9 Amendments of Inés AYALA SENDER related to 2012/0288(COD)
Amendment 29 #
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 ofsetting a separate target of at least 2,5% for advanced biofuels towardswithin the 10% target for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional biofuelsof consumption of energy from renewable sources for transport as established in Directive 2009/28/EC. 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 framework. In such a framework the target of 2,5% for advanced biofuels should be increased to 5% as of 1 January 2021. However, to avoid market distortions and fraud related to the production of advanced biofuels, the latter should also comply with the relevant sustainability criteria as for conventional biofuels.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8 a (new)
Recital 8 a (new)
(8a) The Commission should take appropriate measures to ensure fair competition by third countries' exporters of biofuels into the Union in accordance with the Union's rules on trade defence instruments.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Considering the significant contribution of ethanol to the objective of reducing the greenhouse gas emissions in particular in road transport, a specific target of at least 3% out of the overall consumption of conventional biofuels in transport should be established.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The 7.5% limit set up in Article 3(4)d does not affect the Member States' freedom to arrange their own trajectory as to compliance with this prescribed share of conventional biofuelsallows Member States to comply within the overall 10% target. As a consequence, the without undermining the full access to the market of the biofuels produced by the installations in operation before the end of 2013 remains fully open. Therefore this amending directive does not affect the legitimate expectations of the operators of such installations.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The Commission should review the methodology for estimating land-use change emission factors included in Annexes VIII and V to Directives 2009/28/EC and 98/70/EC respectively in the light of adaptation to technical and scientific progress. To this end, and if warranted byon the basis of the latest available evidence based on the most reliable scientific evidencemodel, the Commission should consider the possibility of revising the proposed crop group indirect land-use change factors, as well as introducing factors at further levels of disaggregation and including additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to market.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint i a (new)
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint i a (new)
Directive 2009/28/CE
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point b
(ia) in paragraph 4, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: 4. Each Member State shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transport in 2020 is at least 10% of the final consumption of energy in transport in that Member State, and that, given the significant contribution of ethanol to the objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially in road transport, the share of ethanol constitutes at least 3% of conventional biofuel consumption overall.
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint ii
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint ii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d
(d) for the calculation of biofuels in the numerator, the share of energy from biofuels produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops shall be no more than 5%, the estimated share at the efeedstocks listed in Parts A and B of Annex IX shall be at least 2.5% of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020. However, from 1 January 2021 the share of energy from biofuels produced from feedstocks listed in Parts A and B of 2011,Annex IX shall be at least 5% of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint a a (new)
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint a a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
(aa) in paragraph 1, the second subparagraph is deleted.
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3
Article 3
The Commission shall, before 31 December 2017, submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council reviewanalysing, on the basis of the best latest availevidence available, based on the most reliable scientific evidencemodel, the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive in limiting indirect land- use change greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of biofuel and bioliquids. The report shall, if appropriate, be accompanied by a legislative proposal, based on the best availevidence obtainable using the most reliable scientific evidencemodel, for introducing estimated indirect land use change emissions factors into the appropriate sustainability criteria to be applied from 1st January 2021 and a review of the effectiveness of the incentives provided for biofuels from non- land -using feedstocks and non-food crops under Article 3(4) d of Directive 2009/28/EC. Such a legislative proposal, if adopted, shall not take effect before 1 January 2021. Incentives for biofuels which, having regard also to the indirect land use change estimates, do not lead to substantial greenhouse gas savings and are produced from crops used for food and feed shall cease to be provided from 1 January 2021.