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Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas investors require security and continuity for their projected investments beyond 2020; whereas the most cost- effective and energy-neutral way to meet that requirement is to set a single prime objective for 2020, namely limiting greenhouse gases;

2012/12/20
Committee: ITRE

Eija-Riitta KORHOLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Notes that, in order to guarantee supply security, the development of RES with fluctuating feed-in will necessitate reserves of conventional energy not previously available; recognises that the development of reserve capacity entails substantial costs and that, to make the development or retention of conventional reserves more commercially attractive, it will increasingly need to be promoted; rejects the concept of competition for subsidies and calls for the principles of the market economy to be applied to the design of the energy market;

2012/12/20
Committee: ITRE

Eija-Riitta KORHOLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Welcomes the Commission’s declared intention to draw up guidelines on good practice and the reform of national support arrangements; calls on the Commission to produce the guidelines as soon as possible but is convinced that good-practice guidelines are only a first step and that efforts need to be directed at winding down the national support systems, although they must not be retrospectively amended or cancelled because that would send out disastrous signals to investors;deleted

2012/12/20
Committee: ITRE

Eija-Riitta KORHOLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Is convinced that only an EU-wide system for promoting RES will offer the most cost-effective framework in which their full potential can be realised; sees decisive advantages in a technology- neutral European market for renewables, in which producers will have to cover a pre-determined quota of their energy output from RES, and in which one of the ways of reaching that quota will be through the trading of certificates on a market established for that purpose; notes the evidence of experience in the Member States that, in order to ensure quotas are met, heavy fines must be imposed for failure to meet them;deleted

2012/12/20
Committee: ITRE

Eija-Riitta KORHOLA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls on the Commission to bring forward, without delay, a proposal for a European support system in which a market for renewable-energy certificates will make for EU-wide competition among the various technologies;deleted

2012/12/20
Committee: ITRE

5 Amendments of Eija-Riitta KORHOLA related to 2012/2259(INI)

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