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Activities of Gesine MEISSNER related to 2015/0148(COD)

Plenary speeches (1)

Cost-effective emission reductions and low-carbon investments (debate) DE
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/0148(COD)

Amendments (13)

Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) In line with the Agreement adopted in Paris at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 12 December 2015 (the 'Paris Agreement'), all sectors of the economy should contribute to the reduction of CO2 emissions. To this end, efforts to limit international maritime emissions through the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) are under way and should be encouraged, with the aim of establishing a clear IMO action plan for climate policy measures to tackle CO2 emissions from shipping at a global level. Therefore, the Commission and Member States should focus on ensuring the implementation of Regulation (EU)2015/757 of the European Parliament and of the Council1a and its alignment with an international data-collection system, which is a prerequisite for any market- based measure, efficiency standard or other measure, whether applied at Union level or globally. __________________ 1a Regulation (EU) 2015/757 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2015 on the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon dioxide emissions from maritime transport, and amending Directive 2009/16/EC (OJ L 123, 19.5.2015, p. 55).
2016/08/04
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4 – point a
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
From 2021 onwards, the share of allowances to be auctioned by Member States shall be 5744%.
2016/07/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 4 – point a
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
2% of the total quantity of allowances to be auctioned between 2021 and 2030 shall be auctionedmade available from the auctioning volume to establish a fund to improve energy efficiency and modernise the energy systems of certain Member States as set out in Article 10d of this Directive (“the Modernisation Fund”).
2016/07/14
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 5 – point b
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 – introductory part
The benchmark values for free allocation shall be adjusted in order to avoid windfall profits and reflect technological progress in the period between 2007-8 and each later period for which free Account being taken of the total carbon content of waste gas used for electricity production, the benchmark values for free allocation for the fourth trading period shall be laid down by the Commission by 31 December 2017 and shall reflect technological progress in 2014 and 2015. For the fourth trading period, the benchmark values shall be determined solely on the basis of average emissions from the most efficient 10% of installocations are determined in accordance with Article 11(1). This adjustment shall reduce the benchmark values. The benchmark values for the fourth period shall be developed with the involvement of a forum made up of Member State representatives and the industries concerned. The forum shall be set up by the act adopted pursuant to Article 10a by 1 % of the value that was set based on 2007-8 data in respect of each year between 2008 and the middle of the relevant period of free allocation, unless:Commission; it shall be regularly convened and involved in the practical arrangements for the development of the benchmark values (rules of procedure of the forum, work programme, guidelines for the collection of relevant data, and calculating the benchmark values). The benchmark values shall be set on the basis of the forum's input. The Commission shall document the development process and publish the documentation together with the benchmark values.
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 5 – point b
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 – point i
(i) On the basis of information submitted pursuant to Article 11, the Commission shall identify whether the values for each benchmark calculated using the principles in Article 10a differ from the annual reduction referred to above by more than 0.5 % of the 2007-8 value higher or lower annually. If so, that benchmark value shall be adjusted either 0.5 % or 1.5 % in respect of each year between 2008 and the middle of the period for which free allocation is to be made;deleted
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 5 – point b
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 – point ii
(ii) By way of derogation regarding the benchmark values for aromatics, hydrogen and syngas, these benchmark values shall be adjusted by the same percentage as the refineries benchmarks in order to preserve a level playing field for producers of these products.deleted
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 5 – point b a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 3
(ba) In Article 10a, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: '3. Subject to paragraphs 4 and 8, and notwithstanding Article 10c, no free allocation shall be given to electricity generators, to installations for the capture of CO2, to pipelines for transport of CO2 or to CO2 storage sites; electricity generators producing electricity from waste gas are not electricity generators within the meaning of Article 3(u) of this Directive.'
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 386 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 5 – point d
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Member States shouldall adopt financial measures in favour of sectors or sub- sectors which are exposed to a genuine risk of carbon leakage due to significant indirect costs that are actually incurred from greenhouse gas emission costs passed on in electricity prices, taking into account any effects on the internal market. Such financial measures to compensate part of these costs shall be in accordance with state aid rules. The compensation shall ensure that costs incurred shall be fully reimbursed.
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 422 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 5 – point f
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
400 million of the allowances to be auctioned shall be availableuctioned to support, on a technology-neutral basis, innovation in low-carbon technologies and processes in industrial sectors listed in Annex I, and to help stimulate the construction and operation of commercial demonstration projects that aim, for instance, at the environmentally safe capture and geological storage (CCS) or use (CCU) of CO2 as well as demonstration projects of innovative renewable energy technologies, in the territory of the Union.
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 431 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 5 – point f
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
The allowances shall be made available for innovation in the whole range of low- carbon industrial technologies and processes andconcepts for existing and new installations, and of low-carbon industrial processes, support for demonstration projects for the development of a wide range of CCS, CCU and innovative renewable energy technologies and concepts that are not yet commercially viable in geographically balanced locations, and within the extractive industry. In order to promote innovative projects, up to 6075% of the relevant costs of projects may be supported, out of which up to 40 55% may not be dependent on verified avoidance of greenhouse gas emissions provided that pre-determined milestones are attained taking into account the technology deployed.
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 444 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 5 – point f
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 4
The Commission shall be empowered to adopt a delegated actadopt an implementing act for this purpose in accordance with Article 232a.
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 680 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 12 a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
(12a) In Article 14(1), the following subparagraph 3 is added: 'By 31 December 2018, the Commission shall adapt the existing provisions of Regulation No 601/2012 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions to take due account of action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through carbon utilisation (CCU). These new rules shall be effective for all CCU technologies as of 1 January 2019.'
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 704 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 22 b (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 27 – paragraph 1
(22b) In Article 27, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: '1. Following consultation with the operator, Member States may exclude from the Community scheme installations which have reported to the competent authority emissions of less than 250 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent and, where they carry out combustion activities, have a rated thermal input below 35 MW, excluding emissions from biomass, in each of the three years preceding the notification under point (a), and which are subject to measures that will achieve an equivalent comparable and economically practicable contribution to emission reductions, if the Member State concerned complies with the following conditions: (a) it notifies the Commission of each such installation, specifying the equivalent measures applying to that installation that will achieve an equivalent comparable and economically practicable contribution to emission reductions that are in place, before the list of installations pursuant to Article 11(1) has to be submitted and at the latest when this list is submitted to the Commission; (b) it confirms that monitoring arrangements are in place to assess whether any installation emits 250 000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in any one calendar year. Member States mayshall allow simplified monitoring, reporting and verification measures for installations with average annual verified emissions between 2008 and 2010 below 50 000 tonnes a year, in accordance with Article 14; (c) it confirms that if any installation emits 250 000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, excluding emissions from biomass, in any one calendar year or the measures applying to that installation that will achieve an equivalent contribution to emission reductions are no longer in place, the installation will be reintroduced into the Community scheme; (d) it publishes the information referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) for public comment. Hospitals may also be excluded if they undertake equivalentcomparable and economically practicable measures.'
2016/07/07
Committee: ENVI