Activities of Joachim KUHS related to 2021/0430(CNS)
Plenary speeches (1)
System of own resources of the European Union (debate)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 6 #
Draft decision
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Regulation (EU) 2023/956 of the European Parliament and of the Council9 establishes a carbon border adjustment mechanism to complement the EU Emissions Trading System and to ensure the effectiveness of the climate policy of the Union. Considering the close link of the carbon border adjustment mechanism to the Union’s climate policy, a share of the revenues from the sale of certificates should be transferred to the Union budget as an own resource. Given that CBAM will cover iron/steel, cement, fertilisers, aluminium, hydrogen and electricity generation, the Member States shall bear in mind that the price of these vital materials and in relative sectors will be all-time higher in Europe than worldwide.
Amendment 7 #
Draft decision
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In line wDespithe the Interinstitutional Agreement, a financial contribution linked to the corporate sector should be introducpostponed. Until the possible establishment of an own resource linked to the Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) initiative, an own resource proportional to a statistical indicator that may be used as an approximation of company profits should be provisionally established. Twithheld. According to European Commission, this own resource should be calculated based on national accounts statistics prepared under the European System of Accounts 2010 (ESA 2010) in application of Regulation EU) No 549/201310 of the European Parliament and of the Council. This statistical system is applied in a harmonised manner across Member States. This own resource should therefore be calculated by multiplying a call rate toIt is necessary to stress that the statistical data of ESA for the year 2021 has been used for this type of OR forecast for 2022-2030, which cannot ensure a high level of predictability in times of crisis. Moreover, in the second quarter of 2023, the snumber of gross operating surplus provided for the sectors of nonfinancial and financial corporations (ESA sectors S12 and S11), as defined in Regulation (EU) No 549/201311bankruptcy declarations of EU businesses increased for the sixth quarter in a row and got up by 8.4%, thus reaching the highest level since the start of the data collection in 2015 by the Eurostat. The introduction of such OR in these circumstances and under this methodology is unacceptable for European companies and citizens, who will carry main burden of rising prices.
Amendment 8 #
Draft decision
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The provisions concerning the contribution from the auctioning of allowances under the current Emissions Trading System and from the statistics on company profits should apply from 1 January 2024. The provisions concerning the contribution from the auctioning of allowances under the new Emissions Trading System coveringshould apply from 1 January 2024. Given the positive forecast of the European Commission as regards collected revenues under the current ETS I mechanism (80 billion EUR supposed to be collected instead of the previously predicted 55), buildings, roads and transport and additional sectors should apply from 1 January 2028sectors shall be excluded from auctioning under ETS II mechanism as they concern vital needs of citizens. The provisions concerning the contribution from the carbon border adjustment mechanism should apply from 1 January 2026. [The provisions on the OECD/G20 IF Pillar 1 Agreement shall enter into force once the Directive on implementation of the global agreement on re-allocation of taxing rights applies and the Multilateral Convention entered into effect.]
Amendment 10 #
Draft decision
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1b (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1b (new)
Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053
Article 2 – paragraph 1 - point f (1)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 - point f (1)
in paragraph 1 of Article 2, the following point f (1) is added: f (1) Given that non-EU producers accessing the EU Single Market are allowed to pay a carbon price in a third country on the embedded emissions for the production of their imported goods and thus enjoy a deduction from the CBAM obligation, the EU producers might experience discrimination in case if the carbon price in question has never been paid by non-EU producers in real terms; establishment of CBAM registry is not sufficient to ensure full transparency and to completely eliminate a risk of carousel fraud and greenwashing.