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Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 18

(18) Transitional free allocation to installations should be provided for through harmonised Community-wide rules ("benchmarks") in order to minimise distortions of competition with the Community. TRegardless of the specific criteria for individual industrial sectors, these rules should take account of the most greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques, substitutes, generally applied alternative production processes, use of biomass, renewables and ~~greenhouse gas capture and storage. Any such rules should not give incentives to increase emissions and ensure that an increasing proportion of these allowances is auct~~emission reduction potential, including technical potential. Any such rules should not give incentives to reduce specific emissioneds. Allocations must be fixed ~~prior to the trading period~~on the basis of the benchmarks so as to enable the market to function properly. They shall also avoid undue distortions of competition on the markets for electricity and heat supplied to industrial installations. These rules should apply equally to new entrants carrying out the same activities as existing installations receiving transitional free allocations. To avoid any distortion of competition within the internal market, no free allocation should be made in respect of the production of electricity by new entrants. Allowances which remain in the set-aside for new entrants in 2020 should be auctioned. For the purpose of determining the rules for establishing benchmarks in individual sectors, the Commission will consult the sectors concerned.

2008/07/08
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 1

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 1 – new paragraph

It also provides for the reductions of greenhouse gas emissions to be increased so as to contribute to the levels of reductions that are considered scientifically necessary to avoid dangerous climate change and taking into account the achievements of Member States under the Kyoto Protocol.

2008/07/10
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 – point (b)

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 – point (h)

(b) point (h) is replaced by the following: (h) 'new entrant' means any installation carrying out one or more of the activities indicated in Annex I, which has obtained a greenhouse gas emission permit subsequent to the submission to the Commission of the list referred to in Article 11(1);deleted

2008/07/10
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 – point (c)

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 – point [(u)]

[(u)] ‘Electricity generator’ means an installation that, on or after 1 January 2005, has produced electricity for sale to third parties and/or parasitic load, and which is only covered by category ‘Supply of power or heat’ in Annex I.

2008/07/10
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 4

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 6 - paragraph 1 – new subparagraph

(4) The following subparagraph is added to Article 6(1): "The competent authority shall, at least every five years, review the greenhouse gas emissions permit and make any amendments as are appropriate."deleted

2008/07/10
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 5

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 9 – paragraph 1

The Community-wide quantity of allowances issued each year starting in 2013 and until 2020 shall decrease in a linear manner beginning from the mid- point of the period 2008 to 2012. The quantity shall decrease by a linear factor of 1.74% compared to the average annual total quantity of allowances issued by Member States in accordance with the Commission Decisions on their national allocation plans for the period 2008 to 2012.

2008/07/10
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - Point 7

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 - paragraph 5

5. By 31 ~~December~~June 2010, the Commission shall adopt a Regulation on timing, administration and other aspects of auctioning to ensure that it is conducted in an open, transparent, harmonized and non- discriminatory manner. Auctions shall be designed to restrict access to the "primary market" only to installations subject to the Community scheme and to limit the quantity of allowances acquired by them to their production capacity, and to that end ensure that operators, and in particular any small and medium size enterprises covered by the Community scheme, have full access and any other participants do not undermine the operation of the auction. That measure, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)]."It is also necessary to introduce a market- based instrument to prevent severe fluctuation of allowance prices and provide sustainability of macroeconomic surroundings. That measure shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty.

2008/07/14
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1

1. The Commission shall, by 30 June 2011 at the latest, adopt Community wide and fully- harmonised implementing measures ~~for allocating the allowances referred to in paragraphs 2 to 6 and 8 in a harmonised manner~~. Those measures, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)]. In order to determine the rules for establishing benchmarks in individual sectors, the Commission shall consult the sectors concerned. The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that gives incentives for greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques and for reductions in emissions, ~~by taking account~~on the basis of the benchmarks and shall not give incentives to increase emissions. Regardless of the specific criteria for individual industrial sectors, account shall be taken of the most efficient techniques, substitutes, generally applied alternative production processes, use of biomass and ~~greenhouse gas capture and storage, and shall not give incentives to increase~~emission reduction potential, including technological potential. These measures shall encourage the reduction of specific emissions. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any electricity production. The Commission shall, upon the conclusion by the Community of an international agreement on climate change leading to mandatory reductions of greenhouse gas emissions comparable to those of the Community, review those measures to provide that free allocation only takes place where this is fully justified in the light of that agreement.

2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3

The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that gives incentives for greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques and for reductions in emissions, by taking account of the most efficient techniques, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass and greenhouse gas capture and storage, and shall not give incentives to increase emissions. The measures referred to in the first subparagraph may allow for allocation to facilities generating heat using benchmark production standards, as well as allowing such facilities to carry out ex-post settlements pursuant to general principles. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any electricity production.

2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 7

7. Subject to Article 10b, the amount of allowances allocated free of charge under paragraphs 3 to 6 of this Article [and paragraph 2 of Article 3c] in 2013 shall be 80% of the quantity determined in accordance with the measures referred to in paragraph 1 and thereafter the free allocation shall decrease each year by equal amounts resulting in no free allocation in 2020.deleted

2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 8

8. In 2013 and in each subsequent year up to 2020, installations in sectors which are exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage associated with the transfer of high-emissions production to third countries or EU areas not covered by the Community scheme shall be allocated allowances free of charge up to 100 percent of the quantity determined in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 6.

2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 8

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a - paragraph 9 - subparagraph 3 - introductory part

In the determination referred to in the first ~~sub~~paragraph the Commission shall take into account the extent to which it is possible for the sector or the sub-sector concerned to pass on the cost of the required allowances in product prices without significant loss of market share to less carbon efficient installations outside the Community or in EU areas not covered by the Community scheme, taking into account the following:

2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 2

2. Operators may request the competent authority, to the extent that the levels of CER/ERU use allowed to them by Member States for the period 2008 to 2012 have not been used up, to issue allowances to them valid from 2013 onwards in exchange for CERs and ERUs issued in respect of emission reductions up until ~~2012 from project types which were accepted by all Member States in the Community scheme during the period 2008 to~~ 2012. Until 31 ~~December~~March 2014,5 the competent authority shall make such an exchange on request.

2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 4 - subparagraph 2

The first subparagraph shall apply to CERs for all project types ~~which were accepted by all Member States in the Community scheme during the period 2008 to 2012,~~ until those countries have ratified an agreement with the cCommunity or until 2020, whichever is the earlier.

2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 19 a (new)

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 24 b (new)

(19a) The following Article 24b is inserted: "Article 24b Flexibility Installations included in the Community scheme during the period 2013 to 2020 may use greenhouse gas emission entitlements permitted under Article 3(1) and (2) of Decision 2008/XX/EC for the implementation of their obligations under Directive 2003/87/EC.”

2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 20

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 25 - paragraph 1a

1a. Agreements may be made to provide for the recognition of allowances between the Community scheme and comparable mandatory greenhouse gas emissions trading systems with absolute emissions caps established in any other country or in sub-federal or regional entities.

2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 21

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 28 - paragraph 1

1. Upon the conclusion by the Community and its Member States of an international agreement on climate change leading, by 2020, to mandatory reductions of greenhouse gas emissions exceeding the minimum reduction levels agreed upon by the European Council, paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 shall apply.

2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 21

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 28 - paragraph 2

2. From the year following the conclusion of the international agreement referred to in paragraph 1, the linear factor shall ~~increase so that the Community quantity of allowances in 2020 is lower than that established pursuant to Article 9, by a quantity of allowances equivale~~be adjusted to take account tof the overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the Community below 20% to which the international agreement commits the Community, multiplied by the share of overall greenhouse gas emission reductions in 2020 which the Community scheme is contributing pursuant to Articles 9 and 9acontent of the international agreement and the achievements of Member States under the Kyoto Protocol, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty.

2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI

Bogusław SONIK

Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 21 a (new)

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 30 - paragraph 2

(21a) In Article 30, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: “2. On the basis of experience of the application of this Directive and of progress achieved in the monitoring of emissions of greenhouse gases and in the light of developments in the international context, the Commission shall draw up a comprehensive evaluation report on the application of this Directive, considering inter alia: (a) how and whether Annex I should be amended to include other relevant sectors, inter alia the chemicals and aluminium [...] sectors, activities and emissions of other greenhouse gases listed in Annex II, with a view to further improving the economic efficiency of the scheme; (aa) emission allowances price fluctuations; (b) the relationship of Community emission allowance trading with the international emissions trading that started in 2008; [...] [...] (e) the relationship of emissions trading with other policies and measures including adaptation to climate change implemented at Member State and Community level, including taxation, that pursue the same objectives; [...] (g) the level of excess emissions penalties, taking into account, inter alia, inflation; (h) the functioning of the allowance market, covering in particular carbon leakage as well as any other possible market disturbances; [...] (j) pooling; (k) the practicality of developing Community-wide benchmarks as a basis for allocation, taking into account best available techniques and cost-benefit analysis; (l) the impact of project mechanisms on host countries, particularly on their development objectives, whether JI and CDM hydroelectric power production project activities with a generating capacity exceeding 500 MW and having negative environmental or social impacts have been approved, and the future use of CERs or ERUs resulting from any such hydroelectric power production project activities in the Community scheme; (m) the support for capacity-building efforts in developing countries and countries with economies in transition; (n) the modalities and procedures for Member States’ approval of domestic project activities and for the issuing of allowances in respect of emission reductions or limitations resulting from such activities from 2008; (o) technical provisions relating to the temporary nature of credits and the limit of 1 % for eligibility for land use, land-use change and forestry project activities as established in Decision 17/CP.7, and provisions relating to the outcome of the evaluation of potential risks associated with the use of genetically modified organisms and potentially invasive alien species by afforestation and reforestation project activities, to allow operators to use CERs and ERUs resulting from land use, land- use change and forestry project activities in the Community scheme from 2008, in accordance with the decisions adopted pursuant to the UNFCCC or the Kyoto Protocol. The Commission shall submit this report to the European Parliament and the Council by 30 June 2015, accompanied by proposals as appropriate. The report should be prepared and submitted together with a report on the application of Decision 2008/xxxx.”

2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI

Activities of Bogusław SONIK related to 2008/0013(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Amendments (19)

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