Activities of Ville NIINISTÖ related to 2023/0081(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing a framework of measures for strengthening Europe’s net-zero technology products manufacturing ecosystem (Net Zero Industry Act)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42
Recital 42
(42) To safeguard the level playing field and functioning of the internal market, a common Union framework should be created to collectively address this central challenge, including with a view to sharing the burden of the costs of such measures including via the proposed EU Sovereignty Fund. Several Union funding programmes, such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, InvestEU, cohesion policy programmes or the Innovation Fund are also available to fund investments in net-zero technology manufacturing projects.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission and the Member States shall undertake activities to accelerate and crowd-in private investments in net-zero strategic projects. Such activities may, without prejudice to Article 107 and Article 108 of the TFEU, include providing and coordinating support to net-zero strategic projects facing difficulties in accessing finance. In order to prevent fragmentation of the Single Market, support mentioned in paragraph 1 of this Article shall also be made available from the EU Sovereignty Fund. The Commission shall draw on resources from the EU Sovereignty Fund with a special focus on facilitating investments in net-zero strategic projects ensuring the highest ecological and social standards possible. The amount of the financial envelope shall be drawn from the unallocated margins under the MFF ceilings or mobilised through the non- thematic MFF special instruments.
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The support referred to in paragraph 1 shall be conditional on stringent environmental, social and labour commitments taken by the relevant project promoters, including in the form of decarbonisation plans, labour reskilling plans, commitment to effective social dialogue and collectively negotiated wages, high quality apprenticeships and decent working conditions.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. The support mentioned in paragraph 1 may encompass (a) guarantees to decrease borrowing costs and reduce risk at an early stage of project development; (b) measures aimed at de-risking agreements with off-takers, including supporting off-takers established in the Union to sign off-take agreements with Net-Zero Strategic Projects.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(b a) assistance to project promoters along the permit-granting process, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. The European Commission may mobilise the InvestEU Advisory Hub to provide technical assistance to net-zero strategic projects in order to reinforce their technical, economic, environmental and social viability.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. The Net-Zero Europe Platform shall, in particular, quantify financing needs and track disbursements by Member States, with an eye to mobilising resources from the EU Sovereignty Fund to ensure project promoters are not disadvantaged by an uneven availability of funds across Member States.
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2
Article 20 – paragraph 2
2. The sustainability and resilience contribution shall each be given a weight between 15% andof at least 30% of the award criteria, without prejudice of the possibility to give a higher weighting to the criteria in Article 19(2), points (a) and (b), where applicable under Union legislation, and of any limit for non-price criteria set under State aid rules.
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. When cost differences are below 10%, the contracting authority or the contracting entity shall award the contract to the tender exhibiting the highest sustainability contribution.
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1
Article 21 – paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice to Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty and Article 4 of Directive 2018/200173 and in line with the Union’s international commitments, when deciding to set up schemes benefitting households or consumers which incentivise the purchase of strategic net-zero technology final products listed in the Annex, Member States, regional orand local authorities, bodies governed by public law orand associations formed by one or more such authorities or one or more such bodies governed by public law, shall design them in such a way as to promote the purchase by beneficiaries of strategic net-zero technology final products with a high sustainability, job quality, and resilience contribution as referred in Article 19(2), by providing additional proportionate financial compensation. __________________ 73 Directive 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
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 2
2. The additional financial compensation granted by authorities in accordance with paragraph 1, due to the application of the criteria referred to in Article 19(2) (b) (c) and (d) shall not exceed 25 % of the cost of the strategic net-zero technology final product for the consumer. The additional financial compensation shall be specifically addressed at consumers in energy poverty or at risk of energy poverty, as defined per Regulation (EU) 2023/955.
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 3
Article 21 – paragraph 3
3. When designing and implementing a scheme falling under paragraph 1, the authority shall base itself on an open, non- discriminatory and transparent process to assess the resilience and sustainability contribution of available products on the market. Any strategic net-zero technology final product shall be entitled to apply to join the scheme at any time. The authority shall specify a pass mark for products to be eligible to the additional financial compensation under the support scheme.
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 4
Article 21 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall publish on a single free access website all information relating to schemes pursuant to Article 21(1) for each relevant strategic net-zero technology product.