Activities of Margarida MARQUES related to 2021/0214(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism
Amendments (75)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 a (new)
Recital 13 a (new)
(13 a) The revenues generated should be attributed to the Union budget as an own resource in accordance with the procedures set out in Article 311 TFEU, pursuant to Annex 2 of the legally binding Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission of16 December 20201a and as proposed by the Commission on 22 December2021 in its legislative proposal to amend the Own Resources Decision1b. The CBAM-based own resource would thus be part of a basket of new own resources whose total proceeds should be sufficient to cover the level of overall expected expenditure for the repayment costs of the principal and interests of the borrowing incurred under the Next Generation EU instrument, while respecting the principle of universality. _________________ 1a Interinstitutional Agreement of 16 December 2020 between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on budgetary discipline, on cooperation in budgetary matters and on sound financial management, as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap for the introduction of new own resources (OJ L 433I, 22.12.2020, p. 28.). 1b COM(2021)0570 final.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13 b (new)
Recital 13 b (new)
(13 b) The principle of universality implies that there can be no earmarking or assignment of any particular own resource to cover a specific type of expenditure. The CBAM together with the ETS-based own resource and the one based on Pillar One of the OECD/G20 agreement further embed EU policy priorities such as the European Green Deal and the Union’s contribution to fair taxation in the revenue side of the EU budget to provide EU added value. New own resources should contribute to climate mainstreaming, improve the resilience of the Union budget as a tool for investments and guarantees and - by diversifying the number of revenue sources - mitigate the risks to the EU budget on the revenue side and alleviate the burden of repayment on national budgets.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55 a (new)
Recital 55 a (new)
(55 a) To support least developed countries' efforts towards the de- carbonisation of their manufacturing industries support should be financed under the relevant expenditure programmes in the Union budget, including through reinforcing climate spending in the Union budget’s, such as the relevant geographic and thematic programmes of the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument established by Regulation (EU) 2021/947 of the European Parliament and of the Council.1a _________________ 1a Regulation (EU) 2021/947 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 June 2021 establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe, amending and repealing Decision No 466/2014/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Regulation (EU) 2017/1601 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 480/2009 (OJ L 209, 14.6.2021, p. 1).
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 61 a (new)
Recital 61 a (new)
(61 a) Underlines the importance to avoid an excessive administrative burden and costs for the implementation of the CBAM mechanism on both the Commission and the Member States, and to keep the complexity of the system as low as possible while ensuring its proper functioning.
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6 a) Global warming already reached 1.18°C in December 2020, leading to world wide draughts, floods, storms and heatwaves. If we continue at the current trend, global warming will reach 1.5°C in 2034. The outcome of the COP 26 in Glasgow, lacks the needed ambition and stronger commitments to turn the tide. The new announcements and updates of the NDCs after Glasgow will reduce temperature rises only by 0.1%, still leading to a disastrous estimated temperature rise between 1.8°C and 2.9°C by 2100;
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The initiative for a carbon border adjustment mechanism (‘CBAM’) is a part of the ‘Fit for 55 Package’. That mechanism is to serve as an essential element of the EU toolbox to meet the objective of a climate-neutral Union by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement by addressing risks of carbon leakage resulting from the increased Union climate ambition. The CBAM should serve as one element in the EU’s comprehensive strategy towards global sustainable trade and the ambition to reduce global carbon emissions;
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9 a) It is necessary to come forward with a holistic and comprehensive impact assessment of the entire fit for 55 package. Stakeholders, both within and outside of the EU borders, will not only feel the consequences of the separate proposals, but will also experience combined effects of the various proposals together, as they are all interlinked. Therefore, aside from the 13 separate impact assessments already carried out, an impact assessment of the entire package as a whole should be performed.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The Commission has, in its communication on the European Green Deal31 , set out a new growth strategy that aims to transform the Union into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy, where there are no net emissions (emissions after deduction of removals) of greenhouse gases (‘GHG emissions’) in 2050 and where economic growth is decoupled from resource use. The European Green Deal also aims to protect, conserve and enhance the EU’s natural capital, and protect the health and well- being of citizens and future generations from environment-related risks and impacts. At the same time, that transformation must be just and inclusive, leaving no one behind. The Commission also announced in its EU Action Plan: Towards Zero Pollution for Air, Water and Soil32 the promotion of relevant instruments and incentives to better implement the polluter pays principle as set out in Article 191(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (‘TFEU’) and thus complete the phasing out of ‘pollution for free’ with a view to maximising synergies between decarbonisation and the zero pollution ambition. _________________ 31 Communication from the Commission of 11 December 2019 on the European Green Deal (COM(2019) 640 final). 32 Communication from the Commission of 12 May 2021 on Pathway to a Healthy Planet for All (COM(2021) 400).
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Existing mechanisms to address the risk of carbon leakage in sectors or sub- sectors at risk of carbon leakage are the transitional free allocation of EU ETS allowances and financial measures to compensate for indirect emission costs incurred from GHG emission costs passed on in electricity prices respectively laid down in Articles 10a(6) and 10b of Directive 2003/87/EC. However, free allocation under the EU ETS and indirect cost compensation systems weakens the price signal that the system provides for the installations receiving ithem compared to full auctioning and thus affectselectricity pricing without compensation and thus lower the incentives for investment into further abatement of emissions. Therefore, to promote further emission reductions in the industrial and power sectors, free allocation and indirect cost compensation shall be phased out as soon as possible and following at least the same pattern as the gradual phase in of CBAM certificates, in order to respect WTO legal principles of non-discrimination and not to distort existing trade patterns to the Union's advantage;
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) As long as a significant number of the Union’s international partners have policy approaches that do not result in the same level of climate ambition and action in mitigating climate change, there is a risk of carbon leakage. Carbon leakage occurs if, for reasons of costs related to climate policies, businesses in certain industry sectors or subsectors were to transfer production to other countries that do not tax GHG emissions or tax at a lower rate or imports from those countries would replace equivalent but less GHG emissions intensive products. That could lead to an increase in their total emissions globally, thus jeopardising the reduction of GHG emissions that is urgently needed if the world is to keep the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre- industrial levels. The risk of carbon leakage is particularly prevalent in trade- exposed and carbon-intensive industrial sectors.
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) The initiative for a carbon border adjustment mechanism (‘CBAM’) is a part of the ‘Fit for 55 Package’. That mechanism is to serve as an essential element of the EU toolbox to meet the objective of a climate-neutral Union by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement by addressing risks of carbon leakage resulting from the increased Union climate ambition whilst ensuring a sustainable level playing field and by incentivising more ambitious climate action internationally.
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) While the objective of the CBAM is to lower global carbon emissions by preventing the risk of carbon leakage, this Regulation would also encourage the use of more GHG emissions-efficient technologies by producers from third countries, so that less emissions per unit of output are generated. Special attention, intensive dialogue, administrative, technical and financial support is needed regarding LDCs, empowering them to reach the green transition in a sustainable and fair way and enabling them to be full- fledged participators in global sustainable trade;
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The CBAM seeks to replace these existing mechanisms by addressing the risk of carbon leakage in a different way, namely by ensuring equivalent carbon pricing for imports and domestic products. To ensure a gradual transition from the current system of free allowances to the CBAM, the CBAM should be progressively phased in while free allowances in sectors covered by the CBAM are phased out. The combined and transitional application of EU ETS allowances allocated free of charge and of the CBAM should in no case result in more favourable treatment for Union goods compared to goods imported into the customs territory of the Union. This gradual transition shall be supported by a review mechanism in which the Commission assesses the gradual implementation of the instrument, including the need for its scope extension.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The GHG emissions to be regulated by the CBAM should correspond to those GHG emissions covered by Annex I to the EU ETS in Directive 2003/87/EC, namely carbon dioxide (‘CO2’) as well as, where relevant, nitrous oxide (‘N2O’) and perfluorocarbons (‘PFCs’). The CBAM should initiaapply to direct emissions as welly applys to indirect emissions of those GHG from the production of goods up to the time of import into the customs territory of the Union, and after the end of a transition period and upon further assessment, as well to indirect emissions, mirroring the scope of the EU ETS.mirroring the scope of the EU ETS and leading to as equal carbon costs as possible for domestic production and imports;
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) While the objective of the CBAM is to prevent the risk of carbon leakage, this Regulation would also encourage the deployment and use of more GHG emissions-efficient technologies by producers from third countries, so that less emissions per unit of output are generated.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) In order to exclude from the CBAM third countries or territories fully integrated into, or linked, to the EU ETS and where the carbon costs are equivalent to the ones under the EU ETS, in the event of future agreements, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of TFEU should be delegated to the Commission in respect of amending the list of countries in Annex II. Conversely, those third countries or territories should be excluded from the list in Annex II and be subject to CBAM whereby they do not effectively charge the ETS price on goods exported to the Union.
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) In terms of sanctions, Member States should apply penalties to infringements of this Regulation and ensure that they are implemented. The amount of those penalties should be identical to penalties currently applied within the Union in case of infringement of EU ETS according to Article 16(3) and (4) of Directive 2003/87/EC. Penalties to infringements of this Regulation, including for attempts at circumvention, should be dissuasive.
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) Whilst the ultimate objective of the CBAM is a broad product coverage, it would be prudent to start with a selected number of sectors with relatively homogeneous products where there is a risk of carbon leakage. Union sectors deemed at risk of carbon leakage are listed in Commission Delegated Decision 2019/70842 . The Commission should set up a review mechanism in order to better assess the broadening of the broad product coverage, including downstream products covered by this Regulation. _________________ 42 Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/708 of 15 February 2019 supplementing Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the determination of sectors and subsectors deemed at risk of carbon leakage for the period 2021 to 2030 (OJ L 120, 8.5.2019, p. 2).
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39 a (new)
Recital 39 a (new)
(39a) The declaration should be harmonised with a common template and based on standardised carbon accounting methodologies and reporting requirements for embedded emissions in order to ensure a more effective and less contentious implementation of the CBAM.
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39 b (new)
Recital 39 b (new)
(39b) While competent authorities are responsible to handle requests for authorisations and to manage national registries and CBAM certificates, all the necessary information and data should be transmitted to the Commission through a central registry database. The Commission has the responsibility to ensure the coordination of national registries inclusive of accounts of authorised declarants and accredited verifiers, it should act as a central administration and it has the power to request to competent authorities whenever it considers relevant information to tackle practices of circumvention, to avoid risks of mismanagement of declarations and CBAM certificates as well as fraud.
Amendment 203 #
(42) The system should allow operators of production installations in third countries to register in a central database and to make their verified embedded GHG emissions from production of goods available to authorised declarants. An operator should be able to choose not to have its name, address and contact details in the central database made accessible to the public.
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 53
Recital 53
(53) In light of the above, an extensive dialogue with third countries should continue and t, trade partners, EU’s and third country’s industries, federations, international organisations, NGO’s, think tanks and all other involved stakeholders should continue in order to boost global climate action and maximize engagement and the chances of the CBAM succeeding. There should be space for cooperation and solutions that could inform the specific choices that will be made on the details of the design of the measure during the implementation, in particular during the transitional period.
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52
Recital 52
(52) The Commission should evaluate the application of this Regulation before the end of the transitional period and report to the European Parliament and the Council. The report of the Commission should in particular focus on possibilities to enhance climate actions towards the objective of a climate neutral Union by 2050 whilst preventing distortion of competition in the EU and global markets. The Commission should, as part of that evaluation, initiate collection of information necessary to possibly extend the scope to indirect emissions, as well as to other goods and services at risk of carbon leakage, such as downstream products using goods initially covered by this Regulation, and to develop methods of calculating embedded emissions based on the environmental footprint methods47 . The report should be based upon a review mechanism that assesses, in particular, the implementation of the Regulation vis- à-vis its objectives and the governance system. If appropriate, the report should be accompanied by legislative proposals whose entry into force should be consistent with the start of the implementation of CBAM. _________________ 47 Commission Recommendation 2013/179/EU of 9 April 2013 on the use of common methods to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations (OJ L 124, 4.5.2013, p. 1).
Amendment 228 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 54
Recital 54
(54) The Commission should strive to engage in an even handed manner and in line with the international obligations of the EU, with the third countries whose trade to the EU is affected by this Regulation, to explore possibilities for dialogue and cooperation with regard to the implementation of specific elements of the Mechanism set out this Regulation and related implementing acts. It should also explore possibilities for concluding agreements to take into account their carbon pricing mechanism and their decarbonisation policies.
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55
Recital 55
(55) As the CBAM aims to encourage cleaner production processes, the EU stands ready to work with low and middle- income countries towards the de- carbonisation of their manufacturing industries. Moreover, the Union should support less developed countries with the necessary technical assistance in order to facilitate their adaptation to the new obligations established by this regulation. The Union should make use of the Union policies and the Union budget to support those action, if appropriate.
Amendment 233 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes a carbon border adjustment mechanism (the ‘CBAM’) for addressing greenhouse gas emissions embedded in the goods referred to in Annex I, upon their importation into the customs territory of the Union, in order to reduce global carbon emissions by preventing the risk of carbon leakage.
Amendment 233 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55 a (new)
Recital 55 a (new)
(55a) The European Green Deal and the new emission reductions targets will necessitate massive investments for a sustainable and fair transition. In this regard, keeping competitiveness of the EU industry in the decarbonisation efforts is essential not only for the sake of keeping jobs and a prosperous European economy. The Union and Member States should make use of its policies and budgets to provide the incentives to boost the competitiveness of low-carbon exports through namely the support to innovation.
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 55 b (new)
Recital 55 b (new)
(55b) On 16 December 2020, the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission concluded the Interinstitutional agreement on budgetary discipline, cooperation on budgetary matters and sound financial management as well as on new own resources, including a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources (IIA). The repayment of the principal of borrowed funds, by the Commission on behalf of the Union, to be used for expenditure under the European Union Recovery Instrument and the related interest due will have to be financed by the general budget of the Union, including by sufficient proceeds from new own resources introduced after 2021. Therefore, on 22 December 2021, the Commission proposed to amend the Own Resources Decision so that 75% of the revenues generated by a carbon border adjustment mechanism become an own resource for the EU budget. It is the responsibility of Member States to collect revenues from the sale of carbon border adjustment mechanism certificates.
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes a carbon border adjustment mechanism (the ‘CBAM’) for addressing greenhouse gas emissions embedded in the goods referred to in Annex I, upon their importation into the customs territory of the Union, in order to prevent the risk of carbon leakage and safeguard fair and undistorted competition, ensuring a sustainable level playing field for all.
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Article 1 – paragraph 3
3. The mechanism will progressively become an alternative toreplaces the mechanisms established under Directive 2003/87/EC to prevent the risk of carbon leakage, notably the allocation of allowances free of charge in accordance with Article 10a of that Directive.
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation applies to goods as listed in Annex I, originating in a third country, when those goods, or processed products from those goods as resulting from the inward processing procedure referred to in Article 256 of Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council53 , are imported into the customs territory of the Union. Annex I shall be regularly assessed and potentially revised to take into account the establishment of a fair level playing field as referred in Article 30. _________________ 53 Regulation (EU) No 952/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 October 2013 laying down the Union Customs Code (OJ L 269, 10.10.2013, p. 1).
Amendment 271 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 15 a (new)
(15 a) ‘indirect emissions’ mean emissions from the production of electricity, heating and cooling, which is consumed during the production processes of goods.
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 18
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 18
(18) ‘CBAM certificate’ means a certificate, common to all Members States, in electronic format corresponding to one tonne of embedded emissions in goods;
Amendment 274 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 16
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 16
(16) ‘embedded emissions’ mean direct emissions released during the production of goods and inputs of CBAM products into those goods, as well as indirect emissions from the production of electricity, heating and cooling consumed during the production of goods, calculated pursuant to the methods set out in Annex III;
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 28
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3 – point h a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 3 – point h a (new)
(ha) the name and contact details of the third country competent authority in charge of collecting the carbon price paid by the operator in that third country, when relevant;
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6
Article 5 – paragraph 6
6. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts, concerning the single standard format of the application and the delays and procedure to be followed by the competent authority when processing applications for authorisation in accordance with paragraph 1 and the rules for identification by the competent authority of the declarants for the importation of electricity. The format of the application shall allow for machine readability in order to ease the exchange of information across Member States. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 29(2).
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Competent authorities shall submit the standardised declaration form to a national registry and they should set up individual accounts of authorised declarants. Once the information is transmitted to a central registry, the Commission may request to remaining competent authorities any proof regarding the information established in paragraph 3(d).
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts concerning the principles of verification referred to in paragraph 1 as regards the possibility to waiveaccuracy of the information in the CBAM declaration, the obligation for the verifier to visit the installation where relevant goods are produced and the obligation to set thresholds for deciding whether misstatements or non-conformities are material and concerning the supporting documentation needed for the verification report.
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The authorised declarant shall keep records of the documentation, certified by an independent personaccredited verifier, required to demonstrate that the declared embedded emissions were subject to a carbon price in the country of origin of the goods and keep evidence of the proof of the actual payment for that carbon price which should not have been subject to an export rebate or any other form of compensation on exportation.
Amendment 310 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall, upon request by an operator of an installation located in a third country, register the information on that operator and on its installation in a central registry database referred to in Article 14(4) accessible by national competent authorities.
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)
(ca) the name and contact details of the third country competent authority in charge of collecting the carbon price paid by the operator in that third country, when relevant;
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 6
Article 10 – paragraph 6
6. The records referred to in paragraph 5, point (c), shall be sufficiently detailed to enable the verification in accordance with paragraph 5, point (b), and to enable any competent authority to verify and review, in accordance with Article 19(1), the CBAM declaration made by an authorised declarant to whom the relevant information was disclosed in accordance with paragraph 8.
Amendment 326 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Competent authorities shall set up national registries with accounts of authorised declarants. These accounts shall be connected and interchangeable with all competent authorities and automatically integrated in a central registry system managed by the Commission.
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall require that competent authorities exchange any information that is essential or relevant to the exercise of their functions and duties, either automatically via the central registry database, or upon request and within a delay of 3 months, when another competent authority or the Commission issues such request for specific information related to the calculation of the CBAM certificates.
Amendment 343 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – title
Article 14 – title
National registries and EU central registry database
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. The competent authority of each Member State shall establish a national registry of declarants authorised in that Member State in the form of a standardised electronic database containing the data regarding the CBAM certificates of those declarants, and to provide for confidentiality in accordance with the conditions set out in Article 13. Such a standardised electronic database shall be built to be compatible with the EU central database built by the Commission, meaning the data can be automatically uploaded into the central database.
Amendment 350 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(da) new the carbon price paid in a third country for related embedded emissions;
Amendment 351 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point d b (new)
(db) the report of the accredited verifier;
Amendment 352 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point d c (new)
(dc) the procedures regarding the surrender of CBAM certificates.
Amendment 353 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall establish a central database that would automatically collect the information referred to in paragraph 2 which shall be automatically accessible to competent authorities of each Member States. The information in the database referred to in paragraph 2 shall be confidential unless specified otherwise in paragraph 4.
Amendment 354 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The central registry database aims to ensure an efficient and transparent management of the information provided by the authorised declarant and it shall be managed by the Commission. The Commission may ask further information to competent authorities to ensure the consistency of the information provided by the declarant and for purposes of its reports.
Amendment 355 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 4
Article 14 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall establish a central database accessible to the public containmake the information of the central database regarding the names, addresses and contact details of the operators and the location of installations in third countries in accordance with Article 10(2). An operator may choose not to have its name, address and contact details accessible to the public.
Amendment 362 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 3
Article 15 – paragraph 3
3. If irregularities are identified as a result of the controls carried out under paragraph 2, the Commission shall inform the Member State or Member States concerned for further investigation in order to correct the identified irregularities within 3 months.
Amendment 373 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 4
Article 16 – paragraph 4
4. If the authorised declarant has ceased its economic activity or its authorisation was revoked, the competent authority shall close the account of that declarant after 2 years.
Amendment 377 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the declarant has not been involved in a serious infringement or repeated infringements of customs legislation, taxation rules and market abuse rules and has no record of serious criminal offences relating to its economic activity during the five years preceding the application; the declarant is not resident for tax purposes in, or incorporated under the laws of, jurisdictions that feature on the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions;
Amendment 406 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 9 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. The competent authority informs the competent authorities of other Member States and the Commission on any refusal or revocation by introducing the necessary information in the national registry that shall be immediately transferred to the central database.
Amendment 407 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 3
Article 18 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 28 for the accreditation referred to in paragraph 2, specifying conditions for the control and oversight of accredited verifiers, for the withdrawal of accreditation and for mutual recognition and peer evaluation of the accreditation bodies. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts specifying conditions for verifiers to be able to comply with Article 21, 32 and 34 of the Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/2067 related to on site visits when the site is located in a third country.
Amendment 437 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1
Article 23 – paragraph 1
1. The competent authority of each Member State shall, on request by a declarant authorised in that Member State, re-purchase the excess of CBAM certificates remaining on the account of the declarant in the national registry after the certificates have been surrendered in accordance with Article 22. The request to re-purchase shall be submitted by 30 June of each year when CBAM certificates were surrendered. The competent authority shall immediately inform the Commission of the request through the central registry database.
Amendment 458 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 28 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. This committee of experts shall be inclusive and consist of people who, together, are knowledgeable of all the various effects of the CBAM, representing the interests of all affected stakeholders and society as a whole.
Amendment 464 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2
Article 27 – paragraph 2
2. Practices of circumvention include situations where a change in the pattern of trade in relation to goods included in the scope of this Regulation has insufficient due cause or economic justification other than avoiding obligations as laid down in this Regulation and consist in replacing those goods with slightly modified products, which are not included in the list of goods in Annex I but belong to a sector included in the scope of this RegulationCircumvention practices are any measures that have the objective of avoiding the obligations laid down in this Regulation in order to pretend lower total amount of the CO2 emissions. This concerns in particular deliberate changes in the trade flows of goods or importation via third countries, slightly modified products, misleading information about the manufacturer or the manufacturing process, restructuring of distribution structures or merely final assembly of the goods in the EU or a third country. The Commission is to use existing European legal order when defining the circumvention offences. In particular the Union Customs Code, Article 60(2) and Article 59, and the 2015 Implementing Act, Article 33.
Amendment 468 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 2
Article 27 – paragraph 2
2. Practices of circumvention include situations where a change in the pattern of trade in relation to goods included in the scope of this Regulation has insufficient due cause or economic justification other than avoiding obligations as laid down in this Regulation and consist, inter alia, in replacing those goods with slightly modified products, which are not included in the list of goods in Annex I but belong to a sector included in the scope of this Regulation or practices of resource shuffling.
Amendment 479 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 3
Article 27 – paragraph 3
3. A Member State or any party affected or benefitted by the situations described in paragraph 2 may notify the Commission if it is confronted, over a two- month period compared with the same period in the preceding year with a significant decrease in the volume of imported goods included in the scope of this Regulation and an increase of volume of imports of slightly modified products, which are not included in the list of goods in Annex I. The Commission shall continually monitor any significant change of pattern of trade of goods, resource shuffling and slightly modified products at Union level.
Amendment 485 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 27 – paragraph 5
Article 27 – paragraph 5
5. Where the Commission, taking into account the relevant data, reports and statistics, including when provided by the customs authorities of Member States, has sufficient reasons to believe that the circumstances referred to in paragraph 3 are occurring in one or more Member States, it is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 28 to supplement the scope of this Regulation in order to include slightly modified productsall the facts listed in paragraph 2 for anti-circumvention purposes.
Amendment 487 #
5. Where the Commission, taking into account the relevant data, reports and statistics, including when provided by the customs authorities of Member States, has sufficient reasons to believe that the circumstances referred to in paragraph 3 are occurring in one or more Member States, it is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 28 to supplement the scope of this Regulation in order to include slightly modified products or practices of resource shuffling for anti- circumvention purposes.
Amendment 506 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall collect the information necessary with a view to extending the scope of this Regulation to indirect emissions and goods other than those listed in Annex I, and develop methods of calculating embedded emissions based on environmental footprint methodsuch as downstream products using goods covered by this Regulation, notably taking into consideration both environmental risks and the necessity to maintain a sustainable level playing field, and develop methods of calculating embedded emissions based on environmental footprint methods. Particular attention should be given to goods such as organic basic chemicals, hydrogen and polymers.
Amendment 517 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 2
Article 30 – paragraph 2
2. Before the end of the transitional period and every five years after that, the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the application of this Regulation. The report shall contain, in particular, the assessment of the possibilities to further extend the scope of embedded emissions to indirect emissions and to other goods at risk of carbon leakage than those already covered by this Regulation, as well as an assessment of the state of implementation of the Regulation, including how it is fulfilling its objectives, and its governance system. It shall also contain the assessment of the possibility to further extend the scope to embedded emissions of transportation services as well as to consider goods further down the value chain and services that may be subject to the risk of carbon leakage in the future. The Commission can use the confidential information of the central database if relevant, but any report should ensure such data is anonymised.
Amendment 522 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 3
Article 30 – paragraph 3
3. The report by the Commission shall, if appropriate, be accompanied by afurther legislative proposals.
Amendment 525 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 30 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Without prejudice to paragraph 2, the report presented before the end of the transitional period shall contain a calendar to extend the scope of this Regulation to the rest of sectors listed in Commission Delegated Decision (EU) 2019/708. Such calendar must be binding and contain specific dates for implementation.
Amendment 533 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2
Article 31 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission is empowered to adopt implementingdelegated acts laying down a calculation methodology for the reduction referred to in paragraph 1. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 29(2).
Amendment 536 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – point 2 – introductory part
Annex III – point 2 – introductory part
2. Determination of actual direct embedded emissions for simple goods
Amendment 537 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – point 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Annex III – point 2 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
For determining the specific actual embedded emissions of simple goods produced in a given installation, only direct emissions shall be accounted for. For this purpose, the following equation is to be applied:
Amendment 537 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 35 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) the carbon price due in a country of origin for the embedded emissions in the imported goods, which is not subject to an export rebate or other form of compensation on exportation.
Amendment 538 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex III – point 2 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Annex III – point 2 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
‘Attributed emissions’ mean the part of the installation’s direct emissions during the reporting period that are caused by the production process resulting in goods g when applying the system boundaries of the process defined by the implementing acts adopted pursuant to Article 7(6). The attributed emissions shall be calculated using the following equation:
Amendment 540 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 35 – paragraph 3
Article 35 – paragraph 3
3. The competent authority shall communicate the information referred to in paragraph 2 to the Commission at the latest two months after the end of the quarter covered by a report and the information shall be available in the central registry database.