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50 Amendments of Marek Paweł BALT related to 2021/0211(COD)

Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) To achieve the transformation to a low-emission technology in the district heating sector with its specificities, it is necessary to define a separate emission benchmark for district heat, which would be based on the heat generation process reflecting technological progress.
2022/02/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 32
(32) A comprehensive approach to innovation is essential for achieving the European Green Deal objectives. At EU level, the necessary research and innovation efforts are supported, among others, through Horizon Europe, which include significant funding and new instruments for the sectors coming under the ETS. Member States should ensure that the national transposition provisions do not hamper innovations and are technologically neutral. Consequently, the ETS Innovation Fund should seek synergies with Horizon Europe and, where relevant, with other Union funding programmes. The ETS Innovation Fund should boost growth and competitiveness by empowering EU businesses, in particular SMEs to become global technology leaders. The Fund should also support cross-cutting projects on innovative zero- carbon solutions to take off and reach the market, with the aim of leading to climate neutrality in various sectors, for example through new industrial ecosystems, promoting business model profitable for innovation. Member States should ensure that the national transposition provisions do not hamper innovations and are technologically neutral. In order to maximise the benefits of the Fund, public and private sectors should contribute through increased investments and knowledge sharing.
2022/02/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 38
(38) The scope of the Modernisation Fund should be aligned with the most recent climate objectives of the Union by requiring that investments are consistent with the objectives of the European Green Deal and Regulation (EU) 2021/1119, and eliminating the support to any investments related to fossil fuels. In addition, the percentage of the Modernisation Fund that needs to be devoted to priority investments should be increased to 80 95%; energy efficiency should be targeted as a priority area at the demand side; and support ofthe Fund should also support a fair and Just Transition of workforce, through re-skilling and up- skilling and households to address energy poverty, including in rural and remote areas, should be included within the scope of the priority investments.
2022/02/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The EU ETS is a cornerstone of the Union’s climate policy and constitutes its key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a cost-effective way. In line with the commitments made in COP26 in Glasgow to review the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) on an annual basis, the Commission should revise its NDC to account for all the sectors included in this revision.
2022/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Delivering on the European Green Deal should ensure quality job creation and social progress for all. To be socially acceptable, the climate ambition proposed in this Directive should be matched by an equivalent social ambition, in line with the European Pillar of Social Rights. The European Green Deal agenda is an opportunity to maintain and create quality jobs, promote decent work, raise labour standards, strengthen social dialogue and collective bargaining, tackle discriminations at work, promote gender equality, and workplace democracy. In order to achieve these objectives, just transition mechanisms should complement all proposed actions in the framework of the Green Deal and the “Fit for 55” package.
2022/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 54
(54) Innovation and development as well as pilot, demonstration and up- scaling of new low-carbon technologies in the sectors of buildings and road transport are crucial for ensuring the cost-efficient contribution of these sectors to the expected emission reductions. Therefore, 150 million allowances from emissions trading in the buildings and road transport sectors should also be made available to the Innovation Fund to stimulate the cost-efficient emission reductions.
2022/02/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
(8) The EU ETS should incentivise production from installations that partly or fully reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, the description of some categories of activities in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC should be amended to ensure an equal treatment of installations in the sectors concerned. In addition, free allocation for the production of a product should be independent of the nature of the production process. It is therefore necessary to modify the definition of the products and of the processes and emissions covered for some benchmarks to ensure a level playing field for new and existing technologies and products and circular economy measures. It is also necessary to decouple the update of the benchmark values for refineries and for hydrogen to reflect the increasing importance of production of, in particular, green hydrogen outside the refineries sector.
2022/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13 a (new)
(13a) The inclusion of municipal waste incineration installations in the EU ETS would contribute to the circular economy by encouraging recycling, reuse and repair of products, while also contributing to economy-wide decarbonisation. Accordingly, municipal waste incineration installations should be included within the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC from 1 January 2024.
2022/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 1a
In [theat least two years following entry into force of this amendment], the Union-wide quantity of allowances shall be decreased by [-- million allowances (to be determined depending on year of entry into force)] preceded by an impact assessment of the market situation and adequate measures that can prevent unjustified price surge. In the same year, the Union-wide quantity of allowances shall be increased by 79 million allowances for maritime transport. Starting in [the year following entry into force of this amendment], the linear factor shall be 4,2 %. The Commission shall publish the Union-wide quantity of allowances within 3 months of [date of entry into force of the amendment to be inserted].;
2022/02/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
2 % of the total quantity of allowances between 2021 and 2030 shall be auctioned to establish a fund to improve energy efficiency , reduce greenhouse gas emission sand modernise the energy systems of certain Member States (‘the beneficiary Member States’) as set out in Article 10d (‘the Modernisation Fund’). The beneficiary Member States for this amount of allowances shall be the Member States with a GDP per capita at market prices below 60 % of the Union average in 2013. The funds corresponding to this quantity of allowances shall be distributed in accordance with Part A of Annex IIb.
2022/02/04
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point a – point ii
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
In order to provide further incentives for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving energy efficiency, the determined Union-wide ex-ante benchmarks shall be reviewed before the period from 2026 to 2030 in view of potentially modifying the definitions and system boundaries of existing product benchmarks and district heating benchmark. By way of derogation from subparagraph 1, the ratios for district heating to be determined ensure the allocation of allowances in a way that provides an incentive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These indicators for the entire period referred to in Art. 11, second paragraph, takes the value specified in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/447 for the heat benchmark.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 275 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point b
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 a – paragraph 1 a – subparagraph 2
By way of derogation from the previous subparagraph, for the first years of operation of Regulation [CBAM], the production of these products shall benefit from free allocation inof reduced amounts until the full effectiveness of the CBAM in tackling the carbon leakage risk both on the EU market and on export markets is assessed and positively verified. A factor reducing the free allocation for the production of these products shall be applied (CBAM factor). The CBAM factor shall be equal to 100 % for the period during the entry into force of [CBAM regulation] and the end of 2025, 90 % in 2026 and shall be reduced by 10 percentage points each year.The Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and to the Council, a detailed impact assessment on the effects of CBAM after two years CBAM entering into force and modify according findings the reduction rate to CBAM factor for years to follow and final year when to reach 0 % by the tenth yearimplementing act.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point b
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 a – paragraph 1 a – subparagraph 3
The reduction of free allocation shall be calculated annually as the average share of the demand for free allocation for the production of products listed in Annex I of Regulation [CBAM] compared to the calculated total free allocation demand for all installations, for the relevant period referred to in Article 11, paragraph 1. The CBAM factor shall be applied. In order to ensure a level playing field, the first subparagraph is not applied to part of the EU production destined to the export to third countries without ETS or similar regulation. After two years CBAM entering into force the Commission will provide a detailed impact assessment of effects to the EU exports of CBAM sectors and development of global emissions. The commission shall consider an export adjustment mechanism that equalize the costs of CO2 with different pricing schemes of the third countries. All measures taken shall comply the WTO rules.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point b – point 1 (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraphs 1b, 1c and 1d (new)
(1) 1b. Starting from 2024 Member State with a deficit of allowances in any year in the period after 2023 would have their allowances exempted from the operation of market stability reserve in the following year up to the amount of their deficit in the previous year. 1c. For Member States with structural imbalance of allowances that persists even after the exemption from the operation of market stability reserve in the following year, the allowances in the Market Stability Reserve shall be used to cover this imbalance. This shall be done by comparing the total number of allowances for the beneficiary Member State against the emissions generated in the sectors covered by the EU ETS in the same year. For the purpose of this calculation the total number of allowances shall take into account all allowances: (a) to be auctioned by particular Member States in accordance with Article 10 together with (b) the total number of allowances received for free by installations in this Member State in accordance with Article 10a and (c) the national allocation from the Modernisation Fund for that Member State in accordance with Article 10d. 1d. After establishing the level of deficit the national share of the Modernisation Fund should be increased by the same amount or the Member State should receive this amount of allowances from the Market Stability Reserve allowances that would otherwise be cancelled in that year. Should this be insufficient to fully compensate the deficit in year n then the rest of it should be covered by using allowances already placed in the MSR to ensure a respective increase of the Modernisation Fund allocation for this Member State in year n+1.’
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 295 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point c – point ii
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 – point d
(d) Where the annual reduction rate exceeds 2,5 % or is below 0,2 %, the benchmark values for the period from 2026 to 2030 shall be the benchmark values applicable in the period from 2013 to 2020 reduced by whichever of those two percentage rates is relevant, in respect of each year between 2008 and 2028, except in case of heat benchmark for district heating, whose maximum annual reduction rate should be defined in line with the district heating sector decarbonisation commitments until 2030 and should not exceed 1.6%.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 12 – point g
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 a – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 6
Projects shall be selected on the basis of objective and transparent criteria, taking into account, the need to ensure the fair geographical distribution of the projects, the level of emissions in a given Member State to define relevant emissions savings achieved by a given project and where relevant, the extent to which projects contribute to achieving emission reductions well below the benchmarks referred to in paragraph 2. Projects shall have the potential for widespread application or to significantly lower the costs of transitioning towards a low-carbon economy in the sectors concerned. Projects involving CCU shall deliver a net reduction in emissions and ensure avoidance or permanent storage of CO2. In the case of grants provided through calls for proposals, up to 60 % of the relevant costs of projects may be supported, out of which up to 40 % need not be dependent on verified avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions, provided that pre-determined milestones, taking into account the technology deployed, are attained. In the case of support provided through competitive bidding and in the case of technical assistance support, up to 100 % of the relevant costs of projects may be supported.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 372 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14 – point b
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 d – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) the support of low-income households, including in rural and remote areas, to address energy poverty and, to modernise their heating systems and to make the construction ecosystem more sustainable; and
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 412 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directive 2003/87/EC
Chapter IV a – Annex III, IIIA, IV – Part C – I V part C
CHAPTER IVadeleted
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 417 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 30 h – paragraph 3
2a. 3. When, for more than six three consecutive months, the monthly average allowance price is more than three two times the average price of allowances during the two preceding years period on the European carbon market, the Commission shall immediately convene a meeting not later than within 7 working days of the Committee established by Article 9 of Decision No 280/2004/EC.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 418 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 43
(43) The Communication of the Commission on Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition57 , underlined the particular challenge to reduce the emissions in the sectors of road transport and buildings. Therefore, the Commission announced that a further expansion of emissions trading could include emissions from road transport and buildings. Emissions trading for these two new sectors would be established through separate but adjacent emissions trading. This would avoid any disturbance of the well-functioning emissions trading in the sectors of stationary installations and aviation. The new system is accompanied by complementary policies and measures safeguarding against undue price impacts, shaping expectations of market participants and aiming for a carbon price signal for the whole economy. Previous experience has shown that the development of the new market requires setting up an efficient monitoring, reporting and verification system. In view of ensuring synergies and coherence with the existing Union infrastructure for the EU ETS covering the emissions from stationary installations and aviation, it is appropriate to set up emissions trading for the road transport and buildings sectors via an amendment to Directive 2003/87/ЕC. _________________ 57deleted COM(2020)562 final.
2022/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 419 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 30 h – paragraph 3 a (new)
2b. 3a. For the purposes of this Article: (a) the “monthly average carbon price” for any month is calculated by dividing the sum of the settlement prices of the relevant December futures contract as traded on the relevant carbon market exchange for each relevant day in the month by the number of relevant days in the month. (b) the “average price of allowances during the two preceding years period” is calculated by dividing the sum of the settlement prices of the relevant December futures contract as traded on the relevant carbon market exchange for each relevant day in the two year period ending with the last month before the first month of the period of three consecutive months by the number of relevant days in the two year period.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 420 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 30 h – 3 b (new)
2c. 3b. If the price evolution referred in this article is triggered, one of the following measures shall be implemented, taking into account the degree of price evolution: (a) bringing forward the auctioning of a part of the quantity to be auctioned in a subsequent calendar year. (b) the release for auction up to 25 % of the remaining allowances in the new entrants' reserve. (c) the release an appropriate quantity of allowances from the Market Stability Reserve. The Committee may also consider additional interventions if the circumstances justify further or earlier action.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 422 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 30 j
(21a) Article 30j 1. The access to the EU ETS market shall be limited to entities that are installations, aviation and maritime operators with compliance obligations under the EU ETS. 2. Only financial intermediaries purchasing allowances for the account of the installation and not their own can be an exception. 3. Article 6 paragraph 5 of the Auctioning Regulation (no 1031/2010) shall be adjusted in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2.
2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 437 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 44
(44) In order to establish the necessary implementation framework and to provide a reasonable timeframe for reaching the 2030 target, emissions trading in the two new sectors should start in 2025. During the first year, the regulated entities should be required to hold a greenhouse gas emissions permit and to report their emissions for the years 2024 and 2025. The issuance of allowances and compliance obligations for these entities should be applicable as from 2026. This sequencing will allow starting emissions trading in the sectors in an orderly and efficient manner. It would also allow the EU funding and Member State measures to be in place to ensure a socially fair introduction of the EU emissions trading into the two sectors so as to mitigate the impact of the carbon price on vulnerable households and transport users.deleted
2022/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 456 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 45
(45) Due to the very large number of small emitters in the sectors of buildings and road transport, it is not possible to establish the point of regulation at the level of entities directly emitting greenhouse gases, as is the case for stationary installations and aviation. Therefore, for reasons of technical feasibility and administrative efficiency, it is more appropriate to establish the point of regulation further upstream in the supply chain. The act that triggers the compliance obligation under the new emissions trading should be the release for consumption of fuels which are used for combustion in the sectors of buildings and road transport, including for combustion in road transport of greenhouse gases for geological storage. To avoid double coverage, the release for consumption of fuels which are used in other activities under Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC should not be covered.deleted
2022/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 461 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 46
(46) The regulated entities in the two new sectors and the point of regulation should be defined in line with the system of excise duty established by Council Directive (EU) 2020/26258 , with the necessary adaptations, as that Directive already sets a robust control system for all quantities of fuels released for consumption for the purposes of paying excise duties. End-users of fuels in those sectors should not be subject to obligations under Directive 2003/87/EC. _________________ 58Council Directive (EU) 2020/262 of 19 December 2019 laying down the general arrangements for excise duty (OJ L 58 27.2.2020, p. 4).deleted
2022/02/22
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 466 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 47
(47) The regulated entities falling within the scope of the emissions trading in the sectors of buildings and road transport should be subject to similar greenhouse gas emissions permit requirements as the operators of stationary installations. It is necessary to establish rules on permit applications, conditions for permit issuance, content, and review, and any changes related to the regulated entity. In order for the new system to start in an orderly manner, Member States should ensure that regulated entities falling within the scope of the new emissions trading have a valid permit as of the start of the system in 2025.deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 478 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 48
(48) The total quantity of allowances for the new emissions trading should follow a linear trajectory to reach the 2030 emissions reduction target, taking into account the cost-efficient contribution of buildings and road transport of 43 % emission reductions by 2030 compared to 2005. The total quantity of allowances should be established for the first time in 2026, to follow a trajectory starting in 2024 from the value of the 2024 emissions limits (1 109 304 000 CO2t), calculated in accordance with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council59 on the basis of the reference emissions for these sectors for the period from 2016 to 2018. Accordingly, the linear reduction factor should be set at 5,15 %. From 2028, the total quantity of allowances should be set on the basis of the average reported emissions for the years 2024, 2025 and 2026, and should decrease by the same absolute annual reduction as set from 2024, which corresponds to a 5,43 % linear reduction factor compared to the comparable 2025 value of the above defined trajectory. If those emissions are significantly higher than this trajectory value and if this divergence is not due to small-scale differences in emission measurement methodologies, the linear reduction factor should be adjusted to reach the required emissions reduction in 2030. _________________ 59Regulation (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).deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 490 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 49
(49) The auctioning of allowances is the simplest and the most economically efficient method for allocating emission allowances, which also avoids windfall profits. Both the buildings and road transport sectors are under relatively small or non-existent competitive pressure from outside the Union and are not exposed to a risk of carbon leakage. Therefore, allowances for buildings and road transport should only be allocated via auctioning without there being any free allocation.deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 501 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 50
(50) In order to ensure a smooth start to emissions trading in the buildings and road transport sectors and taking into account the need of the regulated entities to hedge or buy ahead allowances to mitigate their price and liquidity risk, a higher amount of allowances should be auctioned early on. In 2026, the auction volumes should therefore be 30 % higher than the total quantity of allowances for 2026. This amount would be sufficient to provide liquidity, both if emissions decrease in line with reduction needs, and in the event emission reductions only materialise progressively. The detailed rules for this front-loading of auction volume are to be established in a delegated act related to auctioning, adopted pursuant to Article 10(4) of Directive 2003/87/EC.deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 510 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 51
(51) The distribution rules on auction shares are highly relevant for any auction revenues that would accrue to the Member States, especially in view of the need to strengthen the ability of the Member States to address the social impacts of a carbon price signal in the buildings and road transport sectors. Notwithstanding the fact that the two sectors have very different characteristics, it is appropriate to set a common distribution rule similar to the one applicable to stationary installations. The main part of allowances should be distributed among all Member States on the basis of the average distribution of the emissions in the sectors covered during the period from 2016 to 2018.deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 522 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 52
(52) The introduction of the carbon price in road transport and buildings should be accompanied by effective social compensation, especially in view of the already existing levels of energy poverty. 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 survey60 . To achieve an effective social and distributional compensation, Member States should be required to spend the auction revenues on the climate and energy-related purposes already specified for the existing emissions trading, but also for measures added specifically to address related concerns for the new sectors of road transport and buildings, including related policy measures under Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council61 . Auction revenues should be used to address social aspects of the emission trading for the new sectors with a specific emphasis in vulnerable households, micro-enterprises and transport users. In this spirit, a new Social Climate Fund will provide dedicated funding to Member States to support the European citizens most affected or at risk of energy or mobility poverty. This Fund will promote fairness and solidarity between and within Member States while mitigating the risk of energy and mobility poverty during the transition. It will build on and complement existing solidarity mechanisms. The resources of the new Fund will in principle correspond to 25 % of the expected revenues from new emission trading in the period 2026-2032, and will be implemented on the basis of the Social Climate Plans that Member States should put forward under Regulation (EU) 20…/nn of the European Parliament and the Council62 . In addition, each Member State should use their auction revenues inter alia to finance a part of the costs of their Social Climate Plans. _________________ 60 [ilc_mdes01]. 61Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC (OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, p. 1–56). 62[Add ref to the Regulation establishing the Social Climate Fund].deleted Data from 2018. Eurostat, SILC
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 538 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53
(53) Reporting on the use of auctioning revenues should be aligned with the current reporting established by Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council63 . _________________ 63 European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action, amending Regulations (EC) No 663/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Directives 94/22/EC, 98/70/EC, 2009/31/EC, 2009/73/EC, 2010/31/EU, 2012/27/EU and 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 2009/119/EC and (EU) 2015/652 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 1–77).deleted Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 547 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 54
(54) Innovation and development of new low-carbon technologies in the sectors of buildings and road transport are crucial for ensuring the cost-efficient contribution of these sectors to the expected emission reductions. Therefore, 150 million allowances from emissions trading in the buildings and road transport sectors should also be made available to the Innovation Fund to stimulate the cost-efficient emission reductions.deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 556 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 55
(55) Regulated entities covered by the buildings and road transport emissions trading should surrender allowances for their verified emissions corresponding to the quantities of fuels they have released for consumption. They should surrender allowances for the first time for their verified emissions in 2026. In order to minimise the administrative burden, a number of rules applicable to the existing emissions trading system for stationary installations and aviation should be made applicable to emissions trading for buildings and road transport, with the necessary adaptations. This includes, in particular, rules on transfer, surrender and cancellation of allowances, as well as the rules on the validity of allowances, penalties, competent authorities and reporting obligations of Member States.deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 560 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 56
(56) For emissions trading in the buildings and road transport sectors to be effective, it should be possible to monitor emissions with high certainty and at reasonable cost. Emissions should be attributed to regulated entities on the basis of fuel quantities released for consumption and combined with an emission factor. Regulated entities should be able to reliably and accurately identify and differentiate the sectors in which the fuels are released for consumption, as well as the final users of the fuels, in order to avoid undesirable effects, such as double burden. To have sufficient data to establish the total number of allowances for the period from 2028 to 2030, the regulated entities holding a permit at the start of the system in 2025 should report their associated historical emissions for 2024.deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 573 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 57
(57) It is appropriate to introduce measures to address the potential risk of excessive price increases, which, if particularly high at the start of the buildings and road transport emissions trading, may undermine the readiness of households and individuals to invest in reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. These measures should complement the safeguards provided by the Market Stability Reserve established by Decision (EU) 2015/1814 of the European Parliament and of the Council64 and that became operational in 2019. While the market will continue to determine the carbon price, safeguard measures will be triggered by rules-based automatism, whereby allowances will be released from the Market Stability Reserve only if concrete triggering conditions based on the increase in the average allowance price are met. This additional mechanism should also be highly reactive, in order to address excessive volatility due to factors other than changed market fundamentals. The measures should be adapted to different levels of excessive price increase, which will result in different degrees of the intervention. The triggering conditions should be closely monitored by the Commission and the measures should be adopted by the Commission as a matter of urgency when the conditions are met. This is without prejudice to any accompanying measures that Member States may adopt to address adverse social impacts. _________________ 64Decision (EU) 2015/1814 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 October 2015 concerning the establishment and operation of a market stability reserve for the Union greenhouse gas emission trading scheme and amending Directive 2003/87/EC (OJ L 264, 9.10.2015, p. 1).deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 582 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 58
(58) The application of emissions trading in the buildings and road transport sectors should be monitored by the Commission, including the degree of price convergence with the existing ETS, and, if necessary, a review should be proposed to the European Parliament and the Council to improve the effectiveness, administration and practical application of emissions trading for those sectors on the basis of acquired knowledge as well as increased price convergence. The Commission should be required to submit the first report on those matters by 1 January 2028.deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 593 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 59
(59) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of Articles 3gd(3), 12(3b) and 14(1) of Directive 2003/87/EC, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission. To ensure synergies with the existing regulatory framework, the conferral of implementing powers in Articles 14 and 15 of that Directive should be extended to cover the sectors of road transport and buildings. Those implementing powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council65 . _________________ 65Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by the Member States of the Commission's exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.02.2011, p. 13).deleted
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 601 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 60
(60) In order to adopt non-legislative acts of general application to supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of a legislative act, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of Articles 10(4) and 10a(8) of that Directive. Moreover, to ensure synergies with the existing regulatory framework, the delegation in Articles 10(4) and 10a(8) of Directive 2003/87/EC should be extended to cover the sectors of road transport and buildings. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. In accordance with the Joint Political Declaration of 28 September 2011 of Member States and the Commission on explanatory documents66 , Member States have undertaken to accompany, in justified cases, the notification of their transposition measures with one or more documents explaining the relationship between the components of a directive and the corresponding parts of national transposition instruments. With regard to this Directive, the legislator considers the transmission of such documents to be justified _________________ 66deleted OJ C 369, 17.12.2011, p. 14.
2022/02/24
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 816 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 10
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 3 a (new)
From 1 January 2024, the Union-wide quantity of allowances shall be increased as a result of the inclusion of municipal waste incineration installations in the EU ETS. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts setting out the amount of the increase in the Union-wide quantity of allowances to take account of the inclusion of municipal waste incineration installations in the EU ETS. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22a(2).
2022/02/28
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 877 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point c
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point h
(h) measures intended to improve energy efficiency, district heating systems and insulation, efficient and renewable heating and cooling systems, or to provide financial support in order to address social aspects in lower- and middle-income households, including by reducing distortive taxes;, provided such reduction is carried out in a progressive manner;
2022/02/28
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 898 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point c a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(ca) the following paragraph is inserted: '3a. In accordance with Article 19(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, Member States shall report annually to the Commission on the use of revenues and the actions taken pursuant to paragraph 3. Member States shall submit full, quality and consistent information. In particular, they shall define in their reports the meaning of ‘committed’ and ‘disbursed’ amounts, and submit rigorous financial information. If necessary to ensure compliance with those reporting obligations, Member States shall earmark revenues in their national budget. Member States shall ensure that EU ETS revenues are spent in a manner consistent with the obligations laid down in paragraph 3 and maintain their traceability, and ensure that they are additional to national climate spending. The Commission shall take all necessary measures to ensure that Member States respect their reporting obligations under this paragraph.’
2022/02/28
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1415 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directive 2003/87/EC
Chapter IV a
(21) The following Chapter IVa is inserted after Article 30: [...]deleted
2022/03/01
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1535 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 22
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annexes
(22) Annexes I, IIb, IV and V to Directive 2003/87/EC are amended in accordance with Annex I to this Directive, and Annexes III, IIIa and IIIb are inserted in Directive 2003/87/EC as set out in Annex I to this Directive.deleted
2022/03/02
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1674 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 2
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex III
ANNEX III ACTIVITY COVERED BY CHAPTER IVa [...]deleted
2022/03/02
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1677 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 2
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex III
ANNEX III ACTIVITY COVERED BY CHAPTER IVa [...]deleted
2022/03/02
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1685 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 2
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex III a
ANNEX IIIa ADJUSTMENT OF LINEAR REDUCTION FACTOR IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 30c(2) [...]deleted
2022/03/02
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1698 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 3 – point c
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex IV – Part C
(c) the following Part C is added: [...]deleted
2022/03/02
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 1705 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 4
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex V – Part C
(4) in Annex V to Directive 2003/87/EC, the following Part C is added: [...]deleted
2022/03/02
Committee: ENVI