17 Amendments of Åsa WESTLUND related to 2011/0172(COD)
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In its Resolution of 15 December 2010 on the Revision of the Energy Efficiency Action Plan19 , the European Parliament called on the Commission to include in its revised Energy Efficiency Action Plan a binding energy efficiency target, alongside measures to close the gap to reach the overall EU energy efficiencysavings objective in 2020.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9 a) On 22 June 2011 the European Commission impact assessment[1] demonstrated that national binding energy efficiency targets for primary energy consumption would be more appropriate than indicative national energy efficiency targets in order to ensure the fulfilment of the overall 20% energy savings target. Furthermore, the impact assessment indicated that binding targets would allow more flexibility for Member States in designing energy savings measures appropriated to the diversity of Member States. [1] SEC(2011) 779
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) In this context it is necessary to update the Union's legal framework for energy efficiency with a Directive pursuing the overall objective of the energy efficiency target of saving 20% of the Union'’s primary energy consumption by 2020, and of making further energy efficiency improvements after 202establishing additional energy savings targets for 2025 and 2030. To this end, it should establish a common framework to promote energy efficiency within the Union and lay down specific actions to implement some of the proposals included in the Energy Efficiency Plan 2011 and achieve the significant unrealised energy saving potentials it identifies.
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) It would be preferable for the 20% energy efficiency target to be achieved as a result of the cumulative implementation of specific national and European measures promoting energy efficiency in different fields. If that approach does not succeed, it would however be necessary to reinforce the policy framework by adding a system of binding targets. In a first stage, therefore, Member States should be required to set national energy efficiency targets, schemes and programmes. It should be for them to decide whether these targets should be binding or indicative in their territory. In a second stage, these targets and the individual efforts of each Member State should be evaluated by the Commission, alongside data on the progress made, to assess the likelihood of achieving the overall Union target and the extent to which the individual efforts are sufficient to meet the common goal. The Commission should therefore closely monitor the implementation of national energy efficiency programmes through its revised legislative framework and withBy establishing mandatory national energy savings targets, based on an effort sharing mechanism between Member States, the union can ensure the fulfilment of the EU-wide energy savings target which is essential to climate policy, competitiveness, green transformation and job creation. Meanwhile such an approach would have the benefit of allowing member states to tailor energy efficiency measures according the Europe 2020 process. If this assessment shows that the overall Union target is unlikely to be achieved, then the Commission should propose mandatory national targets for 2020, taking into account the individual starting points of Member States, their economic performo national circumstances and early action takenpriorities.
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) An assessment of the possibility of establishing a ‘white certificate’ scheme at Union level has shown that, in the current situation, such a system would create excessive administrative costs and that there is a risk that energy savings would be concentrated in a number of Member States and not introduced across the Union. The latter objective can better be achieved, at least at this stage, by means of national energy efficiency obligation schemes or other alternative measures that achieve the same amount of energy savings. The Commission should however define, by a delegated act, the conditions under which a Member State could in future recognise the energy savings achieved in another Member State. It is appropriate for the level of ambition of such schemes to be established in a common framework at Union level while providing significant flexibility to Member States to take full account of the national organisation of market actors, the specific context of the energy sector and final customers' habits. The common framework should give energy utilities the option of offering energy services to all final customers, not only to those to whom they sell energy. This increases competition in the energy market because energy utilities can differentiate their product by providing complementary energy services. The common framework should allow Member States to include requirements in their national scheme that pursue a social aim, notably in order to ensure that vulnerable customers have access to the benefits of higher energy efficiency. It should also allow Member States to exempt small companies from the energy efficiency obligation. The Commission Communication ‘Small Business Act’28 sets out principles that should be taken into account by Member States that decide to abstain from applying this possibility.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
This Directive establishes a common framework for the promotion of energy efficiency within the Union in order to ensure the achievement of the Union's target of at least 20% primary energy savings by 2020 and to pave the way for further energy efficiency improvements beyond that datefor 2025, 2030 and beyond.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
This Directive establishes a common framework for the promotion of energy efficiency within the Union in order to ensure the achievement of the Union's target of 2025% primary energy savings by 2020 and to pave the way for further energy efficiency improvements beyond that date.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
It lays down rules designed to remove barriers in the energy market and overcome market failures that impede efficiency in the supply and use of energy, and provides for the establishment oflays down binding national energy efficiency targets for 2020.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall set aThis directive establishes binding national energy efficiency targets expressed as an absolute level of primary energy consumption in 2020. When setting these targets, they shall take into accthe years 2020, 2025 and 2030. As laid ount the Union's target of 20 % energy savings, the measures provided for in this Directive, the measures adopted to reach the national energy saving targets adopted pursuant to Article 4(1) of Directive 2006/32/EC and other measures to promote energy efficiency within Member States and at Union levelin Annex I these national targets will ensure the fulfillment of the Union’s target of 20 % energy savings to 2020 and beyond.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall set aadopt a binding national energy efficiency target expressed as an absolute level of primary energy consumption in 2020. When setting tThese targets, they shall take into account the Union's target of 20 % energy savings, the measures provided for in this Directive, the measures adopted to reach the national energy saving targets adopted pursuant to Article 4(1) of Directive 2006/32/EC and other measures to promote energy efficiency within Member States and at Union levelogether enable the EU to reduce its primary energy consumption by 25% by 2020.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. By 30 June 2014, the Commission shall assess whether the Union is likely to achieve its target of 20 % primaryMember states are obliged to realise their energy savings by 2020, requiring a reduction of EU primary energy consumption of 368 Mtoe in 2020, taking into account the sum of the national targetobligations laid out in Annex I through the implementation of measures preferred to in paragraph 1 and the evaluation referred to in Article 19(4)scribed by this directive, but also through national, regional and local measures.
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 10
Article 6 – paragraph 10
Amendment 327 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. By 30 April each year, Member States shall report on the progress achieved towards the binding national energy efficiency targets, in accordance with Annex XIV(1).
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 7
Article 19 – paragraph 7
Amendment 356 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex -1 a (new)
Annex -1 a (new)
ANNEX - I (new) ANNEX -I National Energy Savings Targets A. National Energy Saving target in 2020 (in primary energy) Minimum energy Minimum energy Minimum energy saving target - saving target - saving target - Reduction of Reduction of Reduction of primary energy primary energy primary energy consumption in consumption in consumption in 2020 (Mtoe) 2025 (Mtoe) 2030 (Mtoe) Belgium tbd tbd tbd Bulgaria tbd tbd tbd The Czech Republic tbd tbd tbd Denmark tbd tbd tbd Germany tbd tbd tbd Estonia tbd tbd tbd Ireland tbd tbd tbd Greece tbd tbd tbd Spain tbd tbd tbd France tbd tbd tbd Italy tbd tbd tbd Cyprus tbd tbd tbd Latvia tbd tbd tbd Lithuania tbd tbd tbd Luxembourg tbd tbd tbd Hungary tbd tbd tbd Malta tbd tbd tbd The Netherlands tbd tbd tbd Austria tbd tbd tbd Poland tbd tbd tbd Portugal tbd tbd tbd Romania tbd tbd tbd Slovenia tbd tbd tbd The Slovak Republic tbd tbd tbd Finland tbd tbd tbd Sweden tbd tbd tbd United Kingdom tbd tbd tbd EU 368 tbd tbd where ‘tbd’ means ‘to be determined’
Amendment 357 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex 1 a (new)
Annex 1 a (new)
Calculation method for the national energy efficiency targets When setting their national energy efficiency targets, member states shall take into account the methodology laid out below. The baseline for the 2020 primary energy consumption projection is the Primes 2007 model. Methodology: Primes 2007 Baseline Projection 2020 in Mtoe - 25% savings The following correction factors may apply: The reduction targets in absolute terms as compared to their 2007 level of primary energy consumption: - shall not be more than 8% for the group of the nine EU countries with the lowest real household income per capita (L9), - shall not be more that 12% for the group of the 15 countries that are eligible under the Cohesion Fund (C15), - shall not be more than 25% for any country - shall not be less than 8% for any country not eligible under the Cohesion Fund (EU- 27 minus C15) - shall be at least 5% for any country eligible under the Cohesion Fund (C15) - shall not be an absolute increase of energy consumption of more than 5%.