12 Amendments of Niels FUGLSANG related to 2021/0213(CNS)
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20 a (new)
Recital 20 a (new)
(20 a) Flying is significantly more energy-intensive than other forms of transportation and should be taxed accordingly. While there may be no good alternatives to airplanes for travelling to or from island nations or remote regions, a beneficial tax regime for aviation is not the best policy tool to serve these areas. Governments should instead use the revenues gained from a tax on kerosene to invest and raise welfare levels in these regions.
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The Union and the Member States have concluded multilateral agreements regarding air services and air transport, or bilateral agreements with third countries. Those agreements include provisions related to the taxation of aviation fuel. Aviation fuel has traditionally had a privileged tax regime. The need to pursue the objectives of the Directive requires that, without prejudice to those international agreements, energy products and electricity supplied for intra-EU air navigation, except cargo-only flights should be taxed. The exemption for the fuel used by cargo-only flights is still needed in the absence of more efficient alternative should be taxed, even where this requires re-negotiating multilateral agreements.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In order to ensureAs a tax on kerosene will only lead to a moderate increase in prices, a smooth implementation of this Directive, the minimum levels of taxation for motor fuels used for intra-EU non-business and non- pleasure flights wcould be reached over a transitional period of tenfive years, whereas sustainable alternative fuels and electricity would be subject to a zero minimum rate for ten years. Energy products and electricity used for intra-EU business aviation and pleasure flights should be subject to the standard levels of taxation applicable to motor fuels and electricity in the Member States.
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Without prejudice to international obligations and to Article 5 of this Directive, as applicable as a single use to intra-EU air navigation of flights other than business and pleasure flights, Member states shall apply under fiscal control not less than the minimum levels of taxation prescribed in this Directive to energy products supplied for use as fuel to aircrafts, and to electricity used directly for charging electric aircrafts, for the purposes of intra-EU air navigation of those flights.
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The minimum levels of taxation referred to in the first subparagraph shall start from zero and increase each year by one tenfifth of the final minimum rates, set out in Tables A and D of Annex I, over a transitional period of tenfive years. A minimum rate of zero shall apply to sustainable biofuels and biogas, low-carbon fuels, renewable fuels of non-biological origin, advanced sustainable biofuels and biogas, and electricity over that transitional period of ten years.
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Amendment 270 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 5
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 5
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Amendment 275 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 276 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 277 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 3
3. Without prejudice to international obligations, Member States may exempt or apply the same levels of taxation applied for intra- EU air navigation to extra-EU air navigation according to the type of flight.