Activities of Fiona HALL related to 2009/2153(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Commission Green Paper on the management of bio-waste in the European Union
Amendments (6)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the huge unexploited potential in some Member States to recover energy from waste by diverting waste from landfills into recycling and energy recovery;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that energy recovery from biowaste needs to be increased in the EU, contributing to the EU 20:20:20 renewable energy targets and also those set in the EU Biofuels Directive andat of the EU Fuel Quality Directive; recalls that the Renewables Directive supports the use of all types of biomass, including biowaste for energy purposes, as a renewable source of energy; calls, therefore, on Member States to consider, and that biofuels from waste count double towards the 10% renewable energy in transport target; calls on Member States to consider in their national legislation energy recovery from the biodegradable parts of waste in their national legislation and urges them to share best practice ideas;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on Member States to outline how biowaste, taking into account their specific geographic and climatic conditions, energy from biowaste including anaerobic digestion for biogas and advanced biofuels production can contribute to exploiting the potential of existing biomass resources taking into account their specific geographic and climatic conditions;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the fact that in many Member States the necessarysome infrastructure such as gas pipelines is already in place but financial incentives at national level are required to create and establish the potential biogas and biofuel markets related to biowaste;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. EWhile taking into account the need for compliance with the Waste Incineration Directive (WID) standards, encourages regional and local authorities to make use of existing decentralised district heating and cooling facilities and to use structural funds for financing energy-to-wastewaste-to-energy and energy recovery from biowaste facilities so as to be able to divert more waste from landfills;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines the exceptional environmental advantage of producing transport fuels from biowaste; calls, therefore, for biofuels from biowaste to count towards recycling targets; calls for the definition of biowaste in the Waste Framework Directive to be aligned with that of the Renewable Energy Directive, if necessary by EU legislation;