7 Amendments of Dominique RIQUET related to 2012/0288(COD)
Amendment 28 #
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, residues 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 biofuelsresearch and development in sectors related to advanced biofuels and the increased production thereof 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, such as a 2% minimum objective in respect of advanced biofuels towards 10% target for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional biofuels. In this context, only advanced biofuels with low estimated indirect land use change impacts and high overall greenhouse gas savings should be supported as part of the post 2020 renewable energy policy framework. However, existing investments in first generation fuels should not be penalised and, in order to avoid distorting competition, advanced biofuels should be subject to the same sustainability criteria as other biofuels.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) The minimum greenhouse gas saving threshold for biofuels and bioliquids produced in new installations should be increased with effect from 1st July 2014 in order to improve their overall greenhouse gas balance as well as disencouraging further investments in installations with lowhigh greenhouse gas savings performance. This increase provides for investment safeguards in biofuels and bioliquids production capacities in conformity with Article 19(6) second subparagraph.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(11) The Commission should reviewAlthough land-use change emissions are a recognised phenomenon, no objective and harmonised procedures yet exist to measure them. The Commission should therefore review regularly 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 market. In order to increase legal security regarding investment in biofuel production, the Commission should establish an objective and harmonised methodology for estimating land-use change emission factors.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – point a a (new)
Article 1 – point 2 – point a a (new)
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 1
Article 7b – paragraph 1
(aa) In paragraph 1, the last sentence shall be deleted.
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint iii
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint iii
Directive 2009/28/CE
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – point iiia (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – point iiia (new)
iii a) biofuels produced from materials listed in Annex IX must equal at least 2 % of the final consumption of energy in transport by 2020.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint a a (new)
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint a a (new)
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
aa) In paragraph 1 the last sentence is deleted.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3
Article 3
The Commission shall, before 31 December 2017, submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council reviewing, on the basis of the best latest available scientific evidence, the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive in: a) limiting indirect land- use change greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of biofuel and bioliquids; b) encouraging research and development into new production pathways for advanced biofuels, which do not compete with crops intended for human or animal consumption. 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.