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11 Amendments of Alexandr VONDRA related to 2021/0218(COD)

Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
(4) here is a growing recognition of the need for alignment of bioenergy policies with the cascading principle of biomass use , with a view to ensuring fair access to the biomass raw material market for the development of innovative, high value- added bio-based solutions and a sustainable circular bioeconomy. When developing support schemes for bioenergy, Member States should therefore take into consideration the available sustainable supply of biomass for energy and non-energy uses and the maintenance of the national forest carbon sinks and ecosystems as well as the principles of the circular economy and the biomass cascading use, and the waste hierarchy established in Directive 2008/98/ECof the European Parliament and of the Council . For this, they should grant no support to the production of energy from saw logs, veener logs, stumps and roots and avoid promoting the use of quality roundwood for energy except in well-defined circumstances. In line with the cascading principle, woody biomass should be used according to its highest economic and environmental added value in the following order of priorities: 1) wood-based products, 2) extending their service life, 3) re-use, 4) recycling, 5) bio- energy and 6) disposal. Where no other use for woody biomass is economically viable or environmentally appropriate, energy recovery helps to reduce energy generation from non-renewable sources. Member States’ support schemes for bioenergy should therefore be directed to such feedstocks for which little market competition exists with the material sectors, and whose sourcing is considered positive for both climate and biodiversity, in order to avoid negative incentives for unsustainable bioenergy pathways, as identified in the JRC report ‘The use of woody biomass for energy production in the EU’ . On the other hand, in defining the further implications of the cascading principle, it is necessary to recognise the national specificities which guide Member States in the design of their support schemesWaste prevention, reuse and recycling of waste should be the priority option. Member States should avoid creating support schemes which would be counter to targets on treatment of waste and which would lead to the inefficient use of recyclable waste. Moreover, in order to ensure a more efficient use of bioenergy, from 2026 on Member States should not give support anymore to electricity-only plants , unless the installations are in regions with a specific use status as regards their transition away from fossil fuels or if the installations use carbon capture and storage.deleted
2022/02/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
(25) Modern renewable-based efficient district heating and cooling systems have demonstrated their potential to provide cost-effective solutions for integrating renewable energy, increased energy efficiency and energy system integration, facilitating the overall decarbonisation of the heating and cooling sector. To ensure this potential is constantly being harnessed, the annual increase of renewable energy and/or waste heat in district heating and cooling should be raised fromkept at 1 percentage point to 2.1 without changing theits indicative nature of this increase, reflecting the uneven development of this type of network across the Union.
2022/02/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
(26) To reflect the increased importance of district heating and cooling and the need to steer the development of these networks towards the integration of more renewable energy, it is appropriate to enable Member States to set requirements to ensure the connection of third party suppliers of renewable energy and waste heat and cold with district heating or cooling networks systems above 25MW.
2022/02/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -a (new)
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point 9
(-a) point 9 is replaced by the following: "(9) ‘waste heat and cold’ means unavoidable heat or cold generated as by- product in industrial or power generation installations, or in the tertiary sector, which would be dissipated unused in air or water without access to a district heating or cooling system, where a cogeneration process has been used or will be used or where cogeneration is not feasible;” , including energy from incineration plants of municipal waste;" Or. en (Directive 2018/2001/EU)
2022/02/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point 1a
(1a) ‘quality roundwood’ means roundwood felled or otherwise harvested and removed, whose characteristics, such as species, dimensions, rectitude, and node density, make it suitable for industrial useuse in solid wood products, as defined and duly justified by Member States according to the relevant forest conditions. This does not include pre- commercial thinning operations or trees extracted from foreststhat are damaged, misshapen, undersize, or affected by fires, pests, diseases or damage due to abiotic factors ;
2022/02/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. Member States shall take measures to ensure that energy from biomass is produced in a way that minimises undue distortive effects on the biomass raw material market and harmful impacts on biodiversity. To that end , they shall take into account the waste hierarchy as set out in Article 4 of Directive 2008/98/EC and the cascading principle referred to in the third subparagraph.
2022/02/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 300 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a – point iii
(iii) practices which are not in line with the delegated act referred to in the third subparagraph.
2022/02/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 628 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 – point c
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 27 – paragraph 1a
(c) the following paragraph 1a is inserted: ‘1a. For the calculation of the targets referred to in Article 25(1), first subparagraph, point (b), the following rules shall apply: (a) for the calculation of the denominator, that is the amount of energy consumed in the transport sector, all fuels and electricity supplied to the transport sector shall be taken into account; (b) for the calculation of the numerator, the energy content of advanced biofuels and biogas produced from the feedstock listed in Part A of Annex IX and renewable fuels of non-biological origin supplied to all transport modes in the territory of the Union shall be taken into account; (c) the shares of advanced biofuels and biogas produced from the feedstock listed in Part A of Annex IX and of renewable fuels of non-biological origin supplied in the aviation and maritime modes shall be considered to be 1,2 times their energy content.;’deleted
2022/02/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 638 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 – point e – point ii
Directive 2018/2001/EU
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 4
Where electricity is used for the production of renewable fuels of non-biological origin, either directly or for the production of intermediate products, the average share of electricity from renewable sources in the country of production, as measured twoin the last years before the year in question, shall be used to determine the share of renewable energy.;
2022/02/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 648 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Directive (EU)2018/2001
Article 29
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2022/02/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 849 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20 – point d
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 30 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 4
For installations producing electricity heating and cooling with a total rated thermal input between 5 and 120 MW, Member States shall establish simplified national verification schemes to ensure the fulfillment of the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions criteria set out in paragraphs (2) to (7) and (10) of Article 29.;
2022/02/17
Committee: ENVI