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54 Amendments of Esko SEPPÄNEN

2009/2005(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17a (new)

17a. Calls on the Commission to put forward legislation on bank solvency, indebtedness ceilings, credit rating authorisation, derivative clearing, and supervision of hedge funds, and urges it to allow for the corresponding funding requirements in its draft budget;

2009/02/17
Committee: BUDG

2009/2005(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Wishes to explore the possibilities of further EU financing in those areas; expects the Commission to propose ~~strong~~ actions in support of ~~the realisation of the Nabucco project~~diversified gas transport routes; points out, in this context, the role of the European Investment Bank, bearing in mind, however, the issue of democratic accountability;

2009/02/17
Committee: BUDG

2008/2026(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Stresses that Parliament should not use its financial resources for political persuasion and one-sided information campaigns during the upcoming European election campaigns;

2008/10/06
Committee: BUDG

2008/2026(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6b. Welcomes the decision not to increase the funding of European political parties and political foundations as proposed by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs; notes that there is, however, a mid-term plan to increase this financing again after the election year;

2008/10/06
Committee: BUDG

2008/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that, in 2008, preparations for the full and wide-ranging review covering all aspects of EU spending, including the Common Agricultural Policy, and of resources, including the United Kingdom rebate and the customs collection premiums collected by the Member States on behalf of the EU, will have to be intensified to allow the Commission to report by 2009; recalls the obligation stipulated in the IIA of 17 May 2006 to associate the European Parliament with the review at all stages and take its position duly into account;

2008/03/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Stresses that consideration will have to be given to strengthening the EU’s social dimension in defining the priority areas of future budgets, and stresses the importance of using the globalisation fund more effectively to compensate for the harm caused by the export of jobs;

2008/03/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/2024(BUD)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Stresses that consideration will have to be given to strengthening the EU’s social dimension in defining the priority areas of future budgets, and stresses the importance of using the globalisation fund more effectively to compensate for the harm caused by the export of jobs;

2008/03/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/2022(BUD)

Salvador GARRIGA POLLEDO, Catherine GUY-QUINT, Anne E. JENSEN, Helga TRÜPEL, Dariusz Maciej GRABOWSKI, Esko SEPPÄNEN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Underlines the fact that the new Lisbon Treaty also provides a challenge for political groups; acknowledges, that in line with the reinforcement of the core activities of Parliamentary Administration, political groups will also need strengthening in terms of staff while observing budgetary prudence;

2008/04/23
Committee: BUDG

2008/0268(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 10

(10) With regard to pre-accession countries, EIB financing in those countries should reflect the priorities established in the Accession and European Partnerships, in the Stabilisation and Association agreements and in negotiations with the Community. The focus of Community action in the Western Balkans should continue to shift progressively from reconstruction to pre-accession support. In this context, the EIB activity should, in addition, also seek to encourage the institution building aspect, where relevant, in cooperation with other International Financial Institutions ('IFIs') active in the region. Over the period 2007-20131, financing to candidate countries (Croatia, Turkey and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) should increasingly take place under the Pre-Accession Facility made available by the EIB, which should be extended over time to cover the potential candidate countries in the Western Balkans in line with the progress of their accession process.

2009/02/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/0268(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 18

(18) The Community guarantee established by this Decision should cover EIB Financing Operations signed during a period beginning on 1 February 2007 and ending on 31 ~~December~~August 20131. In order to be able to take stock of the developments during the first half of that period, the EIB and the Commission should prepare a mid- term review of the Decision. This review should in particular include an external evaluation whose terms of reference are specified in Annex II.

2009/02/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/0268(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 24 a (new)

(24a) Nevertheless, the swift adoption of this Decision should be achieved whilst ensuring that the European Parliament's prerogatives are fully respected; for that reason, the Commission should present, before 30 April 2010, a proposal for a new decision also taking into consideration the conclusions of the mid-term review.

2009/02/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/0268(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Recital 24 b (new)

(24b) The presentation of a new proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council by 28 February 2010 is all the more necessary since this Decision will expire on 31 August 2011.

2009/02/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/0268(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 1 – paragraph 6

6. The Community guarantee shall cover EIB Financing Operations signed during the period beginning on 1 February 2007 and ending on 31 ~~December~~August 20131. EIB Financing Operations signed under Council Decision 2006/1016/EC and under Council Decision 2008/847/EC shall continue to benefit from the Community guarantee under this Decision.

2009/02/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/0268(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 9 – paragraph 1

1. The Commission shall present to the European Parliament and the Council a mid-term report on the application of this Decision by ~~30 June~~28 February 2010, accompanied~~, as appropriate,~~ by a proposal for its amendment, also drawing upon an external evaluation whose terms of reference are specified in Annex II of this Decision.

2009/02/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/0268(COD)

Proposal for a decision
Article 11

This Decision shall take effect on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union and shall expire on 31 August 2011.

2009/02/12
Committee: BUDG

2008/0231(CNS)

Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS, Šarūnas BIRUTIS, Pilar DEL CASTILLO VERA, Edit HERCZOG, Romana JORDAN, Anne LAPERROUZE, Reino PAASILINNA, Vladimír REMEK, Esko SEPPÄNEN

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1

1. ~~Licence holders shall~~Member States shall ensure that licence holders are responsible for the design, construction, operateion and decommissioning of their nuclear installations in accordance with the provisions set out in Article 6~~(1) and (2)~~.

2009/02/26
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 7

(7) This Directive should also cover embryonic and foetal forms of vertebrate animals, as there is scientific evidence showing that such forms in the last third of their development have an increased risk of experiencing pain, suffering and distress, which may also affect negatively their subsequent development. Scientific evidence has also shown that procedures on embryonic and foetal forms at an earlier stage of development could result in pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm, should the developmental forms be allowed to live beyond the first two thirds of their development.deleted

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10

(10) Animals have an intrinsic value in themselves which must be respected. There are also ethical concerns of the general public as regards the use of animals in procedures. Therefore, the animals should always be treated as sentient creatures and their use in scientific procedures should be restricted to areas which advance ~~science and~~fundamental knowledge in science, since this may ultimately have benefits, for example, to human or animal health, or the environment. Use of animals for scientific procedures in other areas under Community competence should be prohibited.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 16

(16) With current scientific knowledge the use of non-human primates in scientific procedures is still necessary in biomedical research. Due to their genetic proximity to human beings and to their highly developed social skills, the use of non- human primates in scientific procedures raises specific ethical and practical problems in terms of meeting their behavioural, environmental and social needs in a laboratory environment. Furthermore, the use of non-human primates is of the highest concern to the public. Therefore the use of non-human primates should only be allowed in those essential biomedical areas for the benefit of human beings for which no other replacement alternative methods are yet available and only in cases where the procedures are carried out in relation to clinical conditions having a substantial impact on patients’ day-today functioning as being either life-threatening or debilitating, or for the preservation of the respective non-human primate species. Fundamental research in some areas of the biomedical sciences can provide important new information relevant ~~to many life- threatening and debilitating human conditions. The reference to~~at some future stage to many life- threatening orand debilitating ~~clinical conditions is established terminology in EC legislation as reflected in Regulation 141/2000/EC, in Directive 2001/20/EC, Regulation 726/2004/EC and Commission Regulation 507/2006/EC~~human conditions.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) TIn order to gradually end the captureing of an~~on-human pr~~imatels from the wild is highly stressful for the animals and increases the risk of injury and suffering during capture and transport. In order to gradually end the capturing of animals from the wild for breeding purposes, only animals that are the offspring of an animal which has been bred in captivity should be made available for use in scientific procedures as soon as possiblefor breeding purposes, a thorough scientific evaluation should be conducted as soon as possible on the feasibility of restricting the use of animals that are the offspring of an animal which has been bred in captivity. Establishments breeding and supplying non-human primates should therefore have a strategy in place to support and facilitate the progressive move towards that goal.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 45

(45) The European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods is established within the Joint Research Centre of the Commission and coordinates the validation of alternative approaches in the Community. However, there is an increasing need for new methods to be developed and proposed for validation. To provide the necessary mechanisms at Member State level, a reference laboratory for the validation of alternative methods should be designated by each Member State. Member States should designate reference laboratories which are accredited in accordance with Directive 2004/10/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 on the harmonisation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the application of the principles of good laboratory practice and the verification of their applications for tests on chemical substances in order to ensure coherent and comparable quality of the results. In addition, the remit of the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods should be extended to include the coordination and promotion of the development and use of alternatives to animal experiments.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)

(ba) animals covered by point (a) or (b) which have been genetically manipulated, cloned or are the offspring of, the subsequent generation of or are from the line of an animal covered by point (a) or (b) which has been genetically manipulated or cloned.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 3

3. This Directive shall apply to animals used in procedures, which are at an earlier stage of development than that referred to in point (a) of paragraph 2, if the animal is to be allowed to live beyond that stage of development and is likely to experience pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm after it has reached that stage of development.deleted

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. 'competent authority' means the authority or authorities designated by each Member State as being responsible for supervising the enforcement of this Directive.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2

2. Competent authorities may grant exemptions from paragraph 1 on the basis of scientific justification that the purpose of the procedure cannot be achieved by the use of a humane method of killing. Notwithstanding any exemption, animals shall be killed with a minimum of pain, suffering and distress.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 6 a (new)

Article 6a Adoption of stricter measures This Directive shall not prevent Member States from applying or adopting stricter national measures aimed at improving the welfare and protection of animals used in experiments.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2

2. Competent authorities may grant exemptions from paragraph 1 on the basis of ~~scientific~~compelling scientific and societal justification that the purpose of the procedure cannot be achieved by the use of an animal which has been bred for use in procedures.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. For the purpose of paragraph 1, the Commission shall, within five years after the entry into force of this Directive, carry out an animal welfare assessment and a feasibility evaluation of the implementation of the requirements set out in paragraph 1.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ensure that all procedures are classified as 'up to mild', 'moderate', 'severe' or 'non-recovery' on the basis of the duration and intensity of potential pain, suffering, distress and lasting harm, the frequency of intervention, the deprivation of ethological needs and the use of anaesthesia or analgesia or both or 'severe' in accordance with Annex VIIa.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the competent authority, on the basis of scientific justification, may allow re-use of an animal ~~as long as the animal is not used more than once after having undergone a procedure entailing severe pain, distress or equivalent suffering~~where the previous procedure performed on the animal is classified as ‘moderate’ or 'up to mild' and the further procedure is classified as 'moderate', 'up to mild' or as 'non-recovery'.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1

1. Where an establishment no longer complies with requirements set out in this Directive, the competent authority shall suspend or withdraw its authorisation. Member States shall establish an appropriate mechanism for appeals against suspension or withdrawal of authorisation.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 23 – paragraph 2

2. The design, construction and method of functioning of the installations and equipment referred to in paragraph 1 shall ensure that the procedures are carried out as effectively as possible, ~~obtaining consistent results~~ with the minimum number of animals and the minimum degree of pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 2

2. The permanent ethical review body shall include as a minimum the designated veterinarian, the person(s) responsible for the welfare and care of the animals in the establishment and, in the case of a user establishment, as the scientific member a person with expertise in the "3Rs" (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement), and an independent lay person.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – point d – introductory part

(d) review annually all projects classified as "severe" or on non-human primates and every three years the other projects which are of more than 12 months duration, focusing in particular on:

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2

The records shall be ~~submitted~~made available to the competent authority upon request. Member States shall pay particular attention to the collection, collation and publication of records relating to projects classified as severe or on non-human primates in order to provide information which can improve animal welfare and further the 3Rs.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. Member States shall wherever possible ensure that all breeding, supplying and user establishments keep records of the following:

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 29 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) the number and the species of vertebrate animals bred, acquired, supplied, released or re- homed;

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 34 – paragraph 1

1. The Commission may undertake controls of the infrastructure and operation of national inspections in Member States to ensure that severity classifications are applied correctly and uniformly in the EU territory.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 36 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. TWhen required, the user establishment or the person scientifically responsible for the project shall submit an application for the project authorisation, which shall include the following:

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 37 – paragraph 4

4. Ethical evaluation shall be performed in a transparent manner, by integrating the opinion of independent parties. For intellectual property and security reasons, confidentiality should be ensured.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 42 – paragraph 2

2. Any ~~amendment or~~ renewal of a project authorisation that involves severe procedures or non- human primates, or a moderate or greater increase in animal harm shall be subject to a further favourable ethical evaluation and authorisation by the competent authority.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 42 – paragraph 3

3. The competent authority may withdraw the project authorisation where the project is not carried out in accordance with the project authorisation and may cause a deterioration in animal welfare.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex VII a (new)

ANNEX VIIa General Definitions of Degrees of Severity referred to in Article 15(1) In general: Unless the contrary is known or established it should be assumed that procedures that cause pain in humans also cause pain in animals. No pain or mild stress/pain: Severity Grade 1 Interventions and manipulations in animals for experimental purposes as a result of which the animals experience no pain or mild pain, suffering and injury, or no anxiety or mild anxiety and no significant impairment of their general condition. Examples: - studies with differing feed compositions or with unphysiological diet, without manifest clinical signs or symptoms; - withdrawal of blood samples; injection (s.c., i.m., i.p., i.v.) of a drug; - one single retrobulbar blood sample or several retrobulbar blood samples at intervals of > 14 days (alternating punctures), under brief anaesthesia; - subcutaneously channelled venous catheters; - NMR measurements (nuclear spin resonance), with or without sedation of the animals; - test of contrast media by means of exploratory echography; - application of substances with known innocuous effects (vehicle-control); - tolerability studies which give rise to transient, mild, local or systemic reactions and, owing to the mode of administration or sample collection, impose no significant stress on the animals; - bronchoscopy, broncho-alveolar lavage or pulmonary-function test in anaesthetized animals; - models with ECG recordings in the conscious dog; - open-field test, labyrinth tests, the staircase test; - circadian-rhythm model. Moderate Stress: Severity Grade 2 Interventions and manipulations in animals for experimental purposes which subject the animals to a brief episode of moderate stress, or a moderately long to long-lasting episode of mild stress (pain, suffering, or injury, extreme anxiety, or significant impairment of general condition). Examples: - models with telemetric heart-rate measurements in the conscious animal by means of catheters/transmitters implanted in the abdominal cavity; - surgical treatment or castration of female animals under anaesthesia; - studies with unphysiological diet, with manifest clinical signs or symptoms; - implantation of gene-technologically altered embryos in foster-mother mice; - spontaneous diabetes mellitus; - genetically engineered mouse strains with oncogenes, if the experiment is prematurely terminated according to defined criteria (that is, if the study is finished before the tumour exceeds a pre- defined size); - obese mouse with diabetes mellitus; - repetitive daily withdrawal of blood samples from the tail vein of the rat over five days; - repeated retrobulbar blood samples under brief anaesthesia (at the most three times within 14 days, alternating, and on the last occasion preterminally); - surgical interventions: - implantation of catheters in the abdominal aorta or bile duct, - implantation of minipumps intravenously, - acute toxicity tests, acute tolerability studies; range-finding studies, chronic toxicity/carcinogenicity tests; toxicokinetic tests, - petit-mal model (i.e. for epilepsy studies), - collection of cerebrospinal fluid via cannula (microdialysis) in the rat. Severe stress: Severity Grade 3 Interventions and manipulations in animals for experimental purposes which cause the animals severe to very severe stress, or subject them to a moderately long to long-lasting episode of moderate stress (severe pain, prolonged suffering or severe injury; extreme and persistent anxiety, or significant and persistent impairment of general condition). Examples: - bacteria: models with infections for screening new antibiotics; - transmitted rheumatoid arthritis; - auto-immunely induced arthritis; - genetically engineered mouse strains with oncogenes, without premature termination of the experiment; - joint transplantations; - transplantation of a functional internal organ (i.e. kidney, pancreas transplantation); - models with induction of clinically manifest cardiac insufficience; - lethal infectious and neoplastic disease without premature euthanasia; - knock-out mice with massive deficiency symptoms.

2009/02/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0016(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18 a (new)

(18a) Owing to the wholesale pricing system for electricity, this Directive represents a 'new start' for investments in zero-emission nuclear installations. Every new nuclear plant investment should accordingly increase the share of energy produced from renewables.

2008/06/18
Committee: ITRE

2008/0013(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 3 a (new)

(3a) Since the price of emission rights is added to the price of emission-free electricity, the EU ETS markedly increases the price of all electricity. Moreover, the cost of CO2 emissions is passed on to European industries through the price of energy.

2008/06/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0013(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 3 b (new)

(3b) Due to the wholesale pricing system of electricity this Directive will be a new start for investments in zero-emission nuclear installations.

2008/06/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0013(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 3 c (new)

(3c) In order to avoid financial abuse, the EU ETS needs to be free from securisation of the emission allowances in the financial markets. Otherwise, speculation will cause huge problems in the pricing of the allowances and electricity.

2008/06/23
Committee: ITRE

2008/0013(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 – point c

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 – point t

[(t)] 'Combustion installation' means any stationary technical unit in which fuels are oxidised producing heat or mechanical energy or both, and other directly associated activities including waste gas scrubbing are carried out, excluding recycling/reclamation of metal and metal compounds;

2008/06/26
Committee: ITRE

2008/0013(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 6 a (new)

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 9a a (new)

(6a) The following article shall be inserted: "Article 9aa Adjustment of Community-wide electricity price formation in the harmonised market The Commission shall publish fair rules for the wholesale pricing system in the liberalised and harmonised electricity market to prevent windfall profits for nuclear and hydro power producers and speculative profits for financial players due to the securitisation of the allowances."

2008/06/26
Committee: ITRE

2008/0013(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 7

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. The Commission shall, by 31 December 2008, publish a clear definition of emission allowances, which shall exclude the possibility for their securitisation in the financial markets and, in auctioning, give a privileged position to bidders who will use them for power generation or the production of industrial goods.

2008/06/26
Committee: ITRE

2008/0013(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 7

7. ~~Subject to Article 10b, the amount of allowances allocated free of charge under paragraphs 3 to 6 of this Article [and paragraph 2 of Article 3c] in 2013 shall be 80% of the quantity determ~~For the installations listed in Annex 2aa, Community-wide performance benchmarks will be defined in accord~~ance with the measures referred to in paragraph 1 and thereafter the free allocation shall decrease each year by equal amounts resulting in no free~~ ing to a harmonised procedure. The allocation of free allowances to these installocation ~~in 2020~~s will be based upon these benchmarks.

2008/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2008/0013(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraphs 8 and 9

8. In 2013 and in each subsequent year up to ~~2020, installations in sectors which are exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage~~the entry into force of an international agreement containing comparable measures as defined in article 28, installations in sectors in Annex 2aa shall be allocated 100% of allowances free of charge ~~up to 100 percent~~ of the quantity determined in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 6. ~~9. At the latest by 30 June 2010 and e~~Every 35 years thereafter the Commission shall determine the sectors referred to in paragraph 8. That measure, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)]. In the determination referred to in the first subparagraph the Commission shall take into account the extent to which it is possible for the sector or sub-sector concerned to pasreview free allowances for Annex 2aa sectors in the light of the criteria specified in Article 28. Any binding sectoral agreements which lead to global emissions reductions onf the ~~cost of th~~magnitude required allowances in product prices without significant loss of market share to less carbon efficient installations outside the Community, taking into account the following: (a) the extent to which auctioning would lead to a substantial increase in production cost; (b) the extent to which it is possible for individual installations in the sector concerned to reduce emission levels for instance on the basis of the most efficient techniques; (c) market structure, relevant geographic and product market, the exposure of the sectors to international competition; (d) the effect of climate change and energy policies implemented, or expected to be implemented outside the EU in the sectors concerned. For the purposes of evaluating whether the cost increase resulting from the Community scheme can be passed on, estimates of lost sales resulting from the increased carbon price or the impact on the profitability of the installations concerned may inter alia be usedto effectively address climate change, and which are monitorable, verifiable and subject to mandatory enforcement arrangements shall also be taken into account when reviewing what measures are appropriate for Annex 2aa sectors.

2008/06/30
Committee: ITRE

2007/0195(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 2 a (new)

(2a) The overall harmonisation of the electricity market causes unbalanced price effects in different countries.

2008/03/17
Committee: ITRE

2007/0195(COD)

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 2 b (new)

(2b) The effects of harmonisation must be carefully studied because of the unbalanced consequences caused by wholesale pricing at the margin and by profits from the emission rights trading scheme to the hydro and nuclear producers.

2008/03/17
Committee: ITRE