14 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2014/2153(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that in order to meet global energy challenges and implement its energy and climate change objectives, the EU must also take common action on the international stage; Stresses that moderating energy demand is the most effective tool in reducing external energy dependency and in achieving climate objectives.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates that energy is a basic human need; insists, therefore, that the EU’s energy security strategy should ensure affordable access to energy for all and should strengthen public control and regulation, in order to focus on the issue of energy poverty and promote measures to tackle this problem, which affected one in four EU citizens - 124 million people - in 2012, while one in six persons in the world has no access to energy at all, and one in three has no access to sustainable energy;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that trade plays a key role in energy security, and that strong energy partnerships, reinforced by energy chapters included in the EU’s trade agreements, are essential tools; considers it of key importance to reduce dependency on imported energy; points out that where EU Member States have a negative trade balance, this is mostly due to the costs for imports of fossil fuels, in particular when the Euro is at a weak exchange rate against the Dollar, which is the currency used in most oil and gas contracts;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises that the high and undiversified dependency on gas imports can be reduced by support for decentralised, community-based co- generation of heat and power which strengthens value chains in the different EU regions;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that the reduction of dependence from one supplier must not lead to an increase of dependence from another supplier, in particular with regard to liquid gas; recalls that fracking is a technology rejected by the majority of the European population.
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Stresses that energy security related infrastructure projects must fully observe the democratic will and participation of local communities affected by planning and construction;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Underlines that it is important to put an end to any isolation of Member States and regions from European gas and electricity networks;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the fact that the energy security strategy should strive to alleviateat the challenge of energy security is to alleviate uncertainties that give rise to tensions between countries and to reduce market inefficiencies, both of which factors that counteract the benefits of trade; stress. Therefore, underlines the need to promote democratic global governance structures for energy and raw materials;raw materials in order to decrease international tensions in this area, with an emphasis to decent revenue options for resource rich countries inside and outside the EU, supportive for their respective economic development and poverty eradication strategies.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that the trade relations with the EU’s main energy suppliers should hopefully be free from tension by the year 2030, which marks the horizon of the proposed energy security strategy, and that an EU interest in resource rich countries’ purchases of EU clean and energy efficient technology correlates with those countries’ opportunities to export, in particular gas and supplies for the European petrochemical sector.
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Underlines that the EU should take advantage of the opportunities that emerge from the energy sources of the Eastern Mediterranean, in particular with a view to creating a Mediterranean gas hub through a corridor from the South- eastern Mediterranean to Europe in order to enhance EU’s energy security. The EU should promote initiatives for the cooperation in the sector of Energy between the countries in the eastern Mediterranean contributing thus to peace and economic prosperity for the people.
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers export opportunities for EU private and public companies in clean, secure and efficient energy technologies and for storage technologies for energy from renewable sources as particularly important, especially in the in light of the growing global energy demand; cCalls for significant tariff reductions on these technologies within the Green Goods initiative.
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that its objectives and activities in the field of energy security are consistent with the common EU policy objectives, in particular with regard to international peace and development, and that integrating countries into the world economy includes also their access to energy.
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission to make certain that EU candidate countries fully comply with their commitments towards achieving the environmental acquis communautaire; demands from the Commission to intervene into recent heavy third party investment proposals into highly pollutant and out-dated coal power plants in several candidate countries;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Deeply deplores the Commission’s announcement in the Energy Union Communication to prepare legislation creating a common energy capacity mechanism, which would force Member States investing in a modernisation of their energy supplies to co-finance the extended usage of out- dated and unsustainable power plants in few other Member States;