25 Amendments of Teuvo HAKKARAINEN related to 2021/0218(COD)
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council9 sets a binding Union target to reach a share of at least 32 % of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy by 2030. Under the Climate Target Plan, the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption would need to increase to 40% by 20340 in order to achieve the Union’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction target10. Therefore, the target set out in Article 3 of that Directive needs to be increased in a socially sustainable manner. _________________ 9Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82–209. 10 Point 3 of the Communication from the Commission COM(2020) 562 final of 17.9.2020, Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition Investing in a climate- neutral future for the benefit of our people.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) There is a growing recognition of the need for alignment of bioenergy policies with the cascading principle of biomass use11, 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/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council12. For this, they should grant no support to the production of energy from saw logs, and veneer 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’13. 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 schemes. Waste 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 202635 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. _________________ 11The cascading principle aims to achieve resource efficiency of biomass use through prioritising biomass material use to energy use wherever possible, increasing thus the amount of biomass available within the system. 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. 12 Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3). 13 https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/reposit ory/handle/JRC122719
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Overly complex and excessively long administrative procedures constitute a major barrier for the deployment of renewable energy. The scope of the directive should therefore be extended as regards sustainability criteria and greenhouse gas emission criteria for installations with low thermal input for electricity, heating and cooling production from biomass fuels. On the basis of the measures to improve administrative procedures for renewable energy installations that Member States are to report on by 15 March 2023 in their first integrated national energy and climate progress reports pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council15, the Commission should assess whether the provisions included in this Directive to streamline these procedures have resulted in smooth and proportionate procedures. If that assessment reveals significant scope for improvement, the Commission should take appropriate measures to ensure Member States have streamlined and efficient administrative procedures in place. _________________ 15Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the 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).
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) Increasing ambition in the heating and cooling sector is key to delivering the overall renewable energy target given that heating and cooling constitutes around half of the Union's energy consumption, covering a wide range of end uses and technologies in buildings, industry and district heating and cooling. To accelerate the increase of renewables in heating and cooling, an annual 1.1 percentage point increase at Member State level should be made binding as a minimum for all Member Statescative. For those Member States, which already have renewable shares above 50% in the heating and cooling sector, it should remain possible to only apply half of the binding annual increase rate and Member States with 60% or above may count any such share as fulfilling the average annual increase rate in accordance with points b) and c) of paragraph 2 of Article 23. In addition, Member State- specific top-ups should be set, redistributing the additional efforts to the desired level of renewables in 20340 among Member States based on GDP and cost- effectiveness. A longer list of different measures should also be included in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 to facilitate increasing the share of renewables in heating and cooling. Member States may implement one or more measures from the list of measures.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 35
Recital 35
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) Directive (EU) 2018/2001 strengthened the bioenergy sustainability and greenhouse gas savings framework by setting criteria for all end-use sectors. It set out specific rules for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from forest biomass, requiring the sustainability of harvesting operations and the accounting of land-use change emissions. To achieve an enhanced protection of especially biodiverse and carbon-rich habitats, such as primary forests, highly biodivhese criteria werse forests, grasslands and peat lands, exclusions and limitations to source forest biomass from those areas should be introduced, in line with the approach for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from agricultural biomass. In addition, the greenhouse gas emission saving criteria should also apply to existing biomass-based installations to ensure that bioenergy production in all such installations leads to greenhouse gas emission reductions compared to energy produced from fossil fuelsestablished only recently and should not be reviewed at this stage. In addition, local circumstances and the ways in which forests are used are too diverse for the current rules to be expanded on in any meaningful way.
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) In order to reduce the administrative burden for producers of renewable fuels and recycled carbon fuels and for Member States, where voluntary or national schemes have been recognised by the Commission through an implementing act as giving evidence or providing accurate data regarding the compliance with sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria as well as other requirements set in this Directive, Member States should accept the results of the certification issued by such schemes within the scope of the Commission’s recognition. In order to reduce the burden on small installations, Member States should establish a simplified verification mechanism for installations of between 5 and 10MW.
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point a
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
‘1. Member States shall collectively ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in the Union’s gross final consumption of energy in 20340 is at least 40%.’;
Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b Directive (EU) 2018/2001
(i) the use of saw logs, and veneer logs, stumps and roots to produce energy.
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2 – point b
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a – point iii
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2 – point a – point iii
Amendment 666 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point a – point ii – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point a – point ii – point a
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point a
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point a
— (a) in the case of solid biomass fuels, in installations producing electricity, heating and cooling with a total rated thermal input equal to or exceeding 520 MW,
Amendment 695 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point b
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 29 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1a
Article 29 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1a
Amendment 708 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point c
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point c
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2a
Article 29 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2a
Amendment 722 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point d
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point d
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 29 – paragraph 5
Article 29 – paragraph 5
Amendment 741 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point e
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point e
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 29 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point a – point iv
Article 29 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point a – point iv
Amendment 754 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point f
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point f
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 29 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point b – point iv
Article 29 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 – point b – point iv
Amendment 791 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point g
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 18 – point g
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 29 – paragraph 10 – subparagraph 1 – point d
Article 29 – paragraph 10 – subparagraph 1 – point d
(d) at least 70 % for electricity, heating and cooling production from biomass fuels used in installations from 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2025, and at least 80 % from 1 January 2026.’;
Amendment 844 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20 – point d
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 20 – point d
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Article 30 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 4
Article 30 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 4
Amendment 881 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 – point a
Article 2 – point 1 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 2 – point 11
Article 2 – point 11
(11) ‘the Union's 2030 targets for energy and climate’ means the Union-wide binding target of at least 40 % domestic reduction in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions as compared to 1990 to be achieved by 2030, the Union's binding target for renewable energy in 20340 as referred to in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001, the Union-level headline target of at least 32,5 % for improving energy efficiency in 2030, and the 15 % electricity interconnection target for 2030 or any subsequent targets in this regard agreed by the European Council or by the European Parliament and by the Council for 2030.’;
Amendment 882 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – point 1 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 2 – point 20 – b
Article 2 – point 20 – b
(b) in the context of Commission recommendations based on the assessment pursuant to point (b) of Article 29(1) with regard to energy from renewable sources, a Member State's early implementation of its contribution to the Union's binding target for renewable energy in 20340 as referred to in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 as measured against its national reference points for renewable energy;’;
Amendment 883 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2
Article 2 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 4 – point a – point 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 4 – point a – point 2 – subparagraph 1
With a view to achieving the Union's binding target for renewable energy in 20340 as referred to in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001, a contribution to that target in terms of the Member State's share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy in 20340, with an indicative trajectory for that contribution from 2021 onwards. By 2022, the indicative trajectory shall reach a reference point of at least 18 % of the total increase in the share of energy from renewable sources between that Member State's binding 2020 national target, and its contribution to the 20340 target. By 202530, the indicative trajectory shall reach a reference point of at least 43 % of the total increase in the share of energy from renewable sources between that Member State's binding 2020 national target and its contribution to the 20340 target. By 202735, the indicative trajectory shall reach a reference point of at least 65 % of the total increase in the share of energy from renewable sources between that Member State's binding 2020 national target and its contribution to the 20340 target.
Amendment 884 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2
Article 2 – point 2
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 4 – point a – point 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – point a – point 2 – subparagraph 2
By 20340, the indicative trajectory shall reach at least the Member State's planned contribution. If a Member State expects to surpass its binding 2020 national target, its indicative trajectory may start at the level it is projected to achieve. The Member States' indicative trajectories, taken together, shall add up to the Union reference points in 20225, 202530 and 202735 and to the Union's binding target for renewable energy in 20340 as referred to in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001. Separately from its contribution to the Union target and its indicative trajectory for the purposes of this Regulation, a Member State shall be free to indicate higher ambitions for national policy purposes.’;
Amendment 886 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 3
Article 2 – point 3
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall collectively ensure that the sum of their contributions amounts to at least the level of the Union's binding target for renewable energy in 20340 as referred to in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001.’;
Amendment 889 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 4
Article 2 – point 4
Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Article 29 – paragraph 2
Article 29 – paragraph 2
2. In the area of renewable energy, as part of its assessment referred to in paragraph 1, the Commission shall assess the progress made in the share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption on the basis of an indicative Union trajectory that starts from 20 % in 2020, reaches reference points of at least 18 % in 20225, 43 % in 202530 and 65 % in 202735 of the total increase in the share of energy from renewable sources between the Union's 2020 renewable energy target and the Union's 20340 renewable energy target, and reaches the Union’s binding target for renewable energy in 20340 as referred to in Article 3 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001.’;
Amendment 902 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Annex I a (new) – title
Annex I a (new) – title
NATIONAL HEATING AND COOLING SHARES OF ENERGY FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES IN GROSS FINAL CONSUMPTION OF ENERGY FOR 2020-20340