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OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency
Amendments (20)
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The Commission and the Member States will need to ensure that the reduction in energy consumption results from greater energy efficiency and not macro-economic circumstances. The main focus of this Directive should be to achieve real energy efficiency gains, regardless of macro-economic circumstances. Therefore flexibility should be foreseen for key influencing parameters such as economic growth, variations of industrial production, structural changes of the economy and climate, in order to maintain the energy efficiency ambition level and avoid a cap on industrial growth.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) There are no binding targets at national level in the 2030 perspective. The need for the Union to achieve its energy efficiency targets at EU level, expressed in primary and final energy consumption, in 2020 and 2030 should be clearly set out in the form of a binding 30 % target. Additional ambition is to be achieved through a higher subtarget for the building sector in line with its potential for achieving a 35 % target. This clarification at Union level should not restrict Member States as their freedom is kept to set their national contributions based on either primary or final energy consumption, primary or final energy savings, or energy intensity. Member States should set their national indicative energy efficiency contributions taking into account that the Union’s 2030 energy consumption has to be no more than 1 321 Mtoe of primary energy and no more than 987 Mtoe of final energy. This means that primary energy consumption should be reduced by 23 % and final energy consumption should be reduced by 17 % in the Union compared to 2005 levels. A regular evaluation of progress towards the achievement of the Union 2030 target is necessary and is provided for in the legislative proposal on Energy Union Governance.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) In order not to undermine the price signal within the EU ETS due to increased ambition of the energy efficiency targets, a review of the intake rates of the MSR is to be agreed within the context of the EU ETS review. Additional efforts under this Directive should lead to more free allowances being available under the EU ETS to ensure effective carbon leakage protection.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) To take full account of the cost- effective potential, a separate target for residential and tertiary buildings - expressed as final energy demand in the residential and tertiary sector and average renovation rate - needs to be established. The obligation on Member States to establish long-term strategies for mobilising investment in the renovation of their national building stock and notify them to the Commission should be removed from Directive 2012/27/EU and added to Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council10 where it fits with long term plans for nearly zero energy buildings and the decarbonisation of buildings. __________________ 10 Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings (OJ L 153, 18.6.2010, p. 13.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In view of the climate and energy framework for 2030 the energy savings obligation should be extended beyond 2020. Extending the commitment period beyond 2020 would create greater stability for investors and thus encourage long term investments and long term energy efficiency measures, such as the renovation of buildings. With regard to the period after 2030, the cost-effectiveness of that extension should be taken into account in the review.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) New savings should be additional to business as usual, so that savings that would have occurred in any event may not be claimed. In order to calculate the impact of measures introduced only net savings, measured as the change of energy consumption that is directly attributable to the energy efficiency measure in question, may be counted. To calculate net savings Member States should establish a baseline scenario of how the situation would evolve in the absence of the policymeasure in question. The policy intervention should be evaluated against this defined baseline. Member States should take into account that other policy interventions may be undertaken in the same time frame which may also have an impact on energy savings, so that not all changes observed since the introduction of the policy intervention being evaluated can be attributed to that policy measure only. The actions of the obligated, participating or entrusted party should actually contribute to the achievement of the savings claimed to ensure the fulfilment of the materiality requirement.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Energy savings which result from the implementation of Union legislation may not be claimedonly be claimed if they stem from new policy measures, whether introduced after 31 December 2020 or before, provided it can be demonstrated that those measures result in new individual actions that are undertaken after 31 December 2020 and deliver new savings; or unless the measure in question goes beyond the minimum required by the Union legislation in question, whether by setting more ambitious energy efficiency requirements at national level or increasing the take up of the measure. Recognising that renovation of buildings is an essential and long term element in increasing energy savings, it is necessary to clarify that all energy savings stemming from measures promoting the renovation of existing buildings can be claimed if they are additional to developments that would have happened in the absence of the policy measure and if the Member State demonstrates that the obligated, participating or entrusted party has actually contributed to the achievement of the savings claimed from the measure in question.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) To assure a sufficient contribution from building stock renovation to support the ambition of the overall energy efficiency target, no more than 326 Mtoe of final energy has to be consumed by residential and tertiary buildings.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) As part of the measures set out in the Commission's Communication New Deal for Energy Consumers, in the context of the Energy Union and the Heating and Cooling strategy, consumers' minimum rights to clear and timely information about their energy consumption need to be strengthened. Articles 9 to 11 and Annex VII of Directive 2012/27/EU should be amended to provide for frequent and enhanced feedback on energy consumption, when this is technically feasible and cost-efficient in view of the measurement devices in place. The cost- efficiency of sub-metering depends on whether the related costs are proportionate in relation to the potential energy savings. It should also be clarified that rights relating to billing and billing or consumption information apply for consumers of heating, cooling or hot water supplied from a central source even where they have no direct, individual contractual relationship with an energy supplier. The definition of the term ´final customer´ may be understood to include only natural or legal persons purchasing energy based on a direct, individual contract with an energy supplier. Therefore, for the purposes of these provisions, the term 'final user', should coverin addition to final customers purchasing heating, cooling or hot water for their own use as well acovers occupants of individual units of multi-apartment or multi-purpose buildings where such units are supplied from a central source and where the occupants have no direct or individual contract with the energy supplier. The term 'sub-metering' should refer to measuring consumption in individual units of such buildings. By 1 January 2020 newly installed heat meters and heat cost allocators should be remotely readable to ensure cost-effective, frequent provision of consumption information. The new Article 9a is intended to apply only to heating, cooling and hot water supplied from a central source.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Article 3 – paragraph 4
4. Each Member State shall identify the bottom-up technical and economical potential for energy efficiency improvements in each sector and set indicative national energy efficiency contributions towards the Union's 2030 target referred to in Article 1 paragraph 1 in accordance with Articles [4] and [6] of Regulation (EU) XX/20XX [Governance of the Energy Union]. When setting those contributions, Member States shall take into account that the Union’s 2030 energy consumption has to be no more than 1 321 Mtoe of primary energy and no more than 987 Mtoe of final energy, that the Union’s 2030 energy consumption in the residential and tertiary sector has to be no more than 326 Mtoe of final energy and that the average renovation rate between 2020 and 2030 in the residential sector has to be 2,9%. Those contributions can be adjusted for parameters not linked to energy efficiency progress, but affecting primary and final energy consumption such as significantly higher Union´s GDP growth than assumed when setting the target. Member States shall notify those contributions to the Commission as part of their integrated national energy and climate plans in accordance with the procedure pursuant to Articles [3] and [7] to [11] of Regulation (EU) XX/20XX [Governance of the Energy Union].
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall continue to achieve new annual savings of 1.5% for ten year periods after 2030, unless reviews by the Commission by 2027 and every 10 years thereafter conclude that this is not necessarycost effective to achieve the Union's long term energy and climate targets for 2050.
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
For the purposes of point (b), and without prejudice to paragraphs 2 and 3, Member States may count only those energy savings that stem from new policy measures, whether introduced after 31 December 2020 or policy measures introduced during the period from 1 January2014 to 31December 2020before provided it can be demonstrated that those measures result in new individual actions that are undertaken after 31 December 2020 and deliver new savings.
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 3
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 7a – paragraph 2
Article 7a – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall designate, on the basis of objective and non- discriminatory criteria, obligated parties among energy distributors and/or retail energy sales companies operating in its territory and mayshall include transport fuel distributors or transport fuel retailers operating in its territory. The amount of energy savings needed to fulfil the obligation shall be achieved by the obligated parties among final customers, designated by the Member State, independently of the calculation made pursuant to Article 7(1), or, if Member States so decide, through certified savings stemming from other parties as described in point (b) of paragraph 5.
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 7a – paragraph 4
Article 7a – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall put in place a measurement, control and verification system under which documented audits are carried out onat least a statistically significant proportion and representative sample of the energy efficiency improvement measures put in place by the obligated parties is verified. This measurement, control and verification shall be conducted independently of the obligated parties.
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 7b – paragraph 3
Article 7b – paragraph 3
3. For all measures other than those relating to taxation measures, Member States shall put in place measurement, control and verification systems under which documented audits are carried out onat least a statistically significant proportion and representative sample of the energy efficiency improvement measures put in place by the participating or entrusted parties is verified. This measurement, control and verification shall be conducted independently of the participating and entrusted parties.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4 a (new)
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 8 – paragraph 4
Article 8 – paragraph 4
In Article 8, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following: "4. Member States shall ensure that enterprises that are not SMEs arnd enterprises that are SMEs with high energy consumption per employee or per turnover are incentivised to be subject to an energy audit carried out in an independent and cost-effective manner by qualified and/or accredited experts or implemented and supervised by independent authorities under national legislation by 5 December 2015 and at least every four years from the date of the previous energy audit.”
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Directive 2012/27/EU
Article 9a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 9a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
In multi-apartment and multi-purpose buildings with a central heating or cooling source or supplied from district heating and cooling systems, individual meters shall be installed to measure the consumption of heat or cooling or hot water for each building unit, where technically feasible and cost effective.
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 1 – point a
Annex I – point 1 – point a
Directive 2012/27/EU
Annex V – paragraph 2 – point a
Annex V – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the savings must be shown to be additional to those that would have occurred in any event without the activity of the obligated, participating or entrusted parties and/or implementing authorities. To determine what savings can be claimed as additional Member States shall establish a baseline that describes how energy consumptiontake into account how energy use and demand would evolve in the absence of the policy measure in question. The baseline shall reflect at least the following factors: energy consumption trends, changes in consumer behaviour, technological progress and changes caused by other measures implemented at national and EU level;
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I – point 1 – point b
Annex I – point 1 – point b
Directive 2012/27/EU
Annex V – paragraph 2 – point b
Annex V – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) savings resulting from the implementation of mandatory Union legislation are considered as savings that would have occurred in any event without the activity of the obligated, participating or entrusted parties and/or implementing authorities, and thus may notonly be claimed under paragraph 1 of Article 7, if they were introduced after 31 December 2020 or before provided it can be demonstrated that those measures result in new individual actions that are undertaken after 31 December 2020 and deliver new savings, except for savings related to the renovation of existing buildings provided the materiality criterion referred to in part 3(h) is ensured;