21 Amendments of Vladko Todorov PANAYOTOV related to 2012/0288(COD)
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Article 19(6) of Directive 2009/28/EC and Article 7d(6) of Directive 98/70/EC require the impact of indirect land-use change on greenhouse gas emissions to be taken into account and appropriate steps to be taken to address that impact, while taking necessary measures to provide certainty for investment and to protect investments already made.
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Liquid renewable fuels are likely to be required by the transport sector in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced biofuels, such as those made from wastes and algae, provide high greenhouse gas savings with low risk of causing indirect land use change and do not compete directly for agricultural land for the food and feed markets. It is appropriate, therefore, to encourage greater production of such advanced biofuels as these are currently not commercially available in large quantities, in part due to competition for public subsidies with established food crop based biofuel technologies. Further incentives should be provided by increasing the weighting of advanced biofuels towards 10% target for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional biofuels. In this context, only advanced biofuels with low estimated indirect land use change impacts and, high overall greenhouse gas savings (calculated at taking into account the whole life-cycle of the said biofuel) and whose production will not change natural fertility of soil and will not create problems of the soil ecosystem, should be supported as part of the post 2020 renewable energy policy framework.
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure the long-term competitiveness of bio-based industrial sectors, and in line with the 2012 Communication "Innovating for Sustainable growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe" and the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe, promoting integrated and diversified biorefineries across Europe, enhanced incentives under Directive 2009/28/EC should be set in a way that gives preference to the use of biomass feedstocks that do not have a high economic value for other uses than biofuels. It is also important to stress that waste hierarchy set out in Article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC is obeyed and applied.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) To prepare for the transition towards advanced biofuels and minimise the overall indirect land use change impacts in the period to 2020, it is appropriate to limit the amount of biofuels and bioliquids obtained from food crops as set out in part A of Annex VIII to Directive 2009/28/EC and part A of Annex V to Directive 98/70/EC (as amended by this Directive) that can be counted towards targets set out in Directive 2009/28/EC. Without restricting the overall use of such biofuels, the share of biofuels and bioliquids produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugar and oil crops that can be counted towards the targets of Directive 2009/28/EC should be limited to the share of such biofuels and bioliquids consumed in 20113.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The 57 % limit set up in Article 3(4)d does not affect the Member States' freedom to arrange their own trajectory as to compliance with this prescribed share of conventional biofuels within the overall 10% target. As a consequence, the access to the market of the biofuels produced by the installations in operation before the end of 20134 remains fully open. Therefore this amending directive does not affect the legitimate expectations of the operators of such installations.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The Commission should review the methodology for estimating land-use change emission factors included in Annexes VIII and V to Directives 2009/28/EC and 98/70/EC respectively (as amended by this Directive) in the light of adaptation to technical and scientific progress. To this end, and if warranted by the latest available scientific evidence, the Commission should consider the possibility of revising the proposed crop group indirect land-use change factors, as well as introducing factors at further levels of disaggregation and including additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to market. The revised proposal should be consulted with leading scientists in all concerned areas and with all stakeholders.
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Article 19(8) of Directive 2009/28/EC and Article 7d(8) of Directive 98/70/EC include provisions for encouraging the cultivation of biofuels in severely degraded and heavily contaminated land as an interim measure for mitigating against indirect land-use change. These provisions are no longer adequate in their current form and need to be reduced and integrated in the approach laid out in this Directive to ensure that overall actions for minimising emission from indirect land-use change remain coherent.
Amendment 226 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – title
Article 1 – title
Amendments to Directive 98/70/EC as amended by Directive 2009/30/EC of 23 April 2009
Amendment 229 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point -a (new)
Article 1 – point 1 – point -a (new)
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 2
Article 7a – paragraph 2
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point -a a (new)
Article 1 – point 1 – point -a a (new)
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 7a – paragraph 5 a (new)
(-aa) the following paragraph 5a is inserted: "5a. Biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be made from raw material obtained from agricultural or forest residues unless evidence is provided that this does not result in a degradation of agricultural and ecosystem functions. The volume of agricultural residues that must remain on the land for agricultural and ecological reasons shall be established on the basis of regional and, where appropriate, sub-regional eco-agro- geographical characteristics including, but not limited to, the organic content of the soil, the fertility of the soil, soil microbiology, water retention capacity and carbon sequestration. Raw material obtained from agricultural residues produced during off-field processing of crops into food or other products is not covered by this paragraph. Biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be made from raw material obtained from forest management residues unless evidence is provided that this does not result in a degradation of ecosystem functions."
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 7b – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. The greenhouse gas emission saving from the use of biofuels taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be at least 60 % for biofuels produced in installations starting operation after 1st Julanuary 20145. An installation is “"in operation”" if the physical production of biofuels has taken place.
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 7b – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
In the case of installations that were in operation on or before 1st Julanuary 2014 5, for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1, biofuels shall achieve a greenhouse gas emission saving of at least 35% until 31 December 2017 and at least 50% from 1 January 2018.
Amendment 357 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point d
(d) for the calculation of biofuels in the numerator, the share of energy from biofuels produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil cropsoil crops and other energy crops as set out in Part A of Annex VIII shall be no more than 57%, the estimated share at the end of 2011, of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020.
Amendment 384 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 1 – point iii
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 1 – point iii
(iii) renewable liquid and gaseous fuels of non-biological origin shall be considered to be four times their energy content only when for their production is used non- potable water and/or water that can not be used for irrigation.
Amendment 414 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – point a
Article 2 – point 5 – point a
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. The greenhouse gas emission saving from the use of biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be at least 60 % for biofuels and bioliquids produced in installations starting operation after 1st Julanuary 20145. An installation is “"in operation”" if the physical production of biofuels or bioliquids has taken place.
Amendment 417 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – point a
Article 2 – point 5 – point a
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
In the case of installations that were in operation on or before 1st of JulJanuary 20145, for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1, biofuels and bioliquids shall achieve a greenhouse gas emission saving of at least 35% until 31 December 2017 and at least 50% from 1 January 2018.
Amendment 423 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – point b a (new)
Article 2 – point 5 – point b a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 5 a (new)
(ba) the following paragraph 5a is added: "5a. Biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be made from raw material obtained from agricultural or forest residues unless evidence is provided that this does not result in a degradation of agricultural and ecosystem functions. The volume of agricultural residues that must remain on the land for agricultural and ecological reasons shall be established on the basis of regional and, where appropriate, sub-regional, eco- agro-geographical characteristics including, but not limited to, the organic content of the soil, the fertility of the soil, soil microbiology, water retention capacity and carbon sequestration. Raw material obtained from agricultural residues produced during off-field processing of crops into food or other products is not covered by this paragraph. Biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be made from raw material obtained from forest management residues unless evidence is provided that this does not result in a degradation of ecosystem functions."
Amendment 484 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – introductory part
Annex I – introductory part
Annexes to Directive 98/70/EC as amended by Directive 2009/30/EC of 23 April 2009 are amended as follows:
Amendment 490 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 1
Annex I – point 1
Directive 98/70/EC
Annex IV – part C – points 7, 8, 9
Annex IV – part C – points 7, 8, 9
(1) Annex IV, part C is amended as follows: (a) point 7 is replaced by the following: "7. Annualised emissions from carbon stock changes caused by land-use change, el, shall be calculated by dividing total emissions equally over 20 years. For the calculation of these emissions the following rule shall be applied: el = (CSR – CSA) × 3,664 × 1/20 × 1/P0,1832/P – eB/2, where el = annualised greenhouse gas emissions from carbon stock change due to land-use change (measured as mass (grams) of CO2- equivalent per unit biofuel energy (megajoules)); CSR = the carbon stock per unit area associated with the reference land-use (measured as mass (tonnes) of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). The reference land-use shall be the land use in January 2008 or 20 years before the raw material was obtained, whichever was the later; CSA = the carbon stock per unit area associated with the actual land-use (measured as mass (tonnes) of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). In cases where the carbon stock accumulates over more than one year, the value attributed to CSA shall be the estimated stock per unit area after 20 years or when the crop reaches maturity, whichever the earlier; and P = the productivity of the crop (measured as biofuel or energy per unit area per year)." (b) points 8 and 9 are deleted.; and eB = bonus of 29 gCO2eq/MJ biofuel if biomass is obtained from restored degraded land under the conditions provided for in point 8."
Amendment 506 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 1
Annex II – point 1
Directive 98/70/EC
Annex V – part C – points 7, 8, 9
Annex V – part C – points 7, 8, 9
(1) Annex V, part C is amended as follows: (a) point 7 is replaced by the following: "7. Annualised emissions from carbon stock changes caused by land-use change, el, shall be calculated by dividing total emissions equally over 20 years. For the calculation of these emissions the following rule shall be applied: el = (CSR – CSA) × 3,664 × 1/20 × 1/P0,1832/P – eB/2, where el = annualised greenhouse gas emissions from carbon stock change due to land-use change (measured as mass (grams) of CO2- equivalent per unit biofuel energy (megajoules)); CSR = the carbon stock per unit area associated with the reference land-use (measured as mass (tonnes) of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). The reference land-use shall be the land use in January 2008 or 20 years before the raw material was obtained, whichever was the later; CSA = the carbon stock per unit area associated with the actual land-use (measured as mass (tonnes) of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). In cases where the carbon stock accumulates over more than one year, the value attributed to CSA shall be the estimated stock per unit area after 20 years or when the crop reaches maturity, whichever the earlier; and P = the productivity of the crop (measured as biofuel or energy per unit area per year)." (b) points 8 and 9 are deleted.; and eB = bonus of 29 gCO2eq/MJ biofuel if biomass is obtained from restored degraded land under the conditions provided for in point 8."
Amendment 588 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – paragraph 1 a (new)
Annex IX – part A – paragraph 1 a (new)
For agricultural residues only amounts in excess of the needed amounts to protect against soil erosion and biodiversity loss are to be considered in calculations. For forest management residues only amounts in excess of the needed amounts to protect against biodiversity loss are to be considered in calculations.