17 Amendments of Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES related to 2021/0214(COD)
Amendment 31 #
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. In the case of least developed countries and lower middle-income countries especially affected by the costs of adaptation to the provisions of the CBAM and lacking adequate resources, technical and financial assistance should also be provided.
Amendment 34 #
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, in respect of the UNFCCC’s principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities”, should support lessast developed countries with the necessary technical assistance in order to facilitate theirand lower middle-income countries with particularly important needs and an important lack of resources by providing the necessary technical and financial assistance to adaptation to the new obligations established by this regulationrequirements of the CBAM.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 59
Recital 59
(59) It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 201651 , and also guarantee the participation of local civil society organisations, governments and other stakeholders in developing countries. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the European Parliament and the Council receive all documents at the same time as Member States' experts, and their experts systematically have access to meetings of Commission expert groups dealing with the preparation of delegated acts. _________________ 51 Interinstitutional Agreement between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission on Better Law-Making (OJ L 123, 12.5.2016, p. 1).
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 61 a (new)
Recital 61 a (new)
(61 a) Given that the CBAM revenue is incorporated into the Union budget as an own resource, and in order to ensure the effective mobilisation of this revenue for climate action and technical assistance for compliance costs in least developed and lower middle-income countries, the Commission should review the Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2093 laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2021 to 2027 to ensure that the ceiling for expenditure category 6 'Neighbourhood and the world' is raised.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 24 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Usage of the revenues from the sale of the CBAM certificates The revenues generated from the sale of the CBAM certificates will constitute a new own resource for the Union budget, reflected in the Multiannual Financial Framework through raised ceilings in its expenditure category 6: “Neighbourhood and the World”. Additional support for climate action and widened aid for trade shall be provided to Least Developed Countries, as well as to lower middle- income countries facing particularly important investment needs and compliance costs related to the CBAM and an important lack of resources.
Amendment 176 #
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, both free allocation under the EU ETS and compensations for indirect emission costs weakens the price signal that the system provides for the installations receiving ithem, compared to full auctioning, and thus affectsreduce the incentives for investment into further abatement of emissions. Furthermore, they cover the risk of relocation outside the EU but do not prevent the import of carbon intensive products into the EU.
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12a) While the surrendering of CBAM certificates for EU imports addresses the risk of carbon leakage on the EU market, it is essential to also avoid the risk that EU exports on global markets are replaced by more carbon intensive goods or by goods that are not subject to equivalent carbon costs. To this purpose, the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and Council accompanied with a legislative proposal to address the carbon leakage risk on export markets before the end of the transition period.
Amendment 473 #
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. The Commission should, as part of that evaluation, develop the relevant methodologies to apply the CBAM indirect emissions, and initiate collection of information necessary to possibly extend the scope to indirect emissions, as well as to oother sectors, goods and downstream products of ther goods listed in Annex I and services at risk of carbon leakage, and to develop methods of calculating embedded emissions based on the environmental footprint methods47 . __________________ 47Commission 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 666 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 28 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 28 a (new)
(28a) ‘transport emissions’ means emissions from transportation services consumed during the production processes of goods and their transport to their destination point,
Amendment 751 #
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 person verifier accredited pursuant to article 18 of this Regulation. The accredit required shall be, required to demonstrate that the declared embedded emissions were subject to an explicit 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 direct or indirect form of compensation on exportation.
Amendment 864 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The CBAM competent authority shall authorise a declarant who submits an application for authorisation in accordance with Article 5(1), if the following conditions are fulfilled:
Amendment 875 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) the declarant has not repeatedly failed to comply with CBAM obligations in accordance to Article 26and has not been involved in practices of circumvention in accordance to Article 27.
Amendment 988 #
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 may consist in: (a) 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. (b)replacing these goods by goods with a lower carbon content than those normally produced in the exporting country, exclusively for the purpose of exporting to the Customs Union, for instance via practices of resource shuffling. For the purposes of this article, resource shuffling shall be defined as any practice, processor work that that have insufficient due cause or economic justification other than avoiding obligations as laid down in this Regulation, or undermining their effects, without delivering environmental benefits on global greenhouse gas emissions; (c)shipping goods to an intermediary country before being exported to the internal market in order to avoid the obligations laid down in this Regulation.
Amendment 1091 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 2
Article 28 – paragraph 2
2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Articles 2(6), 2(10), 2(11), 18(3) and 27(57(3), 8(3),18(3), 27(5), 27a (4), 31(2) and 35(6) shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time.
Amendment 1097 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 3
Article 28 – paragraph 3
3. The delegation of power referred to in Articles 2(6), 2(10), 2(11), 18(3) and 27(5) 7(3), 8(3), 18(3), 27(5), 27a (4), 31(2) and 35(6)may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council.
Amendment 1102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 28 – paragraph 7
Article 28 – paragraph 7
7. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Articles 2(6), 2(10), 2(11), 18(3) and 27(5) 7(3), 8(3), 18(3), 27(5), 27a (4), 31(2) and 35(6)shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and to the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.
Amendment 1247 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – subheading 1 – row 1 a(new)
Annex I – subheading 1 – row 1 a(new)
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