Activities of Erik BÁNKI related to 2012/0288(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Making the internal energy market work - Micro-generation (debate)
Amendments (37)
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure the long-term competitiveness of bio-based industrial sectors, and to provide a stable regulatory environment for existing and new investments, 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 incentia commitment should be made that the levels 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 biofuelsof biofuels encouraged by Directive 2009/28/EC will be maintained in the subsequent years after 2020.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Where pasture or agricultural land previously destined for the food, feed and fibre markets is diverted to biofuel production, the non-fuel demand will still need to be satisfied either through intensification of current production or by bringing non- agricultural land into production in elsewhere. In the former case, the excess market outlet created by biofuel producers may result in higher yields, as acknowledged by the IFPRI report1 and the Impact Assessment of the Commission2. Biofuels produced from biomass which is a result of higher yield do not require additional land and therefore have no indirect land-use change effects. The latter case represents indirect land-use change and when it involves the conversion of high carbon stock land it can lead to significant greenhouse gas emissions. Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC should therefore include provisions to address indirect land use change given that current biofuels are mainly produced from crops grown on existing agricultural land________________________ 1 International Food Policy Research Institute: Assessing the Land Use Change Consequences of European Biofuel Policies. Final Report, October 2011 2 European Commission: Impact Assessment - Accompanying the document Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and the Council amending Directive 98/70/EC and Directive 2009/28/EC. SWD (2012) 343 final.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) It is appropriate, therefore, to authorise Member States to elaborate national certifying schemes in order to measure and certify biomass that does not cause indirect land use change.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
Amendment 119 #
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. AdvancedConventional 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 should be supported as part of the post 2020 renewable energy policy frameworkAdvanced biofuels, such as those made from cellulosic feedstocks and algae, have the potential to provide high greenhouse gas savings with low risk of causing indirect land use change. It is appropriate, therefore, to encourage greater production of such advanced biofuels. 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 by establishing a separate 2% target for advanced biofuels.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint ii
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint ii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure the long-term competitiveness of bio-based industrial sectors, and to provide a stable regulatory environment for existing and new investments, in line with the 2012 Communication "Innovating for Sustainable growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe" and the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe12 , promoting integrated and diversified biorefineries across Europe, enhanced incentia commitment should be made that the levels 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 biofuelsof biofuels encouraged by Directive 2009/28/EC will be maintained in the subsequent years after 2020.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The minimum greenhouse gas saving threshold for biofuels and bioliquids produced in new installations should be increased with effect from 1st July 2014 in order to improve their overall greenhouse gas balance as well as discouraging further investments in installations with low greenhouse gas savings performance. This increase provides for investment safeguards in biofuels and bioliquids production capacities in conformity with Article 19(6) second subparagraphshould be kept as provided by Directive 2009/28/EC, because the current provisions ensure an improved overall greenhouse gas balance.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The estimated indirect land-use change emissions should be included in the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels under Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC. Biofuels made from feedstocks that do not lead to additional demand for land, such as those from biomass obtained from higher crop yields, or from waste feedstocks, should be assigned a zero emissions factor. .
Amendment 196 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 2009/28/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the list of biofuel feedstocks that are counted multiple times towards the target set in Article 3(4), the energy content of transport fuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly biodiverse grassland, the methodology for the calculation of the amount of biomass not causing any indirect land-use change emissions, and the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels and bioliquids.
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 6
Article 7a – paragraph 6
6. Fuel suppliers shall by 31 March each year report to the authority designated by the Member State, the biofuel production pathways, volumes, and the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy, including the estimated indirect land-use change emissions set out in Annex V. Member States shall report these data to the Commission.
Amendment 250 #
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 and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be at least 6035 % for biofuels produced in installations starting operation after 1st July 2014. An installation is “in operation” if the physical production of biofuels has taken place(but with greenhouse gas emissions of not more than 54,47 gCO2eq/MJ).
Amendment 255 #
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
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 7b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 276 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – point a
Article 1 – point 3 – point a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7d – paragraph 6
Article 7d – paragraph 6
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – point b
Article 1 – point 3 – point b
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7d – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1
Article 7d – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1
7. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts pursuant to Article 10a concerning the adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Annex IV, including by the addition of values for further biofuel production pathways for the same or for other raw materials and by modifying the methodology laid down in Part C.
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 a (new)
Article 2 – point 1 a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 2 – point p a (new)
Article 2 – point p a (new)
1a. In Article 2, the following point is inserted: "(pa) "non-ILUC biomass" means biomass satisfying one of the criteria set forth in Annex VIII."
Amendment 312 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 b (new)
Article 2 – point 1 b (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 2 – point p b (new)
Article 2 – point p b (new)
1b. In Article 2, the following point is inserted: "(pb) "conventional biofuel' means any biofuel consisting of vegetable oil or any biofuel produced from starch (whether waste or not), vegetable oil (whether waste or not), animal fats (whether waste or not) or sugar."
Amendment 315 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 c (new)
Article 2 – point 1 c (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 2 – point p c (new)
Article 2 – point p c (new)
Amendment 351 #
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 crops shall be no more than 5%, the estimated share at the end of 2011,advanced biofuels shall be no less than 2% of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020.
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii a (new)
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point d a (new)
(iia) the following point (da) is added: "(da) The share of energy from renewable sources shall be maintained by Member States at least at the level provided in the first subparagraph in the subsequent years after 2020."
Amendment 366 #
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
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e
Amendment 411 #
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 6035 % for biofuels and bioliquids produced in installations starting operation after 1st July 2014. An installation is “in operation” if the physical production of biofuels or bioliquids has taken place(but with greenhouse gas emissions of not more than 54,47 gCO2eq/MJ).
Amendment 416 #
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
Amendment 418 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – point b
Article 2 – point 5 – point b
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 429 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 6
Article 2 – point 6
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 18 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
The Commission may decide that, without prejudice to Article 21a, voluntary national or international schemes setting standards for the production of biomass products contain accurate data for the purposes of Article 17(2) or demonstrate that consignments of biofuel or bioliquid comply with the sustainability criteria set out in Article 17(3) to (5). The Commission may decide that those schemes contain accurate data for the purposes of information on measures taken for the conservation of areas that provide, in critical situations, basic ecosystem services (such as watershed protection and erosion control), for soil, water and air protection, the restoration of degraded land, the avoidance of excessive water consumption in areas where water is scarce and on the issues referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 17(7). The Commission may also recognise areas for the protection of rare, threatened or endangered ecosystems or species recognised by international agreements or included in lists drawn up by intergovernmental organisations or the International Union for the Conservation of Nature for the purposes of Article 17(3)(b) (ii).
Amendment 440 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 7 – point c
Article 2 – point 7 – point c
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 6
Article 19 – paragraph 6
Amendment 452 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 8 a (new)
Article 2 – point 8 a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 21 a (new)
Article 21 a (new)
8a. The following Article is inserted: "Article 21a Biofuels and bioliquids having zero ILUC-emissions 1. Biofuels and bioliquids will be considered to have estimated indirect land-use change emissions of zero in the following cases: (a) conventional biofuels up to the amount which corresponds to not more than 5 % of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020 and in the subsequent years; (b) conventional biofuels which exceed the amount as defined in point (a) of this paragraph, if they are produced from non-ILUC biomass as defined in Annex VIII; (c) advanced biofuels. 2. The Commission shall, by 31 December 2014, determine and publish guidelines for national schemes to issue certifications of non-ILUC biomass to the growers or producers of such biomass. By 31 December 2014, each Member State shall submit its national scheme for the issuance of certifications of non-ILUC biomass to the growers or producers of such biomass, and the Commission shall evaluate the national schemes, notably the adequacy of the measures envisaged by the Member State in consideration of the need for such certifications to be incorporated into voluntary sustainability schemes approved by the Commission."
Amendment 494 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 2
Annex I – point 2
Directive 98/70/EC
Annex V
Annex V
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 2
Annex II – point 2
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex VIII
Annex VIII
Amendment 519 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 2 a (new)
Annex II – point 2 a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex VIII a (new)
Annex VIII a (new)
Amendment 523 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/CE
Annex IX
Annex IX