10 Amendments of Eleftherios SYNADINOS related to 2016/0230(COD)
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The European Council of 23-24 October 2014 also acknowledged the multiple objectives of the agriculture and land use sector, with their lower mitigation potential as well as the need to ensure coherence between the Union food security and climate change objectives. The European Council invited the Commission to examine the best means of encouraging the sustainable intensification of food production, while optimising the sector's contribution to greenhouse gas mitigation and sequestration, including through afforestation, and to establish policy on how to include land use, land use change and forestry ('LULUCF') into the 2030 greenhouse gas mitigation framework through the exchange of CO2 (carbon cycle) emissions between the terrestrial biosphere system and the atmosphere as soon as technical conditions allow and in any case before 2020.
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The LULUCF sector can contribute to climate change mitigation in several ways, in particular by reducing emissions, and maintaining and enhancing sinks and carbon stocks, by increasing removals of greenhouse gases (GHG) from the atmosphere and / or reducing emissions from sources, leading to an accumulation of carbon stocks. An important feature of LULUCF activities in this context is their reversibility and, therefore, the non- permanence of the accumulated carbon stocks. In order for measures aiming in particular at increasing carbon sequestration to be effective, the long-term stability and adaptability of carbon pools is essential.
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Emissions and removals from forest land depend on a number of natural circumstances, age-class structure, as well as past and present management practices. Estimates for the global assessment of forest resources for 2010 (FRA 2015) show that more than 485 gigatonnes (1 Gt = 1 billion tonnes) of carbon are stocked in the world's forests and other woodland: 260 Gt in biomass (53%) , 37 Gt in dead wood and litter (8%) and 189 Gt in the soil (39%). While the sustainable management, the planting and the rehabilitation of forests can maintain or increase the carbon stocks of forests, deforestation, degradation and poor management reduce carbon stocks. For the world as a whole, carbon stocks in forest biomass decreased by about 0.22 Gt annually during the 2011-2015 period. The use of a base year would not make it possible to reflect all those factors and resulting cyclical impacts on emissions and removals or their interannual variation. The relevant accounting rules should instead provide for the use of reference levels to exclude the effects of natural and country- specific characteristics. In the absence of the international review under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol, a review procedure should be established to ensure transparency and improve the quality of accounting in this category.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) When the Commission chooses to be assisted by an expert review team in accordance with Commission Decision (C(2016)3301) in the review of national forestry accounting plans, it should build on the good practice, the most recent scientific data and experience of the expert reviews under the UNFCCC, including as regards participation of national experts and recommendations, and select a sufficient number of experts from the Member States.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) TPending the publication of the methodology concerning the national greenhouse gas inventories as well as of the sixth evaluation report, the internationally agreed IPCC Guidelines state that emissions from the combustion of biomass can be accounted as zero in the energy sector with the condition that these emissions are accounted for in the LULUCF sector. In the EU, emissions from biomass combustion are accounted as zero pursuant to Article 38 of Regulation (EU) No. 601/2012 and the provisions set out in Regulation (EU) No. 525/2013, hence consistency with the IPCC Guidelines would only be ensured if these emissions should be covered accurately under this Regulation.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The increased sustainable use of harvested wood products, through sustainable logging and/or small-scale logging, can substantially limit emissions into and enhance removals of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The accounting rules should ensure that Member States accurately reflect in accounts the changes in the harvested wood products pool when they take place, to provide incentives for enhanced use of harvested wood products with long life cycles. The Commission should provide guidance on methodological issues related to the accounting for harvested wood products.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) The European Environment Agency should assist the Commission, as appropriate in accordance with its annual work programme, with the system of annual reporting of greenhouse gas emissions and removals, the assessment of information on policies and measures, the interactive evaluation of supported actions on climate change and national projections, the evaluation of planned additional policies and measures, and the compliance checks carried out by the Commission under this Regulation.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) To facilitate data collection and methodology improvement, land use should be inventoried and reported using geographical tracking and earth observation of each land area, corresponding to national and EU data collection systems. The best use shall be made of existing Union and Member State programmes and surveys including the LUCAS Land Use Cover Area frame Survey and the European Earth observation programme Copernicus for data collection. Data management, including sharing for the reporting reuse and dissemination should conform to Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 2007 establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point Α – paragraph 1 – point γ a (new)
Annex I – point Α – paragraph 1 – point γ a (new)
(ca) Tetrafluoromethane (CF4)