28 Amendments of Peter LIESE related to 2008/0013(COD)
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) In order to contribute to achieving those long-term objectives, it is appropriate to set out a predictable path according to which the emissions of installations covered by the Community scheme should be reduced. To achieve cost-effectively the commitment of the Community to at least a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels, emission allowances allocated in respect of those installations should be 21% below their 2005 emission levels by 2020, which is more than 30 % below their 1990 levels.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Where equivalent measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in particular taxation, are in place for small installations whose emissions do not exceed a threshold of 1025 000 tonnes of CO2 per year, there should be a procedure for enabling Member States to exclude such small installations from the emissions trading system for so long as those measures are applied. This threshold relatively offers the maximum gain in terms of reduction of administrative costs for each tonne excluded from the system, for reasons of administrative simplicity. As a consequence of the move from five-year allocation periods, and in order to increase certainty and predictability, provisions should be set on the frequency of revision of greenhouse gas emission permits.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) This contribution is equivalent to a reduction of emissions in 2020 in the Community scheme of 21% below reported 2005 levels, which is more than 30 % below their 1990 levels, including the effect of the increased scope from the period 2005 to 2007 to the period 2008 to 2012 and the 2005 emission figures for the trading sector used for the assessment of the Bulgarian and Romanian national allocation plan for the period 2008 to 2012, leading to an issue of a maximum of 1 720 million allowances in the year 2020. Exact quantities of emissions will be calculated once Member States have issued allowances pursuant to Commission Decisions on their national allocation plans for the period 2008 to 2012, as the approval of allocations to some installations was contingent upon their emissions having been substantiated and verified. Once the issue of allowances for the period 2008 to 2012 has taken place, the Commission will publish the Community-wide quantity. Adjustments should be made to the Community-wide quantity in relation to installations which are included in the Community scheme during the period 2008 to 2012 or from 2013 onwards.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Transitional free allocation to installations should be provided for through harmonised Community-wide rules ("benchmarks") in order to minimise distortions of competition within the Community. These rules should take account of the most greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass, renewables and greenhouse gas capture and storage. Any such rules should not give incentives to increase emissions and ensure that an increasing proportion of these allowances is auctioned. Allocations must be fixed prior to the trading period so as to enable the market to function properly. They shall also avoid undue distortions of competition on the markets for electricity and heat supplied to industrial installations. They shall further avoid undue distortions of competition between industrial activities carried out in installations operated by a single operator and production in outsourced installations. These rules should apply to new entrants carrying out the same activities as existing installations receiving transitional free allocations. To avoid any distortion of competition within the internal market, no free allocation should be made in respect of the production of electricity by new entrants, which is not the case of electricity recovered from unavoidable waste gases and other residues, and electricity produced in connection with industrial heat consumption for the own consumption of the operators of the installations. Allowances which remain in the set-aside for new entrants in 2020 should be auctioned.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 18
Recital 18
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The Community will continue to take the lead in the negotiation of an ambitious international agreement that will achieve the objective of limiting global temperature increase to 2°C and is encouraged by the progress made in Bali towards this objective. In the event that other developed countries and other major emitters of greenhouse gases do not participate in this international agreement, this could lead to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions in third countries where industry would not be subject to comparable carbon constraints (“carbon leakage”), and at the same time could put certain energy- intensive sectors and sub-sectors in the Community which are subject to international competition at an economic disadvantage. This could undermine the environmental integrity and benefit of actions by the Community. To address the risk of carbon leakage, taking into account the possibility of a significant loss of market shares to installations outside the Community which make no comparable efforts to reduce emissions, a list of energy-intensive industries which may potentially contribute to ‘carbon leakage’ should be attached to this Directive as an annex. The Community will continue to allocate all allowances free of charge up to 100% to sectors or sub- sectors meeting the relevant criteria concerning exposure to the risk of ‘carbon leakage’. The definition of these sectors and sub-sectors and the measures required will be subject to re-assessment to ensure that action is taken where necessary and to avoid overcompensation. For those specific sectors or sub-sectors where it can be duly substantiated that the risk of carbon leakage cannot be prevented otherwise, where electricity constitutes a high proportion of production costs and is produced efficiently, the action taken may take into account the electricity consumption in the production process, without changing the total quantity of allowances.
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 – point (c)
Article 1 – point 2 – point (c)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 – point [(v)] (new)
Article 3 – point [(v)] (new)
[(v)] ‘Sectors exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage’ means sectors identified in accordance with the criteria of Article 10a (9) and which are listed in Annex Ia;
Amendment 263 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – point 2 a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 c – paragraph 2
Article 3 c – paragraph 2
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – point 2 a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 c – paragraph 2
Article 3 c – paragraph 2
(2a) Article 3c(2) is replaced by the following: "2. From 1 January 2013, [...] the total quantity of allowances to be allocated to aircraft operators shall be equivalent to 95% of the historical aviation emissions, which shall be adjusted by the linear factor applying under Article 9 in each subsequent year."
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 1 – point 2 a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 d – paragraph 2
Article 3 d – paragraph 2
(2a) Article 3d(2) is replaced by the following: "2. Subject to Article 10b, the quantity of allowances allocated free of charge under paragraphs 3 to 5 of this Article [and Article 3c(2)] in 2013 shall be 80% of the quantity determined in accordance with the measures referred to in paragraph 1 and thereafter the free allocation shall decrease each year by equal amounts resulting in no free allocation in 2020. From 2014, free allocation to aviation operators under this paragraph shall decrease by equal amounts resulting in no free allocation in 2020."
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 5
Article 1 – point 5
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
The Community-wide quantity of allowances issued each year starting in 2013 shall decrease in a linear manner beginning from the mid-point of the period 2008 to 2012. The quantity shall decrease by a linear factor of 1.74% compared to the average annual total quantity of allowances issued by Member States in accordance with the Commission Decisions on their national allocation plans for the period 2008 to 2012. The linear factor shall correspond to meeting a Community wide greenhouse gas emission reduction target of 30% below 1990 by 2020. The calculation of the factor shall take into account the additional efforts made in sectors not covered by the Community scheme and in the aviation sector. Verified emissions in 2005 shall be the year from which effort is determined. The Commission shall publish the linear factor by 30 June 2010.
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - Point 7
Article 1 - Point 7
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 - paragraph 2 - point b
Article 10 - paragraph 2 - point b
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - Point 7
Article 1 - Point 7
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 - paragraph 3
Article 10 - paragraph 3
3. At least 20% of tThe revenues generated from the auctioning of allowances referred to in paragraph 2, including all revenues from the auctioning referred to in point (b) thereof, shouldall be used for the following: (a) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including byone quarter for measures to contributinge to the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund, to adapt to the impacts of climate change anfunds to avoid deforestation and increase afforestation and reforestation in countries that have ratified tohe fund research and development for reducing emissions and adapting, including participation in initiatives within the framework of European Strategic Energy Technology Plan; (b) to develop renewable energies to meet the commitment of the Community to using 20% renewable energies by 2020, and to meet the commitmentture international agreement, taking into account: - the rights and needs of indigenous peoples; - the preservation of biodiversity; and - the sustainable use of forest resources; (b) one half to reduce emissions in the European Union and other countries that have ratified the future international agreement, e.g. through research and development, placing ofn the Community to increasemarket of energy -efficiency by 20% by 2020; (c) for the capture and geological storat products, lowering taxes and charges of greenhouse gases, in particular from coal power stations; (d) for measures to avoid deforestation, in particular in Least Developed Countries; (e) to facilitate developing countries' adaptation to the impacts of climate change; (f) to address social aspects in lower and middle income households, for example by increasing their en environmentally friendly technologies such as environmentally friendly modes of transport, for instance bus and rail, and to transfer technology to countries that have ratified the future international agreement, e.g. through the Global Energy eEfficiency and insulationRenewable Energy Fund; and (gc) to cover administrative expenses of the mone quarter to facilitate adaptation to the adverse effects of climate chanagement of the Community schem in countries that have ratified the future international agreement on climate change.
Amendment 371 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1
Article 10a – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall, by 30 June 20110 at the latest, adopt Community -wide and fully- harmonised implementing measures for allocating the allowances referred to in paragraphs 2 to 6 and 8 in a harmonised manner. The Commission shall consult the sectors involved when establishing the principles for drawing up benchmarks. Those measures, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)]. The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, ensure that allocation takes place ion a manner thatthe basis of benchmarks so as to gives incentives for greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques and for reductions in emissions, by. Without prejudice to sector-specific criteria, these provisions should takinge account of the most efficient techniques, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass and greenhouse gas capture and storage, and shall not give incentives to increase emissions. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any electricity productgreenhouse-gas- and energy-efficient techniques, the most efficient substitutes and generally employable alternative production processes, use of biomass, renewable energies and the available potential, including the potential for reducing emissions by technical means. They should provide an incentive for reducing emissions. The Commission shall, upon the conclusion by the Community of an international agreement on climate change leading to mandatory reductions of greenhouse gas emissions comparable to those of the Community, review those measures to provide that free allocation only takes place where this is fully justified in the light of that agreement.
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, establish harmonised sector specific benchmarks to ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that gives incentives for greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques and for reductions in emissions, by taking. They shall be based on the most efficient techniques and technologies, and take into account of the most efficient techniquepotential, including the technical potential, to reduce emissions, substitutes, alternative production processes, and the use of biomass and greenhouse gas capture and storage, and shall not give incentives to increase emissions. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any electricity production. . In defining the principles for setting benchmarks in individual sectors, the Commission shall consult with the sectors concerned.
Amendment 399 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, establish harmonised benchmarks to ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that gives incentives for greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques and for reductions in emissions, by taking account of the most efficient techniques and technologies, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass and greenhouse gas capture and storage, and shall not give incentives to increase emissions. Those measures may also take into account emissions related to the use of combustible waste gases from blast oxygen furnaces when the production of these waste gases cannot be avoided in the blast furnace production process for steel; in this respect the measures may provide for allowances to be allocated for free to the blast furnaces where these gases originate. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any net sale of electricity production to third parties, except for electricity generators in respect of the production of electricity for railway undertakings. These allowances shall be allocated free of charge only until other transport modes participate in emissions trading in a comparably demanding way.
Amendment 400 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that gives incentives for greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques and for reductions in emissions, by taking account of the most efficient techniques, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass and greenhouse gas capture and storage, and shall not give incentives to increase emissions. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any electricity production, except for electricity produced in connection with industrial heat consumption or produced from residues from an industrial process provided that it is for the own consumption of the operators of the installations; such allocations shall be made under the same allocation principles as applied to that industrial activity as mentioned in Annex I. However, where a waste gas from a production process is used as a fuel, all allowances shall be allocated for free to the operator of the installation generating the waste gas according to the same allocation principles as applied for that installation.
Amendment 444 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 3
Article 10a – paragraph 3
3. Free allocation mayshall be given to electricity generators in respect of the production of heatthe production of heat that is supplied to industries and other consumers through high efficiency cogeneration as defined by Directive 2004/8/EC for economically justifiable demand to ensure equal treatment with regard to other producers of heat. In each year subsequent to 2013, the total allocation to such installations in respect of the production of that heat shall be adjusted by the linear factor referred to in Article 9.
Amendment 492 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3
Article 10a – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3
No free allocation shall be made in respect of any electricity production by new entrants, except for electricity produced in connection with industrial heat consumption or produced from residues from an industrial process provided that it is for the own consumption of the operators of the installations; such allocations shall be made under the same allocation principles as applied to that industrial activity as mentioned in Annex I. However, where a waste gas from a production process is used as a fuel, all allowances shall be allocated for free to the operator of the installation generating the waste gas with the same allocation principles as applied for that installation.
Amendment 511 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 7
Article 10a – paragraph 7
7. Subject to Article 10b, the amount of allowances allocated free of charge under paragraphs 3 to 6 of this Article [and paragraph 2 of Article 3c] in 2013 shall be 80 100% of the quantity determined in accordance with the measures referred to in paragraph 1 and thereafter tparagraphs 1 to 3. The Commission shall review this percentage in 2020 and then periodically every 4 years. The free allocation shall decrease each year by equal amounts resulting in no free allocation in 2020view shall take into account observed environmental and economic impacts. All relevant social partners shall be consulted. Any measures taken by the Commission following that review, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)].
Amendment 519 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 7
Article 10a – paragraph 7
7. Subject to Article 10b, the amount of allowances allocated free of charge under paragraphs 3 to 6 of this Article [and paragraph 2 of Article 3c] in 2013 shall be 80% of the quantity determined in accordance with the measures referred to in paragraph 1 and thereafter the free allocation shall decrease each year by equal amounts resulting in no free allocation in 2020. From 2014, free allocation to aviation operators under Article 3d(2) shall decrease by equal amounts resulting in no free allocation in 2020.
Amendment 530 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 8
Article 10a – paragraph 8
8. ISubject to Article 10b, in 2013 and in each subsequent year up to 2020, installations in sectors which are exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage shall be allocated all allowances free of charge up to 100 percent of the quantity determined in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 6determined in accordance with paragraphs 1 to 3 free of charge and without changing the total quantity of allowances according to Article 9.
Amendment 550 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 8
Article 1 - point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a - paragraph 9 - subparagraphs 1, 2 and 3, introductory part
Article 10a - paragraph 9 - subparagraphs 1, 2 and 3, introductory part
Amendment 666 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9
Article 1 - point 9
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 7
Article 11a - paragraph 7
7. Once anFrom 2013, only 'Gold Standard' type CERs and 'Gold Standard' type ERUs from third countries which have ratified the future international agreement on climate change shasll been reached, only CERs from third countries which have ratified that agreement shall be accepted accepted in the Community scheme. In the period 2008 to 2012, allocations in the Community scheme shall be 6,5% less than the emissions in 2005. All operators who, in that period, used a lower percentage of ERUs and CERs compared to their emissions and who do not carry over entitlements under paragraph 2, shall be allowed to use such credits up to 6 % of their emissions each year during the Community schemeperiod from 2013 to 2020, as shall new entrants and new sectors.
Amendment 673 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9
Article 1 - point 9
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 11a - paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. In order to maintain the environmental integrity of the Community scheme and to ensure that European domestic abatement takes place at the level indicated by the emission reduction targets, a total volume of EU emission allowances (EUA) equal to the volume of CERs, ERUs and equivalent credits that installations are permitted to use shall be cancelled. It is conceived that this volume of EUAs will be subtracted from those that would otherwise have been destined for auctioning.
Amendment 720 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 21
Article 1 - point 21
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 27 - paragraph 1
Article 27 - paragraph 1
1. Member States mayshall at the request of the operator exclude, from the Community scheme, combustion installations which have a rated thermal input below 25 MW, reported emissions to the competent authority of less than 1025 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in each of the preceding 3 years, and which are subject to measures that will achieve an equivalent contribution to emission reductions, if the Member State concerned complies with the following conditions: (a) it notifies the Commission of each such installation, specifying the equivalent measures that are in place, (b) it confirms that monitoring arrangements are in place to assess whether any installation emits 1025 000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in any one calendar year; (c) it confirms that if any installation emits 1025 000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in any one calendar year or the equivalent measures are no longer in place, the installation will be re-introduced into the system; (d) it publishes the information referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) for public comment.
Amendment 813 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Annex I a (new)
Annex I a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex I a (new)
Annex I a (new)
ANNEX Ia The following is added as Annex Ia to Directive 2003/87/EC: “ANNEX Ia List of energy intensive sectors exposed to significant risk of carbon leakage Lime Cement Iron and steel Ceramics Chemicals Clay Glass Pulp and Paper”* * All sectors to be specified by Parliament and Council before the adoption of this Directive.
Amendment 821 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Annex II
Annex II
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex II a (new)
Annex II a (new)