3 Amendments of Tom VANDENKENDELAERE related to 2012/0288(COD)
Amendment 99 #
Council position
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Liquid renewable fuels are likely to be required by the transport sector in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced biofuels, such as those made from wastes and algae, provide high greenhouse gas emission 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 they are currently not commercially available in large quantities, in part due to competition for public subsidies with established food crop-based biofuel technologies. Each Member State should promote the consumption of such advanced biofuels, through setting non-legally binding sub-targets at national level within the obligation of ensuring that the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transport in 2020 is at least 10 % of the final consumption of energy in transport in that Member State. It is also appropriate for Member States to report on their achievements towards such national sub- targets in 2020, a synthesis report of which should be published, in order to assess the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive in reducing the risk of indirect land-use change greenhouse gas emissions through the promotion of advanced biofuels. Such advanced biofuels and their promotion are expected to continue to play an important role in the decarbonisation of transport and the development of low-carbon transport technologies beyond that date. In this context, the post-2020 policy framework for sustainable energy should cover only advanced biofuels which offer a low risk of causing indirect land use change and a substantial reduction in overall greenhouse gas emissions, taking their economic and social impact into account.
Amendment 167 #
Council position
Article 1 – point 1
Article 1 – point 1
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 2 – point 11
Article 2 – point 11
11. 'low indirect land-use change-risk biofuels' means biofuels, the feedstocks of which are not listed in Part A of Annex V, or are listed in Part A of Annex V, but were produced within schemes which offset emissions caused by indirect land- use changes which result from actions which reduce demand for farmland and/or increase the efficiency of agri- forestry production chains or which reduce the displacement of production for purposes other than for making biofuels and which were produced in accordance with the sustainability criteria for biofuels laid down in Article 7b. Only the amount of feedstock which corresponds to the actual reduction in displacement achieved through the scheme may be considered. Such schemes may either operate as individual projects at a local level or as policy measures covering partly or entirely the territory of a Member State or a third country. Displacement of production for purposes other than for making biofuels can be reduced if the scheme achieves productivity increases within the area it covers beyond levels which would have prevailed in the absence of such productivity-promoting schemes;
Amendment 219 #
Council position
Article 2 – point 1
Article 2 – point 1
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point v
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point v
v) 'low indirect land-use change-risk biofuels and bioliquids' means biofuels and bioliquids, the feedstocks of which are not listed in part A of Annex VIII, or are listed in part A of Annex VIII, but were produced within schemes which offset indirect land- use change emissions resulting from acts reducing farmland demand and/or boosting agroforestry production chain efficiency or which reduce the displacement of production for purposes other than for making biofuels and bioliquids and which were produced in accordance with the sustainability criteria for biofuels and bioliquids laid down in Article 17. Only the amount of feedstock which corresponds to the actual reduction in displacement achieved through the scheme may be considered. Such schemes may either operate as individual projects at a local level or as policy measures covering partly or entirely the territory of a Member State or a third country. Displacement of production for purposes other than for making biofuels and bioliquids can be reduced if the scheme achieves productivity increases within the area it covers beyond levels which would have prevailed in the absence of such productivity-promoting schemes.