31 Amendments of Daniel CASPARY related to 2011/0172(COD)
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The Presidency Conclusions of the European Council of 8 and 9 March 2007 emphasized the need to increase energy efficiency in the Union, which, together with other measures (including the ETS, increased use of renewable energies, ecodesign), is intended to achieve the objective of saving 20% of the Union’s primary energy consumption by 2020 compared to projections. This amounts to a reduction of the Union's primary energy consumption of 368 Mtoe in 20201. _. This target should be adjusted in accordance with economic trends.1 _____________ 1 Projections made in 2007 showed a primary energy consumption in 2020 of 1842 Mtoe. A 20% reduction results in 1474 Mtoe in 2020, i.e. a reduction of 368 Mtoe as compared to projections. This would correspond to an energy intensity objective of 104 Mtoe primary energy/million euros.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) This amounts to a 37% increase in the efficiency of energy productivity in relation to 2005.
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Commission Communication on Energy 2020 placesindicates that energy efficiency at the coreis one of the priorities of the EU energy strategy for 2020 and outlines the need for a new energy efficiency strategy that will enable all Member States to decouple energy use from economic growth.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) In its Resolution of 15 December 2010 on the Revision of the Energy Efficiency Action Plan, the European Parliament called on the Commission to include in its revised Energy Efficiency Action Plan measures to close the gap to reach the overall EU energy efficiency objective in 2020; this gap is currently around 204 Mtoe of the 368 Mtoe savings sought.
Amendment 216 #
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 samea similar 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” sets out principles that should be taken into account by Member States that decide to abstain from applying this possibility.
Amendment 295 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) In the implementation of the 20% energy efficiency target, the Commission will have to monitor the impact of new measures on Directive 2003/87/EC establishing the EU's emissions trading directive (ETS) in order to mainta, and will conversely also have to factor in the incenpositives in the emissions trading system rewarding low carbon investments and preparing the ETS sectors for the innovations needed in the futurempact of the ETS on implementing the 20% energy efficiency target.
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) Directive 2006/32/EC requires Member States to adopt and aim to achieve an overall national indicative energy savings target of 9% by 2016, to be reached by deploying energy services and other energy efficiency improvement measures. That Directive states that the second Energy Efficiency Plan adopted by the Member States shall be followed, as appropriate and where necessary, by Commission proposals for additional measures, including extending the period of application of targets. If a report concludes that insufficient progress has been made towards achieving the indicative national targets laid down by that Directive, these proposals are to address the level and nature of the targets. The impact assessment accompanying this Directive finds that the Member States are on track to achieve the 9% target, which is substantially less ambitious than the subsequently adopted 20% energy savingefficiency target for 2020, and therefore there is no need to address the level of the targets aspired to.
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) SinceIf the objective of this Directive, which is to achieve the Union's non- binding energy efficiency target of 20% primary energy savings by 2020 and pave the way towards further energy efficiency improvements beyond 2020, is not on track to be achieved by the Member States without taking additional energy efficiency measures, and can be better achieved at Union level, the Union mayight adopt measures, in accordancewhile strictly complying with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. I and in accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective.
Amendment 320 #
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 non- binding target of 20% primary energy savings by 2020 and to pave the way for further energy efficiency improvements beyond that date.
Amendment 332 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
1 a. ‘Energy efficiency’: In this phrase ‘efficiency’ refers to the cost-benefit ratio. ‘Energy efficiency’ should not therefore be treated as equivalent to 'energy savings', but should be understood from a macro-economic perspective as the ratio between primary energy input and GDP (energy productivity/ energy intensity).
Amendment 463 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. By 30 June 20145, the Commission shall assess whether the Union is likely to achieve its target of 20 % primary energy savings by 2020, requiring a reduction of EU primary energy consumption of 368 Mtoeadjusted in line with economic developments, requiring a reduction of EU energy intensity of not more than 104 Mtoe per million euro of GDP at 2005 prices in 2020, taking into account the sum of the weighted average of the national targets referred to in paragraph 1 and the evaluation referred to in Article 19(4) and primary energy savings achieved through, for example, the ETS, the Renewable Energy Directive or the Ecodesign Directive.
Amendment 532 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. If a public body has already drawn up an energy efficiency plan for its buildings which is likely to achieve the same increases in energy efficiency as the renovation-based approach, Member States shall allow the public body in question to continue implementing the plan.
Amendment 572 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Amendment 579 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point a
Amendment 581 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 3 – point b
Amendment 647 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that public bodies give preference, in the purchase onlyf products, services and buildings, to those with high energy efficiency performance, as referred to in Annex III.
Amendment 666 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shallmay set up an energy efficiency obligation scheme. This scheme shall ensure that either all energy distributors or all retail energy if it considers this will help achieve its national energy efficiency target. Such schemes shales companies operatingl ensure that the obligated parties on the Member State's territory achieve annual energy savings equal to 1.5% of their energy sales, by volume, in the previous year in that Member State excluding energy used in transport. This amount of energy savings shall be achieved by the obligated parties among final customersefficiency improvement targets set at national level with a view to achieving the pan- European 20% target. This energy efficiency improvement shall be achieved by the obligated parties among final customers as well as at the energy production and transmission stages. The energy efficiency obligation scheme shall end in 2020.
Amendment 723 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. Measures that target short-term savings, as defined in Annex V(1), shall not account for more than 1025% of the amount of energy savings required from each obligated party and shall only be eligible to count towards the obligation laid down in paragraph 1 if combined with measures to which longer- term savings are attributed.
Amendment 794 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 9 – subparagraph 1
As an alternative to paragraph 1, Member States may opt to take other measures to achieve energy savings among final customers. The annual amount of energy savings achieved through this approach shallould be equivalent to the amount of energy savings required in paragraph 1.
Amendment 842 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall promote the availability to all final customers of energy audits which are affordable and carried out in an independentobjective manner by qualified or accredited in-house experts.
Amendment 869 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure that enterprises not included in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 are subject to an energy audit carried out in an independent and cost-effective manner by qualified or accredited experts at the latest by 30 June 2014two years after the entry into force of this directive and every threfive years from the date of the previous energy audit.
Amendment 886 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Energy audits carried out in an independentobjective manner resulting from energy management systems or implemented under voluntary agreements concluded between organisations of stakeholders and an appointed body and supervised by the Member State concerned or by the Commission, shall be considered as fulfilling the requirements of paragraph 2 may be part of a Member State’s incentive scheme.
Amendment 907 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – title
Article 8 – title
Metering and billing informative billingon
Amendment 930 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall ensure that if, where it is technically feasible and cost-effective, final customers for electricity, natural gas, district heating or cooling and district- supplied domestic hot water are provided with individual meters, thatese will accurately measure, and allow to make availablereadings to be taken of, their actual energy consumption and provide information on actual time of use, in accordance with Annex VI.
Amendment 967 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
In case of heating and cooling, where a building is supplied from a district heating network, a heat meter shall be installed at the building entry. In multi-apartment buildings, individual heat consumption meters shall also be installed to measure the consumption of heat or cooling for each apartment. Where the use of individual heat consumption meters is not technically or economically feasible, individual heat cost allocators, in accordance with the specifications in Annex VI(1.2), shallmay be used for measuring heat consumption at each radiator.
Amendment 1000 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
In addition to the obligations resulting from Directive 2009/72/EC and Directive 2009/73/EC with regard to billing, Member States shall ensure, not later than 1 January 2015, that thate billing is accurate and based on actual consumption, for all the sectors covered by the present Directive, including energy distributors, distribution system operators and retail energy sales companies, in accordance with the minimum frequency set out in Annex VI(2.1)nformation is based on actual consumption. Appropriate information shall be made available with the billing information to provide final customers with a comprehensive account of current energy costs, in accordance with Annex VI(2.2).
Amendment 1056 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. By 1 January 2014, Member States shall establish and notify to the Commission a national heating and cooling plan for developinganalyse the potential for the application of high-efficiency cogeneration and efficient district heating and cooling, containing the information set out in Annex VII. The plans shall be updated and supply information on the subject to the Commission, including the information set out in Annex VII and a cost-benefit analysis. The analyses shall be updated in close cooperation with local authorities and notified to the Commission every five years. Member States shall ensure by means of their regulatory framework that national heating and cooling plans are taken into account in local and regional development plans, including urban and rural spatial plans, and fulfil the design criteria in Annex VII.
Amendment 1110 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shall ensure that allinvestors planning to build new thermal electricity generation installations with a total thermal input exceeding 20 MW take steps to determine whether:
Amendment 1120 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) areit makes technological sense and is economically viable to provided them with equipment allowing for the recovery of waste heat by means of a high-efficiency cogeneration unit; and
Amendment 1139 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) are sitedwhether it makes technological sense and is economically viable to site them in a location where waste heat can be used by heat demand points.
Amendment 1296 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 4
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 4
Member States shall notify such conditions for exemption to the Commission by 1 January 2014. The Commission may refuse those conditions or make suggestions for modifications in the 6 months following notification. In such cases, the conditions for exemption shall not be applied by the Member State concerned until the Commission expressly accepts the resubmitted or modified conditions.