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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 within the Community. These rules should take account of the most greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass, renewables and greenhouse gas capture and storage. Notwithstanding the availability of electric arc furnaces as an alternative production process, these harmonised rules may also take into account emissions related to the use of combustible waste gases from blast oxygen furnaces and coke ovens when the production of these waste gases cannot be avoided in the coke ovens and blast furnace production process for steel; in this respect the rules may provide for allowances to be allocated for free to the blast furnaces and coke ovens where these gases originate. Any such rules should not give incentives to increase emissions and ensure that an increasing proportion of these allowances is auctioned. Allocations must be fixed prior to the trading period 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 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.

2008/07/08
Committee: ENVI

Bernhard RAPKAY, Matthias GROOTE

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

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 – point j a (new)

(ba) The following subparagraph is added: ‘(ja) ‘An energy-intensive business’ shall mean a business entity where either the purchases of energy products and electricity amount to at least 3.0% of the production value or the national energy tax payable amounts to at least 0.5% of the added value. ‘Purchases of energy products and electricity’ shall mean the actual cost of energy purchased or generated within the business. Only electricity, heat and energy products that are used for heating purposes are included. ‘Production value’ shall mean turnover, including subsidies directly linked to the price of the product, plus or minus the changes in stocks of finished products, work in progress and goods and services purchased for resale, minus the purchases of goods and services for resale. ‘Value added’ shall mean the total turnover liable to VAT including export sales minus the total purchases liable to VAT including imports’.

2008/06/26
Committee: ITRE

Peter LIESE, Matthias GROOTE, Linda McAVAN, Caroline LUCAS, Jens HOLM

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

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 c – paragraph 2

(2a) Article 3c(2) is replaced by the following: "2. For 2013, and [...]for each subsequent year, the total quantity of allowances to be allocated to aircraft operators shall decrease from 95% according to the linear reduction factor as defined in Article 9."

2008/07/10
Committee: ENVI

Peter LIESE, Matthias GROOTE

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

Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 d – paragraph 2

(2a) Article 3d(2) is replaced by the following: "2. Subject to Article 10b, the quantity of allowances allocated free of charge under paragraphs 3 to 5 of this Article [and Article 3c(2)] 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. From 2014, free allocation to aviation operators under this paragraph shall decrease by equal amounts resulting in no free allocation in 2020."

2008/07/10
Committee: ENVI

Linda McAVAN, Matthias GROOTE