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Activities of Tom BERENDSEN related to 2021/0203(COD)

Plenary speeches (2)

Energy efficiency (recast) (debate)
2022/09/12
Dossiers: 2021/0203(COD)
Industrial Emissions Directive - Industrial Emissions Portal - Deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure - Sustainable maritime fuels (FuelEU Maritime Initiative) - Energy efficiency (recast) (joint debate - Fit for 55 and Industrial Emissions)
2023/07/10
Dossiers: 2021/0203(COD)

Opinions (1)

OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy efficiency (recast)
2022/04/05
Committee: TRAN
Dossiers: 2021/0203(COD)
Documents: PDF(296 KB) DOC(208 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Tom BERENDSEN', 'mepid': 197778}]

Amendments (14)

Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) Transport poverty has been underexposed and no clear EU-level or national definitions are available. However, the problem is becoming more pressing to address in light of the high prices for fuels, tickets and other mobility expenditures and given the high dependencies on transport availability and accessibility to go to work or for daily mobility needs, in particular for those living in rural, insular, mountainous, remote, outermost, or less accessible areas or for less developed regions or territories, including less developed peri-urban areas.
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 50
(50) When designing policy measures to fulfil the energy savings obligation, Member States should respect the climate and environmental standards and priorities of the Union and comply with the principle of ‘do no significant harm’ within the meaning of Regulation (EU) 2020/85271 . Member States should not promote activities that are not environmentally sustainable such as use of solid fossil fuels. The energy savings obligation aims at strengthening the response to climate change by promoting incentives to Member States to implement a sustainable and clean policy mix, which is resilient, and mitigates climate change. Therefore, energy savings from policy measures regarding the use of direct fossil fuel combustion will notonly be eligible energy savings under energy savings obligation as of transposition of this Directive as long as they comply with the most up to date corresponding European emission performance legislation and if they prevent technology lock-ins by ensuring future compatibility with climate-neutral alternative fuels and technologies. It will allow aligning the energy savings obligation with the objectives of the European Green Deal, the Climate Target Plan, the Renovation Wave Strategy, and mirror the need for action identified by the IEA in its net zero report72 . The restriction aims at encouraging Member States to spend public money into future-proof, sustainable technologies only, while protecting the principle of technology neutrality by not favouring specific climate-neutral solutions. It is important that Member States provide a clear policy framework and investment certainty to market actors. The implementation of the calculation methodology under energy savings obligation should allow all market actors to adapt their technologies in a reasonable timeframe. Where Member States support the uptake of efficient fossil fuel technologies or early replacement of such technology, for example through subsidy schemes or energy efficiency obligation schemes, energy savings may notonly be eligible anymore under the energy savings obligation. While energy savings resulting, for example, from as long as they comply with the most up to date corresponding European emission performance legislation and if they promotion of natural gas-based cogenevent technology lock-ins by ensuring future compatibility with climate-neutral alternation would not be eligible, tve fuels and technologies. The restriction would also not apply for indirect fossil fuel usage, for example where the electricity production includes fossil fuel generation. Policy measures targeting behavioural changes to reduce the consumption of fossil fuel, for example through information campaigns, eco- driving, should remain eligible. The energy savings from policy measures targeting building renovations may contain measures such as a replacement of fossil fuel heating systems together with building fabric improvements, which should be limited to those technologies that allow achieving the required energy savings according to the national building codes established in a Member State. Nevertheless, Member States should promote upgrading heating systems as part of deep and staged-deep renovations in line with the long-term objective of carbon neutrality, i.e. reducing the heating demand and covering the remaining heating demand with a carbon-free energy source. _________________ 71 Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2020 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment, and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/2088, OJ L 198, 22.6.2020, p. 13–43. 72 IEA (International Energy Agency) (2021), Net Zero by 2050 A Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector, https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-by- 2050.
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 249 #
(51) Member States' energy efficiency improvement measures in transport are eligible to be taken into account for achieving their end-use energy savings obligation. Such measures include policies that are, inter alia, dedicated to promoting more efficient vehicles, a modal shift to rail, inland waterways, cycling, walking and collective transport, or mobility and urban planning that reduces demand for transport while meeting the same level of customer needs. In addition, schemes which accelerate the uptake of new, more efficient vehicles or policies fostering a shift to better performing fuels with reduced levels of emissions, except policy measures regarding the use of direct fossil fuel combustion, that reduce energy use per kilometre are also capable of being eligible, subject to compliance with the rules on materiality and additionality set out in Annex V to this Directive. Policy measures promoting the uptake of new fossil fuel vehicles should notonly qualify as eligible measures under the energy savings obligation when they comply with the most up to date corresponding European emission performance legislation and if they prevent technology lock-ins by ensuring future compatibility with climate-neutral alternative fuels and technologies.
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 54
(54) Member States and obligated parties should make use of all available means and technologies , except regarding the use of non future proof direct fossil fuel combustion technologies which are not ready for renewables and decarbonised energy sources, to achieve the cumulative end-use energy savings required, including by promoting sustainable technologies in efficient district heating and cooling systems, efficient heating and cooling infrastructure and energy audits or equivalent management systems, provided that the energy savings claimed comply with the requirements laid down in Article 8 and Annex V to this Directive. Member States should aim for a high degree of flexibility in the design and implementation of alternative policy measures. Member States should encourage actions resulting in energy savings over the long lifetimes.
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 274 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 62
(62) Around 34 million households in the Union were unable to keep their home adequately warm in 201974 . The European Green Deal prioritises the social dimension of the transition by committing to the principle that `no one is left behind´. The green transition, including the clean transition, affects women and men differently and may have a particular impact on some disadvantaged groups including people with disabilities. Energy efficiency measures must therefore be central to any cost-effective strategy to address energy poverty and consumer vulnerability and are complementary to social security policies at Member State level. To ensure that energy efficiency measures reduce energy poverty for tenants sustainably, the cost-effectiveness of such measures, as well as their affordability to property owners and tenants, should be taken into account, and adequate financial and technical support for such measures should be guaranteed at Member State level. Member States should support the local and regional level in identifying and alleviating energy poverty, for example through the setup of national insulation teams that practically help citizens to insulate their houses in a fast, efficient and fitting way. The Union's building stock needs, in the long term, to be converted to NZEBs in accordance with the objectives of the Paris Agreement. Current building renovation rates are insufficient and buildings occupied by citizens on low incomes who are affected by energy poverty are the hardest to reach. The measures laid down in this Directive with regard to energy savings obligations, energy efficiency obligation schemes and alternative policy measures are therefore of particular importance. _________________ 74 COMMISSION RECOMMENDATION of 14.10.2020 on energy poverty, C(2020) 9600 final.
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 92
(92) The contribution of renewable energy communities, pursuant to Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council80 , and citizen energy communities, according to Directive (EU) 2019/944 towards the objectives of the European Green Deal and the 2030 Climate Target Plan, should be recognisactively supported. Member States should, therefore, consider and promote the role of renewable energy communities and citizen energy communities. Those communities can help Member States to achieve the objectives of this Directive by advancing energy efficiency at local or household level. They can empower and engage consumers and enable certain groups of household customers, including in rural and remote areas to participate in energy efficiency projects and interventions. Energy communities can help fighting energy poverty through facilitation of energy efficiency projects, reduced energy consumption and lower supply tariffs. _________________ 80 Directive (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).
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 315 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 97
(97) Public funding available at national and Union level should be strategically invested into energy efficiency improvement measures, in particular for the benefit of vulnerable customers, people affected by energy poverty and those living in social housing, for example through the setup of national insulation teams that practically help citizens to insulate their houses in a fast, efficient and fitting way. Member States should take advantage of any financial contribution they might receive from the Social Climate Fund82 , and of revenues from allowances from the EU Emissions Trading System. These revenues will support Member States in fulfilling their obligation to implement energy efficiency measures and policy measures under the energy savings obligation as a priority among vulnerable customers and people affected by energy poverty, which may include those living in rural and remote regions. _________________ 82 Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Social Climate Fund, COM 2021 568 final.
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 335 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 123
(123) Energy generated on or in buildings from renewable energy technologies reduces the amount of energy supplied from fossil fuels. The reduction of energy consumption and the use of energy from renewable sources in the buildings sector are important measures to reduce the Union's energy dependence and greenhouse gas emissions, especially in view of ambitious climate and energy objectives set for 2030 as well as the global commitment made in the context of the Paris Agreement. For the purposes of their cumulative energy savings obligation Member States may take into account energy savings from policy measures promoting renewable technologies, including hybrids, to meet their energy savings requirements in accordance with the calculation methodology provided in this Directive . Energy savings from policy measures regarding the use of direct fossil fuel combustion should not be counted, unless the technology is ready for renewable and decarbonised energy sources, and hence is future proof.
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 390 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 48 a (new)
(48a) ‘transport poverty’ means a household's lack of access to essential transport and mobility services required to meet essential socio-economic needs and the participation in society, caused, inter alia, by high fuel-, transport ticket- or other mobility expenditures in relation to the household's disposable income, in the relevant national context, existing social policy and other relevant policies;
2022/03/21
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 713 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that enterprises with an average annual consumption higher than 100TJ of energy over the previous three years and taking all energy carriers together, implement an energy management system at the latest by 31.12.2024. The threshold shall not apply to a company group but each single legal entity within the group. The energy management system shall be certified by an independent body according to the relevant European or International Standards.
2022/03/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1103 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex V – point 2 – point f – point i
(i) Union emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles following the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2019/631 of the European Parliament and of the Council107 ; Member States must provide evidence, their assumptions and their calculation methodology to show additionality to the Union´s new vehicle CO2 requirements. Member States shall base their calculation methodology on a life-cycle analysis for the respective vehicles, taking into account greenhouse gas emissions generated at production and during and after their operational lifetime, as well as the greenhouse gas intensity of the actual energy mix for electricity generation in that same Member State; _________________ 107 Regulation (EU) 2019/631 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 setting CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and for new light commercial vehicles, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 443/2009 and (EU) No 510/2011 (OJ L 111, 25.4.2019, p. 13).
2022/03/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1105 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex V – point 2 – point g
(g) policies with the purpose of encouraging higher levels of energy efficiency of products, equipment, transport systems, vehicles and fuels, buildings and building elements, processes or markets shall be permitted , exceptincluding those policy measures regarding the use of direct combustion of fossil fuel technologies that are implemented as from 1 January 2024 ; as long as they comply with the most up to date corresponding European emission performance legislation and if they prevent technology lock-ins by ensuring future compatibility with climate-neutral alternative fuels and technologies;
2022/03/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1124 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex V – point 2 – point h
(h) Energy savings as a result of policy measures newly implemented as from 1 January 2024 regarding the use of direct fossil fuel combustion in products, equipment, transport systems, vehicles, buildings or works shall not count towards the fulfilment of energy savings obligation as from 1 January 2024;may count towards the fulfilment of energy savings obligation pursuant to Article 8(1)(b) as long as they comply with the most up to date corresponding European emission performance legislation and if they prevent technology lock-ins by ensuring future compatibility with climate-neutral alternative fuels and technologies. In case of policy measures promoting combinations of technologies, the related overall energy savings shall only be eligible if significant energy efficiency gains are reached in both the fossil fuel combustion technology and in the climate-neutral alternative technology.
2022/03/22
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 1137 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex V – point 2 – point k
(k) for policies that accelerate the uptake of more efficient products and vehicles, exceptincluding those regarding the use of direct fossil fuel combustion only when they comply with the most up to date corresponding European emission performance legislation and if they prevent technology lock-ins by ensuring future compatibility with climate-neutral alternative fuels and technologies, full credit may be claimed, provided that it is shown that such uptake takes place before expiry of the average expected lifetime of the product or vehicle, or before the product or vehicle would usually be replaced, and the savings are claimed only for the period until end of the average expected lifetime of the product or vehicle to be replaced;
2022/03/22
Committee: ITRE