31 Amendments of Sari ESSAYAH related to 2012/0288(COD)
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) Article 17 of Directive 2009/28/EC establishes sustainability criteria that biofuels and bioliquids need to comply with in order to be counted towards the targets in the Directive and to qualify for inclusion in public support schemes. These criteria include requirements concerning the protection of biodiversity-rich land and land with high carbon stock. These criteria also include requirements on the minimum greenhouse gas emission savings that biofuels and bioliquids need to achieve compared to fossil fuels. Identical sustainability criteria are established for biofuels under Article 7b of Directive 98/70/EC.
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Where pasture or agricultural land previously destined for the food, feed and fibre markets is diverted to biofuel production, the non-fuel demand will still need to be satisfied either through intensification of current production or by bringing non-agricultural land into production elsewhere. The latter case represents indirect land-use change and when it involves the conversion of high carbon stock land it can lead to significant greenhouse gas emissions. Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC should therefore include provisions to address indirect land use change given that current biofuels are mainly produced from crops grown on existing agricultural land. The aim of this Directive should be to tackle these problems and promote the use of non- food feedstocks as biofuel feedstocks.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) This proposal focuses on the potential adverse effects of the production and use of biofuels in the European Union, while taking into account the fact that other land-use related issues for instance are handled in other legislative instruments as well as climate impact issues not related to land-use.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure the long-term competitiveness of bio-based industrial sectors, and in line with the 2012 Communication "Innovating for Sustainable growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe" and the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe, promoting integrated and diversified biorefineries across Europe, enhanced incentives under Directive 2009/28/EC should be set in a way that gives preference to the use of biomass feedstocks that do not have a high economic value for other uses than second generation and advanced biofuels.
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) As waste and by-products are defined by Directive 2008/98/EC of 19 November 2008 on waste, the same definitions should apply to this Directive.
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The 5% limit set up in Article 3(4)d does not affect the Member States' freedom to arrange their own trajectory as to compliance with this prescribed share of conventional biofuels within the overall 10% target. As a consequence, the access to the market of the biofuels produced by the installations in operation before the end of 2013 remains fully open. Therefore this amending directive does not affect the legitimate expectations of the operators of such installations. Second generation biofuels should, however, have a share of more than 5%.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) Forests provide a wide variety of environmental, economic and social benefits and services of key importance to humanity, such as maintaining biodiversity, providing low emission feedstocks and ecosystem functions and protecting the climate system. Sustainability criteria for forest-based biomass already exists in RES-directive and the European Commission will also make further recommendations concerning the sustainability criteria for solid biomass in order to address the concerns regarding the growing demand of imported wood biomass. EU Member States have the relevant instruments and regulations in place which safeguard the sustainability of forest biomass. In order to avoid double regulation and bureaucratic burden it is not necessary to define new sustainability criteria for forest biomass in this directive.
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 1 a (new)
Article 2 – point 1 a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 2 – point p a (new)
Article 2 – point p a (new)
1a. In Article 2, the following point is inserted: "(pa) "processing residue" is a substance that is not the end product(s) that the production process directly seeks to produce. It is not a primary aim of the production process and the process has not been deliberately modified to produce it."
Amendment 375 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 1 – point i
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 1 – point i
(i) biofuels produced from feedstocks listed in Part A of Annex IX shall be considered to be four timestwice their energy content;
Amendment 377 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 1 – point ii
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 1 – point ii
Amendment 382 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 1 – point iii
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 1 – point iii
(iii) renewable liquid and gaseous fuels of non-biological origin shall be considered to be four timestwice their energy content.
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 2
Amendment 399 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 3 a (new)
In order to promote technologies and processes which provide high greenhouse gas savings without causing indirect land use change the energy content of those biofuels and bioliquids reaching at least 75% greenhouse gas emission savings and using feedstocks whose estimated indirect land-use change emissions are considered to be zero as described in Annex V Part B shall be considered twice in the national accounting.
Amendment 508 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 1 – point b a (new)
Annex II – point 1 – point b a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex V – part C – point 16
Annex V – part C – point 16
(ba) point 16 is replaced by the following: 16. Emission saving from excess electricity or excess heat from cogeneration [...] shall be taken into account in relation to the excess electricity or excess heat produced by fuel production systems that use cogeneration except where the fuel used for the cogeneration is a co-product other than an agricultural crop residue. In accounting for that excess electricity or excess heat, the size of the cogeneration unit shall be assumed to be the minimum necessary for the cogeneration unit to supply the heat or electricity that is needed to produce the fuel. The greenhouse gas emission saving associated with that excess electricity or excess heat shall be taken to be equal to the amount of greenhouse gas that would be emitted when an equal amount of electricity or heat was generated in a power plant using the same fuel as the cogeneration unit.
Amendment 542 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point b
Annex IX – part A – point b
(b) Biomass fraction of mixed municipal waste, including separated biowaste, but not other separated household waste and waste paper subject to recycling targets under Article 11(2)(a) of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives.
Amendment 545 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point c
Annex IX – part A – point c
(c) Biomass fraction of industrial waste, retail and wholesale waste and process residues, but not waste subject to separate collection under Article 11(1) of Directive 2008/98/EC.
Amendment 554 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point g
Annex IX – part A – point g
(g) Tall oil pitchBlack liquor and its derivatives, such as lignin and tall oil pitch, excluding those for which a more valuable commercial use exists according to the waste hierarchy, like crude tall oil.
Amendment 564 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point n
Annex IX – part A – point n
(n) Bark, branchesTimber harvesting residues, such as bark, branches, crown mass, small-sized wood, leaves, saw dust and cutter shavings.
Amendment 567 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point n a (new)
Annex IX – part A – point n a (new)
(na) Residue from biochemical production.
Amendment 568 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point n b (new)
Annex IX – part A – point n b (new)
(nb) Mash.
Amendment 569 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point n c (new)
Annex IX – part A – point n c (new)
(nc) Excess yeast.
Amendment 570 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
(nd) Whey.
Amendment 574 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point n e (new)
Annex IX – part A – point n e (new)
(ne) Used cooking oil.
Amendment 577 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point n f (new)
Annex IX – part A – point n f (new)
(nf) Animal fats classified as category I and II in accordance with EC/1774/2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption1. __________________ 1 OJ L 273, 10.10.2002, p. 1
Amendment 580 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point n g (new)
Annex IX – part A – point n g (new)
(ng) Non-food cellulosic material.
Amendment 584 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part A – point n h (new)
Annex IX – part A – point n h (new)
(nh) Ligno-cellulosic material except saw logs, veneer logs and pulpwood.
Amendment 590 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part B – title
Annex IX – part B – title
Amendment 595 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part B – point a
Annex IX – part B – point a
Amendment 600 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part B – point b
Annex IX – part B – point b
Amendment 604 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part B – point c
Annex IX – part B – point c
Amendment 612 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – part B – point d
Annex IX – part B – point d