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Activities of Giles CHICHESTER related to 2012/0288(COD)

Shadow opinions (1)

2016/11/22
Committee: ITRE
Dossiers: 2012/0288(COD)
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Amendments (23)

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5

(5) Based on forecasts of biofuel demand provided by the Member States and estimates of indirect land-use change emissions for different biofuel feedstocks ~~it is likely~~, there is a risk that greenhouse gas emissions linked to indirect land use change arcould be significant, and ~~could~~thus negate some or all of the greenhouse gas savings of individual biofuels. This is because almost the entire biofuel production in 2020 is expected to come from crops grown on land that could be used to satisfy food and feed markets. ~~In order to reduce such emissions, it is appropriate to distinguish between crop groups such as oil crops, cereals, sugars and other starch containing crops accordingly.~~

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6

(6) Liquid renewable fuels are likely to be required by the transport sector in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced biofuels, such as those made from wastes and algae, provide high greenhouse gas savings with low risk of causing indirect land use change and do not compete directly for agricultural land for the food and feed markets. It is appropriate, therefore, to encourage greater production of such advanced biofuels as these are currently not commercially available in large quantities~~, in part due to competition for public subsidies with established food crop based biofuel technologies~~. Further incentives should be provided by increasing the weighting of advanced biofuels towards 10% target for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional biofuels. In this context, ~~only~~ advanced biofuels with low estimated indirect land use change impacts and high overall greenhouse gas savings should be supported as part of the post 2020 renewable energy policy framework.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9

(9) To prepare for the transition towards advanced biofuels and minimise the overall indirect land use change impacts in the period to 2020, it is appropriate to limit the amount of biofuels and bioliquids obtained from food crops as set out in part A of Annex VIII to Directive 2009/28/EC and part A of Annex V to Directive 98/70/EC that can be counted towards targets set out in Directive 2009/28/EC. Without restricting the overall use of such biofuels, the share of biofuels and bioliquids produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugar and oil crops that can be counted towards the targets of Directive 2009/28/EC should be limited to the share of such biofuels and bioliquids consumed in 2011establish mandatory targets for advanced biofuels according to a timetable that will provide predictability and stability for investors.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10

(10) The 5% limit set up in Article 3(4)d does not affect the Member States' freedom to arrange their own trajectory as to compliance with this prescribed share of conventional biofuels within the overall 10% target. As a consequence, the access to the market of the biofuels produced by the installations in operation before the end of 2013 remains fully open. Therefore this amending directive does not affect the legitimate expectations of the operators of such installations.deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11

(11) The estimated indirect land-use change emissions should be included in the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels under Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC. Biofuels made from feedstocks that do not lead to additional demand for land, such as those from waste feedstocks, should be assigned a zero emissions factor.deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12

(12) The Commission should review the methodology for estimating land-use change emission factors included in Annexes VIII and V to Directives 2009/28/EC and 98/70/EC respectively in the light of adaptation to technical and scientific progress. To this end, and if warranted by the latest available scientific evidence, the Commission should consider the possibility of revising the proposed crop group indirect land-use change factors, as well as introducing factors at further levels of disaggregation and including additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to market.deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 98/70/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly diverse grassland, the methodology for the calculation and reporting of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, ~~the methodology for the calculation of indirect land-use change emissions,~~ the permitted level related to the metallic additives content in fuels, the permitted analytical methods related to the fuel specifications and the vapour pressure waiver permitted for petrol containing bioethanol.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19

(19) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 2009/28/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the list of ~~biofuel feedstocks that are counted multiple times towards the target set in Article 3(4)~~advanced biofuels, the energy content of transport fuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly biodiverse grassland, the methodology for the calculation of indirect land-use change emissions, and the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels and bioliquids.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Recital 20

(20) The Commission should review the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive, based on the best and latest available scientific evidence, in limiting indirect land-use change greenhouse gas emissions and addressing ways to further minimise that impact, which could include the introduction of estimated indirect land-use change emission factors in the sustainability scheme ~~as of 1~~providing the models used are robust Jan~~uary 2021~~d reliable in order to accurately give a specific value of emissions derrived from ILUC to the different types of crops used.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point a

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7 a – paragraph 6

(a) the following paragraph 6 is inserted: "6. Fuel suppliers shall by 31 March each year report to the authority designated by the Member State, the biofuel production pathways, volumes, and the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy, including the estimated indirect land-use change emissions set out in Annex V Member States shall report these data to the Commission."deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – point a

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7d – paragraph 6

~~6. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts pursuant to Article 10a concerning the adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Annex V, including by the revision of the proposed crop group indirect land-use change values; the introduction of new values at further levels of disaggregation; the inclusion of additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to market as appropriate, review the categories of which biofuels are assigned zero indirect land-use change emissions; and the development of factors for feedstocks from non-food cellulosic and ligno- cellulosic materials.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point b

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

(b) in paragraph 1, the following second subparagraph is added: "For the purpose of compliance with target referred to in the first subparagraph, the maximum joint contribution from biofuels and bioliquids produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops shall be no more than the energy quantity corresponding to the maximum contribution as set out in Article 3(4)d."deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point i

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point b

~~(i) in point (b), the following phrase is added: "This indent shall be without prejudice to Articles 17(1)a and 3(4)d;"~~deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d

(ii) the following point (d) is added: "(d) for the calculation of biofuels in the numerator, the share of energy from biofuels produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops shall be no more than 5%, the estimated share at the end of 2011, of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020."deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – point i - iii

The contribution made by: (i) biofuels produced from feedstocks listed in Part A of Annex IX shall be considered to be four times their energy content; (ii) biofuels produced from feedstocks listed in Part B of Annex IX shall be considered to be twice their energy content; (iii) renewable liquid and gaseous fuels of non-biological origin shall be considered to be four times their energy content.deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – subparagraph 1 a (new)

In 2020, at least 2% of the final consumption of energy in transport shall be met with energy from advanced biofuels.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 7 – point c

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 6

(c) paragraph 6 is replaced by the following: "6. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts pursuant to Article 25(b) concerning the adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Annex VIII, including the revision of the proposed crop group indirect land-use change values; the introduction of new values at further levels of disaggregation (i.e. at a feedstock level); the inclusion of additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to market as appropriate; and the development of factors for feedstocks from non-food cellulosic and ligno-cellulosic materials."deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 9

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 22– paragraph 2

9. In Article 22, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: "2. In estimating net greenhouse gas emission saving from the use of biofuels, the Member State may, for the purpose of the reports referred to in paragraph 1, use the typical values given in part A and part B of Annex V, and shall add the estimates for indirect land-use change emissions set out in Annex VIII."deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Article 3

The Commission shall, before 31 December 2017, submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council reviewing, on the basis of the best latest available scientific evidence, the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive in limiting indirect land- use change greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of biofuel and bioliquids. The report shall, if appropriate, be accompanied by a legislative proposal based on ~~the best avail~~robust and reliable scientific evidence, for introducing estimated indirect land use change emissions factors into the appropriate sustainability criteria to be applied from 1st January 2021 and a review of the effectiveness of the incentives provided for biofuels from non- land using feedstocks and non-food crops under Article 3(4)d of Directive 2009/28/EC.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 1

Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex V – part C

(1) Annex V, part C is amended as follows: (a) point 7 is replaced by the following: "7. Annualised emissions from carbon stock changes caused by land-use change, el, shall be calculated by dividing total emissions equally over 20 years. For the calculation of these emissions the following rule shall be applied: el = (CSR – CSA) × 3,664 × 1/20 × 1/P, where el = annualised greenhouse gas emissions from carbon stock change due to land-use change (measured as mass (grams) of CO2-equivalent per unit biofuel energy (megajoules)); CSR = the carbon stock per unit area associated with the reference land use (measured as mass (tonnes) of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). The reference land-use shall be the land-use in January 2008 or 20 years before the raw material was obtained, whichever was the later; CSA = the carbon stock per unit area associated with the actual land-use (measured as mass (tonnes) of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). In cases where the carbon stock accumulates over more than one year, the value attributed to CSA shall be the estimated stock per unit area after 20 years or when the crop reaches maturity, whichever the earlier; and P = the productivity of the crop (measured as biofuel or bioliquid energy per unit area per year)". (b) points 8 and 9 are deleted.

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 2

Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex VIII (new)

(2) The following Annex VIII is added: "Annex VIII Part A. Estimated indirect land-use change emissions from biofuels and bioliquid feedstocks Feedstock group Cereals and other starch rich crops Sugars Oil crops Part B. Biofuels for which the estimated indirect land-use change emissions are considered to be zero Biofuels produced from the following feedstock categories will be considered to have estimated indirect land-use change emissions of zero: a) feedstocks which are not included under Part A of this Annex. b) feedstocks whose production has led to direct land use change, i.e. a change from one of the following IPCC land cover categories; forest land, grassland, wetlands, settlements, or other land, to cropland or perennial cropland1. In such a case a "direct land use change emission value (el) should have been calculated in accordance to Part C, paragraph 7 of Annex V." __________________ 1 OJ L 273, 10.10.2002, p. 1deleted Estimated indirect land-use change emissions (gCO2eq/MJ) 12 13 55

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3

Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX (new) – Part A – title

Part A. ~~Feedstocks whose contribution towards the target referr~~Biofuels derrived from the following feed sto ~~in Article 3(4)~~cks shall be considered ~~to be four times their energy content~~advanced biofuels

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE

Giles CHICHESTER

Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3

Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX (new) – Part B – title

~~Part B. Feedstocks whose contribution towards the target referred to in Article 3(4) shall be considered to be twice their energy content~~deleted

2013/05/08
Committee: ITRE