2 Amendments of Edit HERCZOG related to 2012/0288(COD)
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
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 justifiable to make maximum use of waste as a raw material, for which reason it is desirable to provide extra support for waste-based feedstocks, and consideration should be given to the possibility of including further wastes, and to the use of new technologies. It is appropriate, therefore, to encourage greater production of such advanced biofuels provided that this is accomparnied 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 frameworkby a comprehensive review of the feasibility of the 2020 targets and does not result in yet greater dependence of EU Member States on foreign sources of energy carriers and raw materials.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
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 2011set binding targets for advanced biofuels, in which connection there is a need for clear, effective, predictable rules, which must not result in premature closing down of existing production infrastructure entailing severe losses of value to Europe.