2 Amendments of Michael CRAMER related to 2011/0092(CNS)
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) Future legislation on taxation on energy should internalise the social and environmental external costs, caused by each sector, and aim to reduce those external costs, obtaining positive effects for society, the economy and public budgets.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 21
Directive 2003/96/EC
Article 29 - paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 29 - paragraph 3 a (new)
The Commission shall report every year to the European Parliament and to the Council on the financial impact of tax exemptions on public budgets, namely when practising exemptions for fuel taxation and VAT, particularly in the air and maritime transport sector as well as on the effects of these exemptions on distortion of intermodal competition. The Commission shall report every year to the European Parliament and to the Council on the functioning of the Union's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), analysing, inter alia, differential treatments across sectors relating to the allocation of free certificates and the effect on intermodal competition.