Activities of Gheorghe FALCĂ related to 2023/2173(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking for the financial year 2022
Amendments (7)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the 20 projects to steer aviation towards a sustainable future; notes that the call has successfully brought together a wide array of public and private partners, research centres and academia to find impactful solutions that can deliver sustainable aircraft and, ultimately, climate-neutral aviation future with a budget of €654 million in EU grant funding;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Welcomes that in September 2022, Clean Aviation became a founding member of the Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation (AZEA) which brings together public and private stakeholders from across the aeronautical sector to support the roll-out of hydrogen-powered and electric aircraft;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes that a new independent study on the socio-economic impact of the Clean Sky 2 Programme underlined the total estimated economic benefit for Europe to be worth €8.6 billion; the study also noted that the Clean Aviation programme’s Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) – which sets out how to achieve the objectives related to sustainable aircraft by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050 – is both “resilient” and “fit for purpose”; points out that this would apply even in a wide range of possible economic scenarios, potential developments and structural changes to the aviation system;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Salutes the progress in R&I, particularly engine manufacturing and SAF technologies and calls to intensify the research to contribute to the greening of aviation; urges the Commission to provide funding to implement new technologies; calls further to provide incentives for the SAF production to allow economy of scale production and overall market uptake of the sustainable fuels;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls for sufficient investment in R&I that will drive the energy efficiency and the emissions reductions of future aircraft such as ultra-efficient aircraft architectures – to address the short, medium and long-range needs with innovative aircraft architectures making use of highly integrated, ultra-efficient thermal propulsion systems and providing disruptive improvements in fuel efficiency; notes that this will be essential for the transition to low/zero emission energy sources (synthetic fuels, non-drop- in fuels such as hydrogen), which will be more energy intensive to produce, more expensive, and only available in limited quantities;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Emphasizes that mid-2030s will bring a new generation of large aircraft platforms aiming towards sustainable climate-neutral flight; while hybrid/electric energy architectures and ultra-efficient aircraft designs will pave the way towards climate-neutral aviation on routes of less than 1 000 km, aircraft for classical short- and medium-range distances rely on ultra-efficient thermal energy-based propulsion technologies using sustainable drop-in and non-drop- in fuels to enable climate-neutral flight; the novel aircraft and propulsion concepts will enable low source noise and low noise flight procedures;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Calls to expand and foster integration of the climate-neutral aviation research and innovation value chains, including academia, research organisations, industry and SMEs, also by benefiting from exploiting synergies with other national and European related programmes and by supporting the uptake of industry-related skills across the value chain;