Activities of Silvia-Adriana ȚICĂU related to 2011/0172(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Energy efficiency (debate)
Amendments (38)
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
This Directive establishes a common framework for the promotion of energy efficiency within the Union, taking into account technical feasibility, cost-effectiveness, climatic conditions and internal climate requirements, in order to ensure the achievement of the Union's target of 20% primary energy savings by 2020 and to pave the way for further energy efficiency improvements beyond that date.
Amendment 366 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
4. 'public bodies' means 'contracting authorities' as defined in Directive 2004/18/EC as well as the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union;
Amendment 374 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
7. 'energy distributor' means a natural or legal person, including a distribution system operator, responsible forthe main aim of whose activity is to transporting energy with a view to its delivery to final customers or to distribution stations that sell energy to final customers;
Amendment 378 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
9. 'retail energy sales company' means a natural or legal person wh, the main aim of whose activity is to sells energy to final customers;
Amendment 419 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 27
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 27
27. 'substantial refurbishment' means a refurbishment whose cost exceeds 50% of the investment cost for a new comparable unit in accordance with Decision 2007/74/EC or which requires the update of the permit granted under Directive 2010/75/EU; in the case of buildings, ‘substantial refurbishment’ means the renovation of a building as defined in Article 2(10) of Directive 2010/31/EC.
Amendment 472 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. By 30 June 20145, the Commission shall assess whether the Union is likely to achieve its target of 20 % primary energy savings by 2020, requiring a reduction of EU primary energy consumption of 368 Mtoe in 2020, taking into account the sum of the national targets referred to in paragraph 1 and the evaluation referred to in Article 19(4).
Amendment 508 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Without prejudice to Article 7 of Directive 2010/31/EU, Member States shall ensure that, as from 1 January 2014, 3% of the total floor area owned by their public bodies is renovated each year to meet at least the minimum energy performance requirements set by the Member State concerned in application of Article 4 of Directive 2010/31/EU. The 3% rate shall be calculated on the total floor area of buildings with a total useful floor area over 250 m2by 2020, the energy efficiency of buildings owned by their public bodies of the Member State concerned that, on 1 January of each year, does not meet the national minimum energy performance requirements set in application of Article 4 of Directive 2010/31/EUincreases by 20%.
Amendment 551 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Member States and European Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies may allow their public bodies to count towards their annual renovation rate the excess of renovated building floor area in a given year as if it has instead been renovated in any of the two previous or following years.
Amendment 595 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Member States, as well as the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the EU, shall encourage public bodies to:
Amendment 601 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) adopt an energy efficiency plan, freestanding or as part of a broader climate or environmental plan, containing specific energy saving objectives, with a view to continuously improving the body's energy efficiency, as well as reducing associated costs and enhancing the benefits arising from lower bills;
Amendment 691 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall set up an energy efficiency obligation scheme. This scheme shall ensure that either all energy distributors or all retail energy sales companies operating on the Member State's territory achieve annual energy savings equalamounting by 2020 to 1.5% of their energy sales, by volume, in the previous year2010 in that Member State excluding energy used in transport. This amount of energy savings shall be achieved by the obligated parties among final customers.
Amendment 840 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall promote the availability and accessibility to all final customers of energy audits which are affordable and carried out in an independent manner by qualified or accredited experts.
Amendment 853 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall develop programmefinancing programmes and tax concessions to encourage households and small and medium-sized enterprises to undergo energy audits.
Amendment 855 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Member States shall ensure that a sufficient number of qualified and/or authorised experts are available.
Amendment 867 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure that enterprises not included in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 are subject to an energy audit carried out in an independent and cost-effectivaffordable manner by qualified or accredited experts at the latest by 30 June 2014 and every three years from the date of the previous energy audit.
Amendment 881 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. The energy audit shall be valid for a maximum of 10 years.
Amendment 937 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Final customers who have already installed individual meters for electricity, natural gas, domestic hot water and individual heating or cooling consumption by ... (date of entry into force of this Directive) shall be considered as fulfilling the requirements of paragraph 1.
Amendment 1026 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The purchase, installation and maintenance costs of individual electricity, natural gas, central heating/ cooling and hot water meters installed under this directive shall be met by energy suppliers under the terms of energy performance contracts.
Amendment 1029 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 a (new)
Article 8 a (new)
Amendment 1194 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall notify such conditions for exemption to the Commission by 1 January 2014. The Commission may refuse those conditions or make suggestions for modifications in the 6 months following notification. In such cases, the conditions for exemption shall not be applied by the Member State concerned until the Commission expressly accepts the resubmitted or modified conditions.
Amendment 1252 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall notify such conditions for exemption to the Commission by 1 January 2014. The Commission may refuse those conditions or make suggestions for modifications in the 6 months following notification. In such cases, the conditions for exemption shall not be applied by the Member State concerned until the Commission expressly accepts the resubmitted or modified conditions.
Amendment 1295 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 4
Article 10 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 4
Member States shall notify such conditions for exemption to the Commission by 1 January 2014. The Commission may refuse those conditions or make suggestions for modifications in the 6 months following notification. In such cases, the conditions for exemption shall not be applied by the Member State concerned until the Commission expressly accepts the resubmitted or modified conditions.
Amendment 1305 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 9
Article 10 – paragraph 9
9. The Commission shall establish by 1 January 2013 by means of a delegated act in accordance with Article 18 a methodologycommon general framework for the cost-benefit analysis referred to in paragraphs 4 (c), 7 (b) and 8(b).
Amendment 1329 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Article 11 – paragraph 1
Member States shall draw up an inventory of data in accordance with Annex X for all installations undertaking the combustion of fuels with total rated thermal input of 50 MW or more and installations undertaking the refining of mineral oil and gas within their territory. This shall be updated every threfive years. The annual installation- specific data contained in these inventories shall be made available to the Commission upon request. Member States shall include a non-confidential summary containing aggregated information of the inventories in the reports referred to in Article 19(2).
Amendment 1350 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
ba) establishing sources of financing, with these including the Structural Funds, national, regional and local funds and scheduled loans;
Amendment 1351 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b b (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b b (new)
bb) responding to the social, technical and financial challenges faced.
Amendment 1425 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point b
b) providing model contracts for energy performance contracting in the public sectorand private sectors based on life-cycle costs and the cost of services, while at the same time encouraging long-term contracts that guarantee greater savings; these shall at least include the items listed in Annex XIII;
Amendment 1486 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 18 to establish the methodology fora common general framework for conducting the cost-benefit analysis as referred to in Article 10(9).
Amendment 1491 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. The delegation of power referred to in Article 17 shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of timefive years from [the date of entry into force of this Directive].
Amendment 1494 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. The delegated act may be published in the Official Journal of the European Union and enter into force before the expiry of that period if the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission of their intention not to raise objections.
Amendment 1495 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 5 b (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. If either the European Parliament or the Council objects to the delegated act, it shall not enter into force. The institution which objects shall state the reasons for objecting to the delegated act.
Amendment 1548 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 a (new)
Article 20 a (new)
Article 20a Review The Commission, assisted by the Committee established by Article 20, shall evaluate this Directive by 1 January 2018 at the latest, in the light of the experience gained and progress made during its application, and, if necessary, make proposals.
Amendment 1553 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 1
Article 24 – paragraph 1
This Directive is addressed to the Member States, institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union.
Amendment 1725 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex VI – section 2 – point 2.2 – introductory part
Annex VI – section 2 – point 2.2 – introductory part
Member States shall ensure that the following information is made available to final customers in clear and understandable terms in or with their bills, contracts, transactions, and receipts at distribution stations:
Amendment 1728 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex VI – section 2 – point 2.2 – point a a (new)
Annex VI – section 2 – point 2.2 – point a a (new)
(aa) all the components which make up the (final) price billed, with a detailed description of each component;
Amendment 1759 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex VII – section 1 – point i
Annex VII – section 1 – point i
(i) an estimate of public support measures to district heating and cooling, if any, with the annual budget and identification of the potential aid element. This does not prejudge a separate notification of the public support schemes for a State aid assessment.
Amendment 1796 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex XIII – title
Annex XIII – title
Minimum items to be included in energy performance contracts with the public sector
Amendment 1797 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex XIII – indent 1 a (new)
Annex XIII – indent 1 a (new)
- Clear and transparent list of the penalties applicable if the guaranteed savings are not achieved