Activities of João PIMENTA LOPES related to 2021/0203(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy efficiency (recast)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) Improving the energy performance of the transport and housing sectors also has the potential to foster urban regeneration, which is instrumental to employment, improving buildings and changing mobility and accessibility patterns, promoting more efficient and sustainable options.
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Low and medium income households, vulnerable customers, including final users, people facing or risking energy poverty and people living in social housing should benefit from the application of the energy efficiency first principle. Energy efficiency measures should be implemented as a priority to improve the situations of those individuals and households or to alleviate energy poverty. A holistic approach in policy making and in implementing policies and measures requires Member States to ensure that other policies and measures have no adverse effect on these individuals and households, and should not encourage speculative development or increase housing or mobility costs. Public policy making to promote energy efficiency must not contribute to greater social exclusion.
Amendment 182 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) To lead by example, the public sector should set its own decarbonisation and energy efficiency goals. Energy efficiency improvements in the public sector should reflect the efforts required at Union level. To comply with the final energy consumption target, the Union should decrease its final energy consumption by 19% by 2030 as compared to the average energy consumption in years 2017, 2018 and 2019. An obligation to achieve an annual reduction of the energy consumption in the public sector by at least 1,7% should ensure that the public sector fulfils its exemplary role. Member States retain full flexibility regarding the choice of energy efficiency improvement measures to achieve a reduction of the final energy consumption. Requiring an annual reduction of final energy consumption has a lower administrative burden than establishing measurement methods for energy savings. Changes in social ownership or public investments that increase overall energy efficiency should be considered when assessing public sector behaviour.
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 30
Recital 30
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) Member States’ energy efficiency improvement measures in transport are eligible to be taken into account for achieving their end-use energy savings obligation. Such measures include policies that are, inter alia, dedicated to promoting more efficient vehicles, a modal shift to cycling, walking andand increasing the availability of collective public transport, orsupporting mobility and urban planning that reduces demand for transport and the modal shift to soft modes. In addition, schemes which accelerate the uptake of new,in collective public transport of more efficient vehicles or policiesand fostering a shift to fuels with reduced levels of emissions, except policy measures regarding the use of direct fossil fuel combustion, that reduce energy use per kilometre are also capable of being eligible, subject to compliance with the rules on materiality and additionality set out in Annex V to this Directive. Policy measures promoting the uptake of new fossil fuel vehicles should not qualify as eligible measures under the energy savings obligation are also capable of being eligible.
Amendment 263 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 68
Recital 68
(68) Lower consumer spending on energy should be achieved by assisting consumers in reducing theiConsumers should be assisted to achieve lower energy use by reducing the energy needs of buildings and improvements in the efficiency of appliances, which should be combined with access to public transport and the availability of low-energysoft transport modes integrated with public transport and, such as cycling. Member States should also consider improving connectivity in rural and remote areas.
Amendment 399 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Where the Commission concludes, on the basis of its assessment pursuant to Article 29(1) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, that insufficient progress has been made towards meeting the energy efficiency contributions, Member States that are above their indicative trajectories referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article shall ensure that additional measures are implemented within one year following the date of reception of the Commission’s assessment in order to ensure getting back on track to reach their energy efficiency contributions. Those additional measures shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following measures:
Amendment 405 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point d
d. making a voluntary financial contribution to the National Energy Efficiency Fund referred to in Article 25 or another financing instrument dedicated to energy efficiency, where the annual financial contributions shall be equal to the investments required to reach the indicative trajectory.
Amendment 407 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 413 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Member States shall ensure that the total final energy consumption of all public bodies combined is reduced by at least 1,7% each year, when compared to the year X-2 (with X amay take into account climatic variations within the Member States twhe year when this Directiven calculating their public bodies’ final enters into force)gy consumption.
Amendment 427 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 4 a (new)
(4a) Member States shall promote the use of public transport and other less polluting and more energy efficient means of mobility, such as rail, and soft modes such as cycling or walking, by renewing and decarbonising fleets, encouraging modal shift and including these modes in urban mobility planning.
Amendment 428 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 4 b (new)
(4b) The financing used by Member States to deliver the public sector contribution to energy efficiency shall be excluded from the calculation of their public debt and budget deficits.
Amendment 581 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 22 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) make the best possible use of public funding available at national and Union level, including, where applicable, the financial contribution Member State received from the Social Climate Fund pursuant to [Article 9 and Article 14 of the Social Climate Fund Regulation], and revenues from allowance auctions from emission trading pursuant to the EU ETS, for investments into energy efficiency improvement measures as priority actions;
Amendment 589 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 22 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States shall ensure that measures to promote or facilitate energy efficiency, in particular those affecting buildings and mobility systems, do not contribute to an increase in the pricing of these services or to social exclusion;
Amendment 715 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 3
Article 28 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall adopt measures that ensure that energy efficiency lending products, such as green mortgages and green loans, secured and unsecured, are offered widely and in a non- discriminatory manner by financial institutions and, are visible and accessible to consumers. Member States shall adopt measures to facilitate the implementation of on-bill and on-tax financing schemes. Member States shall ensure that banks and other financial institutions receive information on opportunities to participate in the financing of energy efficiency improvement measures, including through the creation of public/private partnerships.
Amendment 719 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 9
Article 28 – paragraph 9
9. Member States may set up an Energy Efficiency National Fund. The purpose of this fund shall be to implement energy efficiency measures, including measures pursuant to Article 8(3) and Article 22 as a priority among vulnerable customers, people affected by energy poverty and, where applicable, people living in social housing, and to implement national energy efficiency measures to support Member States in meeting their national energy efficiency contributions and their indicative trajectories referred to in Article 4(2). The Energy Efficiency National Fund may be financed with revenues from the allowance auctions pursuant to the EU Emission Trading System on buildings and transport sectors.