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3 Amendments of Karl-Heinz FLORENZ related to 2012/0202(COD)

Amendment 44 #
(2) For the purposes of legal certainty and market predictability, it should be clarified that, in order to ensure an orderly functioning of the market, the Commission is able in exceptional circumstances to adapt the auction timetable pursuant to Article 10(4) of Directive 2003/87/EC provided that such intervention can be justified by an impact assessment showing that impact on sectors exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage is limited. The Commission should be able to make no more than one such adaptation and only during the eight-year period beginning on 1 January 2013. The transition to a low carbon economy represents a major challenge, in particular for energy intensive industry. For this reason active support for demonstration projects in low carbon technologies is needed. To this end the adjustment of the auctioning timetable represents an opportunity to initiate such support. Experience has already been collected in supporting low carbon technologies via the NER 300. Such support should be continued and further increased, also for breakthrough technologies, in the context of the climate and energy policy framework for 2030.
2013/06/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) Despite the carbon price being lower than originally envisaged, the Commission should be guided by the principle of regulatory continuity within a trading period and take into account the current economic circumstances when determining the list of sectors and subsectors deemed to be exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage for the years 2015 to 2019.
2013/06/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall, where appropriate, adapt the timetable for each period so as to ensure an orderly functioning of the market. Where an assessment shows, for the individual industrial sectors, that no significant impact on installations exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage is to be expected or where the Commission proposes policy measures with a view to compensating the potential increase of indirect costs, the Commission may, where appropriate, adapt the timetable for the period referred to in Article 13(1) beginning on January 2013 for a maximum number of 900 million allowances. Where the Commission proposes to withhold a number of allowances it shall ensure that such allowances are re- introduced in a predictable manner. The Commission shall make no more than one such adaptation until the year 2020. 600 million of those allowances withheld shall be used for the promotion of demonstration projects for the reduction of CO2 in the energy intensive sectors (“industrial innovation fund”). For this purpose a fund based on the principle of the NER300 (Article 10a(8)) shall be developed. Projects supported by this industrial innovation fund shall be selected no later than 31 December 2020. For this purpose the Commission Decision 2010/670/EU1 laying down criteria and measures for the financing of commercial demonstration projects shall be modified no later than 31 December 2015. ____________ 1 OJ L 290, 6.11.2010, p. 39.
2013/06/14
Committee: ENVI