16 Amendments of Olle LUDVIGSSON related to 2015/0149(COD)
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Improving the efficiency of energy- related products through informed consumer choice benefits the Union economy overall, drives innovation and willreduces energy demand thereby contributing to energy security, allows consumers to save money on their energy bills, incentivises research and innovation, thereby giving competitive advantage to industries which develop and produce the most energy efficient products. It also contributes to the achievement of the Union's 2020 and 2030 energy efficiency targets. It will also allow consumers to save money.
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The conclusions of the European Council of 23 and 24 October 2014 set an indicative target at Union level of at least 27% for improving energy efficiency in 2030 compared to projections of future energy consumption. This target will be reviewed by 2020 having in mind an Union level of 30%. They European Parliament has repeatedly called for a binding energy efficiency target of 40 %, most recently in its resolution on the Energy Union strategy of 15 December 2015. The European Council also set a binding EU target of at least 40% domestic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 compared to 1990, including a 30% reduction of emissions in non-ETS sectors.
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Manufacturers respond to the energy label by creating ever more efficient products. This technological development leads to products populating mainly the highest classes of the energy label. Further product differentiation may be necessary to allow customers a proper comparison, leading to the need to rescale labels. For the frequency of such rescaling a timescale of approximately ten years would be appropriate, taking into account the need to avoid over burdening manufacturers. This Regulation should therefore lay down detailed arrangements for rescalingshould be based on the need to provide strong incentives for manufacturers to improve energy efficiency, to maintain long term relevance of the labelling for consumers and to avoid over burdening manufacturers when rescaling is not yet needed for these purposes. This Regulation should therefore lay down detailed arrangements for rescaling, aiming at covering approximately ten years of progress in energy efficiency for each product group, in order to maximise legal certainty for suppliers and dealers. A newly rescaled label should have enough empty top classes to encourage technological progress over the projected timeframe for the label and enable ever more efficient products to be developed and recognised. When a label is rescaled, confusion to customers should be avoided by replacing all energy labels within a short timeframe.
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In order to facilitate the monitoring of compliance and to provide up-to-date market data for the regulatory process on revisions of product-specific labels and information sheets, suppliers should provide their product compliance information electronically in a database established by the Commission. Where some technical information is so sensitive that it is inappropriate to include it in the category of technical documentation as detailed in the relevant implementing acts, market surveillance authorities should retain the power to access this information when necessary in accordance with the duty of cooperation on suppliers. The information should be made publicly available to provide information for customers and to allow for alternative ways for dealers to receive labels. Market surveillance authorities should have access to the information in the database.
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16 a (new)
Recital 16 a (new)
(16a) The public interface of the database should develop into a useful tool in order to enable consumers to easily find and compare selected information of any energy-related product allowing them to identify and choose the most energy efficient products. The information available should be searchable, downloadable and allow for easy filtering by separated variables. The data should be available through open standards for the use of third party developers of applications which could help improve product comparison sites.
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) Second hand products;Products that were put into service and made available on the market for a second or additional time
Amendment 319 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 6
(6) 'Manufacturer' means any natural or legal person who manufactures an energy- related product or has such a product designed or manufactured, and markets that energy- related product under his name or trademark;
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
(9) ‘Dealer’ means a retailer or other person who sells, hires, offers for hire purchase or displays energy related products to customers;
Amendment 454 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. Where Member States provide any incentives for an energy-related product covered by this Regulation and specified in a delegated act, these shall aim at the highest class of the most energy efficiencyt products available in the specific market at that time as laid down in the applicable delegated act.
Amendment 463 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. Member States shall shall lay down the rules on penalties and enforcement mechanisms applicable to infringements or for misleading commercial practices of the provisions of this Regulation and its delegated acts, and shall take all measures necessary to ensure that they are implemented. The penalties must be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall notify those provisions to the Commission by the date of application of this Regulation and shall notify without delay any subsequent amendment affecting them.
Amendment 504 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. Where tThe market surveillance authorities consider that non-compliance is not restricted to their national territory, they shall inform the Commission and the other Member States of the results of the evaluation and of the actions which they have required the supplier to take.
Amendment 532 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall ensure that, when a label is introduced or rescaled, the requirements are laid down so that no products are expected tothe estimated time within which a majority of models falls in energy classes A or B at the moment of the introduction of the label and so that thto the A and B classes shall be at least ten years later. In order to achieve this, each scale should be destimated time within which a majority of models falls into those classes shall be at least ten years laterigned so that an appropriate number of the energy classes are empty at the moment of the introduction of the label.
Amendment 542 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The Commission shall ensure that any rescaled label is visually different from the old label and that consumers can instantly recognise rescaled labels as new labels.
Amendment 546 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Labels shall be re-scaled periodicallyRe-scaled labels for existing product groups shall enter into force at the latest 3 years after the date of application of this Regulation. The rescaled labels for the product groups of washing machines, dishwashers, refrigerators and freezers, lamps and televisions for which the preparatory work has been finalised shall enter into force at the date of application of this Regulation. Re-scaled labels for the product groups which entered into force on 26 September 2013 shall enter into force at the date of application of this Regulation using the existing data without any additional preparatory studies and without leaving empty classes.
Amendment 617 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 b (new)
Amendment 647 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point g
Article 12 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – point g
(g) the content and, where appropriate, the format and other details concerning the technical documentation and product information sheet; For the technical documentation, to ensure the safeguarding of confidential information, it should be specified what information to be uploaded in the product database and what information to be made available on the request of Member States authorities and the Commission.