COM(2014)440 - Green Action Plan for SMEs - Enabling SMEs to turn environmental challenges into business opportunities
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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS GREEN ACTION PLAN FOR SMEs Enabling SMEs to turn environmental challenges into business opportunities| Legal instrument | Communication |
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| Decision making procedure | Own-initiative procedure (INI) |
| reference by COM-number33 | COM(2014)440  |
| Additional COM-numbers | SWD(2014)213 |
| procedure number35 | 2014/2209(INI) |
| CELEX number36 | 52014DC0440 |
| Document | 02-07-2014 |
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| Online publication | 02-07-2014 |
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- 1.Resource efficiency means using the Earth's limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment while allowing economic growth (through relative decoupling of material use).
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- 4.The 'green economy' is a model that 'secures growth and development, safeguards human health and well-being, provides decent jobs, reduces inequalities and invests in, and preserves biodiversity, including the ecosystem services it provides (natural capital), for its intrinsic value and for its essential contribution to human well-being and economic prosperity'. (Definition from Decision No 1386/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 on a General Union Environment Action Programme to 2020
- 5.Resource efficiency means using the Earth's limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment while allowing economic growth (through relative decoupling of material use).
- 6.Eurostat waste statistics (2011)
- 8.This information will include references to the dedicated financial resources for, and the effectiveness of, the actions as foreseen under the governance of the Green Action Plan.
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- 10.Resource efficiency means using the Earth's limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment while allowing economic growth (through relative decoupling of material use).
- 11.A circular economy keeps the value added in products for as long as possible and eliminates waste. Resources embedded in products are kept in productive use when the product reaches the end of its life, providing further value.
- 12.Symbiotic economy is based on the practice that the by-products of one company or sector (including energy, water, logistics and materials) are used by another.
- 13.Flash Eurobarometer 2013 on SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets: ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_381_eapdf.
- 14.IDEA Consult, ECORYS, 2009. Study on the competitiveness of the EU eco-industry; Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, 2009, 'Greentech - Made in Germany 2.0'
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- 17.Resource efficiency means using the Earth's limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment while allowing economic growth (through relative decoupling of material use).
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- 20.The 'green economy' is a model that 'secures growth and development, safeguards human health and well-being, provides decent jobs, reduces inequalities and invests in, and preserves biodiversity, including the ecosystem services it provides (natural capital), for its intrinsic value and for its essential contribution to human well-being and economic prosperity'. (Definition from Decision No 1386/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 November 2013 on a General Union Environment Action Programme to 2020
- 21.Resource efficiency means using the Earth's limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment while allowing economic growth (through relative decoupling of material use).
- 22.Eurostat waste statistics (2011)
- 24.This information will include references to the dedicated financial resources for, and the effectiveness of, the actions as foreseen under the governance of the Green Action Plan.
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- 26.Resource efficiency means using the Earth's limited resources in a sustainable manner while minimising impacts on the environment while allowing economic growth (through relative decoupling of material use).
- 27.A circular economy keeps the value added in products for as long as possible and eliminates waste. Resources embedded in products are kept in productive use when the product reaches the end of its life, providing further value.
- 28.Symbiotic economy is based on the practice that the by-products of one company or sector (including energy, water, logistics and materials) are used by another.
- 29.Flash Eurobarometer 2013 on SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets: ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_381_eapdf.
- 30.IDEA Consult, ECORYS, 2009. Study on the competitiveness of the EU eco-industry; Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, 2009, 'Greentech - Made in Germany 2.0'
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