28 Amendments of Jakop G. DALUNDE related to 2021/2046(INI)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the need forat in order to achieve climate neutrality and the zero pollution objective, the EU needs ambitious policies to reduceend transport’s reliance on fossil fuels without delay;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the challenges ahead are alsoecological transition of the transport sector is an opportunity for the Union’s industrial leadership in clean technologies such as batteries orzero-emission products, services, technologies and innovations, such as a circular, sustainable and ethically responsible battery value chain, innovative shared mobility and improved customer services, in particular for people with disabilities, congestion reduction, renewable hydrogen, as well as in the related industrial ecosystems; welcomes the new European partnerships under Horizon Europe related to mobilitysustainable mobility; points to the need of open and early involvement of citizen, consumers' organisations and social partners in R&I processes as to ensure that developed technologies and innovations respond to societal needs;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses that achieving sustainable, green and smart mobility requires the use of public and private data in full respect of fundamental rights and data protection provisions; calls for increased openness and cooperation from all stakeholders; notes that competition is a driver for prosperity and calls for incentives to open up non-personal data silos;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that a mobility system based on EU-wide digitalisation, data sharing and interoperable standards has the potential to make transport smarter and cleangreener; welcomes the Commission's commitment to ensure that these developments will constitute a just transition for transport workers;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Underlines that any public support for the digitalisation of transport should be directed at measures that will also contribute to achieving the Union’s energy, climate and environmental targets, with particular attention to increasing the energy efficiency of the sector;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Digitalisation can bring immense benefits for the transport sector in general, and railways in particular; calls on the Commission to make the one-stop- shop ticketing solutions for European railways possible within the scope of the upcoming revision of the ITS Directive;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Multimodal ticketing has the potential to incentivise public transport use and can benefit from interoperability and database interconnections; calls therefore for open standards and guidelines to ensure interconnectivity;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Stresses that vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure connectivity should be deployed with a view of ensuring a common level of security and safety, independently of third party services providers; Calls for ensuring interoperability between V2X applications and mandatory cybersecurity requirements;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3 e. Highlights that the increased digitalisation of the transport sector corresponds to more cybersecurity risks; calls therefore for ensuring minimal cybersecurity requirements along the whole industrial ecosystem, including, but not limited to, suppliers based outside of the Union;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for a holistic approach to increase the share ofpromote zero-emission mobility based on a modal-shift and the following cascading priority: energy efficiency first, direct renewable electrification and sustainable renewables-based fuels only for those applications without alternatives for achieving climate neutrality; in the context of increasing the share of sustainable renewable energy in the transport sector, whereconsiders that the further development and deployment of electric vehicles matched with direct and proportional additional renewable capacity should play a key role;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States to swiftly implement the Clean Energy Package and calls on the Commission to come forward with ambitious revisions of the relevant energy and climate legislation in the “fit for 55 Package” in order to facilitate the production, integration and management of the increased additional renewable electricity needed to decarboniseachieve climate neutrality as well as the zero pollution objective in the transport sector;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for measures to unlock the potential of the energy efficiency first principle by boosting opportunities from digitalisation and electrificationWelcomes the strategy’s intention to employ energy efficiency as a criterion for prioritising choices of suitable technologies looking at the whole life- cycle; Calls therefore for measures to unlock the potential of the energy efficiency first principle in any relevant legislation, in particular by promoting zero-emission mobility based on a cascading priority for energy efficiency and savings first, followed by direct renewable electrification and finally by the uptake of sustainable renewables-based fuels only for those applications without alternatives for achieving zero-emissions;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Highlights that beyond the development and the uptake of zero- emissions technologies according to the energy efficiency first principle, significant behavioural changes in transport and mobility users are necessary to ensure modal-shifts; for instance promoting collective and or soft mobility such as biking, walking, public transport, shared mobility for daily travels and trains for longer distance travel are key; regrets that the strategy does not devote enough attention to the above and calls on the Commission to operationalise these elements in the strategy and its planned policy actions;
Amendment 77 #
6 b. Underlines that rail is the most energy-efficient mode for mass passenger transport and the least emitting for freight transport in Europe; welcomes that the strategy is setting targets for increasing rail transport but calls for a substantially higher ambition considering that an wider transition from road to rail will be key to achieve the EU’s energy efficiency and climate objectives;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Highlights analysis of the EU Strategy for Energy System Integration1a stating that ‘overall, applicable taxes and levies, including carbon pricing, are not applied homogeneously across energy carriers and sectors, and create distortions towards the use of specific carriers’; _________________ 1aPowering a climate-neutral economy: An EU Strategy for Energy System Integration COM/2020/299final
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Underlines the importance of establishing a level playing field in terms of fully internalising all short-term and long-term external costs in all transport modes in order to achieve the targets set out in the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy and to align the taxation of energy products and electricity with EU environment and climate policies;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6 e. Strongly supports the strategy’s intention to end fossil-fuels subsidies; calls, in this regard, for ending tax exemptions for kerosene and for the introduction of an emission-related kerosene tax for intra-EU aviation in the upcoming revision of the Energy Taxation Directive;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6 f. Calls for the full inclusion of the aviation and maritime sectors in the upcoming revision of the EU emissions trading system, in addition to other measures to cut emissions, increase efficiency and promote sustainable zero- emission fuels;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the possibilities for advanced biofuelsoptions for the greater uptake of renewables-based alternative fuels, such as advanced biofuels, renewable hydrogen, ammonia and e-kerosene, and associated infrastructure development in the EU, such as options for th only in those transport applications where greater uptake of sustainablenewables-based electrification or other cost-effective technical alternatives fuels, in particular inor achieving zero- emissions are not available, such as the aviation and the maritime sectors, as part of the review of RED II;
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Deplores that low-carbon fuels are referenced throughout the Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy and that measures to promote them are foreseen ,especially in relation to the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive; urges the Commission to safeguard the scope of the directive which is to promote sustainable renewable energy and not, whether directly or indirectly, energy from fossil or nuclear sources; in this context, calls also for the deletion of the recycled Carbon Fuels(RCFs) from the renewable transport targets;
Amendment 93 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for increased efforts to achieve a EU-wide roll-out of smart charging infrastructure and the adoption of harmonised standards to ensure interoperability.development of vehicle to grid (V2G) services; considers challenges still remain regarding and the adoption of harmonised standards and communication protocols to ensure interoperability, grid charges,taxation and access to the in- vehicle data, standardisation and ease of use for consumers; Calls on the Commission to require electric vehicle manufacturers to enable V2G and smart charging by default;
Amendment 101 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Commission to introduce in the upcoming EPBD revision a holistic integrated renovation programmes (IRPs) approach as to maximise the synergies between the buildings sector, the district energy systems, the mobility plans and the general environment; in this context, invites the Commission to introduce requirements for dedicated spaces for sustainable, collective and soft mobility modes, such as car-sharing, e-scooters or bikes and to further enhance provisions on smart charging infrastructure requirements for e-mobility;
Amendment 105 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Stresses that, in order to transition to a genuinely smart and sustainable mobility, infrastructure projects should be assessed against their climate impact, calculated in terms of direct and indirect emissions along the life cycle, as well as social and cohesion criteria, and in particular their acceptance by local communities; also stresses that infrastructure projects should guarantee a high level of transparency, providing access to all relevant documents, especially those related to their impacts on the environment and public health; calls for financing to infrastructure projects whose operation emission savings by 2050 - compared to the baseline scenario - do not offset the construction related emissions, like the Lyon-Turin high-speed rail connection, to be immediately halted;
Amendment 106 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Calls on Commission and Member States to boost the sector integration of the transport and power sectors, notably by appropriately rewarding consumer demand side management and through requiring smart functionalities for batteries and charging infrastructure in the relevant legislations, including the Alternative Fuels Directive; points to the required enabling framework for active consumers and energy communities generating, storing and using their own renewable energy and contributing to the balancing of the grid through home batteries or electric vehicles, thus minimising the infrastructural constraints to absorb an increasing demand for electric vehicles;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Calls for the adoption of an end date for the sale of new petrol and diesel cars within the upcoming revision of the Regulation setting emission performance standards for new passenger cars and for new light commercial vehicles1b; stresses that all new cars and vans should be zero- emission under real-life driving conditions by no later than 2030; _________________ 1bRegulation (EU) 2019/631 of 17 April 2019 setting CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and for new light commercial vehicles
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8 d. Calls for the Commission to regularly monitor whether the policy actions proposed in the Strategy are enough to ensure the end of the transport sector’s reliance on fossil fuels, its transition towards climate neutrality and its contribution to achieving the zero pollution objective, and to propose additional measures and/or higher ambition when needed;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 e (new)
Paragraph 8 e (new)
8 e. Stresses that the social dimension of an inclusive, non-discriminatory, fully accessible and affordable transport policy is key to ensure the success of the strategy; welcomes the flagship initiative dedicated to making mobility fair and just for all; points to the need of swiftly applying equality mainstreaming to transport and mobility policies at EU, national and local level not only to increase the gender diversity and inclusivity in transport-related industries, but also to ensure that gender and diversity perspectives are fully integrated in any infrastructure, mobility and public service planning;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
8 f. Strongly believes that gender and diversity perspectives should be reflected in the design and implementation of any transport and mobility-related technology, including AI applications; Demands that data used for digital systems, safety regulations, transport and infrastructure planning are inclusive, diverse, and gender-disaggregated; stresses that this is particularly important to ensure the safety of all persons in transport;