Activities of Romana JORDAN related to 2008/0016(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (debate)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) The Brussels European Council of March 2007 invited the Commission to propose a comprehensive Directive on the use of all renewable energy sources, which could contain criteria and provisions to ensure sustainable provision and use of bioenergy. These criteria should form a coherent part of a wider scheme covering not only biofuels but also bioliquids and not biofuels alonebiomass. Such sustainability criteria should therefore be included in this Directive. In order to avoid the additional costs to business and the environmental incoherence that would be associated with an inconsistent approach, it is essential for sustainability criteria in respect of biofuels to be aligned between this Directive and Directive 98/70/EC. The Commission should in addition review in 2010 whether other biomass applications should be included.
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 37
Recital 37
(37) If land with high stocks of carbon in its soil or vegetation is converted for the cultivation of raw materials for biofuels and other bioliquidsenergy use, some of the stored carbon will generally be released into the atmosphere, leading to the formation of carbon dioxide. The negative greenhouse gas impact of this can offset the positive greenhouse gas impact of the biomass, biofuels or bioliquid, in some cases by a wide margin. The full carbon effects of such conversion should therefore be accounted for in calculating the greenhouse gas savings of biomass, particular biofuels and other bioliquids. This is necessary to ensure that the greenhouse gas saving calculation takes into account the totality of the carbon effects of the use of biomass, biofuels and other bioliquids.
Amendment 277 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 39
Recital 39
(39) The incentives provided for in this Directive for biomass, biofuels and other bioliquids, and the increasing worldwide demand for biomass, biofuels and other bioliquids, should not have the effect of encouraging the destruction of bio-diverse lands. Such exhaustible resources, recognised in various international instruments to be of value to all mankind, should be preserved. Consumers in the Community, in addition, would find it morally unacceptable that their increased use of biomass, biofuels and other bioliquids could have the effect of destroying bio-diverse lands. For these reasons, it is necessary to provide criteria ensuring that biomass, biofuels and other bioliquids can only qualify for the incentives when it can be guaranteed that they do not originate in bio-diverse land. The criteria chosen consider forest as bio- diverse where it is undisturbed by significant human activity (following the definition used by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe) or where it is protected by national laws for nature protection purposes. Further, considering the highly biodiverse nature of certain grasslands, it is also appropriate that biomass and biofuels made from raw materials originating in such lands should not qualify for the incentives provided for by this Directive. The Commission should establish appropriate criteria and/or geographical ranges to define such highly biodiverse grasslands in accordance with the best available scientific evidence and relevant international norms.
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 47
Recital 47
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 57
Recital 57
(57) Since the general objectives of achieving a 20% share of renewable energies in the Community's overall energy consumption and a 10% share of biofuelenergy from renewable sources in each Member State's transport petrol and diesel consumptionsector by 2020 cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. 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 those objectives.
Amendment 447 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Amendment 501 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensure that all guarantees of origin to be issued in respect of renewable energy generated in a given calendar year are issued, at the latest, threesix months after the end of that year.
Amendment 530 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. The competent body shall not carry out any energy generation, trade, supply or, distribution or transmission activities.
Amendment 543 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the production of a unit of electricity from renewable energy sources, or the production of a unit of heating or cooling from renewable energy sources in a plant with a capacity of at least 5 MWth, receives support infrom the form of feed-in tariff payments, premium payments, tax reductions or payments resulting from calls for tenderssupport scheme as defined in Article 2h, in which case the guarantee shall be submitted to the competent body designated by the Member State that established the system of support;
Amendment 595 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. Subject to the provisions adopted pursuant to paragraph 2, guarantees of origin may be transferred between persons in different Member States provided they have been issued in relation to energy produced from renewable sources by installations that became operational after the date of entry into force of this Directive.
Amendment 629 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that any national rules concerning the authorisation, certification and licensing procedures that are applied to plants for the production of electricity and the associated grid infrastructure, heating or cooling from renewable sources, and to the process of transformation of biomass into biofuels or other energy products, are proportionate and necessary.
Amendment 936 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 4
Article 17 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission shall report by 31 December 2012 at the latest on the estimated typical and default values in Annex VII, Part B and Parts A, B, D and E, paying special attention to emissions from transport and processing, and may, where necessary, decide to correct the values. Such a measure designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 21(3).
Amendment 960 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 4
Article 18 – paragraph 4
4. For the purposes of demonstrating compliance with national renewable energy obligations placed on operators, the contribution made by biofuels produced from wastes, residues, non-food cellulosic material, and ligno-cellulosic materialachieving greenhouse gas savings of more than 70% shall be considered to be twice that made by other biofuels.
Amendment 965 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 4
Article 18 – paragraph 4
4. For the purposes of demonstrating compliance with national renewable energy obligations placed on operators, the contribution made by biofuels produced from wastes, residues, non-food cellulosic material, and ligno-cellulosic material and algae shall be considered to be twice that made by other biofuels.
Amendment 980 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) how, where applicable, Member States have structured their support schemes to take into account renewable energy applications that give additional benefits in relation to other, comparable applications, but may also have higher costs, including biofuels made from wastes, residues, non- food cellulosic material, and ligno- cellulosic material and algae;
Amendment 987 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) the development and share of biofuels made from wastes, residues, non-food cellulosic material, and ligno-cellulosic material and algae;
Amendment 989 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point j
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point j
(j) the estimated impact of biomass and biofuel production on biodiversity, water resources, water quality and soil quality; and
Amendment 1015 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 5 – point d a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 5 – point d a (new)
(da) the sustainability issues related with the increasing use of biofuels made from wastes, residues, non-food cellulosic material, ligno-cellulosic material and algaes, especially issues concerning sustainable harvesting and waste hierarchy.