17 Amendments of Miriam DALLI related to 2015/2113(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to build upon ambitious 2030 energy and climate targets, introduce new legislation and revise already existing legislative instruments in a sufficiently ambitious manner so as to promote new investments in the energy sector, support new technologies, create quality jobs and build a prosperous sustainable economy;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to achieve a comprehensive and, ambitious and legally binding agreement at the UNFCCC COP 21 meeting in Paris that contains sound guarantees for limiting the temperature increase to 2°C Celsius at a maximum, together with a global, robust and common transparency and accountability system that includes monitoring, reporting obligations, accounting rules and an effective and efficient compliance system; believes that the post-2020 international climate regime should include provisions to enable greater ambition, support cost- effective mitigation efforts, and provide opportunities for safeguarding environmental integrity and sustainable development;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that it is necessary to fundamentally rethink energy efficiency and treat it as an energy source in its own right, representing the value of energy saved; calls on the Commission to pay special attention to sectors with huge energy efficiency potential, in particular the transport and buildings sectors; urges for deeper energy efficiency measures for the existing building stock and targeted financial incentives;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Underlines the importance of fully implementing the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and allocating increased EU funding to these areas; emphasises that as part of the revision, measures should focus on social housing and on the most inefficient properties occupied by low-income households;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Urges the Commission to develop an initiative on the EU’s global technology and innovation leadership on renewable and low-carbon energy technologies, including wave energy, floating solar technologies and biofuels produced from algae, and to boost public and private R&D&I in these fields;
Amendment 120 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. CRecalls that the transport sector remains one of the most challenging areas for improving energy efficiency; calls on the Commission to urgently step up the EU’s efforts to pursue theits decarbonisation of the transportand to tap energy savings in this sector; reiterates that the use of LNG, as an alternative fuel should be encouraged for heavy load vehicles and in the maritime sector,;
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that despite progress made in recent years, Europe’s energy systems is still underperforming, the current market design does not lead to sufficient investments, and the European energy landscape is still too fragmented; underlines that the precondition for a functioning EU internal market is a well- connected network which ends Member States’ energy isolation, and urges the Commission to support the completion of all major interconnectivity projects;
Amendment 507 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Emphasises the need to strengthen the Euro-Mediterranean cooperation on gas, electricity, energy efficiency and renewables; asks the Commission to speed-up the setting up of the Euro-Med Gas Platform;
Amendment 628 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Calls on the Commission to implement key infrastructure projects in order to ensure better integration with the EU energy market and security of supply mechanism;
Amendment 631 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Stresses that the precondition for a functioning EU internal market is a well- connected network which ends Member States' energy isolation, and urges the Commission to support the completion of major interconnectivity projects;
Amendment 695 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Points out that in order to successfully balance the internal market, investment is needed not only in interconnectors but also in, inter alia, storage capacity, such as LNG terminals with transport infrastructure linking LNG access points with the internal market and smart grids, in order to cope with enhanced renewable and distributed generation;
Amendment 715 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Stresses the need to create a legislative framework that empowers consumers and makes them active participants in the market as investors and stakeholders; notes that consumers' involvement can be strengthened through, inter alia, energy cooperatives and micro-generation and enhanced transparency of prices and consumer choices; points out that such initiatives could contribute to reducing energy prices and help address serious social problems, such as fuel poverty; in this regard, ask the Commission to ensure that Member States fully implement the Third Energy Package and come up with a definition of vulnerable consumers; ask the Commission to gather impact assessments and collection of best practices of measures taken at national level to fight energy poverty and make sure that those best practices are centralised and promoted by a dedicated European body;
Amendment 898 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 b (new)
Paragraph 36 b (new)
36b. Calls on the Commission to ensure the implementation of the Market Stability Reserve and the reform of the ETS with an adequate carbon price so as to promote investments in clean technology, whilst taking into account the risks of an adverse impact on industrial competitiveness;
Amendment 1035 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 a (new)
Paragraph 43 a (new)
43a. Emphasises that energy must be made affordable to all citizens of the EU; considers that avoiding unnecessary consumption by undertaking efficiency improvements, stronger interconnections, higher market integration and sustainable energy investment, particularly in buildings, would enable many households to access on equal conditions a single, sustainable, competitive and secure energy market and escape energy poverty, which in 2012 affected one in four EU citizens; invites the Commission to present a communication on energy poverty in Europe, accompanied by an action plan to fight against it, which contains a definition and indicators of energy poverty;
Amendment 1046 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43 b (new)
Paragraph 43 b (new)
43b. Urges the Commission to speed up the energy efficiency and the decarbonisation of the transport sector, in order to create the right market conditions for an increasing deployment of alternative fuels and to further promote the procurement of clean vehicles;
Amendment 1084 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Stresses that the EU must collectively step up its efforts as regards efficient, low- emission technologies in order to meet its 2030 objectives and improve its energy security and facilitate economic recovery; urges the Commission to stimulate further research and innovation for the better utilisation of wave energy, photovoltaic panels adapted for operation out at sea and biofuels produced from algae;
Amendment 1100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to seek for better interaction and coordination of national and European research programmes, especially in the fields of energy, transport, ICT and construction, in order to ensure that priority is given to common challenges such as increasing energy efficiency by not focusing only on the heating sector but also cooling, promoting small-scale renewable energies, reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as increasing energy security and developing new renewable energy sources, and to maximize the market uptake of new technologies;