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OPINION on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council establishing a Social Climate Fund
Amendments (91)
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8 a) The depth and acute nature of the ongoing climate and environmental emergency has a more disproportionate effect on the most vulnerable groups, including the economically disadvantaged, low-income households, women, discriminated groups, people with disabilities, elderly people or children, even though these groups often have the least responsibility for causing the emissions responsible for climate change. Eradicating mobility poverty across the Union is an essential part of the EU Green Deal’s objective of ensuring a just transition where no one is left behind. A wide range of EU funding instruments, including the Cohesion Funds, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and revenues currently generated by the EU ETS, are available for Member States to invest in the decarbonisation of the transport sector and in greater access to public, shared soft mobility. A particular attention is required for the most disadvantaged groups as well as the households and people in situation of mobility poverty to ensure that they actually benefit from the implementation of those funding instruments.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The increase in the price for fossil fuels may disproportionally affect vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-EU Toolbox on Energy Prices1a already provides the EU and its Member States with immediate emergency measures to support and protect households and people against the current increase of entergy prisces and vulnerable transport users who spend a larger part of their incomes on energy and transport, who, in certain regions, do not have access to alternative, affordable mobility and transport solutions awhich is primarily due to a spike in fossil gas prices, including emergency income support, state aid for companies and targeted tax reductions. Ambitious climate action would allow the Union to cut its dependence on fossil fuels and to protect Union citizens from dependence on imported fossil fuels and the impact of fluctuating energy prices. The Social Climate Fund wsho may lack the financial capacity to invest into the reduction of fossil fuel consumptuld come as a complement to those measures to support Member States and aim at providing structural long-lasting solutions to eradicate energy and mobility poverty across the Union.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) This is even more relevant in view of the existing levels of energy poverty. Energy poverty is a situation in which households are unable to access essential energy services such as cooling, as temperatures rise, and heating. About 34 million Europeans reported an inability to keep their homes adequately warm in 2018, and 6.9% of the Union population have said that they cannot afford to heat their home sufficiently in a 2019 EU-wide survey32 . Overall, the Energy Poverty Observatory estimates that more than 50 million households in the European Union experience energy poverty. Energy poverty is therefore a major challenge for the Union. Similarly, there are large groups of people facing mobility poverty in the Union and the Commission is called on to ensure systematic and comparable data surveys. Mobility poverty is a situation in which households and people have limited access to available and affordable mobility services and are unable to afford the necessary transport required to meet essential services as well as essential cultural and socio-economic needs, in particular quality employment and education and training, in a given context. While social tariffs or direct income support can provide immediate relief to households and people facing energy poverty, only targeted structural measureand mobility poverty, they are not a long-term solution to lift households and people out of energy and mobility poverty. Only targeted structural measures and investments aimed at ending the reliance on fossil fuels, in particular energy sustainable renovations, can provide lasting solutions. the implementation of sustainable and smart mobility solutions that are affordable, safe and accessible for people with disabilities and have the comfort and ease-of-use for users as their central focus, including through community-lead projects and integrative planning like SUMPs (sustainable urban mobility plans) or their extensions to rural areas (as piloted by the SMARTA platform), as well as information and awareness-raising measures targeted at the households, ultimately aiming at developing a mobility guarantee for citizens, can provide lasting solutions and effectively help combating mobility poverty. _________________ 32 Data from 2018. Eurostat, SILC [ilc_mdes01]).
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) A Social Climate (‘the Fund’) should therefore be established to provide funds to the Member States to support their policies to address the social impacts of the emissions trading for buildings and road transport on vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport usersThe Union and its Member States will not be able to meet their climate and environmental objectives without properly addressing energy and mobility poverty. Yet there is currently no standard Union- level definitions of either energy nor mobility poverty across the Union. As a result, no transparent and comparable data on energy and mobility poverty in the Union is currently available, hindering the possibility to effectively monitor progress at national level to eradicate energy and mobility poverty. A Social Climate Fund (‘the Fund’) should therefore be established to support Member States in their efforts to eradicate energy and mobility poverty. This should be achieved notably through temporary income support anadaptive and targeted measures and investments with lasting impact intended to reduce reliance on fossil fuels through increased energy efficiency of buildings, decarbonisation of heating and cooling of buildings, including the integration of energy from renewable soincreased access to renewable energies for heating and cooling of buildings, as well as measurces, and granting improved access to zero- and low-emission mobility and transport to the benefit of vulnerable active mobility, zero-emission sustainable shared mobility, public transport and other combined multi-modal mobility services in particular for thouseholds, vulnerable micro-enterp living in rural, insular and less accessible areas for the less developed regions and territorises and vulnerable transport user, including less developed peri-urban areas.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) For that purpose, each Member State should submit to the Commission a Social Climate Plan (‘the Plan’). Those Plans should pursue two objectives. Firstly, they should provide vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport users the necessary resources to finance and carry out investments in energy efficiency, decarbonisation of heating and cooling, in zero- and low-emission vehicles and mobility. Secondly, they should mitigate the impact of the increase in the cost of fossil fuels on the most vulnerable and therebidentify and map households and people in situation of mobility poverty, and provide a detailed analysis, conducted together with the local and regional authorities, social partners and civil society, on the main causes of mobility poverty in their respective territories. The Plans should also set targets for the progressive and effective eradication of mobility poverty, with the aim of developing and implementing a population-wide mobility guarantee. Secondly, they should provide households and people facing mobility poverty with the necessary prevent energy and transport poverty during the transition period until such investments have been implemented. The Plans should havesources to finance and carry out investments for the transition to climate neutral mobility, ensuring that no one is left behind. The Plans should mainly consist of targeted policy reforms and an investment component promoting the long-term solutions of reducephasing out fossil fuels reliance and could envisage other measures, including temporary, increase energy efficiency, combined with improved access to zero-emission sustainable mobility solutions and integrated mobility services. Other measures such as direct income support to mitigate adverse income effects in the shorter termcan be envisaged but should be limited in time and conditioned to long-term investments with long lasting impacts to be demonstrated by the Member States.
Amendment 95 #
(14 a) To achieve a socially just transition, the Plan should include wider policy reforms and measures aiming at eradicate mobility poverty. These may include reforms and measures targeted at addressing information deficit and administrative barriers, such as information campaigns and energy and mobility consultations, as well as reforms to include the notion of mobility poverty in existing legislation, like for example inclusion of beneficial accessibility and inclusion criteria for public tendering procedures and the inclusion of mobility poverty in SUMPs (sustainable urban mobility plans) and SMARTA(sustainable mobility for rural transport areas). It is also highly important that Member States implement the Council recommendation from December 20211a and apply the decision to reduce or even scrap VAT on services that serve to meet mobility poverty and inclusion. _________________ 1a Council decision to reduce VAT on tickets, bikes and bike repairs: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press /press-releases/2021/12/07/council- reaches-agreement-on-updated-rules-for- vat-rates/
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Member States, in consultation with regional, local, urban and other public authorities, civil society, economic and social partners level authorities, are best placed to design and to implement Plans that are adapted and targeted to their local, regional and national circumstances as their existing policies in the relevant areas and planned use of other relevant EU funds. In that manner, the broad diversity of situations, the specific knowledge of local and regional governments, research and innovation and industrial relations and social dialogue structures, as well as national traditions, can best be respected and contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of the overall support to the vulnerable.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Pending the impact of those investments on reducing costs and emissionsAs an immediate relief, well targeted, temporary direct income support for the most vulnerable would help the just transition. Such support should be understood to be a temporary measure accompanying the decarbonisation of the housing and transport sectors. It would not be permanent as it does not address the root causes of energy and transport poverty. Such support should only concern direct impacts of the inclusion of building and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC, not electricity or heating costs related to the inclusion of power and heat production in the scope of that Directive. Eligibility for such direct income support should be limited in timose in energy and mobility poverty may contribute to reduce energy and mobility costs while waiting for more structural investments to take place. Such support should nevertheless be limited in time and understood to be an adaptive and targeted measure accompanying structural investments, such as affordable access to zero-emission mobility solutions as well as sustainable and well-coordinated multi- modal mobility services, as part of a holistic and long-term strategy to effectively eradicate energy and mobility poverty to be demonstrated by the Member States. Eligibility for such direct support should be targeted to people facing energy and mobility poverty, with special attention to elderly and younger people, including women, such as single- mothers, women with disabilities and elderly women with low income, who are disproportionately affected by energy poverty and mobility poverty, due to different energy needs and mobility patterns. Such support should be given without too much administrative burden for the households or people receiving the support. The support should be in line with the principle of additionality and should not replace national schemes already in place.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 a (new)
Recital 17 a (new)
(17 a) Respect for fundamental rights and compliance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, should be ensured throughout the preparation, evaluation, implementation and monitoring of eligible projects under the Fund. The Fund should contribute to eliminating inequalities, promoting gender equality and integrating the gender perspective, as well as combating discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation as set out in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), Article 10 TFEU and Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. All stakeholders involved at all stages of implementation of the Facility should commit to promote equality, and in particular, ensure that the impact on women is taken into account, given that women are disproportionately impacted by the transition process.
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 b (new)
Recital 17 b (new)
(17 b) The Fund should be consistent with the Union's obligation under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and should not support any measure or investment that contributes to segregation or to social exclusion.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17 c (new)
Recital 17 c (new)
(17 c) The aim of the Fund should be aligned with the UN 2030 Agenda as well as the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights in order to ensure a just transition, towards a greener, fairer and more inclusive Europe.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Taking into account the importance of tacklinghe climate changeand environmental emergency in line with Paris Agreement commitments, and the commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the actions under this Regulation should contribute to the achievement of the target that 30% of all expenditure under the 2021- 2027 multiannual financial framework should be spent on mainstreaming climate objectives and should contribute to the ambition of providing 10% of annual spending to biodiversity objectives in 2026 and 2027, while considering the existing overlaps between climate and biodiversity goals. For this purpose, the methodology set out in Annex II of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council33 should be used to tag the expenditures of the Fund. The Fund should support activities that fully respect the climate and environmental standards and priorities of the Union and comply with the principle of ‘do no significant harm’ within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council34 . Only such measures and investments should be included in the Plans. Direct income support measures should as a rule be considered as having an insignificant foreseeable impact on environmental objectives, and as such be considered compliant with the principle of ‘do no significant harm’. The Commission intends to issue technical guidance to the Member States well ahead of the preparation of the Plans. The guidance will explain how the measures and investments must comply with the principle of ‘do no significant harm’ within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852. The Commission intends to present in 2021 a proposal for a Council Recommendation on how to address the social aspects of the greenecological transition. _________________ 33Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund Plus, the Cohesion Fund, the Just Transition Fund and the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund and financial rules for those and for the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund, the Internal Security Fund and the Instrument for Financial Support for Border Management and Visa Policy (OJ L 231, 30.6.2021, p. 159). 34 Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 (OJ L 198, 22.6.2020, p. 13).
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) Women are particularly affected by carbon pricing as they represent 85% of single parent familiesdisproportionately affected by energy and mobility poverty, in particular single mothers, who represent 85% of single parent families, as well as single women, women with disabilities, or elderly women living alone. Single parent families with dependent child have a particularly high risk of childenergy and mobility poverty. Gender equality and equal opportunities for all, and the mainstreaming of those objectives, as well as questions of accessibility for persons with disabilities should be taken into accountensured and promoted throughout the design, preparation and implementation of Plans to ensure no one is left behind.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The financial envelope of the Fund should, in principle, be commensurate to amounts corresponding to 25% of the expectedannual revenues from the inclusion of buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC in the period 2026-2032. Pursuant to Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/205341 , Member States should make those revenues available to the Union budget as own resources. Member States are to finance 50% of the total costs of their Plan themselves. For this purpose, as well as for investment and measures to accelerate and alleviate the required transition for citizens negatively affected, Member States should inter alia useauctioning of allowances from Chapter II and III of Directive 2003/87/EC as of the entry into force of this Regulation. Member States are to finance 50% of the total costs of their Plan themselves. The financing of the Fund should not come at their expected revenues from emissions trading for buildings and road transport under Directive 2003/87/EC for that purpose. _________________ 41Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053 of 14 December 2020 on the system of own resources of the European Union and repealing Decision 2014/335/EU, Euratom (OJ L 424, 15.12.2020, p. 1)nse of other Union programmes and policies.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) The Fund should support measures that respect the principle of additionality of Union funding. The Fund should not be a substitute for recurring national expenditures, except in duly justified cases.
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25 a (new)
Recital 25 a (new)
(25 a) To ensure that support under the Plans can be effectively implemented from the initial years starting from the entry into force of the Social Climate Fund, it should be possible for an amount of up to 13 % of the financial contribution of Member States to be paid in the form of pre-financing by the Commission.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Article 1 – paragraph 3
The measures and investments supported by the Fund shall directly benefit households, micro- in enterprises and transport users, which are vulnerable and particularly affected by the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC, especially households in energy poverty and citizens without public transport alternative to individual cars (in remote and rural areas)gy poverty and people facing mobility poverty, in particular people living in rural, insular, mountainous, and remote areas, including peri-urban areas, with low or no access to basic services or public transport as well as well coordinated multi-modal mobility services.
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 4
Article 1 – paragraph 4
The general objective of the Fund is to contribute to a just, equitable and inclusive the transition towards climate neutrality by addressing the social impacts of the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC. The specific objective of the Fund is to support vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-, in line with the Union’s commitments under the Paris agreement, by addressing the social impacts of this ecological transition. The specific objective of the Fund is to contribute to eradicate enterprises and vulnerable transport usersgy and mobility poverty across the Union, through temporary direct income support and through measures and investments intended to increase energy efficiency of buildings, decarbonisation of heating and cooling of buildings, including the integration of energy from renewable sources, and grantingprimarily through targeted policy reforms and investments intended to phase out the reliance on fossil fuels, increase energy efficiency combined with improved access to zero- and low-emission mobility and transportsustainable mobility solutions and integrated mobility services.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 4 a (new)
In line with these objectives, the investments and policy reforms within the Plans should not provide any support which could prolong the use of fossil fuel or lead to carbon lock-in, while hampering or delaying the deployment of renewable energy sources.
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) ‘mobility poverty' means a household with limited access to available and affordable mobility services and unable to afford the necessary transport required to meet essential services as well as essential cultural and socio-economic needs, in particular quality employment and education and training, in a given context and which can be caused by one or the combination of the following factors: low-level incomes, high fuel expenditures and/or high costs of public transport, lack of availability of adequate, affordable public transport or alternative services and their accessibility and location, travelled distances and transport practices, particularly in rural, insular, mountainous and remote areas, including peri-urban areas;
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 b (new)
(2 b) 'mobility guarantee' means a reliable and sufficient mobility provision, worked out by national, regional or local authorities for a specific area and in collaboration with civil society, to achieve the best quality of life within the given global constraints. It provides the planning to provide a guarantee to all citizens within that area to be able to reach their home, workplace, school as well as other essential errands and culture within a specified timeframe of e.g. 15 minutes in metropolitan areas and 30 minutes in rural areas. The mobility guarantee requires that reliable public transport service options are in place during weekdays, evening and holidays in order to provide a clear incentive for people to switch from environmentally and socially harmful transport patterns to a truly sustainable mobility;
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. EWithin 6 months upon the entry into force of this Regulation, each Member State shall submit to the Commission a Social Climate Plan (‘the Plan’) together with the update to. The Plan shall be coherent and maximise synergies with the integrated national energy and climate plan of that Member State referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 in accordance with the procedure and timeline laid down in that Articl. The Plan shall contain detailed mapping of households and people in situation of mobility poverty, and an gender-sensitive analysis of the main causes of mobility poverty in that Member State. The Plan shall also contain a coherent set of measures and investments to address the impact of carbon pricing on vulnerable households, vulnerable micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users in order to ensure affordablshort- and medium- term targets to eradicate mobility poverty, and a coherent set of measures and investments at national, regional or local level with the ultimate aim of developing a population-wide mobility guarantee. In order to facilitate theating, cooling and mobility while accompanying and accelerating necessary measures to meet the climate targets of the Union preparation of the Plan, the Commission shall publish guidance, including a template.
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. TIn case Member States provide sufficient evidence that households and people in energy and/or mobility poverty may not enjoy the benefits of the measures and investments referred to in paragraph 3 within a maximum of three years after the adoption of the Plan, they may include national or subnational measures providing temporary direct income support to vulnerable households and households that are vulnerable transport users to reduce the imdirect support to households and people, provided that they demonstrate that such support is proportional and limited in time, and is pacrt of the increase in the price of fossil fuels resulting from the inclusion of buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/ECa holistic strategy to lift those households and people out of energy and mobility poverty, with special attention to elderly and younger people, including women and people living in remote and less accessible areas, including peri-urban areas, to help reducing immediate energy and mobility costs, by providing facilitated access to green energy efficient solutions and shared and integrated mobility services.
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. The Plan shall include national, regional and local projects to:
Amendment 206 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) finance measures and investments to increase the uptake of zero- and low- emission mobility and transportaccessibility, affordability and interconnectivity of public transport as well as infrastructure that supports active mobility, such as bike lanes and fast cycling routes.
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(b a) finance measures and investments with a lasting impact and with priority to the development and provision of affordable demand sensitive mobility services, in particular in rural and less accessible areas including peri-urban, starting with measures and investments leading to a modal shift from privately owned to public, shared and active mobility.
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b b (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b b (new)
(b b) provide financial and technical support to self-organising communities in urban, peri-urban and rural areas and to the facilitation of all facets of shared mobility services, such as: - self-organised mobility initiatives; - shared and ‘pooling’ services:collective taxis, car-pooling, car-sharing (peer-to- peer, station-based, free-floating;round- trip) - benches for co-passengers; - demand-led services:book-a-bus, regio- taxi; - biking and electric bicycle promotions; - kombi-bus, e.g. linking cargo and passenger services to enhance the use of regular interval timetables.
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b c (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b c (new)
(b c) plans and a step-wise national implementation plan to develop and introduce a mobility guarantee for all citizens.
Amendment 214 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. The Plan shall include policy reforms and measures addressing non- monetary barriers to improvements in mobility to facilitate and accelerate the socially fair decarbonisation of mobility aimed at the eradication of mobility poverty. These may include reforms and measures targeted at addressing information deficit and administrative barriers, such as information campaigns and energy and mobility consultations, as well as reforms to include the notion of mobility poverty in existing legislation, like for example the inclusion of beneficial accessibility and inclusion criteria for public tendering procedures and the inclusion of mobility poverty in SUMPs (sustainable urban mobility plans) and SMARTA (sustainable mobility for rural transport areas). The cost of these measures shall not exceed 2% of the national envelope.
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) concrete measures and investments in accordance with Article 3 to reduce the effects referred to in point (c) of this paragraphand 6 to combat energy poverty and mobility poverty together with an explanation of how they would contribute effectively to the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 1 within the overall setting of a Member State’s relevant policies, including an overview of both the investments needed and the non-financial barriers to ultimately provide citizens with a mobility guarantee, as well as a detailed description of measures as well as a timeline to attain this goal;
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(a a) detailed quantitative information on the number of households and people facing mobility poverty identified on the basis of the definitions in Article 2;
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a b (new)
(a b) national targets and objectives to reduce the number of households and people facing mobility poverty over the duration of the Plan, including through measures and investments that are financed by other sources of funding beyond the Fund’s financial envelope;
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a c (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a c (new)
(a c) quantitative and qualitative information on the choice to spend a certain share of the Plan on direct support and another share on other measures, investments and policy reforms and on how these shares are expected to develop over time;
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) concrete accompanying measures and policy reforms needed to accomplish the measures and investments of the Plan and reduce the effects referred to in point (c) as well as information on existing or planned financing of measures and investments from other Union, international, public or private sources;
Amendment 228 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) an estimate of the likely effects of that increase in prices on households, and in particular on inThese impacts are to be analysed with a sufficidence of t gendergy poverty, on micro-enterprises and on transport users, comprising in particular an estimate and the identification of vulnerable households, vulnerable micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users; these impacts are to be analysed with a sufficient level of regional disaggregation, taking into account elements such as access to public transport and basic service disaggregated data and gender-sensitive information, a sufficient level of regional disaggregation, taking into account elements such as access to adequate, safe, accessible and affordable public mobility services that meet cultural and socio-economic needs and identifying the areas mostly affected, particularly territories which are remote, insular and rural or less accessible, including peri-urban areas;
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(c a) a gender impact assessment and an explanation of how the measures and investments contained in the Plan take into account the objectives to contribute to gender equality and equal opportunities for all and the mainstreaming of those objectives, in line with principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and the associated EU CRPD framework and, where relevant, with the national gender equality strategy;
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) where the Plan provides for measures referred to in Article 3(2), the criteria for the identification of eligible final recipients, the indication of the envisaged time limit for the measures in question and their justification on the basis of a quantitative estimate and a qualitative explanation of how the measures in the Plan are expected to reduceprovide a necessary and proportionate immediate relief for households and people in energy and transportmobility poverty and the vulnerability of households, micro-enterprises and transport users to an increase of road transport and heating fuel prices; s part of a holistic strategy to effectively lift those households out of mobility poverty through more structural investments on the short to medium term, in particular the phase out of the reliance on fossil fuel dependence as well as the development and introduction of a mobility guarantee;
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) envisaged milestones, and targets to eradicate mobility poverty, and an indicative timetable for the implementation of the measures and investments to be completed by 31 July 2032each biennial integrated national energy and climate progress report pursuant to Article 23, and at the end of each multiannual financial framework, that is, by 31 December 2027 and by 31 July 2035 respectively;
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) the arrangements for the effective monitoring and implementation of the Plan by the Member State concernedand regional and local authorities concerned, including the involvement of economic and social partners and civil society in the process, in particular of the proposed milestones and targets, including indicators for the implementation of measures and investments, which, where relevant, shall be those available with the Statistical office of the European Union European Statistical Office and the European Energy Poverty Observatory as identified by Commission Recommendation 2020/156354 on energy poverty; the Commission shall, by 31 July 2023, develop indicators to monitor mobility poverty in accordance with its promise in the Council Recommendation on ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality; _________________ 54 OJ L 357, 27.10.2020, p. 35.
Amendment 248 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(k a) the proportion of the fund set aside for community-led local mobility development to encourage and deliver an integrated place-based transition and community-led local development as defined and detailed under chapter 2 of the common provisions regulation.
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. By 31 July 2023, the Commission shall provide guidance to Member States on how to comply with the provisions of this Article.
Amendment 251 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. WThen preparing their Plans, Member States may request the Commission to organis Commission shall set up a platform to actively promote the exchange of good practices among all stakeholders and communities concerned by the implementation of the Fund as well as to provide guidance to enable and exchancourage the capacity buildinge of good practices. Member Statestakeholders to participate in the development and implementation of the Fund. Member States and the stakeholders involved in the preparation of the Plans may also request technical support under the ELENA facility, established by an Agreement of the Commission with the European Investment Bank in 2009, or under the Technical Support Instrument established by Regulation (EU) 2021/240 of the European Parliament and of the Council58 . _________________ 58Regulation (EU) 2021/240 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 February 2021 establishing a Technical Support Instrument (OJ L 57, 18.2.2021, p. 1).
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph -1 (new)
Article 5 – paragraph -1 (new)
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) zero- and low-emission emission integrated mobility services, active mobility and public transport;
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(c a) mobility-on- demand services;
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) reductions in the number of vulnerable households, especially households in energy poverty, of vulnerable micro-households and people faced with energy and mobility poverty, disaggregated per gentderprises and of vulnerable transport users, including in rural and remote areas., with a view to eradicating mobility poverty within a decade;
Amendment 266 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
(e a) improvements in the ability of people facing energy and mobility poverty to participate in and adapt to the transition at a similar pace as high income households are able to do without financial support;
Amendment 271 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. The Social Climate Fund shall not support measures and investments excluded under Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1056.
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States may include the costs of the following measures and investmenstructural investments with lasting impacts in the estimated total costs of the Plans, provided they principally benefit vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-households or people facing enterprises or vulnerable transport usersgy poverty and mobility poverty and intend to:
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(b a) provide households and people with tailored advice and information about sustainable and affordable mobility alternatives, including via tailored mobility management services, tailored energy consultations or other types of personalised support aimed at addressing mobility poverty;
Amendment 290 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) provide access to zero- and low- emission vehicles and bikinvestments aimed at accelerating the modal shift from private individual vehicles towards fostering sustainable multi-modal mobility solutions that serve the specific community best, including financial support for fiscal incentivesthe creation and development of cycling routes and of integrated mobility services, and for their purchase of bicycles, as well as for appropriate public and private infrastructure, including for recharging and refuelling; for support concerning low-emission vehicles, a timetable for gradually reducing the support shall be providedthe provision of digital applications and non-digital initiatives that connect users to facilitate shared mobility; in case Member States include measures to support access to zero-emission vehicles such as bicycles; in the case of electric cars, they shall demonstrate that the beneficiaries of such support cannot have access to other means of transport or mobility services and should promote shared use;
Amendment 303 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) support public and private entities in developing and providing affordable zero- and low-emission, accessible and inter-modal mobility and public transport services and the uptake of attractive and safe active mobility options for rural, insular, mountainous, remote and less accessible areas or for less developed regions or territories, including less developed peri-urban areas.;
Amendment 305 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point f a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point f a (new)
(f a) support capacity building and training of people affected by mobility poverty in order to engage in peer-to-peer and community work initiatives aimed at combatting mobility poverty, such as car- sharing enabled either by digital applications that link users together, or, in case of digital divide, by non-digital initiatives set up at local level to connect mobility supply and demand.
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. By 31 July 2025 and every two years thereafter, the Commission shall evaluate the cost-effectiveness, social fairness and progressiveness of the measures, and investments and policy reforms implemented by the Member States as part of their Plans. The Commission shall report on best-practices and shall adjust both the overall and Member States specific guidance accordingly. The Commission shall also report on the extent to which Member States take the Commission’s best- practices and recommendations to improve into account.
Amendment 312 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Fund shall not support, and the estimated total costs of Plans shall not includreplace measures in the form of direct income support pursuant to Article 3(2) of this Regulation for households already benefiting:
Amendment 315 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Amendment 319 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – title
Article 8 – title
Pass-on of benefits to households, micro- enterprises and transport users and people
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Member States may include in to the estimated total costs financial support provided to public or private entities other than vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport uses, if those entities carry out measures and investments ultimately benefitting vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport usershouseholds or people facing energy or mobility poverty, if those entities carry out measures and investments on their behalf and which ultimately direct benefit households or people facing energy or mobility poverty.
Amendment 324 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Member States shall provide for the necessary statutory and contractual safeguards to ensure that the entire benefit is passed on to the households, micro- enterprises and transport users and people.
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Fund for the period 2025-2027 shall be EUR 23 7at least EUR 48 500 000 000 in current prices.
Amendment 333 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Fund for the period 2028-2032 shall be EUR 48 500 000 000 in current prices, subject to the availability of the amounts under the annual ceilings of the applicable multiannual financial framework referred to in Article 312 TFEUas of 2028 shall be determined during the negotiations of the next multiannual financial framework, but shall not be set at a level lower than EUR 48 500 000 000.
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. The amounts referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 may also cover expenses pertaining to preparatory, monitoring, control, audit and evaluation activities which are required for the management of the Fund and the achievement of its objectives, in particular studies, meetings of experts, consultation of stakeholders, information and communication actions, including inclusive outreach actions, and corporate communication of the political priorities of the Union, insoin so far as they are related to the objectives of this Regulation, expenses linked to IT networks focusing on information processing and exchange, corporate information technology tools, and all other technical and administrative assistance expenses incurred by the Commission for the management of the Fund. Expenses may also cover the costs of other supporting activities such as quality control and monitoring of projects on the ground and the costs of peer counselling and experts for the assessment and implementation of the eligible actions.
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Amendment 356 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a Pre-financing 1. Subject to the adoption by the Commission of the implementing act referred to in Article 16(1), when a Member State requests pre-financing together with the submission of the Plan, the Commission shall make a pre- financing payment of an amount of up to 13 % of the financial contribution. By derogation from Article 116(1) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046, the Commission shall make the corresponding payment within, to the extent possible, two months after the adoption by the Commission of the legal commitment referred to in Article 18. 2. In cases of pre-financing under paragraph 1, the financial contributions shall be adjusted proportionally.
Amendment 363 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a – point i
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a – point i
(i) whether the Plan represents an adequate and effective response to the social impact on and challenges faced by vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport users in the Member State concerned from establishing the emission trading system for buildings and road transport established pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EChouseholds and people facing energy poverty and mobility poverty in the Member State, especially households in energy poverty, duly taking into account the challenges identified in the assessments of the Commission of the update of the concerned Member State’s integrated national energy and climate plan and of its progress pursuant to Article 9(3), and Articles 13 and 29 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, as well as in the Commission recommendations to Member States issued pursuant to Article 34 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 in view of the Union’s 2030 climate and energy targets and the long- term objective of climate neutrality in the Union by 2050. This shall take into account the specific challenges and the financial allocation of the Member State concerned;
Amendment 370 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii a (new)
(iii a) whether the Plan has been prepared and developed through the meaningful and inclusive participation of all relevant stakeholders in compliance with Article 10 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 and Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060;
Amendment 374 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii b (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a – point iii b (new)
(iii b) whether the Plan contains a gender impact analysis and an explanation of the measures and investments contained in the Plan are expected to address the gender dimension of energy poverty and mobility poverty and ensure a gender-balanced impact, while contributing to the mainstreaming of gender equality, in line with the national gender equality strategy, the European Pillar of Social Rights and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; in case of measures providing direct support to women, whether those measures account for an amount which represents at least 60 % of the total national allocation for direct support.
Amendment 376 #
(i) whether the Plan is expected to have a lasting impact on the challenges addressed by that Plan and in particular on vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-households and people facing enterprises and vulnerable transport users, especially households in energgy and mobility poverty, in the Member State concerned;
Amendment 380 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c – point iii a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c – point iii a (new)
(iii a) whether the measures and investments included in the Plan deliver adequately on the potential synergies between climate, environment and social targets to meet the EU's 2030 and 2050 targets and commitments to achieve the UN sustainable development goals as well as the objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 381 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c – point iii b (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point c – point iii b (new)
(iii b) whether the measures and investments are accompanied by complementary measures required to effectively address energy poverty and mobility poverty.
Amendment 382 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. Where a Social Climate Plan, including relevant milestones and targets, is no longer achievable, either in whole or in part, by the Member State concerned because of objective circumstances, in particular because of the actual direct effects of the emission trading system for buildings and road transport established pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC, the Member State concerned may submit to the Commission an amendment of its Plan to include the necessary and duly justified changes. Member States may request technical support for the preparation of such request.
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 5
Article 17 – paragraph 5
5. By 15 March 2027 each Member State concerned shall assess the appropriateness of its Plans in view of the actual direct effects of the emission trading system for buildings and road transport established pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/087/ECobjective to eradicate energy poverty and mobility poverty, while meeting the Union energy and climate targets. Those assessments shall be submitted to the Commission as part of the biennial progress reporting pursuant to Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.
Amendment 389 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
1. After the Commission has adopted a decision as referred to in Article 16, it shall in due time conclude an agreement with the Member State concerned constituting an individual legal commitment within the meaning of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 covering the period 20254-2027. That agreement may be concluded at the earliest one year before the year of the start of the auctions under Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC.
Amendment 397 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) detailed quantitative information as well as disaggregated data on the number of households and people in energy poverty and mobility poverty and changes compared to the last report using the definition proposed in their plan;
Amendment 399 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) when applicable, detailed information on progress towards the national indicative objective to reduce the number of households and people facing energy poverty and mobility poverty;
Amendment 401 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) detailed information on the results of the measures and investments, included in its Plan, in particular as regards the emission reduction achieved and the number of people benefitting from the measures by gender and age group;
Amendment 402 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) in 2027, an assessment of the Plan referred to in Article 17(5) in view of the actual direct effects of the emission trading system for buildings and road transport established pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/087/EC;
Amendment 406 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 1
Article 24 – paragraph 1
1. By 31 July 20286, the Commission shall provide the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions with an evaluation report on the implementation and functioning of the Fund.
Amendment 410 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 3
Article 24 – paragraph 3
3. The evaluation report shall, in particular, assess to which extent the objectives of the Fund laid down in Article 1 have been achieved, the efficiency of the use of the resources and the Union added value. It shall consider the continued relevance of all objectives and actions set out in Article 6 in light of the impact on greenhouse gas emissions from the emission trading system for buildings and road transport pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC and from the national measures taken to meet the binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council63 . It shall also consider the continued relevance of the financial envelope of the Fund in relation to possible developments concerning the auctioning of allowances under the emission trading system for buildings and road transport pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC and other relevant considerations. _________________ 63Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 contributing to climate action to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 26-42)by Member States pursuant to Article 4a, the updated integrated national energy and climate plans submitted in accordance with Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999and progress towards the implementation of the objectives of the European Pillar of Social Rights. It shall also consider the continued relevance of the financial envelope of the Fund in relation to those developments.
Amendment 416 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
It shall apply from the date by which the Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive (EU) [yyyy/nnn] of the European Parliament and the Council64 amending Directive 2003/87/EC as regards Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC. _________________ 64[Directive (EU) yyyy/nnn of the European Parliament and of the Council…. (OJ …..).] [Directive amending Directive 2003/87/EC]2024.