Activities of Jens ROHDE related to 2012/0288(COD)
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Fuel quality directive and renewable energy directive (A8-0025/2015 - Nils Torvalds) DA
Making the internal energy market work - Micro-generation (debate)
Making the internal energy market work - Micro-generation (debate)
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OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 98/70/EC relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and amending Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources
Amendments (28)
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Based on forecasts of biofuel demand provided by the Member States and estimates of indirect land-use change emissions for different biofuel feedstocks it is likelythere exists a risk that greenhouse gas emissions linked to indirect land use change are significant, and could negate some or all of the greenhouse gas savings of individual biofuels. This is because almost the entire biofuel production in 2020 is expected to come from crops grown on land that could be used to satisfy food and feed marketscould be significant. In order to reduce such emissions, it is appropriate to distinguish between crop groups such as oil crops, cereals, sugars and other starch containing crops as well as differentiate by regions accordingly.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) Liquid renewable fuels are likely to be required by the transport sector in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced biofuels, such as those made from wastes and algae, provide high greenhouse gas savings with low risk of causing indirect land use change and do not compete directly for agricultural land for the food and feed markets. It is appropriate, therefore, to encourage greater production of such advanced biofuels as these are currently not commercially available in large quantities, in part due to competition for public subsidies with established food crop based biofuel technologies. Further incentives should be provided by increasing the weighting of advanced biofuels towards 10% target. Further incentives should be provided by setting a separate target of 2.5% for advanced biofuels for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional biofuels. In this context, only advanced biofuels with low estimated low indirect land use change impacts and high overall greenhouse gas savings should be especially supported as part of the post 2020 renewable energy policy framework. However, to avoid market distortion and incentives for fraud also advanced biofuels should be complying with the same sustainability criteria as all other biofuels.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) To prepare for the transition towards advanced biofuels and minimise the overall indirect land use change impacts in the period to 2020, it is appropriate to limit the amount of biofuels and bioliquids obtained from food crops as set out in part A of Annex VIII to Directive 2009/28/EC and part A of Annex V to Directive 98/70/EC that can be counted towards targets set out in Directive 2009/28/EC. Without restricting the overall use of such biofuels, the share of biofuels and bioliquids produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugar and oil crops that can be counted towards the targets of Directive 2009/28/EC should be limited to the shareby introducing a 7.5% cap ofn such biofuels and bioliquids consumed in 2011.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) Considering that the present EU installed conventional ethanol production capacity is equal to 6% by energy of the expected 2020 gasoline market and that there is a legitimate need to protect the existing investments in conventional biofuel production capacity done in good faith and that there is the need to begin to commercialise ethanol from lignocellulose, a dedicated target of at least 10% renewable energy of the final consumption of energy in transport in petrol in 2020 should be introduced of which 8% should be from biofuel produced from sugars and starch crops.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The 7.5% 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.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The models used to estimated the indirect land-use change emissions should be included in the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from biofuelsof biofuels production deliver results with significant variations, limitations and undcer Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC. Biofuels made from feedstocks that do not lead to additional demand for land, such as those from waste feedstocks, should be assigned a zero emissions factortainties. The results of modelling emissions from indirect land-use change are therefore still too uncertain to be included in legislation.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The Commission should review the methodology for estimating land-use change emission factors included in Annexes VIII and V to Directives 2009/28/EC and 98/70/EC respectively in the light of adaptation to technical and scientific progress. To this end, and if warranted by the latest available scientific evidence, the Commission should consider the possibility of revising the proposed crop group indirect land-use change factors, as well as introducing factors at further levels of disaggregation and including additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to marketperiodically review the list of available advanced biofuels as laid down in Annex IX taking into account consolidated, peer-reviewed, technical and scientific progress – and continuously report on the development of models used to estimate land-use change emissions.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) Article 19(8) of Directive 2009/28/EC and Article 7d(8) of Directive 98/70/EC include provisions for encouraging the cultivation of biofuels in severely degraded and heavily contaminated land as an interim measure for mitigating against indirect land-use change. These provisions are no longer adequate in their current form Other ILUC mitigation measures, for example the use of co- products, yield increases, manufacturing efficiencies and production on vulnerable, aband oneed to be integrated in the approach laid outd or unused land, should be assessed by the Commission with the purpose of incorporating these measures into thise Directive to ensure that overall actions for minimising emission from indirect land-use change remain coherents in terms of a bonus or incorporating them positively into the iLUC models like the one already set out in Annex IV part C point 7 of Directive 98/70/EC and in Annex V part C point 7 of Directive 2009/28/EC for biomass obtained from restored degraded land.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 98/70/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly diverse grassland, the methodology for the calculation and reporting of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, the methodology for the calculation of indirect land-use change emissions, the permitted level related to the metallic additives content in fuels, the permitted analytical methods related to the fuel specifications and the vapour pressure waiver permitted for petrol containing bioethanol.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 2009/28/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the list of biofuel feedstocks that are counted multiple times towards the target set in Article 3(4)advanced biofuels, the energy content of transport fuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly biodiverse grassland, the methodology for the calculation of indirect land-use change emissions, and the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels and bioliquids.
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) The Commission should review the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive, based on the best and latest available scientific evidence, in limiting indirect land-use change greenhouse gas emissions and addressing ways to further minimise that impact, which could include the introduction of estimated indirect land-use change emission factors in the sustainability scheme as of 1st January 2021.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 6
Article 7a – paragraph 6
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – point -a (new)
Article 1 – point 2 – point -a (new)
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 1
Article 7b – paragraph 1
(-a) in paragraph 1 the second subparagraph is deleted.
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 –point b a (new)
Article 1 – point 2 –point b a (new)
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 7b – paragraph 5 a (new)
(ba) the following paragraph 5a is inserted:. "5a. Raw materials, used to produce biofuels and bioliquids, should not be taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 2 of article 7a if, in the year of the raw material production, the use of land covered by paragraphs 4 and 5 has been changed considerably."
Amendment 207 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point -i (new)
Article 2 – point 2 – point -i (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
(-i) the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: "Each Member State shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transport in 2020 is at least 10 % of the final consumption of energy in transport in that Member State, and shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in petrol in 2020 is at least 10 % of the final consumption of energy in petrol in that Member State."
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragrah 4 – point d
Article 3 – paragrah 4 – point d
(d) for the calculation of biofuels in the numerator, the share of energy from biofuels produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops shall be no more than 7.5%, the estimated share at the end of 2011, of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020. The share of energy from biofuels produced from cereal and other starch crops and sugars shall be 8% of the final consumption of energy in petrol in 2020.
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii a (new)
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point ii a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d a (new)
(iia) the following point (da) is added: "(da) The share of energy from biofuels produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX shall be at least 2.5% of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020 and the share of energy from biofuels produced from crops shall not be more than 7.5% of the final consumption of energy both in diesel and petrol in 2020."
Amendment 240 #
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 – point e – point i - iii
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – point i - iii
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point -i
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point -i
(-i) the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: Each Member State shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transport in 2020 is at least 10 % of the final consumption of energy in transport in that Member State, and shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in petrol in 2020 is at least 10 % of the final consumption of energy in petrol in that Member State.
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – point -a (new)
Article 2 – point 5 – point -a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
(-a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: 1. Irrespective of whether the raw materials were cultivated inside or outside the territory of the Community, energy from biofuels and bioliquids shall be taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) only if they fulfill the sustainability criteria set out in paragraphs 2 to 6: (a) measuring compliance with the requirements of this Directive concerning national targets; (b) measuring compliance with renewable energy obligations; (c) eligibility for financial support for the consumption of biofuels and bioliquids.
Amendment 270 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – point b a (new)
Article 2 – point 5 – point b a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 5 a (new)
(ba) the following paragraph 5a is inserted: "5a. Raw materials, used to produce biofuels and bioliquids, should not be taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 if, in the year of the raw material production, the use of land covered by paragraphs 4 and 5 has been changed considerably."
Amendment 293 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3
Article 3
The Commission shall, before 31 December 20178, submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council reviewanalyzing, on the basis of the best latest availablevidence that adheres to the scientific evidencemethod, the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive in limiting indirect land- use change greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of biofuel and bioliquids. The report shall, if appropriate, be accompanied by a legislative proposal based on the best available scientific evidence, for introducing estimated indirect land use change emissions factors into the appropriate sustainability criteria to be applied from 1st January 2021 and a review of the effectiveness of the incentives provided for biofuels from non- land using feedstocks and non-food crops under Article 3(4)d of Directive 2009/28/EC.
Amendment 298 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I Directive 98/70/EC
Annex I Directive 98/70/EC
Amendment 313 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 1
Annex II – point 1
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex V – part C
Annex V – part C
Amendment 326 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 2
Annex II – point 2
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex VIII (new)
Annex VIII (new)
Amendment 335 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX (new) – Part A – title
Annex IX (new) – Part A – title
Part A. Feedstocks whose contribution towards the target referrThe biofuels coming from the following feed sto in Article 3(4) shall be considered to be four times their energy contentcks will be considered advanced biofuels
Amendment 349 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Amendment 354 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX (new) – Part B – point a
Annex IX (new) – Part B – point a