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Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading system (debate)
Greenhouse gas emission allowance trading system (debate)
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REPORT Report on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/87/EC so as to improve and extend the greenhouse gas emission allowance trading system of the Community PDF (1 MB) DOC (1 MB)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 18
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. These harmonised rules may also take into account emissions related to the use of combustible waste gases when the production of these waste gases cannot be avoided in the industrial production process; in this respect the rules may provide for allowances to be allocated for free to operators of installations combusting the waste gases concerned or to operators of the installations where these gases originate. Any such rules should not give incentives to increase emissions and should 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 heating and cooling supplied to industrial installations. They should further avoid undue distortions of competition between industrial activities carried out in installations operated by a single operator and production in outsourced 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.
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) In order to provide predictability, operators should be given certainty about their potential after 2012 to use CERs and ERUs up to the remainder of the level which they were allowed to useThe Community scheme and other countries' emissions trading systems should facilitate demand for credits from real, verifiable, additional and permanent emission reductions from projects in countries contributing constructively to tackling climate change. Once countries have ratified the international agreement on climate change, 'gold standard type' credits from those countries should be acceptable for all emission trading systems. In order to provide predictability, operators should be given certainty about their potential after 2012 to use 'gold standard type' CERs and 'gold standard type' ERUs. Operators should be allowed to use such credits up to an average of 5% of their emissions, during the period from 2013 to 2020, provided they use less than 6,5% of ERUs and CERs compared to their 2005 emissions during the 2008 - 2012 period and they do not carry over entitlements under Article 11a(2) of Directive 2003/87/EC. This ensures that in the period 2008 to- 2012, from project types which were accepted by all Member States in the Community scheme during the period 2008 to 2012operators effectively reduce emissions below 2005 levels. This provides for the use of approximately 1.7 billion tonnes over the period of 2008 - 2020 or 300 million tonnes above the Commission's proposal, which represents approximately 50% of the effort. As carry-over by Member States of CERs and ERUs held by operators between commitments periods under international agreements (‘banking’ of CERs and ERUs) cannot take place before 2015, and only if Member States choose to allow the banking of those CERs and ERUs within the context of limited rights to bank such credits, this certainty should be given by requiring Member States to allow operators to exchange such CERs and ERUs issued in respect of emission reductions before 2012 for allowances valid from 2013 onwards. However, as Member States should not be obliged to accept CERs and ERUs which it is not certain they will be able to use towards their existing international commitments, this requirement should not extend beyond 31 December 2014. Operators should be given the same certainty concerning such CERs issued from projects that have been established before 2013 in respect of emission reductions from 2013 onwards.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) Once a future international agreement on climate change has been reached, CDM credits from third countries should only be accepted in the Community scheme once those countries have ratified the intatified by the Community, and additional credits up to half of the additional reduction taking place in the Community scheme may be used, the percentage of 'gold standard type' CERs and 'gold standard type' ERUs allowed to opernational agreementors should be increased above 5%.
Amendment 372 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1
Article 10a – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall, by 30 June1 December 20110, adopt Community wide and fully harmonised implementing measures for allocating the allowances referred to in paragraphs 2 to 6 and 8 in a harmonised manner. Those measures, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)]. The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, establish harmonised benchmarks to ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that gives incentives for greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques and for reductions in emissions, by taking account of the most efficient techniques and technologies, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass and greenhouse gas capture and storage, and shall not give incentives to increase emissions. These harmonised rules may also take into account emissions related to the use of combustible waste gases when the production of these waste gases cannot be avoided in the industrial production process; in this respect the rules may provide for allowances to be allocated for free to operators of installations combusting the waste gases concerned or to operators of the installations where these gases originate. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any net sale of electricity production to the electricity grid. The Commission shall, upon the conclusion by the Community of an international agreement on climate change leading to mandatory reductions of greenhouse gas emissions comparable to those of the Community, review those measures to provide that free allocation only takes place where this is fully justified in the light of that agreement.
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 3
Article 10a – paragraph 3
3. Free allocation may be given to electricity generatorsWhere producers of heating or cooling receive a free allocation under paragraph 1 in respect of the production of heating or cooling through high efficiency cogeneration as defined by Directive 2004/8/EC for economically justifiable demand to ensure equal treatment with regard to other producers of hea, free allocation shall be given to electricity generators to ensure equal treatment. In each year subsequent to 2013, the total allocation to such installations in respect of the production of that heat shall be adjusted by the linear factor referred to in Article 9.
Amendment 500 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 6a (new)
Article 10a – paragraph 6a (new)
Amendment 535 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 8
Article 10a – paragraph 8
8. In 2013 and in each subsequent year up to 2020, installations in sectors or sub- sectors which are exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage shall be allocated allowances free of charge up to 100 percent of the quantity determined in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 6.
Amendment 544 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 8
Article 1 - point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a - paragraph 9
Article 10a - paragraph 9
9. At the latest by 30 June 2010 and every 3 years thereafter the Commission shall determine the sectors referred to in paragraph 8. That measure, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)]. In the determination referred to in the first subparagraph the Commission shall take into account the extent to which it is possible at Community level for the sector or sub-sector concerned to pass on the cost of the required allowances in product prices without significant loss of market share to less carbon efficient installations outside the Community, taking into account the following quantitative criteria: (a) the extent to which auctioning would lead to a substantial increase in production cost; (b calculated as a proportion of Gross Added Value or, where these data are not available to an appropriate level, as a proportion of total production costs; (b) known level of imports and exports in the sector or sub-sector concerned; (c) the market share of the sectors or sub- sectors concerned; (d) profitability as a potential indicator of long-run investment and/or relocation decisions; (e) the effect of passing through CO2 costs on the product prices of the sector or sub- sector concerned. For sectors or sub-sectors that from the quantitative assessment appear at significant risk of carbon leakage, there should be a qualitative assessment to determine whether these sectors or sub- sectors are actually at significant risk, and to inform decisions to be taken under Article 10b. This should include: (a) the extent to which it is possible for individual installations in the sector concerned to reduce emission levels for instance on the basis of the most efficient techniques; (cb) market structure,an assessment of market structure (current and projected), the relevant geographic and product markets, transport costs, the exposure of the sectors to international competition; (d) the effect of climate change and energy policies implemented, or expected to be implemented outside the EU in the sectors concerned. For the purposes of evaluating whether the cost increase resulting from the Community scheme can be passed on, estimates of lost sales resulting from the increased carbon price or the impact on the profitability of the installations concerned may inter alia be used, long-term and short-term barriers to trade and factors influencing location decisions (including differentiation in quality of product or level of service by producers in the Community, product standards, the importance of proximity to product and factor markets, and the risks of relocating); (c) the effect of climate change and energy policies implemented, or expected to be implemented outside the EU.
Amendment 634 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9
Article 1 - point 9
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 2
Article 11a - paragraph 2
2. Operators may request the competent authority, to the extent that the levels of CER/ERU use allowed to them by Member States for the period 2008 to 2012 have not been used up, to issue allowances to them valid from 2013 onwards in exchange for CERs and ERUs issued in respect of emission reductions up until 2012 from 'Gold Standard type' project types which were accepted by all Member States in the Community scheme during the period 2008 to 2012. Until 31 December 2014, the competent authority shall make such an exchange on request.
Amendment 637 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9
Article 1 - point 9
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 3
Article 11a - paragraph 3
3. To the extent that the levels of CER/ERU use allowed to operators by Member States for the period 2008 to 2012 have not been used up, competent authorities shall allow operators to exchange CERs from 'Gold Standard type' projects that were established before 2013 issued in respect of emission reductions from 2013 onwards for allowances valid from 2013 onwards. The first subparagraph shall apply for all 'Gold Standard type' project types which were accepted by all Member States in the Community scheme during the period 2008 to 2012.
Amendment 654 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9
Article 1 - point 9
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 4 - subparagraph 2
Article 11a - paragraph 4 - subparagraph 2
The first subparagraph shall apply to CERs for all 'Gold Standard type' project types which were accepted by all Member States in the Community scheme during the period 2008 to 2012, until those countries have ratified an agreement with the Community or until 2020, whichever is the earlier. Or. en Justification
Amendment 665 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 9
Article 1 - point 9
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 11a - paragraph 7
Article 11a - paragraph 7
7. Once anFrom 2013, only 'Gold Standard type' CERs and 'Gold Standard type' ERUs from third countries which have ratified the future international agreement on climate change shas been reached, only CERs from third countries which have ratified that agreement shallll be accepted in the Community scheme. In the period 2008 to 2012, allocations in the Community scheme shall be 6,5% less than the emissions in 2005. All operators who, in that period, used a lower percentage of ERUs and CERs compared to their emissions and who do not carry over entitlements under paragraph 2, shall be allowed to use such credits up to 5% of their emissions each year during the period from 2013 to 2020, as shall new entrants and new sectors. 'Gold Standard type' CERs and ERUs are credits which: (a) represent real, verifiable, additional and permanent emission reductions from projects with clear sustainable development benefits and no significant negative environmental or social impacts; (b) originate from projects in countries which are contributing appropriately to global emission reductions under a future international agreement which they have ratified; and (c) are accepted, or are likely to be accepted, in othe Community schemer major emission trading systems, including at the very least in any US federal Emissions Trading System. Harmonised measures confirming which projects or project types meet these criteria may be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 23(3), in unclear cases. No Member State may refuse to accept credits which are confirmed to meet these criteria.
Amendment 716 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 21
Article 1 - point 21
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 27 - title and paragraph 1
Article 27 - title and paragraph 1
Exclusion of small combustion installations subject to equivalent measures 1. Member States may exclude, from the Community scheme, combustion installations which have a rated thermal input below 25MW, reported emissions to the competent authority of less than 10 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in each of the preceding 3 years, and which are subject to measures that will achieve an equivalent contribution to emission reductions, if the Member State concerned complies with the following conditions: (a) it notifies the Commission of each such installation, specifying the equivalent measures that are in place, (b) it confirms that monitoring arrangements are in place to assess whether any installation emits 10 000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in any one calendar year; (c) it confirms that if any installation emits 10 000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in any one calendar year or the equivalent measures are no longer in place, the installation will be re-introduced into the system; (d) it publishes the information referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) for public comment. Hospitals may also be excluded if they undertake equivalent measures.