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Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulations (EU) 2018/841 as regards the scope, simplifying the compliance rules, setting out the targets of the Member States for 2030 and committing to the collective achievement of climate neutrality by 2035 in the land use, forestry and agriculture sector, and (EU) 2018/1999 as regards improvement in monitoring, reporting, tracking of progress and review
2022/03/23
Committee: ITRE
Dossiers: 2021/0201(COD)
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Amendments (155)

Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) The Communication of 17 September 2020 on Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition33 outlined an option to combine agriculture non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions with land use, land use change and forestry net removals, thus creating a newly regulated land sector. Such combination can promote synergies between land-based mitigation actions and enable more integrated policymaking and policy implementation at national and Union level. To this end, the obligation for Member States to submit integrated mitigation plans for the land sector should be reinforced. __________________ 33 COM(2020) 562 final.deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) The land sector has the potential to become rapidly climate-neutral by 2035 in a cost-effective manner, and subsequently generate more greenhouse gas removals than emissions. A collective commitment aiming to achieve climate- neutrality in the land sector in 2035 at EU level can provide the needed planning certainty to drive land-based mitigation action in the short term, considering that it can take many years for such action to deliver the desired mitigation outcomes. Moreover, the land sector is projected to become the largest sector in the EU greenhouse gas flux profile in 2050. It is therefore particularly important to anchor that sector to a trajectory that can effectively deliver net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By mid-2024, the Member States should submit their updated integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council34 . The plans should include relevant measures by which each Member State best contributes to the collective target of climate neutrality in the land sector at EU level in 2035. On the basis of these plans, the Commission should propose national targets, ensuring that the Union-wide greenhouse gas emissions and removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector and the emissions from the agriculture non-CO2 sectors are at least balanced by 2035. Contrary to the EU level target of climate neutrality for the land sector by 2035, such national targets will be binding and enforceable on each Member State. __________________ 34Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p.1).deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) In order to enhance greenhouse gas removals, individual farmers or forest managers need a direct incentive to store more carbon on their land and their forests. New business models based on carbon farming incentives and on the certification of carbon removals need to be increasingly deployed in the period until 2030. Such incentives and business models will enhance climate mitigation in the bio- economy, including through the use of durable harvested wood products, in full respect of ecological principles fostering biodiversity and the circular economy. Hence, new categories of carbon storage products should be introduced in addition to the harvested wood products. The emerging business models, farming and land management practices to enhance removals contribute to a balanced territorial development and economic growth in rural areas. They also create opportunities for new jobs and provide incentives for relevant training, reskilling and upskilling.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The interest of carbon storage in wood products is determined by the lifetime of these products, which can range from a few days for a leaflet, to decades or even hundreds of years for a wooden building. Although a wood product does represent a carbon stock, the actual benefit of harvesting a tree depends on the lifetime of the product produced, which must be compared to that of the wood in the ecosystem if the tree had not been cut down.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 b (new)
(10b) The benefit of using wood to replace competing energies or materials with higher carbon footprints is dependent on harvesting methods, transport and processing. Therefore, the overall climate benefit of harvesting wood for use as a material is limited.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 c (new)
(10c) The use of wood energy to displace fossil fuels seems to be of questionable interest for achieving climate neutrality. Indeed, whether energy is produced from wood or a fossil fuel, combustion unlocks carbon and emits CO2. The CO2 emitted is not immediately recaptured. The ensuing carbon debt, according to the findings of the Joint Research Centre1a, can range from several decades to over a century, depending on the type of wood used. Moreover, increased harvesting for energy could have negative effects on soil fertility and biodiversity. There are thus significant tensions between biomass extraction and the ecosystem functions of forests. It is therefore impossible to consider the combustion of wood energy as climate neutral. __________________ 1aAgostini A., Giuntoli, J. & Boulamanti, A., 2013: Carbon accounting of forest bioenergy, JRC scientific and policy reports, EU 2014
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 d (new)
(10d) Consequently, harvested wood products should not be regarded as a carbon sink equivalent to a fully functional forest ecosystem. Whilst wood products hold back emissions and can contribute to mitigation, the Commission needs to lay out sustainable harvesting criteria in order to ensure that the life cycle of harvested wood products do not significant harm to environmental objectives within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 e (new)
(10e) Additionally, due to record high harvests in the Union's forests and intensive agricultural practices, the Union’s sinks have been continuously decreasing since 2013. Therefore, there is a clear necessity to set out targets for reducing wood harvesting levels for the period from 2026 onwards.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) Considering the specificities of the land use, land use change and forestry sector in each Member State, as well as the fact that Member States need to increase their performance to achieve their national binding targets, a range of flexibilities should remain at the disposal of the Member States, including trading surpluses and the extension of forest- specific flexibilities, while respecting the environmental integrity of the targets.deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) Discontinuing the current accounting rules after 2025 creates a need for alternative provisions for natural disturbances such as fire, pest, and storms, in order to address uncertainties due to natural processes or as a result of climate change in the land use, land use change and forestry sector. A flexibility mechanism linked to natural disturbances should be available to Member States in 2032, provided that they have exhausted all other flexibilities at their disposal, put in place appropriate measures to reduce the vulnerability of their land to such disturbances and that the achievement by the Union of the 2030 target for the land use, land use change and forestry sector is completed.deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
(1) The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in November 2016 (“the Paris Agreement”). Its Parties have agreed to hold the increase in the global average temperature well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue effortsn its 2021 Report on the Physical Science Basis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has underlined that most of widespread and rapid changes to Earth’s oceans, ice and land surface caused by global warming are irreversible on human timescales and that exceeding 2°C of global warming, will cause heat extremes to reach critical tolerance thresholds for agriculture and human health. Stabilizing the climate will require strong, rapid, and sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and reaching net zero CO2 emissions. By adopting the Glasgow Climate Pact, its Parties have recognized the urgency to act to limit the temperature increase to 1,5 °C above pre-industrial levels.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The Intergovernmental Science- Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (IPBES) Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services report clearly underlines the magnitude of the ecological crisis and the need for urgent and concerted efforts fostering transformative change, since nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, the rate of species extinctions is accelerating and around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, which have grave impacts on people around the world and will affect the life of our future generations. The publication of the IPCC report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate underlined that climate change is one of the main direct drivers of biodiversity loss and underlines that its negative effects on nature and biodiversity, ecosystem services, oceans and food security are projected to become increasingly significant in the decades to come.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) According to the 2020 report on Biodiversity and Pandemics by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the underlying causes of pandemics are the same global environmental changes that drive biodiversity loss and climate change, including land-use change, agricultural expansion and intensification and other drivers. Climate change has been implicated in disease emergence and will likely cause substantial future pandemic risk, whilst biodiversity loss is also associated with the transformation of landscapes and can lead to increased emerging disease risk in some cases. According to the report, the cost of inaction vastly outweighs the cost of implementing global strategies to prevent pandemics-based land-use change and other drivers.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) On June 2021, fifty experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), published a joint report1a highlighting the close links between climate change and the biodiversity crisis. The experts called for both crises to be tackled jointly, to focus on nature-based solutions such as the restoration of carbon and species-rich ecosystems, to increase sustainable agricultural and forestry practices, such as diversification of plant and forest species planted, agroforestry and agroecology, to strengthen and better target conservation actions by expanding the area of land and ocean protected. __________________ 1aIPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change, 10 June 2021.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 b (new)
(1b) In its resolution of 28 November 2019 on the climate and environment emergency1a, the European Parliament urged the Commission to take immediate and ambitious action to limit global warming to 1,5°C and to avoid massive biodiversity loss, including by addressing inconsistencies in current Union policies with the climate and environment emergency, in particular through a far reaching reform of its agricultural, trade, transport, energy and infrastructure investment policies, and by ensuring that all relevant future legislative and budgetary proposals are fully aligned with the objective of limiting global warming to under 1,5°C and that they do not contribute to biodiversity loss. __________________ 1a OJ C 232, 16.6.2021, p. 28.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 c (new)
(1c) On 11 October 2021 the Council authorized the Commission to endorse the Kunming Declaration, on behalf of the Union. Therefore, the Union has committed itself to ensure the development, adoption and implementation of an effective post-2020 global biodiversity framework, that includes provision of the necessary means of implementation, in line with the Convention on Biological Diversity, and appropriate mechanisms for monitoring, reporting and review, to reverse the current loss of biodiversity and ensure that biodiversity is put on a path to recovery by 2030 at the latest, towards the full realization of the 2050 Vision of “Living in Harmony with Nature”.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) The expected anthropogenic changes to marine and freshwaters environment use though, for instance, planned expansion of offshore energy, potential increase in aquaculture production and the increasing levels of nature protection to meet the EU Biodiversity Strategy targets will influence greenhouse gas emissions and their sequestration. Currently these emissions and removals are not included in the standard reporting tables to the UNFCCC. Subsequently to the adoption of the reporting methodology, the Commission will consider reporting on the progress, feasibility of analysis and impact of extending the reporting to marinesetting net removal targets for the marine, coastal and freshwater environmentcosystems based on the latest scientific evidence of these fluxes when carrying out the review in accordance with Article 17(2) of this Regulation.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 d (new)
(1d) The Union's actions and policies have so far been insufficient to halt the loss of biodiversity and achieve the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets. In “The European environment —state and outlook 2020: knowledge for transition to a sustainable Europe”, the European Environment Agency notes that “Europe continues to lose biodiversity at an alarming rate and many agreed policy targets will not be achieved. Assessments of species and habitats protected under the Habitats Directive show predominantly unfavourable conservation status at 60 % for species and 77 % for habitats.”1a. A 2021 Joint Research Centre report shows that only 4.9 million hectares of Europe’s primary and ancient forests - essential for preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change - remain, representing only 3% of the Union’s total forest area and 1.2% of the Union’s land mass.1b __________________ 1aEEA, "The European environment — state and outlook 2020", p. 74 1bBarredo, J., Brailescu, C., Teller, A., Sabatini, F.M., Mauri, A. and Janouskova, K., Mapping and assessment of primary and old-growth forests in Europe, EUR 30661 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2021
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 e (new)
(1e) Although tree cover is increasing, the Union’s forests’ capacity to remove carbon has been significantly declining since 2015 and this trend is set to continue. Until 2015, the Union land sector was able to remove around 7% of total EU emissions (about 300 million Mt- CO2 equivalent)1a. According to the European Environmental Agency (EEA)1b, by 2030 the same land area will be removing 40 per cent less CO2 equivalent (dropping to -185 Mt in 2030)1c. That recent decrease in carbon storage is partly due to an increase in harvesting. Furthermore, climate change could reduce the carbon storage potential of Europe’s forests by180 Mt CO2 annually in 2021 to 2030 due to disturbances and thus reduce the expected net forest sink by more than 50 %.1d __________________ 1a EEA Report No 6/2019 1b EEA, Total greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe (https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and- maps/indicators/greenhouse-gas- emission-trends-6/assessment-3) 1cEEA, Total greenhouse gas emission trends and projections in Europe (https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and- maps/indicators/greenhouse-gas- emission-trends-6/assessment-3) 1d Seidl, R.; Schelhaas, M.-J.; Rammer, W.; Verkerk, P. J. (2014): Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage. In: nature climate change 4 (9), pp. 806–810. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2318.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 f (new)
(1f) In its communication on the European Green Deal, the Commission has set out a new strategy as a first step in the transformation of the Union into an environmentally sustainable, carbon- neutral, toxic-free and fully circular economy within the limits of the planet by 2050 at the latest. The European Green Deal also aims to strengthen global efforts to implement the One Health approach, which recognizes the intrinsic link between human health, animal health and a healthy and resilient nature, and to contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
(2) Tackling climate and environmental-related challenges and reaching the objectives of the Paris Agreement are at the core of the Communication on ’The European Green Deal’, adopted by the Commission on 11 December 201928 . The necessity and value of the European Green Deal have, the Convention on Biological Diversity and creating a safe and equitable space for humanity in which a society that ensures sustainable human development are the objectives to which the European Green Deal must contribute. The urgent need to meet these objectives has only grown in light of the very severe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and economicgeneral well-being of the Union’s citizens. __________________ 28 COM(2019)640 final.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The Commission communication of 20 May 2020 entitled ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives’ steps up the Union’s ambition regarding the protection and restoration of biodiversity and well- functioning ecosystems. Scientific evidence, reports and recommendations on zoonoses and pandemics, including the IPBES workshop report on biodiversity loss and pandemics, the United Nations Environment Programme report of 6 July 2020 entitled ‘Preventing the next pandemic – Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission’, have demonstrated the importance of halting the loss of biodiversity and of holistically applying the ‘One Health’ principle in policy making, which reflects the fact that human health, animals and the environment are interconnected and that transformative changes are urgently needed across society.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) The United Nations Environment Programme and the OECD Global Forum on Environment have highlighted that environmental changes have gender- specific impact. Gender-differentiated roles also cause differentiated vulnerabilities of women and men to the effects of climate change, and climate change impacts exacerbate gender inequalities. The 8th Environmental Action Programme defines gender mainstreaming throughout climate and environmental policies, including by incorporating a gender perspective at all stages of the policy making process, as a vital, enabling condition for the achievement of the priority objectives of the programme, requiring efforts from the European Commission, the Member States, local and regional authorities and stakeholders, as appropriate.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) commitments of the relevant Union institutions and Member States to enhance and maintain natural sinks and carbon stocks in the LULUCF sector from 2031 and onwards so as to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement, especially Article 5(1) thereof, the Convention on Biological Diversity and ensure a sustainable and predictable long-term contribution of natural sinks to the Union’s climate neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest and to achieving negative emissions thereafter, as set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) commitments of Member States to take the necessary measures aiming towards the collective achievement of climate-neutrality in the Union by 2035 in the land use, land use change and forestry sector includtargets for reducing emissions by the non-CO2 agriculture by 2035.’;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The new emissions gap report published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) shows that the updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) could lead to a global temperature increase of around 2,7 °C by the end of the century. The various international commitments to climate neutrality, if fully implemented, would still lead to a global temperature increase of 2,2 °C. The Union must considerably step up efforts to contain global warming and limit the global temperature increase to 1,5 °C.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 b (new)
(3b) Reducing methane emissions is critical in meeting the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1,5°C by the end of the century. A 2021 report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that rapid action on methane emissions could take 0,3°C off global temperature by 2045. There is therefore an urgent need for the Union to adopt a reduction target and accompanying binding measures to rapidly reduce methane emissions from all sources, including biogenic sources.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) targets for reducing wood harvesting levels for the period from 2026 onwards.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) wetland remaining wetland;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e b (new)
(eb) settlement or other land, converted to wetland;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e c (new)
(ec) wetland converted to settlement or other land.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) where a Member State has notified to the Commission its intention to include such land use in the scope of its commitments pursuant to Article 4(1) by 31 December 2020, land use reported as either of the following (‘managed wetland’): — —deleted wetland remaining wetland; settlement or other land, converted wetland converted to wsetland; — other land.tlement or
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
(4) In Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council30 , the Union has enshrined the target of economy-wide climate neutrality by 2050 in legislationstablished a framework for the irreversible and gradual reduction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and enhancement of removals by sinks regulated in Union law, in order to ensure that Union-wide greenhouse gas emissions and removals regulated in Union law are balanced within the Union at the latest by 2050. That Regulation also establishes a binding Union commitment to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions (emissions after deduction of removals) by at least 55 % below 1990 levels by 2030. All sectors of the economy are expected to contribute to achieving that target, including the land use, land use change and forestry sector. The contribution of net removals to the 2030 Union climate target is limited to 225 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. In the context of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, the Commission reaffirmed in a corresponding statement its intention to propose a revision of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council31 , in line with the ambition to increase net carbon removals to levels above 300 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in the land use, land use change and forestry sector by 2030. __________________ 30Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’) (OJ L 243, 9.7.2021, p. 1).’. 31 Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry in the 2030 climate and energy framework, and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 and Decision No 529/2013/EU (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 1).
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
3. This Regulation also applies to emissions and removals of the greenhouse gases listed in Section A of Annex I, reported pursuant to Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and occurring on the territories of Member States from 2031 and onwards, in any of the land categories listed in paragraph 2, points (a) to (j) and in any of the following sectorcoastal and marine ecosystems:
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) enteric fermentation;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
(aa) mangroves;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point a b (new)
(ab) salt marshes;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point a c (new)
(ac) seagrass meadows.'
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) manure management;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point c
(c) rice cultivation;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point d
(d) agricultural soils;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point e
(e) prescribed burning of savannas;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point f
(f) field burning of agricultural residues;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point g
(g) liming;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point h
(h) urea application;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point i
(i) ‘other carbon-containing fertilizers’;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 – point j
(j) ‘other’.deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The 2030 Union target for net greenhouse gas removals is 31600 million tonnes CO2 equivalent as a sum of the Member States targets established in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article, and shall be based on the average of its greenhouse gas inventory data for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
(5) In order to contribute to the increased ambition to reduce greenhouse gas net emissions from at least 40 % to at least 55 % below 1990 levelsensure that the land use, land use change and forestry sector (LULUCF) sustainably contributes to the objective of achieving climate neutrality at the latest by 2050, binding annual targets for net greenhouse gas removals should be set out for each Member State in the land use, land use change and forestryLULUCF sector in the period from 2026 to 2030 (in analogy to the annual emission allocations set out in Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council32 ), resulting in a target of 31600 millions of tonnes CO2 equivalent of net removals for the Union as a whole in 2030. The methodology used to establish the national targets for 2030 should take into account the average greenhouse gas emissions and removals from the years 2016, 2017 and 2018, reported by each Member State, and reflect the current mitigation performance of the land use, land use change and forestry sector, and each Member State’s share of the managed land area in the Union, taking into account the capacity of that Member State to improve its performance in the sector via land management practices or changes in land use that benefit the climate and biodiversity. __________________ 32Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 contributing to climate action to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 26).
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall adopt implementing acts setting out the annual targets based on the linear trajectory for net greenhouse gas removals for each Member State, for each year in the period from 2026 to 2029 in terms of tonnes CO2 equivalent. These national trajectories shall bedelegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to supplement this regulation by setting out the annual targets for LULUCF sector, including targets for reducing emissions by the non-CO2 agriculture and reducing wood harvesting levels, based on the average greenhouse gas inventory data for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, reported by each Member State. The value of the 31600 million tonnes CO2 equivalent net removals as a sum of the targets for Member States set out in Annex IIa may be subject to a technical correction due to a change of methodology by Member States, subject to an independent scientific expertise and validation. The method for determination of the technical correction to be added to the targets of the Member States, and for the independent scientific expert review, shall be set out in these implementingdelegated acts. For the purpose of those implementingdelegated acts, the Commission shall carry out a comprehensive review of the most recent national inventory data for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 submitted by Member States pursuant to Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16a.deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The relevant Union institutions and Member States shall take all necessary measures to enhance and maintain natural sinks and carbon stocks in the LULUCF sector from 2031 and onwards so as to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement, especially Article 5(1) thereof, the Convention on Biological Diversity and ensure a sustainable and predictable long-term contribution of natural sinks to the Union’s climate neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest and to achieving negative emissions thereafter, as set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119. By 1 January 2025, the Commission shall, taking into account the advice of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change and the Union greenhouse gas budget set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, and on the basis of the integrated national energy and climate plans submitted by Member States by 30 June 2024 pursuant to Article 14 (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, adopt a proposal to amend this Regulation to set out Union and Member States targets for net greenhouse gas removals in land use, land use change and forestry at least for 2035, 2040, 2045 and 2050.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. The Union-wide greenhouse gas emissions in the sectors set out in Article 2(3), points (a) to (j), shall aim to be net zero by 2035 and the Union shall achieve negative emissions thereafter. The Union and the Member States shall take the necessary measures to enable the collective achievement of the target for 2035. The Commission shall, by 31 December 2025 and on the basis of integrated national energy and climate plans submitted by each Member State pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 by 30 June 2024, make proposals for the contribution of each Member State to the net emissions reduction.’;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
(6) The binding annual targets for net greenhouse gas removals should be determined for each Member State by a linear trajectory. The trajectory should start in 2022, on the average of greenhouse gas emissions reported by that Member State during 2021, 2022 and 2023 and end in 2030 on the target set out for that Member State. For Member States that improve their methodology of calculating the emissions and removals, a concept of technical correction should be introduced, subject to independent scientific expertise, review and validation. A technical correction should be added to the target of that Member State corresponding to the effect of the change in methodology on the targets and the efforts of the Member State to achieve them, in order to respect environmental integrity.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States shall ensure that measures taken to meet their national targets as referred to in paragraph 2 do not significantly harm other Union environmental objectives, in particular Union biodiversity objectives as set out in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and in the relevant legislation, within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to supplement this Regulation by specifying common rules and methodologies to achieve the objective set out in this paragraph, including guidelines and minimum criteria regarding restoration of forest carbon stocks, afforestation, reforestation, expanding agroforestry coverage, maintaining and enhancing carbon in mineral agricultural soils, restoring wetlands, and protecting and restoring saltmarshes and seagrass meadows.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 a (new)
(3a) the following Article 4a is inserted: ‘Article 4a Financial support for forest and farm owners By... [six months after the entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council assessing the consistency of different funding instrument sunder the Union budget and the European Union Recovery Instrument, including the national CAP Strategic Plans, with the commitments and targets set out in Article 4 of this Regulation, and shall identify ways of increasing financial support to forest and farm owners who engage in the restoration of forest carbon stocks, expansion of agroforestry coverage, soil carbon sequestration and restoration of wetlands, as a way to enhance current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience.’
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) To achieve a negative balance of emissions in the LULUCF sector, emission sources must be simultaneously reduced, and carbon sinks maintained and significantly expanded. Maintaining and increasing natural carbon sinks requires a combination of several categories of measures to achieve the required sequestration potential in the different land categories covered by this Regulation. Such measures should focus on preserving, restoring and enhancing the ecosystem services specific to each land category in their diversity, enhancing biodiversity, and reducing vulnerability to natural disturbances and the effects of climate change.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 b (new)
(6b) Restoring natural biologically diverse forests is the cheapest, most effective, and most readily available way to ensure that the LULUCF sector sustainably contributes to the objective of achieving climate neutrality at the latest by 2050. Indeed, recent research has shown that natural regeneration can potentially absorb 40 times more carbon than plantations1a, and provide a home for more species. It is also significantly cheaper than tree planting, with different studies in Brazil showing costs reduced by 38%1b, or even up to 76%1c. Moreover, recent studies show that the absorption capacity of old-growth forest and mature forest has been severely underestimated. Furthermore, there is currently no evidence that natural forests are more vulnerable to climate change than planted forests. Several studies have demonstrated the resilience of natural forests to climate change and the better resilience of mixed stands compared with single-species stand. In addition to better carbon storage and resilience, biodiversity, water (filtration, flood control, reduced pollution), air (filtration, reduced pollution), and livelihoods are significantly improved when forests are restored. __________________ 1a https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.111 1/gcb.15498#gcb15498-bib-0102 1b https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.111 1/gcb.15498#gcb15498-bib-0117 1c https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.111 1/gcb.15498#gcb15498-bib-0041
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 c (new)
(6c) Afforestation and reforestation can be an effective way to reinforce the contribution of the LULUCF sector to the objective of achieving climate neutrality at the latest by 2050. There are several co- benefits associated with afforestation and reforestation: water filtration, increased availability of water, drought mitigation, flood control, avoided sedimentation, habitat for wildlife, increase of soil fauna, enhanced soil fertility and air filtration. However, afforestation and reforestation may also show trade-offs for biodiversity, e.g. on biodiverse grasslands. Besides, afforestation and reforestation need additional land and therefore may compete with other land uses such as agriculture. Additionally, as a mitigation option, afforestation and reforestation are less effective in boreal areas like in Scandinavia due to the albedo effect and it is essential to consider the natural vegetation type, to choose the tree species that offer all the aforementioned co- benefits. Hence, there should be a strict hierarchy whereas restoration of forest ecosystems is prioritized over reforestation and reforestation over afforestation.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 d (new)
(6d) Agroforestry integrates woody vegetation with crop and/or animal systems, creating carbon removals from the atmosphere and its sequestration into biomass and soil. In addition to carbon sequestration, agroforestry has important co-benefits for wildlife and biodiversity, improved soil health and protection from erosion, protection from nitrate leaching, and flooding. Silvo-pastoral systems can also improve animal welfare by providing shelter to livestock and reducing heat stress. It has positive adaptation benefits by improving the microclimate under rising temperatures, protection against erosion, and improved water balance. Moreover, with diversification of output, farms are less vulnerable to single crop failure.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – title
(a) the title is replaced by the following: Carbon storage products;deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 e (new)
(6e) Croplands and grasslands continue losing soil organic carbon. The choice of management practices that have the most significant potential for maintenance and sequestration of soil carbon varies according to climate and biophysical conditions as well as the production system involved. The largest potential is associated with: 1) cover cropping; 2) improved crop rotation; 3) agroforestry established on cropland or grassland; 4) preventing conversion of grassland to arable land and additional conversion from arable to grassland; 5) organic farming; 6) and management of grazing land and grassland to increase soil organic carbon levels. Maintaining and enhancing soil organic carbon stocks has important co-benefits by 1) improving the soil structure and soil fertility; 2) increasing the water retention capacity of soils and increasing their resilience to climate change; 3) reducing soil erosion and 4) reducing the soil compaction risk.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 f (new)
(6f) Wetlands are among the most effective carbon storage in the world because they can accumulate carbon stocks over a very long time period. They store about half of Europe’s total soil organic carbon. Therefore, reducing emissions from wetlands is one of the most effective measures to achieve climate neutrality. Beside their carbon storage potential, wetlands are of great importance for biodiversity conservation because they are essential habitats to many plants and animal species adapted to wet conditions.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 g (new)
(6g) Marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass meadows sequester carbon from the atmosphere and mainly in their sediments. Whilst there is only little knowledge about the current carbon stocks and sequestration rate of seagrasses and saltmarshes in the Union, some estimates consider that average carbon stock is very high compared to terrestrial ecosystems. Considering that the restoration potential of salt marshes and seagrasses is currently unknown in the Union, these ecosystems cannot be immediately covered by this Regulation and should be integrated only from 2031 onwards.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
(7) The Communication of 17 September 2020 on Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition33 outlined an option to combine agriculture non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions with land use, land use change and forestry net removals, thus creating a newly regulated land sector. Such combination can promote synergies between land-based mitigation actions and enable more integrated policymaking and policy implementation at national and Union level. To this end, the obligation for Member States to submit integrated mitigation plans for the land sector should be reinforced. __________________ 33deleted COM(2020) 562 final.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – paragraph 2
(b) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: 2. delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to amend paragraph 1 of this Article and Annex V by adding new categories of carbon storage products, including harvested wood products, that have a carbon sequestration effect, based on IPCC Guidelines as adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC or the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, and ensuring environmental integrity.;The Commission shall adopt
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(ba) in Article 9, the following paragraph 3a is added: ‘3a. In the delegated acts adopted pursuant to paragraph 2, the Commission shall layout sustainable harvesting criteria in order to ensure that the life cycle of harvested wood products do not do significant harm to environmental objectives within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852.'
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 182 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – title
Flexibilities and gGovernance;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph -1 a (new)
(aa) in Article 11, the following paragraph -1 is added: ‘-1. Updated and subsequent National Energy and Climate Plans and Long-term Strategies as referred to in Articles 3, 14 and 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 shall comprise measures for the achievement of the annual targets set out in Article 4(3) and the implementation of sustainable harvesting criteria for harvested wood products set out in article 9(4). These measures shall be duly reasoned and substantiated. They shall in particular set out the following elements: (a) an explanation of how they enforce the implementation of existing measures to prevent the conversion of forest land, cropland and grassland to settlements or infrastructures by reducing the rates of soil sealing and enforcing environmental legislation, in particular the Directive 2000/60/EC1a and the Directive 92/43/EEC1b under Natura 2000; (b) an explanation of how they manage and reduce pressure from consumption on forest land, cropland and grassland in order to reduce intensity of land use and biomass extraction; (c) a qualitative explanation of how they are expected to increase forest land areas, support restoration of forest carbon stocks, and conserve carbon in wetlands; (d) a detailed explanation of how native tree species adapted to site conditions for afforestation, reforestation and restoration of forest land are being favoured; (e) a qualitative explanation of how they prioritise the protection and restoration of biodiversity over land use conversion; (f) a qualitative explanation of how they prioritise the removal of pressures from resource and land use over active ecosystem restoration. If a Member State fails to meet its annual target as set out in Article 4(3) for two consecutive years, it shall amend its National Energy and Climate Plan and Long-term Strategy and adopt additional measures to enhance the protection of existing natural carbon sinks and reduce pressures on land use and demand for land, in a way that enhances current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. Such amendment shall be completed within six months of the second year in which the Member State concerned failed to meet its annual target. The Commission may issue recommendations identifying how the National Energy and Climate Plans and the Long-term Strategy of the Member State concerned should be revised. The Commission shall make such recommendations publicly available. The Member State concerned shall notify the revised National Energy and Climate Plan and Long-term Strategy pursuant to paragraph 1 to the Commission accompanied by a statement setting out how the proposed revision will remedy non-compliance with the annual targets, and how the Commission’s recommendations have been taken into account. Where the Commission finds that the revised National Energy and Climate Plan or the Long-term Strategy have been insufficiently amended to meet the annual targets of the Member State concerned, the Commission may open an infringement procedure in accordance with the Treaty on European Union and Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. __________________ 1aDirective 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1). 1bCouncil Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7).
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
AWithout prejudice to article 1a, a Member State may use:
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
(8) The land sector has the potential to become rapidly climate-neutral by 2035 in a cost-effective manner, and subsequently generate more greenhouse gas removals than emissions. A collective commitment aiming to achieve climate- neutrality in the land sector in 2035 at EU level can provide the needed planning certainty to drive land-based mitigation action in the short term, considering that it can take many years for such action to deliver the desired mitigation outcomes. Moreover, the land sector is projected to become the largest sector in the EU greenhouse gas flux profile in 2050. It is therefore particularly important to anchor that sector to a trajectory that can effectively deliver net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. By mid-2024, the Member States should submit their updated integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council34 . The plans should include relevant measures by which each Member State best contributes to the collective target of climate neutrality in the land sector at EU level in 2035. On the basis of these plans, the Commission should propose national targets, ensuring that the Union-wide greenhouse gas emissions and removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector and the emissions from the agriculture non-CO2 sectors are at least balanced by 2035. Contrary to the EU level target of climate neutrality for the land sector by 2035, such national targets will be binding and enforceable on each Member State. __________________ 34Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p.1).deleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) the general flexibilities set out in Article 12; and.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) in order to comply with the commitment in Article 4, the managed forest land flexibility set out in Articles 13 and 13b.deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Finland may, besides the flexibilities referred to in the first subparagraph, points (a) and (b), use additional compensations pursuant to Article 13a.’
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point -a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. removals in a Member State, and that Member State has chosen to use(-a) in Article 12, paragraph 1 its flexibility, and has requested to delete annual emission allocations under Regulation (EU) 2018/842, the quantity of deleted emission allocations shall be taken into account with respect to the Member State’s compliance with its commitment pursuant to Article 4 of this Regulation.deleted Where total emissions exceed total
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point -a a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 2
(-aa) in Article 12, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. To the extent that total removals exceed total emissions in a Member State for the period from2021 to 2025, or that net greenhouse gas removals in 2030 in a Member State exceed the 2030 target set out for that Member State in Annex IIa, that Member State may transfer the remaining quantity of removals to another Member State subject to the payment by the recipient Member State of at least EUR 250 per tonne of transferred removals. The quantity transferred shall be taken into account when assessing the recipient Member State's compliance with its 2030 target as set out in Annex IIa.'
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 5
5. Member States mayshall use revenues generated by transfers pursuant to paragraph 2 to tackle climate change in the Union or in third countries and shall inform the Commission of any such actions takenprotect existing sinks by reducing pressures on land use and demand for land, as a way to improve on the current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience the Union or in third countries, provided that an environmental impact assessment pursuant to Directive 2011/92/EU has been carried out, and shall inform the Commission as to as the use of those revenues and to the actions taken in the reports referred to in Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13
(11) Article 13 is replaced by the following: Managed forest land flexibility 1. 2025, total emissions exceed total removals in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2(1), [accounted for in accordance with this Regulation,] in a Member State, that Member State may use the managed forest land flexibility set out in this Article in order to comply with Article 4(1). 2. 2025, the result of the calculation referred to in Article 8(1) is a positive figure, the Member State concerned shall be entitled to compensate emissions resulted from the calculation provided that the following conditions are fulfilled: (a) its strategy submitted in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ongoing or planned specific measures to ensure the conservation or enhancement, as appropriate, of forest sinks and reservoirs; and (b) do not exceed total removals in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2(1) of this Regulation for the period from 2021 to 2025. When assessing whether, within the Union, total emissions exceed total removals as referred to in the first subparagraph, point (b), the Commission shall ensure that double counting is avoided by Member States, in particular in the exercise of the flexibilities set out in Article 12 of this Regulation and Articles 7(1) or 9(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/842. 3. paragraph 2 may only cover sinks accounted for as emissions against the forest reference level of that Member State and may not exceed 50 % of the maximum amount of compensation for the Member State concerned set out in Annex VII for the period from 2021 to 2025. 4. evidence to the Commission concerning the impact of natural disturbances calculated pursuant to Annex VI in order to be eligible for compensation of remaining sinks accounted for as emissions against its forest reference level, up to the full amount of unused compensation by other Member States set out in Annex VII for the period from 2021 to 2025. In case the demand for compensation exceeds the amount of unused compensation available, the compensation shall be distributed proportionally among the Member States concerned.’;deleted Article 13 Where, in the period from 2021 to Where, in the period from 2021 to the Member State has included in total emissions within the Union The compensation referred to in Member States shall submit
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 196 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – introductory part
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13
(11) Article 13 is replaced by the following:deleted.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) Finland included in its strategy submitted in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ongoing or planned specific measures to ensure the conservation or enhancement, as appropriate, of forest sinks and reservoirs as a way to improve on the current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) there is a positive trend in relation to Finland concerning the conservation of habitats under Directives 92/43/EEC and 2009/147/EC;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b
[...]deleted
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) In order to set a long-term vision, the Commission, supported by the Advisory Board, established in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, will prepare an indicative roadmap of the LULUCF sector’s contribution to the Union’s climate neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest and the aim to achieve negative emissions thereafter laid out in Article 2(1) of Regulation 2021/1119. The roadmaps will be prepared in a transparent manner with close engagement of stakeholders, such as individual citizens, civil society, social partners, academia, industry and policy makers. The roadmap is an essential tool for providing long-term insight and stability for stakeholders and to identify common interests, possible inconsistencies and conflicts in policy development. The roadmap will be updated every four years in order to take consider latest scientific development, in close engagement with stakeholders.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 1
If, as a result of the comprehensive review carried out by the Commission in 2032 pursuant to Article 14(2), the Commission finds that the reviewed greenhouse gas emissions and removals of a Member State in 2032 exceed the annual targets of that Member State for any specific year of the period 2026 to 2030, taking into account the flexibilities used pursuant to Articles 12 and 13b, the following measure shall apply:
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
(a) the Commission shall impose, in any relevant year of the period from 2026 to 2030, an excess premium on that Member State equivalent to the amount in tonnes of CO2 equivalent of the sum of greenhouse gas emissions and removals in excess of the limit established by the linear trajectory set out pursuant to Article4(3) multiplied by EUR 375;
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 2
A(b) an amount equal to the amount in tonnes of CO2 equivalent of the excess greenhouse gas net emissions, multiplied by a factor of 1,08, shall be added to the greenhouse gas emission figure reported by that Member State in the following year, in accordance with the measures adopted pursuant to Article 15.; The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to supplement this Regulation by setting out the means for collecting excess premiums imposed under point (a) of the first subparagraph.'
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
(10) In order to enhance greenhouse gas removals, individual farmers or forest managers need a directshould be allowed to benefit from incentives to store more carbon on their land and their forests. New business models based on carbon farming incentives and on the certification of carbon removals need to be increasingly deployed in the period until 2030. Such incentives and business models will enhance climate mitigation in the bio-economy, including through the use of durable harvested wood products, in full respect of ecological principles fostering biodiversity and the circular economy. Hence, new categories of carbon storage products should be introduced in addition to the harvested wood products. The emerging business models, farming and land management practices to enhance removals contribute to a balanced territorial development and economic growth in rural areas. They also create opportunities for new jobs and provide incentives for relevant training, reskilling and upskillingengage in the restoration of forest carbon stocks, expansion of agroforestry coverage, soil carbon sequestration and restoration of wetlands, as a way to enhance current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. Public funding under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and other EU programmes – LIFE, the Cohesion Funds, Horizon Europe, the Recovery and Resilience Fund, the Just Transition Fund – can already support such endeavours and should be increased..
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 16 a (new)
(17) the following Article 16a is inserted: 1. by the Climate Change Committee established by Article 44(3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999. That committee shall be deleted Article 16a cCommittee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council44 . 2. paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.; __________________ 44 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).procedure The Commission shall be assisted Where reference is made to this
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 228 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, no later than six months after […]each global stocktake agreed under Article 14 of the Paris Agreement, on the operation of this Regulation, including, where relevant, an assessment of the impacts of the flexibilities referred to in Article 11, as well as on the contribution of this Regulation to the Union’s overall 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target and its contribution to the goals of the Paris Agreement, in particular with regard to the need for additional Union policies and measures, in view of the necessary increase in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals in the Union on the necessary increase in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals in the Union, as well as on the contribution of this Regulation to the Union’s climate neutrality objective and climate intermediary targets set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/119, and its contribution to the goals of the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as other Union objectives and measures, such as the 8th Environmental Action Programme, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and of the objective to protect and restore biodiversity to ensure healthy ecosystems. The report shall take into account the best available and most recent scientific evidence, including the latest reports of the IPCC, IPBES and of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119.
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Following the report, the Commission shall make legislative proposals where it deems it appropriate. In particular, the proposals shall set out annual targets and governance aiming towards the 2035 climate-neutrality target as laid down in Article 4(4), additional Union policies and measures, and a post-2035 framework, including in the scope of the Regulation greenhouse gas emissions and removals from additional sectors, such as the marine and freshwater environment.additional Union policies and measures to achieve the post-2030 LULUCF targets referred to in Article 4(3) and set additional net removal targets for marine, coastal and freshwater ecosystems, based on robust scientific methodologies.';
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 235 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(18a) in Article 17, the following paragraph 2a is inserted: ‘2a. No later than six months after the entry into force of Regulation (EU) …/... [EU Nature Restoration Law], the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council assessing the consistency of this Regulation, in particular of the targets set out in Article 4(2),with the restoration targets set out in that Regulation. The report shall be accompanied, where appropriate, by legislative proposals to amend this Regulation.’
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 235 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The interest of carbon storage in wood products is determined by the lifespan of these products, which can range from a few days for a leaflet, to decades or even hundreds of years for a wooden building. Although a wood product does represent a carbon stock, the actual benefit of harvesting a tree depends on the lifespan of the product produced, which must be compared to that of the wood in the ecosystem if the tree had not been cut down.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point 1 – point ii
the Member State’s commitments and national targets for net greenhouse gas removals pursuant to Article 4(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 and its contributions aim towards reaching the Union objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2035 and achieving negative emissions thereafter pursuant to Article 4(4) of that Regulation;';
2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 b (new)
(10b) The benefit of using wood to replace competing energies or materials with higher carbon footprints is dependent on harvesting methods, transport and processing. Therefore, the overall climate benefit of harvesting wood for use as a material is limited.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 c (new)
(10c) The use of wood energy to displace fossil fuels seems to be of questionable interest for achieving climate neutrality. Indeed, whether energy is produced from wood or a fossil fuel, combustion unlocks carbon and emits CO2. The CO2 emitted is not immediately recaptured. The ensuing carbon debt, according to the findings of the Joint Research Centre1a, can range from several decades to over a century, depending on the type of wood used. Moreover, increased harvesting for energy could have negative effects on soil fertility and biodiversity. There are thus significant tensions between biomass extraction and the ecosystem functions of forests and it is therefore impossible to consider the combustion of wood energy as climate neutral. __________________ 1aAgostini A., Giuntoli, J. & Boulamanti, A., 2013: Carbon accounting of forest bioenergy, JRC scientific and policy reports, EU 2014
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 d (new)
(10d) Consequently, harvested wood products should not be regarded as a carbon sink equivalent to a fully functional forest ecosystem. Whilst wood products hold back emissions and can contribute to mitigation, the Commission needs to lay out sustainable harvesting criteria in order to ensure that the life cycle of harvested wood products do not cause significant harm to environmental objectives within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10 e (new)
(10e) Additionally, due to record high harvests in the Union's forests and intensive agricultural practices, the EU sinks have been continuously decreasing since 2013. Therefore, there is a clear necessity to set out targets for reducing wood harvesting levels for the period from 2026 onwards.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
(11) Considering the specificities of the land use, land use change and forestry sector in each Member State, as well as the fact that Member States need to increase their performance to achieve their national binding targets, a range of flexibilities should remain at the disposal of the Member States, including trading surpluses and the extension of forest- specific flexibilities, while respecting the environmental integrity of the targets.deleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
(12) Discontinuing the current accounting rules after 2025 creates a need for alternative provisions for natural disturbances such as fire, pest, and storms, in order to address uncertainties due to natural processes or as a result of climate change in the land use, land use change and forestry sector. A flexibility mechanism linked to natural disturbances should be available to Member States in 2032, provided that they have exhausted all other flexibilities at their disposal, put in place appropriate measures to reduce the vulnerability of their land to such disturbances and that the achievement by the Union of the 2030 target for the land use, land use change and forestry sector is completed.deleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 277 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) Public scrutiny and access to justice is an essential part of the democratic values of the Union and a tool to safeguard rule of law. The civil society plays an essential role as a watchdog in the Member States and provides important support to help deliver the goals of the European Green Deal. To protect their rights and to challenge breaches of implementation of this Regulation at the national level, the Member States should ensure access to justice for citizens and non-governmental organisations. In order to secure that this right can be exercised evenly throughout the Member States of the Union, an article covering access to justice should be added to this Regulation
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
(14) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 concerning the setting out of the annual target allocations for Member States, implementing powersspecify the requirements set out in this Regulation, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be conferrdelegated ton the Commission. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council37 to supplement this Regulation. __________________ 37 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
(17) The expected anthropogenic changes to marine, coastal and freshwaters environment use though, for instance, planned expansion of offshore energy, potential increase in aquaculture production and the increasing levels of nature protection to meet the EU Biodiversity Strategy targets will influence greenhouse gas emissions and their sequestration. Currently these emissions and removals are not included in the standard reporting tables to the UNFCCC. Subsequently to the adoption of the reporting methodology, the Commission will consider reporting on the progress, feasibility of analysis and impact of extending the reporting to marinesetting net removal targets for the marine, coastal and freshwater environment based on the latest scientific evidence of these fluxes when carrying out the review in accordance with Article 17(2) of this Regulation.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 308 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(c) a Union target for net greenhouse gas removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector for the period from 2026 to 2030, including a sub-target for reaching a balance at Union level between emissions and removals from cropland, grassland and wetlands by 2030 and achieving negative emissions in those categories thereafter;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) a Union target for net greenhouse gas removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector for the period from 2026 to 2030, including a sub-target for reaching a balance at Union level between emissions and removals from cropland, grassland and wetlands by 2030 and achieving negative emissions in those categories thereafter;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 321 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) targets for net greenhouse gas removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector for Member States for the period from 2026 to 2030, including sub-targets concerning cropland, grassland and wetlands;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) targets for net greenhouse gas removals in the land use, land use change and forestry sector for Member States for the period from 2026 to 2030, including sub-targets concerning cropland, grassland and wetlands;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 338 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) commitments of Member States to take the necessary measures aiming towards the collective achievement of climate-neutrality in the Union by 2035 in the land use, land use change and forestry sector including emissions by the non-CO2 agriculture.’Union targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the agricultural sector for 2030 and 2050;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) targets for greenhouse gas emissions reductions in the agricultural sector for Member States for 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045 and 2050, including sub- targets for methane and nitrous oxide;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 347 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e b (new)
(eb) targets for reducing wood harvesting levels for the period from 2026 onwards;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point e c (new)
(ec) commitments of the relevant Union institutions and Member States to enhance and maintain natural sinks and carbon stocks in the LULUCF sector from2031 and onwards and for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural sector so as to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement, especially its Article 5(1), the Convention on Biological Diversity and ensure a sustainable and predictable long-term contribution of natural sinks and of the agricultural sector to the Union’s climate- neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest and to achieving negative emissions thereafter, as set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 349 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) where a Member State has notified to the Commission its intention to include such land use in the scope of its commitments pursuant to Article 4(1) by 31 December 2020, land use reported as either of the following (‘managed wetland’): — —deleted wetland remaining wetland; settlement or other land, converted wetland converted to wsetland; — other land.tlement or
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 350 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) where a Member State has notified to the Commission its intention to include such land use in the scope of its commitments pursuant to Article 4(1) by 31 December 2020, land use reported as either of the following (‘managed wetland’): — wetland remaining wetland; — to wetland; — other land.etland remaining wetland; settlement or other land, converted wetland converted to settlement or
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 351 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) settlement or other land, converted to wetland;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 352 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point f b (new)
(fb) wetland converted to settlement or other land.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 359 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3
3. This Regulation also applies to emissions and removals of the greenhouse gases listed in Section A of Annex I, reported pursuant to Artdeleted enteric fermentation; manure management; ricle 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and occurring on the territories of Member States from 2031 and onwards, in any of the land categories listed in paragraph 2, points (a) to (j) and in any of the following sectors: (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) field burning of agricultural residues; (g) (h) (i) fertilizers’; (j)cultivation; agricultural soils; prescribed burning of savannas; liming; urea application; ‘other carbon-containing ‘other’.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 370 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. This Regulation also applies to emissions and removals of the greenhouse gases listed in Section A of Annex I, reported pursuant to Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and occurring on the territories of Member States from 2031 and onwards, in any of the land categories listed in paragraph 2, points (a) to (j) and in any of the following land reporting categories: (a) mangroves; (b) salt marshes; (c) seagrass meadows.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 372 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 2 – paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. This Regulation also applies to emissions of the greenhouse gases listed in Section A of Annex I, reported pursuant to Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and occurring on the territories of Member States from entry into forces of this Regulation and onwards in any of the following sectors: (a) enteric fermentation; (b) manure management; (c) rice cultivation; (d) agricultural soils; (e) prescribed burning of savannas; (f) field burning of agricultural residues; (g) liming; (h) urea application; (i) ‘other carbon-containing fertilizers’; (j) ‘other’.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 384 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. The 2030 Union target for net greenhouse gas removals is 31600 million tonnes CO2 equivalent as a sum of the Member States targets established in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article, and shall be based on the average of its greenhouse gas inventory data for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. To contribute to that target, emissions and removals of greenhouse gases from cropland, grassland and wetlands shall be balanced at Union level as a sum of targets set for Member States by 2030, and reach negative levels thereafter.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. The 2030 Union target for net greenhouse gas removals is 31600 million tonnes CO2 equivalent as a sum of the Member States targets established in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article, and shall be based on the average of its greenhouse gas inventory data for the years 2016, 2017 and 2018. To contribute to that target, emissions and removals of greenhouse gases from cropland, grassland and wetlands shall be balanced at Union level by 2030, and reach negative levels thereafter.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 412 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts setting out the annual targetsdelegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to supplement this Regulation by setting out the annual targets for the LULUCF sector, including annual sub- targets for cropland, grassland and wetlands and targets for reducing wood harvesting levels, based on the linear trajectory for net greenhouse gas removals for each Member State, for each year in the period from 2026 to 2029 in terms of tonnes CO2 equivalent. These national trajectories shall be based on the average greenhouse gas inventory data for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, reported by each Member State. The value of the 31600 million tonnes CO2 equivalent net removals as a sum of the targets for Member States set out in Annex IIa may be subject to a technical correction due to a change of methodology by Member States, subject to independent scientific expertise and validation. The method for determination of the technical correction to be added to the targets of the Member States, shall be set out in these implementing acts and for the independent scientific expert review, shall be set out in these delegated acts and made publicly available. For the purpose of those implementingdelegated acts, the Commission shall carry out a comprehensive review of the most recent national inventory data for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 submitted by Member States pursuant to Article 26(4) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 433 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 16a.deleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 451 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
4. The Union-wide greenhouse gas emissions in the sectors set out in Article 2(34), points (a) to (j), shall aim to be net zero by 2035 and the Union shall achieve negative emissionsbe reduced by 30% by 2030 at the latest and by 60% by 2050 at the latest compared to 2019 and shall be further reduced thereafter. The Union and the Member States shall take the necessary measures to enable the collective achievement of the target for 20350 and 2050.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 456 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The Commission shall, by 31 December 2025 and on the basis of integrated national energy and climate plans submitted by each Member State pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 by 30 June 2024, make proposals for the contribution of each Member State to the net emissions reduction.’;deleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 462 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. The relevant Union institutions and Member States shall take all necessary measures to enhance and maintain natural sinks and carbon stocks in the LULUCF sector from 2031 and onwards so as to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement, especially its Article 5(1), the Convention on Biological Diversity and ensure a sustainable and predictable long-term contribution of natural sinks to the Union’s climate- neutrality objective by 2050 at the latest and to achieving negative emissions thereafter, as set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119. By 1 January 2025, the Commission shall, taking into account the advice of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change and the Union greenhouse gas budget set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, and on the basis of the integrated national energy and climate plans submitted by Member States by 30 June 2024 pursuant to Article 14 (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, adopt a proposal to amend this Regulation to set out Union and Member States targets for net greenhouse gas removals in land use, land use change and forestry at least for 2035, 2040, 2045 and 2050 and to set out Member States targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction in the agricultural sector at least for 2030, 2035, 2040, 2045 and 2050, including sub- targets for methane and nitrous oxide.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 469 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Member States shall ensure that measures taken to meet their national targets as referred to in paragraph 2 do not significantly harm other Union environmental objectives, in particular Union biodiversity objectives as set out in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and in the relevant legislation, within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to supplement this Regulation by specifying common rules and methodologies to achieve the objective set out in this paragraph, including guidelines and minimum criteria regarding restoration of forest carbon stocks, afforestation, reforestation, expanding agroforestry coverage, maintaining and enhancing carbon in mineral agricultural soils, restoring wetlands, and protecting and restoring saltmarshes and seagrass meadows.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 473 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 b (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 b (new)
(3b) the following Article 4b is inserted: ‘Article 4b Sectoral roadmap 1. By 1 January 2025, the Commission, supported by the Advisory Board established in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, shall publish indicative roadmap on the role of the LULUCF sector in achieving the Union’s climate- neutrality objective by 2050 at latest and the aim to achieve negative emissions thereafter laid out in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119. The roadmap shall address the role of net removals both at the level of the Union and individual Member States. 2. The Commission shall engage closely with stakeholders, including individual citizens, civil society, social partners, academia, policy makers and sectors and subsectors affected by this Regulation, while preparing the roadmap set out in paragraph 1 of this Article. 3. Every four years after the publication of the roadmap set out in paragraph 1 of this Article, the Commission shall update the roadmap in accordance to the latest scientific knowledge, while engaging closely with stakeholders as referred in paragraph 2 of this Article. 4. All data used to produce the sectoral roadmaps set out in paragraph 1 of this Article, and for their updates pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article, shall be made available to the public, in an easily accessible form.’
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 474 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 4 a (new)
(3a) the following Article 4a is inserted: ‘Article 4a Financial support for forest and farm owners 1. By ... [six months after the entry into force of this Regulation], the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council assessing the consistency of different funding instruments under the Union budget and the European Union Recovery Instrument, including the national CAP Strategic Plans, with the commitments and targets set out in Article 4 of this Regulation, and shall identify ways of increasing financial support to forest and farm owners who engage in the restoration of forest carbon stocks, expansion of agroforestry coverage, soil carbon sequestration and restoration of wetlands, as a way to enhance current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. 2. Resources allocated to forest and farm owners pursuant to paragraph 1 should be conditional to the respect of applicable working and employment conditions and/or employer obligations resulting from all relevant collective agreements and social and labour law at national, Union and international levels.’
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 488 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – title
(a) the title is replaced by the following: Carbon storage products;deleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 489 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – title
(a) the title is replaced by the following: Carbon storage products;deleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 492 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – paragraph 2
(b) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: 2. delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to amend paragraph 1 of this Article and Annex V by adding new categories of carbon storage products, including harvested wood products, that have a carbon sequestration effect, based on IPCC Guidelines as adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC or the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, and ensuring environmental integrity.;The Commission shall adopt
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 493 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to amend paragraph 1 of this Article and Annex V by adding new categories of carbon storage products, including harvested wood products, that have a carbon sequestration effect, based on IPCC Guidelines as adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC or the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement, and ensuring environmental integrity.;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 506 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 7 – point b a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(ba) the following paragraph 3 a is added: '3a. In the delegated acts adopted pursuant to paragraph 2, the Commission shall lay out sustainable harvesting criteria in order to ensure that the life cycle of harvested wood products does not do significant harm to environmental objectives within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852.'
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 509 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – title
Flexibilities and gGovernance;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 510 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point a a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph -1 (new)
(aa) the following paragraph – 1a is inserted: ‘-1. Updated and subsequent National Energy and Climate Plans and Long-term Strategies as referred to in Articles 3, 14 and 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 shall comprise measures for the achievement of the annual targets set out in Article 4(3) and the implementation of sustainable harvesting criteria for harvested wood products set out in article 9(4). These measures shall be duly reasoned and substantiated. They shall in particular set out the following elements: (a) an explanation of how they enforce the implementation of existing measures to prevent the conversion of forest land, cropland and grassland to settlements or infrastructures by reducing the rates of soil sealing and enforcing environmental legislation, in particular Council Directive 92/43/EEC1a and Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council1b; (b) an explanation of how they manage and reduce pressure from consumption on forest land, cropland and grassland in order to reduce intensity of land use and biomass extraction; (c) a qualitative explanation of how they are expected to increase forest land areas, support restoration of forest carbon stocks, and conserve carbon in wetlands; (d) a detailed explanation of how native tree species are adapted to site conditions for afforestation, reforestation and restoration of forest land are being favoured; (e) a qualitative explanation of how they prioritize the protection and restoration of biodiversity over land use conversion; (f) a qualitative explanation of how they prioritize the removal of pressures from resource and land use over active ecosystem restoration. If a Member State fails to meet its annual target as set out in Article 4(3) for two consecutive years, it shall amend its National Energy and Climate Plan and Long-term Strategy and adopt additional measures to enhance the protection of existing natural carbon sinks and reduce pressures on land use and demand for land, in a way that enhances current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience. Such amendment shall be completed within six months of the second year in which the Member State concerned failed to meet its annual target. The Commission may issue recommendations identifying how the National Energy and Climate Plans and the Long-term Strategy of the Member State concerned should be revised. The Commission shall make such recommendations publicly available. The Member State concerned shall notify the revised National Energy and Climate Plan and Long-term Strategy pursuant to paragraph 1 to the Commission accompanied by a statement setting out how the proposed revision will remedy non-compliance with the annual targets, and how the Commission’s recommendations have been taken into account. Where the Commission finds that the revised National Energy and Climate Plan or the Long-term Strategy have been insufficiently amended to meet the annual targets of the Member State concerned, the Commission may open an infringement procedure in accordance with the TEU and TFEU. ______________ 1aCouncil Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora (OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7). 1bDirective 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy (OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 1).
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – introductory sentence
1. AWithout prejudice to paragraph 1a, a Member State may use:
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 513 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) in order to comply with the commitment in Article 4, the managed forest land flexibility set out in Articles 13 and 13b.deleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 516 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Finland may, besides the flexibilities referred to in the first subparagraph, points (a) and (b), use additional compensations pursuant to Article 13a.’
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 520 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point -a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 1
(-a) paragraph 1 is deleted;
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 522 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point -a a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 2
(-aa) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: '2. To the extent that total removals exceed total emissions in a Member State for the period from 2021 to 2025, or that net greenhouse gas removals in 2030 in a Member State exceed the 2030 target set out for that Member State in Annex IIa, that Member State may transfer the remaining quantity of removals to another Member State subject to the payment by the recipient Member State of at least EUR 250 per tonne of transferred removals. The quantity transferred shall be taken into account when assessing the recipient Member State's compliance with its 2030 target as set out in Annex IIa.'
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 529 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 12 – paragraph 5
5. Member States mayshall use revenues generated by transfers pursuant to paragraph 2 to tackle climate change in the Union or in third countries and shall inform the Commission of any such actions takenprotect existing sinks, enhance sinks by reducing pressures on land use and demand for land, as a way to improve on the current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience in the Union or in third countries, provided that an environmental impact assessment pursuant to Directive 2011/92/EU has been carried out. Member States shall inform the Commission as to as to the use of those revenues and to the actions taken in the reports referred to in Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
2022/02/08
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 535 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13
(11) Article 13 is replaced by the following: Article 13 Managed forest land flexibility 1. 2025, total emissions exceed total removals in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2(1), [accounted for in accordance with this Regulation,] in a Member State, that Member State may use the managed forest land flexibility set out in this Article in order to comply with Article 4(1). 2. 2025, the result of the calculation referred to in Article 8(1) is a positive figure, the Member State concerned shall be entitled to compensate emissions resulted from the calculation provided that the following conditions are fulfilled: (a) its strategy submitted in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ongoing or planned specific measures to ensure the conservation or enhancement, as appropriate, of forest sinks and reservoirs; and (b) do not exceed total removals in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2(1) of this Regulation for the period from 2021 to 2025. When assessing whether, within the Union, total emissions exceed total removals as referred to in the first subparagraph, point (b), the Commission shall ensure that double counting is avoided by Member States, in particular in the exercise of the flexibilities set out in Article 12 of this Regulation and Articles 7(1) or 9(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/842. 3. paragraph 2 may only cover sinks accounted for as emissions against the forest reference level of that Member State and may not exceed 50 % of the maximum amount of compensation for the Member State concerned set out in Annex VII for the period from 2021 to 2025. 4. evidence to the Commission concerning the impact of natural disturbances calculated pursuant to Annex VI in order to be eligible for compensation of remaining sinks accounted for as emissions against its forest reference level, up to the full amount of unused compensation by other Member States set out in Annex VII for the period from 2021 to 2025. In case the demand for compensation exceeds the amount of unused compensation available, the compensation shall be distributed proportionally among the Member States concerned.’;deleted Where, in the period from 2021 to Where, in the period from 2021 to the Member State has included in total emissions within the Union The compensation referred to in Member States shall submit
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Amendment 554 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) Finland included in its strategy submitted in accordance with Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 ongoing or planned specific measures to ensure the conservation or enhancement, as appropriate, of forest sinks and reservoirs as a way to improve on the current levels of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience;
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Amendment 557 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) there is a positive trend in relation to Finland concerning the conservation of habitats under Directives92/43/EEC and 2009/147/EC;
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Amendment 564 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 b
(13) [...]deleted
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Amendment 617 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 1
If as a result of the comprehensive review carried out by the Commission in 2032 pursuant to Article 14(2), the Commission finds that the reviewed greenhouse gas emissions and removals of a Member State in 2032 exceed the annual targets of that Member State for any specific year of the period 2026 to 2030, taking into account the flexibilities used pursuant to Articles 12 and 13b, the following measure shall apply:
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 620 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
(a) the Commission shall impose, in any relevant year of the period from2026 to 2030, an excess premium on that Member State equivalent to the amount in tonnes of CO2 equivalent of the sum of greenhouse gas emissions and removals in excess of the limit established by the linear trajectory set out pursuant to Article 4(3) multiplied by EUR 375;
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 625 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 2
A(b) an amount equal to the amount in tonnes of CO2 equivalent of the excess greenhouse gas net emissions, multiplied by a factor of 1,08, shall be added to the greenhouse gas emission figure reported by that Member State in the following year, in accordance with the measures adopted pursuant to Article 15.;
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 626 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 13 c – paragraph 2 a (new)
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 in order to supplement this Regulation by setting out the means for collecting excess premiums imposed under point (a) of the first subparagraph.;
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 649 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
(15a) The following Article 14a is inserted: ‘Article14a Access to justice 1. Member States shall ensure that, in accordance with their national legal system, members of the public concerned who meet the conditions set out in paragraph 2, including individuals and non-governmental organisations, have access to a review procedure before a court of law or another independent and impartial body established by law to challenge the substantive or procedural legality of acts and omissions that fail to comply with legal obligations arising under Articles 4 to 10. For the purposes of this paragraph, an act or omission that fails to comply with legal obligations under Article 4 includes an act or omission with respect to a policy or measure adopted for the purposes of implementing those obligations, where that policy or measure fails to make a sufficient contribution to such implementation. 2. Members of the public concerned meet the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 when : (a) they have sufficient interest; or (b) they maintain the impairment of a right, where administrative procedural law of a Member State requires this as a precondition. What constitutes a sufficient interest shall be determined by Member States, consistently with the objective of giving the public concerned wide access to justice and in conformity with the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. To this end, the interest of any non- governmental organisation promoting environmental protection and meeting any requirements under national law shall be deemed to have sufficient interest for the purposes of this paragraph. 3. Paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not exclude the possibility of a preliminary review procedure before an administrative authority and shall not affect the requirement of exhaustion of administrative review procedures prior to recourse to judicial review procedures, where such a requirement exists under national law. Any such procedure shall be fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive. 4. Member States shall ensure that practical information is made easily available to the public on access to administrative and judicial review procedures.’
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 659 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 17
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 16 a
(17) the following Article 16a is inserted: Article 16a Committee procedure 1. by the Climate Change Committee established by Article 44(3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999. That committee shall be a committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council44 . 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.; __________________ 44 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13).deleted The Commission shall be assisted
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 664 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. The Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, no later than six months after […]each global stocktake agreed under Article 14 of the Paris Agreement, on the operation of this Regulation, including, where relevant, an assessment of the impacts of the flexibilities referred to in Article 11, as well as on the contribution of this Regulation to the Union’s overall 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target and its contribution to the goals of the Paris Agreement, in particular with regard to the need for additional Union policies and measures, in view of the necessary increase in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals in the Union on the necessary increase in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals in the Union, as well as on the contribution of this Regulation to the Union’s climate neutrality objective and intermediary climate targets set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, and its contribution to the goals of the Paris Agreement, the Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as other Union objectives and measures such as the 8th Environmental Action Programme, the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the EU nature restoration targets. The report shall assess in particular with regard to the need for additional Union policies and measures, in view of the necessary increase in greenhouse gas emissions reductions and removals in the Union and of the objective to protect and restore biodiversity and to ensure healthy ecosystems. The report shall take into account the best available and most recent scientific evidence, including the latest reports of the IPCC, IPBES and of the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1119.
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 681 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Following the report, the Commission shall make legislative proposals where it deems it appropriate. In particular, the proposals shall set out annual targets and governance aiming towards the 2035 climate-neutrality target as laid downadditional Union policies and measures to achieve the post-2030 LULUCF targets referred to in Article 4(43), additional Union policies and measures, and a post-2035 framework, including in the scope of the Regulation greenhouse gas emissions and removals from additional sectors, such as the marine and freshwater environmentnd the 2030 and 2050 emissions reduction targets laid down in Article 4(4), and set additional net removals target for marine, coastal and freshwater environment, based on robust scientific methodologies.;
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 684 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Article 17 – paragraph 2 a (new)
(18a) in Article 17, the following paragraph 2a is inserted: ‘2a. No later than six months after the entry into force of Regulation (EU) …/... [EU Nature Restoration Law], the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council assessing the consistency of this Regulation, in particular of the targets set out in Article 4(2),with the restoration targets set out in that Regulation. The report shall be accompanied, where appropriate, by legislative proposals to amend this Regulation.’
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 688 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a – point 1 – point ii
the Member State’s commitments and national targets for net greenhouse gas removals pursuant to Article 4(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 and its contributions aim towards reaching the Union objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2035 and achieving negative emissand the emissions reductions thereafterargets pursuant to Article 4(4) of that Regulation of Regulation (EU) 2018/841;;
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Committee: ENVI
Amendment 723 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex II
Regulation (EU) 2018/841
Annex II a – table
Member State Value of the net greenhouse gas emissions reduction in kMt of CO2 equivalent in 2030 Belgium -3,5 -1 352 Bulgaria -17,7 -9 718 Czechia -6,9 Denmark -1 228 Denmark 2,3 Germany -56,5 Estonia 5 338 Germany -5,5 Ireland -0,5 Greece -30 840 Estonia -12,3 Spain -2 545 Ireland80,0 France -79,9 Croatia 3 728 Greece -9,6 Italy -57,4 -4 373 SpainCyprus -0,8 Latvia -43 635 France5,0 Lithuania -9,2 Luxembourg -34 046 Croatia0,6 Hungary -5 527 Italy12,2 Malta -35 758 Cypru0,0 Netherlands -352 Latv1,6 Austria -644 Lithuania -4 633 Luxembourg -403 Hungary -11,7 Poland -60,5 Portugal -5 724 Malta -8,0 Romania 2 Netherlands 4 523 Austria -5 650 Poland -38 098 Portugal -1 358 Romania -25 665 Slovenia -42,2 Slovenia -1,6 Slovakia -10,3 Finland -146 Slovakia -6 821 Finland -17 754 Sweden -37,6 Sweden -74,4 EU-27 -47 321 EU-27 -310 000 600
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Committee: ENVI