16 Amendments of Peter JAHR related to 2022/0394(COD)
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Carbon removal activities have a strong potential to deliver win-win solutions for sustainability, even if trade- offs cannot be excluded. Therefore, it is appropriate to establish minimum sustainability requirements to ensure that carbon removal activities have a neutral impact or generate co-benefits for the sustainability objectives of climate change mitigation and adaptation, the protection and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems, the sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources, the transition to a circular economy, and pollution prevention and control. Those sustainability requirements should, as appropriate, and taking into consideration local conditions, build one consistent with the technical screening criteria for Do Not Significant Harm concerning forestry activities and underground permanent geological storage of CO2, laid down in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/213928 , and on the sustainability criteria for forest and agriculture biomass raw material laid down in Article 29 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council29 . Practices, such as forest monocultures, that produce harmful effects for biodiversity should not be eligible for certification. __________________ 28 Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 of 4 June 2021 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives (OJ L 442, 9.12.2021, p. 1). 29 Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82).
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) quality criteria for carbon removal activities that take place in the Union;
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) ‘carbon removal’ means either the storage of atmospheric or biogenic carbon within geologicallithospheric carbon pools, biogenic carbon pools, long-lasting products and materials, and the marine environment, or the reduction of carbon release from a biogenic carbon pool to the atmosphere;
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) ‘carbon removal activity’ means one or more practices or processes carried out by an operator resulting in permanent carbon storage, enhancing carbon capture in a biogenic carbon pool, reducing the release of carbon from a biogenic carbon pool to the atmosphere, or storing atmospheric or biogenic carbon in long- lasting products or materials;
Amendment 254 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) ‘permanent carbon storage’ means a carbon removal activity that, under normal circumstances and using appropriate management practices, stores atmospheric or biogenic carbon for several centuries, including bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, biochar carbon removal and direct air carbon capture and storage;
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) ‘carbon farming’ means a carbon removal activity related to coastal or land management that results in the increase of carbon storage in living biomass, dead organic matter and soils by enhancing carbon capture and/or reduc that can also prevent carbon release, e.g. ing the release of carbon to the atmosphercase of improved land management practices in peatland rewetting or mineral soils; as well as GHG abatements (both non- biogenic CO2 and non-CO2 GHGs) through practice change;
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
(o a) ‘biochar carbon removal’ means a process, where rather labile organic molecules are thermo-chemically transformed into an inert form, collectively called biochar, and safely stored in a permanent manner.
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point o b (new)
(o b) ‘biochar’ means a stable, porous, carbonaceous material produced through the pyrolytic treatment of organic feedstocks.
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
5. The baseline shall correspond to the standard carbon removal performance of common current practices of comparable activities in similar social, economic, environmental and technological circumstances and take into account the geographical context. The respective methodologies shall differentiate between static or dynamic baselines where necessary.
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) it takes place due to the incentive effect of the certification and creation of carbon removal units.
Amendment 365 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. For Carbon Farming activities, it goes beyond Union and national statutory requirements, allowing for stacking of public and private incentives for practice change so long as resulting environmental benefits are uniquely claimed
Amendment 375 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) they shall monitor and mitigate any risk of release of the stored carbon occurring during the monitoring period; or provide sound scientific evidence, that a reversal of a solid form (e.g. carbonates or biochar) of carbon to CO2 is prevented.
Amendment 383 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. For carbon farming and carbon storage in products, the carbon stored by a carbon removal activity shall be considered released to the atmosphere at the end of the monitoring period. This does not apply if the carbon is bound permanently in a mineral matrix (concrete) or in soil from which it cannot be separated or released.
Amendment 434 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 16 to establish the technical certification methodologies referred to in paragraph 1 for activities related to permanent carbon storage, carbon farming and carbon storage in products. Certification schemes may develop new methodologies or adjust their existing methodologies in line with the criteria in Articles 4-7 if they want to be recognised under the EU certification framework. The certification schemes are free to submit their methodologies at any time to the responsible public authority for recognition. Those certification methodologies shall include at least the elements set out in Annex I.
Amendment 449 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. When preparing those delegated acts for technical certification methodologies or recognising certification methodologies, the Commission shall take into account the following elements:
Amendment 461 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. To apply for a certification of compliance with this Regulation, an operator or a group of operators shall submit an application to a certification scheme. Upon acceptance of that application, the operator or a group of operators shall submit to a certification body a comprehensive description of the carbon removal activity, including the certification methodology applied to assess compliance with Articles 4 to 7, the expected total carbon removals and net carbon removal benefit. Groups of operators shall also specify how advisory services on carbon removal activities are provided, in particular to small-scale carbon farming operators. For operators or groups of operators involved in cross- border and/or multi-country carbon farming projects, allowing the certification scheme to appoint a single certification body for all cross-border and multi-country carbon farming projects.