7 Amendments of Lucas HARTONG related to 2011/0092(CNS)
Amendment 9 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Therefore, provision should be made for energy taxation to consist of two components, CO2-related taxation and general energy consumption taxation. In order for energy taxation to adapt to the operation of the Union scheme under Directive 2003/87/EC Member States should be required to explicitly distinguish between those two components. This would also allow distinct treatment of fuels that are biomass or made from biomass. This also makes it clear and understandable to tax-paying citizens and/or firms in the Member States why, and how, these cost-increasing measures are being imposed on them by Europe’s left-wing political elite.
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) In the field of motor fuels, the more favourable minimum level of taxation applicable to gas oil, a product originally put to business use for the most part and thus traditionally taxed at a lower level, creates a distortive effect with regard to petrol, its main competing fuel. Article 7 of Directive 2003/96/EC therefore provides for the first steps of a gradual alignment to the minimum level of taxation applicable to petrol. It is necessary to complete this alignment and gradually move to a situation where gas oil and petrol are taxed at an equal level. This will make it clear to gas oil users that a considerably increased financial burden is being forced upon them by Europe’s left-wing political elite.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) As regards the possibility for Member States to apply a lower level of taxation to commercial than to non-commercial use of gas oil as motor fuel, this provision would appear to be no longer compatible with the requirement to improve energy efficiency and the need to address the growing environmental impact of transport and should therefore be deleted. Article 9(2) of Directive 2003/96/EC authorises certain Member States to apply a reduced rate on heating gas oil. That provision is no longer compatible with the proper functioning of the internal market and with the wider objectives of the Treaty. It should therefore be deleted. This too is a clear signal from Europe’s left-wing political elite to consumers that environmental measures taken to ludicrous lengths are likely to cost a great deal, with the bill being passed on to consumers, who are already going through difficult economic times.
Amendment 15 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Article 5 of Directive 2003/96/EC permits the application of differentiated rates of taxation in certain cases. However, in order to ensure the consistency of the CO2 price signal, the possibility for Member States to differentiate national rates should be restricted to general energy consumption taxation. Moreover, the possibility to apply a lower level of taxation to motor fuel used by taxis is no longer compatible with the objective of policies promoting alternative fuels and energy carriers and the use of cleaner vehicles in urban transport and should thus be removed. Users of taxi services are simply going to have to pay more for their journeys; that is the rationale of this measure.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The rules on optional tax reductions and exemptions contained in Article 15 of Directive 2003/96/EC should be adapted in the light of experience gathered and of the new framework created by this Directive. The possibility for Member States to apply those optional reductions and exemptions should as much as possible be limited to general energy consumption taxation in order to establish a comprehensive and consistent CO2 price signal outside the Union emission trading scheme, though this proposal is entirely contrary to the subsidiarity principle.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Directive 2003/96/EC
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay not impose taxation on energy products and electricity in accordance with this Directive.