81 Amendments of Olle LUDVIGSSON related to 2016/0382(COD)
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) On 12th December 2015, the EU agreed together with other nations on the Paris Agreement on climate action, which the EU successfully ratified on 4th October 2016 and which entered into force on 4th November 2016. The objectives of the global agreement commit the EU to further action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to reassess its contribution to the global commitment of limiting the increase of atmospheric temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The revision of this Directive must be in line with the EU's obligations as a party of the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) National binding targets have been straightforward measurable indicators against which progress can be measured to assess the effectiveness of the measures included in this Directive.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) It is thus appropriate to establish a Union binding target of at least 2740% share of renewable energy. Member States should define their contribution to the achievement of this target as part of their Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans through the governance process set out in Regulation [Governance], to be accompanied by national binding targets.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) It is thus appropriate to establish a Union binding target of at least 2740% share of renewable energy. Member States should define their contribution to the achievement of this target as part of their Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans through the governance process set out in Regulation [Governance], to be accompanied by national binding targets.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In order to support Member States' ambitious contributions to the Union in reaching their targets, a financial framework aiming to facilitate investments in renewable energy projects in those Member States should be established, also through the use of financial instruments.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The Commission should facilitate the exchange of best practices between the competent national or regional and local authorities or bodies, for instance through regular meetings to find a common approach to promote a higher uptake of cost-efficient renewable energy projects, encourage investments in new, flexible and clean technologies, and set out an adequate strategy to manage the retirement of technologies which do not contribute to the reduction of emissions or deliver sufficient flexibility, based on transparent criteria and reliable market price signals.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Electricity generation from renewable sources, including energy storage, should be deployed at the lowest possible cost for consumers and taxpayers. When designing support schemes and when allocating support, Member States should seek to minimise the overall system cost of deployment, taking full account of grid and system development needs, the resulting energy mix, and the long term potential of technologies.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The opening of support schemes to cross-border participation limits negative impacts on the internal energy market and can, under certain conditions, help Member States achieve the Union target more cost- efficiently. Cross-border participation is also the natural corollary to the development of the Union renewables policy, with a Union-level binding target replacaccompanying national binding targets. It is therefore appropriate to require Member States to progressively and partially open support to projects located in other Member States, and define several ways in which such progressive opening may be implemented, ensuring compliance with the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, including Articles 30, 34 and 110.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Member States should take additional measures in the event that the share of renewables at the Union level does not meet the Union trajectory towards the at least 2740% renewable energy target. As set out in Regulation [Governance], if an ambition gap is identified by the Commission during the assessment of the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans, the Commission may take measures at Union level in order to ensure the achievement of the target. If a delivery gap is identified by the Commission during the assessment of the Integrated National Energy and Climate Progress Reports, Member States should apply the measures set out in Regulation [Governance], which are giving them enough flexibility to choose.
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) To create opportunities for reducing the cost of meeting the Union targets laid down in this Directive and to give flexibility to Member States to comply with their obligation not to go below their 2020 national targets after 2020, it is appropriate both to facilitate the consumption in Member States of energy produced from renewable sources in other Member States, and to enable Member States to count energy from renewable sources consumed in other Member States towards their own renewable energy share. For this reason, cooperation mechanisms are required to complement the obligations to open up support to projects located in other Member States. Those mechanisms include statistical transfers, joint projects between Member States or joint support schemes.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Member States should be encouraged to pursue all appropriate forms of cooperation in relation to the objectives set out in this Directive. Such cooperation can take place at all levels, bilaterally or multilaterally. Apart from the mechanisms with effect on target renewable energy share calculation and target compliance, which are exclusively provided for in this Directive, namely statistical transfers between Member States, joint projects and joint support schemes, cooperation should also take place within the framework of macro-regional partnership as established by Regulation [Governance] and can also take the form of, for example, exchanges of information and best practices, as provided for, in particular, in the e-platform established by Regulation [Governance], and other voluntary coordination between all types of support schemes. The European Commission's Trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E) strategy should support the objectives of this Directive and set out additional incentives for cross-border cooperation as well as regional cooperation between Member States in the area of renewable energy.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) It should be possible for imported electricity, produced from renewable energy sources outside the Union to count towards Member States’ renewable energy sharestargets. In order to guarantee an adequate effect of energy from renewable sources replacing conventional energy in the Union as well as in third countries it is appropriate to ensure that such imports can be tracked and accounted for in a reliable way. Agreements with third countries concerning the organisation of such trade in electricity from renewable energy sources will be considered. If, by virtue of a decision taken under the Energy Community Treaty18 to that effect, the contracting parties to that Treaty are bound by the relevant provisions of this Directive, the measures of cooperation between Member States provided for in this Directive should be applicable to them. __________________ 18 OJ L 198, 20.7.2006, p. 18.
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53
Recital 53
(53) With the growing importance of self-consumption of renewable electricity, there is a need for a definition of renewable self-consumers and a regulatory framework which would empower self-consumers to generate, store, consume and sell electricity without facing disproportionate burdens. Collective self-consumption should be allowed in certain cases so thatfor citizens living in apartments who for example can benefit from consumer empowerment to the same extent as households in single family homes.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53 a (new)
Recital 53 a (new)
(53a) Since energy poverty affects around 11% of the population and around 50 million households of the Union, renewable energy policies have an essential role to play in addressing energy poverty and consumer vulnerability.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53 b (new)
Recital 53 b (new)
(53b) Member States should therefore actively support policies that focus especially on low-income households at risk of energy poverty or in social housing.
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 101
Recital 101
(101) Since the objectives of this Directive, namely to achieve at least 2740% share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy by 2030, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Directive establishes a common framework for the promotion of energy from renewable sources. It sets a binding Unionminimum targets for the overall share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy in 2030. It also lays down rules on financial support to electricity produced from renewable sources, self-consumption of renewable electricity, andThe Union target is to be collectively achieved by Member States through binding national targets. It also lays down rules on financial support to electricity produced from renewable sources and access to the electricity grid for energy from renewable sources, self-consumption of renewable electricity, renewable energy communities and their cross-border cooperation, renewable energy use in the heating and cooling and transport sectors, regional cooperation between Member States and with third countries, guarantees of origin, administrative procedures and information and training. It establishes sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels.
Amendment 296 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) ‘biomass’ means the biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from biological origin from agriculture, including vegetal and animal substances, forestry and related industries including fisheries and aquaculture, as well as the biodegradable fraction of waste, including industrial and municipal waste of biological originmaterial of biological origin excluding peat and material embedded in geological formations and/or transformed to fossil;
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 101
Recital 101
(101) Since the objectives of this Directive, namely to achieve at least 2740% share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy by 2030, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) ‘biomass’ means the biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from biological origin from agriculture, including vegetal and animal substances, forestry and related industries including fisheries and aquaculture, as well as the biodegradable fraction of waste, including industrial and municipal waste of biological originmaterial of biological origin excluding peat and material embedded in geological formations and/or transformed to fossil ;
Amendment 381 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – title
Article 3 – title
Union and national binding overall targets for 2030
Amendment 385 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall collectively ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in the Union’s gross final consumption of energy in 2030 is at least 2740%.
Amendment 391 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Amendment 398 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 5
Article 3 – paragraph 5
Amendment 399 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3a Mandatory national overall targets Each Member State shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources, calculated in accordance with Articles 7 to 13, in gross final consumption of energy in 2030, is equal to at least its national overall target for the share of energy from renewable sources in that year, as set out in the third column of the table in part A of Annex I. Such mandatory national overall targets shall be consistent with a target of at least a 40 % share of energy from renewable sources in the Union’s gross final consumption of energy in 2030. In order to achieve the targets laid down in this Article more easily, each Member State shall promote and encourage energy efficiency and energy saving.
Amendment 403 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Subject to State aid rules, iIn order to reach the Union and national targets set in Article 3(1) or to achieve higher targets, Member States may apply support schemes. Support schemes for electricity from renewable sources shall be designed so as to avoid unnecessary distortions of electricity markets and ensure that producers take into account the supply and demand of electricity as well as possible grid constraints.
Amendment 455 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
For the calculation of a Member State’s gross final consumption of energy from renewable energy sources, the contribution from biofuels and bioliquids, as well as from biomass fuels consumed in transport, if produced from food or feed crops, excluding low indirect land-use change- risk biofuels as defined in Article 2 (u) and pure or high-blend biofuels used in dedicated vehicles, shall be no more than 7% of final consumption of energy in road and rail transport in that Member State. This limit shall be reduced to 3,8% in 2030 following the trajectory set out in part A of Annex X. Member States may set a lower limit and may distinguish between different types of biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from food and feed crops, for instance by setting a lower limit for the contribution from food or feed crop based biofuels produced from oil crops, taking into account indirect land use change.
Amendment 485 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall collectively ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy in 2030 is at least 2740%.
Amendment 486 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) deducted from the amount of energy from renewable sources that is taken into account in measuring the renewable energy sharecompliance with the national target of the Member State making the transfer for the purposes of this Directive; and
Amendment 487 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) added to the amount of energy from renewable sources that is taken into account in measuring the renewable energy share ofcompliance with the national target of the Member State accepting the transfer for the purposes of this Directive .
Amendment 489 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) deducted from the amount of electricity or heating or cooling from renewable energy sources that is taken into account, in measuring the renewable energy sharecompliance with the national target of the Member State issuing the letter of notification under paragraph 1; and
Amendment 490 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Electricity from renewable energy sources produced in a third country shall be taken into account only for the purposes of measuring compliance with Member States' renewable energy sharetargets if the following conditions are met:
Amendment 494 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. Member States' respective contributionbinding targets to this overall 2030 target shall be set and notified to the Commission as part of their Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans in accordance with Articles 3 to 5 and Articles 9 to 11 of Regulation [Governance].
Amendment 500 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Member States shall ensure via their permit or concession granting processes that by 31 December 2020 all fuel stations along the roads of the core network established by Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 ('TEN-T Core Network') are equipped with public accessible charging points for electric vehicles. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 32 to extend the scope of this paragraph to fuels falling under Article 25.
Amendment 504 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 6
Article 18 – paragraph 6
6. Member States, with the participation of local and regional authorities, shall develop suitable information, awareness-raising, guidance or training programmes in order to inform citizens of the benefits and practicalities of developing and using energy from renewable sources, including by self- consumption or in the framework of renewable energy communities, as well as of the benefits of cooperation mechanisms between Member States and different kinds of cross-border cooperation.
Amendment 516 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) shareholders or members are natural persons, regional or local authorities, including municipalities, or SMEs operating in the fields or renewable energy;
Amendment 553 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. With effect from 1 January 2021, Member States shall requireensure that fuel suppliers to include a minimum share of energy from advanced biofuels and other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX, from renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, from waste- based fossil fuels and from renewable electricity in the total amount of transport fuels they supply for consumption or use on the market in the course of a calendar year.
Amendment 569 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 610 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – subparagraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – subparagraph 1
(b) for the calculation of the numerator, the energy content of advanced biofuels and other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX, renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, waste based fossil fuels supplied to all transport sectors, and renewable electricity supplied to road vehicles, shall be taken into account.
Amendment 621 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shallmay open support for electricity generated from renewable sources to generators located in other Member States under the conditions laid down in this Article.
Amendment 630 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure that support for at least 10% of the newly- supported capacity in each year between 2021 and 2025 and at least 15% of the newly-supported capacitmay opt to apply the provision above only to installations located in Member States to which they are directly lin each year between 2026 and 2030 is open to installations located in other Member Statesked by interconnectors or to Member States where such an opening is expected to lead to a more cost effective deployment of renewable electricity production.
Amendment 693 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
However, biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from forest biomass from thinnings and biodiversity enhancing management activities, waste and residues, other than agricultural, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry residues, need only fulfil the greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria set out in paragraph 7 in order to be taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of this paragraph. This provision shall also apply to waste and residues that are first processed into a product before being further processed into biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels.
Amendment 715 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 3
Article 15 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that investors have sufficient predictability of the planned support for energy from renewable sources. To this aim, Member States shall define and publish a long-term schedule in relation to expected allocation for support, covering at least the following threfive years and including for each scheme the indicative timing, the capacity, the budget expected to be allocated,main parameters as well as a consultation of stakeholders on the design of the support.
Amendment 724 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 4
Article 15 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensurcourage that their competent authorities at national, regional and local level include provisions for the integration and deployment of renewable energy and the use of unavoidable waste heat or cold when planning, designing, building and renovating urban infrastructure, industrial or residential areas and energy infrastructure, including electricity, district heating and cooling, natural gas and alternative fuel networks.
Amendment 737 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 4
Article 26 – paragraph 4
4. Biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from agricultural biomass taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 shall not be made from raw material obtained from land that was peatland in January 2008, unless evidence is provided that the cultivation and harvesting of raw material does not involve drainage of previously undrained soil.
Amendment 752 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point i
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point i
i) harvesting is carried out in accordance to the conditions of the harvesting permit or equivalent procedure within legally gazetted boundaries;
Amendment 758 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point iii
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point iii
iii) areas of highdesignated, by law or the relevant competent national authority, for nature conservation valuepurposes, including wetlands and peatlands, are protected;
Amendment 774 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point iv
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point iv
iv) the impacts ofduring forest harvesting on soil quality and biodiversity are minimised; and
Amendment 781 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point v
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point v
v) harvesting does not exceed the long-term production capacity of the forests;
Amendment 791 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – introductory part
(b) when evidence referred to in the first subparagraph is not available, the biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from forest biomass shall be taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 if management systems or equivalent procedure are in place at forest holding level to ensure that:
Amendment 795 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – point i
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – point i
i) the forest biomass has been harvested according to a legal permit or equivalent procedure within legally gazetted boundaries;
Amendment 805 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – point iii
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – point iii
iii) areas of highdesignated, by law or the relevant competent national authority, for nature conservation valuepurposes, including peatlands and wetlands, are identified and protected;
Amendment 819 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – point iv
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – point iv
iv) impacts ofduring forest harvesting on soil quality and biodiversity are minimised;
Amendment 826 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 1
1. For the purposes of proving to final customers the share or quantity of energy from renewable sources in an energy supplier’s energy mix and in the energy supplied to consumers under contracts marketed with reference to the consumption of energy from renewable sources , Member States shall ensure that the origin of energlectricity produced from renewable energy sources can be guaranteed as such within the meaning of this Directive, in accordance with objective, transparent and non- discriminatory criteria.
Amendment 828 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – point v
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point b – point v
v) harvesting does not exceed the long-term production capacity of the forests.
Amendment 831 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
To that end, Member States shall ensure that a guarantee of origin is issued in response to a request from a producer of energlectricity from renewable sources. Member States may arrange for guarantees of origin to be issued for gas or heating and cooling from renewable sources as well as for electricity, gas or heating and cooling from non-renewable energy sources. Issuance of guarantees of origin may be made subject to a minimum capacity limit. A guarantee of origin shall be of the standard size of 1 MWh. No more than one guarantee of origin shall be issued in respect of each unit of energy produced.
Amendment 848 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 19 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall ensurmay provide that no guarantees of origin are issued to a producer that receives financial support from a support scheme for the same production of energy from renewable sources. Member States shallmay issue such guarantees of origin and transfer them to the market by auctioning them. The revenues raised as a result of the auctioning shall be used to offset the costs of renewables support.
Amendment 852 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 4
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 4
Amendment 856 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 3
Article 19 – paragraph 3
3. For the purpoAny uses of paragraph 1,a guarantees of origin shall be valid with respect to the calendar year in which the energy unit is produced. Six months after the end of each calendar year, Member States shall ensure that all guarantees of origin from the previous calendar year that have not been cancelled shall expire. Expired guarantees of origin shall be included by Member States in the calculationtake place within 12 months of production of the corresponding energy unit. A guarantee of origin shall be cancelled once it has been used. Member States shall set a date after the end of each calendar year after which any cancellation of guarantees of origin related to a production period from this previous calendar year should count for disclosure of the residunext cal energy mixdar year.
Amendment 858 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 4
Article 19 – paragraph 4
Amendment 862 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point a
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point a
(a) at least 50 % for biofuels, biogas consumed in transport and bioliquids produced in installations in operation on or before 5 October 2015;
Amendment 865 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point b
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point b
(b) at least 60 % for biofuels, biogas consumed in transport and bioliquids produced in installations starting operation from 5 October 2015;
Amendment 870 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point c
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point c
(c) at least 70 % for biofuels, biogas consumed in transport and bioliquids produced in installations starting operation after 1 January 2021;
Amendment 870 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 8
Article 19 – paragraph 8
8. Where an electricity supplier is required to prove the share or quantity of energy from renewable sources in its energy mix for the purposes of Article 3 of Directive 2009/72/EC, it shallmay do so by using guarantees of origin. Where Member States have arranged to have guarantees of origin for other types of energy, suppliers shall always use for disclosure the same type of guarantees of origin as the energy supplied. Likewise, guarantees of origin created pursuant to Article 14(10) of Directive 2012/27/EC shallmay be used to substantiate any requirement to prove the quantity of electricity produced from high- efficiency cogeneration. Member States shall ensure that transmission losses are fully taken into account whenIn relation to paragraph 2, where electricity is generated from cogeneration using renewable sources only one guarantees of origin are used to demonstrate consumption of renewable energy or electricity from high efficiency cogenerationmay be issued specifying both characteristics.
Amendment 879 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 13
Article 19 – paragraph 13
13. Where energy suppliers market energy from renewable sources or high- efficiency cogeneration to customers with a reference to environmental or other benefits of energy from renewable sources or from high-efficiency cogeneration , Member States shallmay require those energy suppliers to use guarantees of origin to disclose the amount or share of energy from renewable sources or from high efficiency cogeneration
Amendment 905 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 9
Article 26 – paragraph 9
9. For the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1, Member States shall not refuse to take into account, on other sustainability grounds, biofuels, biomass fuels and bioliquids obtained in compliance with this Article.
Amendment 911 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 10
Article 26 – paragraph 10
Amendment 926 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 27 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. Member States shall take measures to ensure that economic operators submit reliable information regarding the compliance with the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria set out in Article 26(2) to (7) and make available to the Member State, on request, the data that were used to develop the information. Member States shall require economic operators to arrange for an adequate standard of independent auditing of the information submitted, and to provide evidence that this has been done. First or second party auditing may be used up to the first gathering point of the biomass. The auditing shall verify that the systems used by economic operators are accurate, reliable and protected against fraud. It shall evaluate the frequency and methodology of sampling and the robustness of the data.
Amendment 938 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 27 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
5. The Commission shall adopt decisions under paragraph 4 only if the scheme in question meets adequate standards of reliability, transparency and independent auditing. In the case of schemes to measure greenhouse gas emission saving, such schemes shall also comply with the methodological requirements in Annex V or Annex VI. Lists of areas of high biodiversity valuedesignated, by law or by relevant competent national authority for nature conservation purposes, as referred to in Article 26(2)(b)(ii) shall meet adequate standards of objectivity and coherence with internationally recognised standards and provide for appropriate appeal procedures.
Amendment 941 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Article 27 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
In order to ensure that compliance with the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria is verified in an efficient and harmonised manner and in particular to prevent fraud, the Commission may specify detailed implementing rules, including adequate standards of reliability, transparency and independent auditing and require all voluntary schemes to apply those standards. When specifying these standards, the Commission shall pay special attention to the need to minimize administrative burden, thus allowing first or second party auditing up to the first gathering point of the biomass. This shall be done by means of implementing acts adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 31 (3). Such acts shall set a time frame by which voluntary schemes need to implement the standards. The Commission may repeal decisions recognising voluntary schemes in the event that those schemes fail to implement such standards in the time frame provided for.
Amendment 961 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 2
Article 28 – paragraph 2
2. Member States may submit to the Commission reports including information on the typical greenhouse gas emissions from cultivation of agricultural and forestry raw materials of those areas on their territory classified as level 2 in the nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) or as a more disaggregated NUTS level in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council35 The reports shall be accompanied by a description of the method and data sources used to calculate the level of emissions. That method shall take into account soil characteristics, climate and expected raw material yields. __________________ 35 Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1).
Amendment 962 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 28 – paragraph 4
Article 28 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission may decide, by means of an implementing act adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 31(2), that the reports referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article contain accurate data for the purposes of measuring the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the cultivation of agriculture and forestry biomass feedstocks produced in the areas included in such reports for the purposes of Article 26(7). These data may therefore be used instead of the disaggregated default values for cultivation laid down in part D or E of Annex V for biofuels and bioliquids and in Part C of Annex VI for biomass fuels.
Amendment 1038 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex IX – Part A – point h
Annex IX – Part A – point h
(h) Tall oil and tall oil pitch.
Amendment 1044 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex IX – Part A – point o
Annex IX – Part A – point o
(o) Biomass fraction of wastes and residues from forestry and forest-based industries, i.e. bark, branches, pre- commercial thinnings, leaves, needles, tree tops, saw dust, cutter shavings, black liquor, brown liquor, fibre sludge, lignin and tall oil.
Amendment 1104 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 1
Article 24 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that district heating and cooling suppliers provide information to end-consumcontractual partners on their energy performance and the share of renewable energy in their systems. Such information shall be in accordance with standards used under Directive 2010/31/EU.
Amendment 1114 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall lay down the necessary measures to allow customers of those district heating or cooling systems which are not 'efficient district heating and cooling' within the meaning of Article 2(41) of Directive 2012/27/EU to disconnect from the system in order to produce heating or cooling from renewable energy sources themselves, or to switch to another supplier of heat or cold which has access to the system referred to in paragraph 4.
Amendment 1129 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 4
Article 24 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shallmay lay down the necessary measures to ensure non- discriminatory access to district heating or cooling systems for heat or cold produced from renewable energy sources and for waste heat or cold. This non-discriminatory access shall enable direct supply of heating or cooling from such sources to customers connected to the district heating or cooling system by suppliers other than the operator of the district heating or cooling system.
Amendment 1134 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 5
Article 24 – paragraph 5
5. AnIn Member States with non- discriminatory access to district heating or cooling systems by suppliers other than the operator of the system the operator of a district heating or cooling system may refuse access to suppliers where the system lacks the necessary capacity due to other supplies of waste heat or cold, of heat or cold from renewable energy sources or of heat or cold produced by high-efficiency cogeneration. Member States shall ensure that where such a refusal takes place the operator of the district heating or cooling system provides relevant information to the competent authority according to paragraph 9 on measures that would be necessary to reinforce the system.
Amendment 1138 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 6
Article 24 – paragraph 6
Amendment 1146 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 7
Article 24 – paragraph 7
7. The right to disconnect or switch supplier may be exercised by individual customers, by joint undertakings formed by customers or by parties acting on the behalf of customers. For multi-apartment blocks, such disconnection may only be exercised at whole building level.
Amendment 1147 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 8
Article 24 – paragraph 8
8. Member States shallmay require electricity distribution system operators to assess at least biennially, in cooperation with the operators of district heating or cooling systems in their respective area, the potential of district heating or cooling systems to provide balancing and other system services, including demand response and storing of excess electricity produced from renewable sources and if the use of the identified potential would be more resource- and cost-efficient than alternative solutions.