24 Amendments of Nicola DANTI related to 2023/0266(COD)
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Despite growing interest of transport stakeholders, the overall uptake of greenhouse gas emissions accounting of transport services is still limited. In most cases, users do not obtain accurate information on the performance of transport services, and transport service organisers and operators do not calculate and disclose their emissions. Disproportionally low uptake of greenhouse gas emissions accounting is observed particularly among small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that represent the vast majority of businesses offering transport services on the EU market. As a matter of fact, SMEs face disproportionally more financial and bureaucratic burdens when they decide to account their greenhouse gas emissions.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Despite benefits stemming from the increased transparency on the performance of transport services, mandatory application of this Regulation to all entities offering transport services on the Union market would be disproportionate and lead to excessive costs and burden. Therefore, this Regulation should apply only to those entities that decide or are bound by other relevant legislative and non-legislative regimes, to calculate and disclose information on greenhouse gas emissions of freight or passengers transport services that start, stop over or end on the territory of the Union. This consequently includes services, the origin or destination points of which are situated in a third country.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) A proper method for calculating greenhouse gas emissions of transport services is one of the key aspects for the harmonised Union framework set out by this Regulation. The method should ensure that the emissions calculations performed across a transport chain provide comparable and accurate greenhouse gas emissions data, by following a single set of methodological steps. It should also adequately account for the needs of the transport market, in order to avoid unnecessary complexity, excessive burden and costs, particularly for SMEs, and be accepted by stakeholders.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12 a) The Commission, in cooperation with the European Committee for Standardisation and the national standardisation bodies of the Member States, should strive to provide the transport sector with access to the ISO standard 14083:2023 or to the equivalent European CEN ISO 14083 standard free of charge to micro, small and medium- sized Enterprises ('SMEs') as defined in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC. The standards should be accessible in its authentic version as well as in all the official languages of the Union to make this Regulation more accessible to all those that are subject to it.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Different types of input data, including primary and secondary data, can be used to calculate greenhouse gas emissions of transport services. The use of primary data leads to most reliable and accurate results, and therefore should be prioritised and incentivised to provide for the gradual uptake of these data in greenhouse gas emissions calculation processes, whose use should become mandatory five years after the entry into force of this regulation. However, as primary data might be unattainchievable or prohibitively expensive for certain stakesmall and medium-sized companies, SMEs shoulders, especially SMEs be exempted. Therefore, the use of secondary data should be allowed under clearthe conditions laid out in this Regulation.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15 a (new)
Recital 15 a (new)
(15 a) Member States may introduce incentives of administrative, financial or operational nature to stimulate the use of primary data, and in this respect Member States should notify to the Commission when they put in place such incentives, in order for the Commission to monitor the well-functioning of the internal market and to ensure a level playing field.
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) A core EU database of default values for greenhouse gas emission intensity by mode of transport should therefore be established to improve the comparability of greenhouse gas emissions results obtained in the application of this Regulation. However, given the sectorial, national and regional specificities of those default values across the Union, other relevant databases and datasets operated by third parties should be allowed on the condition that they undergo a technical quality check at Union level.
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23 a (new)
Recital 23 a (new)
(23 a) The disclosure of information regarding greenhouse gas emissions prior to the provision of a transport service is crucial to encourage an informed decision-making process by citizens. However, information on greenhouse gas emissions may be revealed after the provision of the transport service in duly justified cases, particularly when communications between companies need a more detailed level of information, notably in the context of logistics chains and subcontracting relationships.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 a (new)
Recital 26 a (new)
(26 a) Taking into account existing practices such as the US Environmental Protection Agency Simplified GHG Emissions Calculator62a, in order to facilitate the implementation of this Regulation by SMEs, to limit the complexity of the calculation and to reduce the administrative and financial burden on SMEs, the Commission should develop a simplified calculation tool for the establishment of output data, called 'CountGHG4SMEs'. _________________ 62a https://www.epa.gov/climateleadership/si mplified-ghg-emissions-calculator
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 b (new)
Recital 26 b (new)
(26 b) 'CountGHG4SMEs' should consist of electronic Excel spreadsheets with accompanying step-by-step guidance documents. A guidance document should contain: an overview of the protocol with information on the sector, sources, and process(es) that it covers; one or more approaches for determining CO2 and other greenhous gas emissions, guidance on collecting activity data and selecting appropriate emission factors; likely emissions sources and the scopes they fall under (specific to a particular sector).
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26 c (new)
Recital 26 c (new)
(26 c) The Commission should make 'CountGHG4SMEs' available for SMEs free of charge, easy-to-use and easily accessible online on a specified EU platform. It should make sure that this tool raises arawereness and incentivises the use of primary data for the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33 a (new)
Recital 33 a (new)
(33 a) In evaluating this Regulation, the Commission should examine whether it is necessary and feasible to include processes related to the construction, maintenance, and scrapping of vehicles, as well as transshipment and (de)boarding equipment, in the methodology for calculating greenhouse gas emissions. This inclusion aims to establish a comprehensive life cycle-based approach to greenhouse gas emissions, aligning with the full carbon footprint approach outlined in the 2011 White Paper on transport and the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy of December 2020. This comprehensive approach requires accounting for emissions throughout the entire lifecycle, including upstream chain and end-of-life emissions.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation establishes rules for the accounting of the greenhouse gas emissions of transport services that start, stop over or end on the Union territory.
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
This Regulation applies to any entity providing or organising freight and passenger services in the Union that calculates greenhouse gas emissions of a transport service starting, stopping over or ending on the Union territory and discloses disaggregated information on those emissions to any third party for commercial or regulatory purposes.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 12
(12) “concerned entity” means an entity that calculates greenhouse gas emissions of a transport service starting, stopping over or ending on the Union territory and discloses information on those emissions to any third party, for commercial or regulatory purposes;
Amendment 182 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Entities referred to in Article 2 shall prioritise and incentivise the use of primary data for calculating greenhouse gas emissions of a transport service. The use of primary data shall be mandatory from five years after the entry into force.
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. SMEs shall be exempted from the mandatory use of primary data, as set out in paragraph 1 of this Article.
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Member States may introduce administrative, financial or operational incentives to stimulate the use of primary data and should notify to the Commission their nature and timeframe.
Amendment 199 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 a (new)
Article 5 a (new)
Article5a An EU simplified calculation tool for SMEs 1. Before [the date of application of this Regulation], the Commission shall develop a simplified calculation tool for SMEs (‘CountGHG4SMEs’) in order to facilitate their accounting of greenhouse gas emissions and to simplify their implementation of this Regulation. 2. CountGHG4SMEs shall be made available free of charge and shall be user- friendly and easily accessible online. It shall be accompanied by step-by-step guidance documents, clearly explaining its functioning. 3. The Commission shall ensure that CountGHG4SMEs incentivises the use of primary data for the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall ensure, at least annually, the maintenance, update and continuous development of the database referred to in paragraph 1, taking into account for the evolution of the technological state-of-the- art in the transport sector and of new methodological approaches for calculating greenhouse gas emissions.
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3
Article 8 – paragraph 3
3. Access to the database referred to in paragraph 1, to consult or use default greenhouse gas emission factors for the transport energy carriers shall be open to the public, simple and free of charge, as well as available in an easy-to-read format.
Amendment 271 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Concerned entities shall disclose output data in a clear and unambiguous manner before the provision of a transport service, unless in duly justified circumstances. When concerned entities disclose output data, in the communication accompanying this disclosure they shall include the following statement “Well-to- wheel greenhouse gas emissions calculated in accordance with Regulation [reference to this Regulation] of the European Parliament and the Council”, at least in one of the official languages of the EU, and where possible, in an official language of a Member State on the territory of which the service is performed.
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The report shall also include: a) an assessment of the consequences of the implementation and application of this Regulation in light of the subcontracted operations; b) an assessment of the consequences with respect to the national administrative, financial or operational incentives introduced by Member States as set out in Article 5 – paragraph 1 b (new).
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 2
Article 19 – paragraph 2
2. It shall apply from [OP: Please insert a date: 4236 months after the entry into force of this Regulation].