10 Amendments of Dan-Ştefan MOTREANU related to 2020/2043(INI)
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the EU’s increased ambition on climate change can increase the risk of carbon leakage for European industries;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the Union has the responsibility and opportunity to assume a leading role in global climate action; highlights the importance of ensuring that this responsibility does not result in carbon leakage, which may occur “either because production is transferred from the EU to other countries with lower ambition for emission reduction, or because EU products are replaced by more carbon-intensive imports”, as mentioned in the European Green Deal Communication;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Believes that the main aim of the CBAM should be to support the EU’s green objectives and prevent carbon leakage by addressing the CO2 content of European imports; urges the Commission to ensure full carbon-leakage protection in all its policies;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that a CBAM should cover all imports, but that as a starting point already by 2023 it should cover the power sector and energy-intensive industrial sectors like cement, steel, chemicals and fertilisers, which continue to receive substantial free allocations, and still represent 94 % of Union industrial emission; stresses the need to avoid internal market distortions, notably on downstream markets;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that the GHG emissions content of imports concerned should be accounted for on the basis of transparent and reliable product-specific benchmarks representing the global average GHG emissions content of individual products; considers that the carbon pricing of imports should also take into account the country- specific carbon intensity of the electricity grid; stresses in this respect the need for the CBAM to cover both direct and indirect carbon emissions;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the importance of the existing measures to prevent carbon leakage, such as free allocation under the EU ETS; urges the Commission, therefore, to propose a mechanism that provides certainty for European industries, and can co-exist with the existing carbon leakage measures, whilst avoiding double protection;
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the principle of non- discrimination under GATT Article III; stresses that treating imports and domestic production in the same way is a key criterion for ensuring WTO compatibility of any measure, and that, therefore, all existing measures on carbon leakage under Union law should immediately cease to apply as soon as the CBAM enters into force, as this mechanism would apply carbon pricing to imports similar to what is applied to EU installations under the EU ETSthe CBAM should take into account the existing carbon leakage measures applicable to the European industry to avoid double protection; stresses that a core objective of the CBAM should be that EU producers and importers would have to deal with the same carbon costs;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission to address this concern during the upcoming reform of the EU ETS, ensuring the EU ETS delivers, through ambitious and meaningful carbon pricing, on the necessary GHG emissions reduction in line with the updated 2030 Union climate target and the objective of reaching net zero GHG emissions within the Union by 2050 at the latest, fully respecting the polluter pays principle; stresses that export rebates risk creating perverse climate effects, incentivising less efficient production methods for European exporting industries; urges the Commission to refrain fromnotes the importance of European exports on the global market; stresses, therefore, the need for the mechanism to includinge an export rebates in its proposal for EU producers;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that, in addition to a CBAM, supportive measures will be needed to foster industrial decarbonisation at a large scale; calls on the Commission to deliver an ambitious industrial policy framework that can offer predictability and certainty to realise carbon neutrality investments; stresses, in this respect, the importance of innovative financing tools such as Carbon Contract for Difference for investments in breakthrough technologies;