7 Amendments of Vladko Todorov PANAYOTOV related to 2010/0220(NLE)
Amendment 42 #
Recital 3
(3) The Union's policies of encouraging renewable and lower carbon fossil fuels for power generation do not justify the indefinite support for uncompetitive coal minenvironmentally polluting coal mining from mines with depleted reserves. The categories of aid permitted by Regulation (EC) No 1407/2002 should therefore not be continued indefinitely.
Amendment 56 #
Recital 8
Amendment 67 #
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) "closure" means the permanent cessation of production and sales of coal, or the long-term (namely10 year minimum) conservation of mines with proved reserves;
Amendment 72 #
Article 2 – paragraph 2
2. Aid shall cover only costs in connection with coal for the production of electricity, the combined production of heat and electricity, the production of coke and the fuelling of blast furnaces in the steel industry, as well as other production of innovative environmentally-friendly materials, where such use takes place in the Union.
Amendment 82 #
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the operation of the production units concerned must form part of a closure plan the deadline of which does not extend beyond 31 OctoDecember 2014 6;
Amendment 92 #
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) tThe overall amount of closure aid granted by a Member State for any particular undertaking must follow a downward trend, where the reduction between successive periods of fifteenthirty months must not be less than 3315 percent of the aid provided in the initial fifteenthirty month period of the closure plan;
Amendment 98 #
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) the Member State must provide a plan to take measures aimed at mitigating the environmental impact of the use of coalindigenous coal (if there is negative impact, compared to use of imported coal), for example in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy or carbon capture and storage. The inclusion of measures constituting State aid within the meaning of Article 107 (1) in such a plan is without prejudice to the notification and standstill obligations imposed on the Member State with respect to these measures by Article 108 (3) TFEU, and to the compatibility of these measures with the internal market."