11 Amendments of Rolandas PAKSAS related to 2011/0172(COD)
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) A number of municipalities and other public bodies in the Member States have already put into place integrated approaches to energy saving and energy supply, for example via sustainable energy action plans, such as those developed under the Covenant of Mayors initiative, and integrated urban approaches which go beyond individual interventions in buildings or transport modes. Member States should encourage municipalities and other public bodies to adopt integrated and sustainable energy efficiency plans with clear objectives, to involve citizens in their development and implementation, in order to design ‘’low energy cities and regions’’. This concept of ‘’low energy cities and regions'' considers energy issues as an essential component of urban and regional development embedded in local democratic and governance processes. As a precondition to local integrated and sustainable energy efficiency plans, Member States should encourage local authorities to define such local development strategies based on a dialogue with local public, commercial and social stakeholders, including social partners. Member States should encourage municipalities and other public bodies to adopt integrated and sustainable energy efficiency plans with clear objectives, to involve local stakeholders, including social partners and citizens in their development and implementation to provide education and training programmes to workers and entrepreneurs to help them develop the required skills, and to adequately inform them and citizens about their content and progress in achieving objectives. Such plans can yield considerable energy savings, especially if they are implemented by energy management systems that allow the concerned public bodies to better manage their energy consumption. Exchange of experience between cities, towns and other public bodies as well as with and between social partners should be encouraged with respect to the more innovative experiences.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 a (new)
Article 2 a (new)
The financing facilities shall: (a) use this money to generate the highest leverage possible of private capital, in particular drawing on institutional investors, while using criteria ensuring the achievement of both environmental and social objectives for the grant of funds; (b) provide financial tools (e.g. … credit lines, third party financing systems) that reduce both the perceived and the actual risks of energy efficiency projects, and allow for cost effective renovations even among low and medium revenue households; (c) provide appropriate resources to support training and certification programmes, which improve and accredit skills for energy efficiency; (d) provide appropriate resources to support social dialogue and standard settings aiming at improving energy efficiency and ensuring good working conditions and health and safety at work.
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall support bodies governed by public law to undertake deep renovations of 3% of the total floor area they own each year, as well as to play their role to the full in achieving the objectives of the Directive, whether on energy audits, energy performance contracts, aid and incentives for improving the energy efficiency of housing, industry and services, or aid for the installation of combined heat and power facilities.
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Member States contribute i.a. through adequate financing of training programmes, to ensuring that information and consultation rights explicitly extend to include energy efficiency.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 10 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. The Commission contributes, i.a. through inclusion of a chapter dedicated to energy efficiency in training programmes for social partners and through adequate financing of these programmes, to ensuring that the remit of European social dialogue bodies (European Works’ Councils, European sectorial social dialogue committees, European works’ councils employment- skills) is extended to include energy efficiency.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Member States shall examine to what extent and under what conditions the benchmarking instruments for emissions of CO2 and other polluting gases [BREF documents drawn up by the Seville-based IPTS (Institute For Prospective Technological Studies) as background material for the former IPPC Directive and the 2010 Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), also used for the ETS system, and which include energy efficiency references] could become binding and be drawn up in the framework of a system of governance involving all players concerned, among which employers, trade unions and NGOs.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Member States shall encouragesure that public bodies to:
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point b a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point b a (new)
(b a)(c) the contents and frame of these plans shall be defined at national level and developed and adopted at regional and local level, adapted to the specificities of the public bodies;
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point b b (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point b b (new)
(b b) the energy efficiency plans adopted by the regional and local public bodies should be legally binding.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall set up an energy efficiency obligation scheme. This scheme or take other measures to achieve energy savings among final customers. Either the obligation scheme or the other measures shall ensure that either all energy distributors or all retail energy sales companies or other relevant party operating on the Member State's territory achieve annual energy savings equal to 1.5% of theitake measures which represent energy savings equivalent [adjusted to average years and other relevant factors like economic growth] to 4.5% of their energy distributed or energy sales, by volume, in the previous three years in that Member State excluding energy used. Member States may include measures in the transport. This amount of energy savings shall be achieved by the obligated parties among final custo sector in their national schemers.
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Member States shall ensure that energy distributors and retailers can participate in this market.