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28 Amendments of Konrad SZYMAŃSKI related to 2008/0013(COD)

Amendment 222 #
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
Amendment 237 #
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
Amendment 269 #
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
Amendment 281 #
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
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - Point 7
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 - paragraph 2 - point a
(a) 980% of the total quantity of allowances to be auctioned being distributed amongst Member States in shares that are identical to the share of average verified emissions under the Community scheme in 2005the 2005- 2007 of the Member State concerned;
2008/07/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 306 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - Point 7
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 - paragraph 2- point ba (new)
(ba) 10 % of the total quantity of allowances to be auctioned being distributed amongst Member States in accordance with achievements accomplished between Kyoto Protocol base year and the year 2005 in order to take account of the efforts made up to the date of the introduction of the Community scheme.
2008/07/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - Point 7
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 - paragraph 3
3. At least 20% of the revenues generated from the auctioning of allowances referred to in paragraph 2, including all revenues from the auctioning referred to in point (b) thereof, should be used for one or more of the following: (a) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including by contributing to the Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund, to adapt to the impacts of climate change and to fund research and development and demonstration projects for reducing emissions and adapting, including participation in initiatives within the framework of European Strategic Energy Technology Plan; (b) to develop renewable energies to meet the commitment of the Community to using 20% renewable energies by 2020, and to meet the commitment of the Community to increase energy efficiency by 20% by 2020; (c) for theclean coal technologies including capture and geological storage of greenhouse gases, in particular from coal power stations; ca) for modernisation of coal-based combustion installations or their replacement by more efficient units producing lower CO2 emissions; (d) for measures to avoid deforestation, in particular in Least Developed Countries; (e) to facilitate developing countries' adaptation to the impacts of climate change; (f) to address social aspects in lower and middle income households, for example by increasing their energy efficiency and insulation; and (g) to cover administrative expenses of the management of the Community scheme.
2008/07/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 355 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - Point 7
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 - paragraph 5
5. By 31 December0 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, harmonised 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
Amendment 384 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. The Commission shall, by 30 June1 December 20110, 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.
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 395 #
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. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any electricity production.
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 426 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 2
2. Subject to paragraph 3, no free allocation shall be given to electricity generators, to installations for the capture, pipelines for the transport or to storage sites for greenhouse gas emissions.
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 459 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 3
3. Free allocation may be given to electricity generators in respect of the production of heat through high efficiency cogeneration as defined by Directive 2004/8/EC and to district heating producers for economically justifiable demand to ensure equal treatment with regard to other producers of heat. In each year subsequent to 2013, the total allocation to such installations in respect of the production of that heat shall be adjusted by the linear factor referred to in Article 9.
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 480 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 5
5. The maximum amount of allowances that is the basis for calculating allocations to installations which are only included in the Community scheme from 2013 onwards shall not exceed, in 2013, the total verified emissions of those installations in 2005 to 20078 or the average emissions of those installations in 2008-2010. In each subsequent year, the total allocation to such installations shall be adjusted by the linear factor referred to in Article 9.
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 490 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3
No free allocation shall be made in respect of any electricity production by new entrants.deleted
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 569 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a - paragraph 9 - point aa (new)
(aa) the effect of passing through CO2 cost in electricity prices on the sector or sub-sector concerned;
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 601 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10b - introduction
Not later than June 20110, the Commission shall, in the light of the outcome of the international negotiations and the extent to which these lead to global greenhouse gas emission reductions, and after consulting with all relevant social partners, submit to the European Parliament and to the Council an analytical report assessing the situation with regard to energy-intensive sectors or sub- sectors and energy sectors that have been determined to be exposed to significant risks of carbon leakage. This shall be accompanied by any appropriate proposals, which may include:
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 631 #
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 DecemberMarch 20145, the competent authority shall make such an exchange on request.
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 644 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 3 - subparagraph 2
The first subparagraph shall apply for all project types which were accepted by all Member States in the Community scheme during the period 2008 to 2012.
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 652 #
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 Community or until 2020, whichever is the earlier.
2008/07/15
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 686 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 15 - point a
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 19 - paragraph 1
1. Allowances issued from 1 January 2013 onwards shall be held in the Community registry. Each Member State shall have access to the Community registry for the execution of processes pertaining to the maintenance of the holding accounts opened in the Member State and the allocation, surrender and cancellation of allowances under the Regulation on a standardised and secured system of registries. The Community registry shall not restrict the Member State in the fulfilment of its responsibilities and the execution of authorised operations under the UNFCCC or the Kyoto Protocol.
2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 688 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 17
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 22 - paragraph 1- subparagraph 1
The Commission may amend the Annexes to this Directive, with the exception of Annex I and Annex IIa, in the light of the reports provided for in Article 21 and of the experience of the application of this Directive. Annex I and Annex IIa may be amended only in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty. Annexes IV and V may be amended in order to improve the monitoring, reporting and verification of emissions.
2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 702 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 19
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 24 a - paragraph 1
1. In addition to the inclusions provided for in Article 24, the Commission mayshall adopt implementing measures for issuing allowances in respect of projects administered by Member States that reduce greenhouse gas emissions outside of the Community scheme. 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)]. Any such measures shall not result in the double-counting of emissions reductions and impede the undertaking of other policy measures to reduce emissions not covered by the Community scheme. Provisions shall only be adopted where inclusion is not possible in accordance with Article 24, and tThe next review of the Community scheme shall consider harmonising the coverage of those emissions across the Community.
2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 705 #
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
Amendment 707 #
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
Amendment 713 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 21
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 27 - title and paragraph 1
Exclusion of small combustion installations subject to equivalent measures 1. Member States may exclude, from the Community scheme, combustion installations which have a rated thermal input below 25MW, and reported emissions to the competent authority of less than 1025 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in each of the preceding 3 years, and which are subject to measures that will achieve an equivalent contribution to emission reductions, if the Member State concerned complies with the following conditions: (a) it notifies the Commission of each such installation, specifying the equivalent measures that are in place, ; (b) it confirms that monitoring arrangements are in place to assess whether any installation emits 1025 000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in any one calendar year; (c) it confirms that if any installation emits 1025 000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in any one calendar year or the equivalent measures are no longer in place, the installation will be re-introduced into the system; (d) it publishes the information referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) for public comment.
2008/07/17
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 746 #
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
Amendment 753 #
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 equivalebe 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
Amendment 782 #
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