economically efficient and more environmentally effective;

78. Insists that EU support for the ‘green economy’ should recognise the importance of investment by existing industries used to significantly improve the efficiency of resource use and reduce CO2 emissions and to reach the EU 2020 Strategy targets on green jobs creation; underlines that a greener economy should support competitiveness and innovation in all sectors by focusing on areas where improvements are more economically efficient and more environmentally effective;

The Member States could nevertheless be exempted from this obligation where it is not viable or not the best option from the environmental and economic point of view (for example where the logistics of separate collection do not make it possible to prevent bio-waste from being contaminated, or where the imposition of a separate collection infrastructure is not environmentally justified in rural or sparsely populated areas).