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8 Amendments of Judith A. MERKIES related to 2012/0305(COD)

Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 a (new)
Article 7 a Producer Responsibility Scheme 1. Member States shall ensure that producer responsibility schemes are in place for the recovery of fluorinated greenhouse gases and their recycling, reclamation or destruction. These schemes, designed to cover fluorinated greenhouse gases in products and equipment outside the scope of Directive 2012/19/EU and in foams, shall be adopted by [1 January 2016]. 2. Such producer responsibility schemes shall: (a) enable operators and persons to discard recovered fluorinated greenhouse gases, including products and equipment containing fluorinated greenhouse gases, at an accessible collection point in their vicinity at no charge; (b) require operators and persons decommissioning equipment to discard recovered fluorinated greenhouse gases at an accessible collection point; 3. Provided that the schemes meet the criteria listed in paragraph 2, or demonstrate comparable effectiveness, Member States may: (a) require producers and importers to set up such schemes; (b) require other operators or persons to participate in such schemes; or (c) maintain existing schemes. 4. For the purposes of environmental protection, the Commission shall develop minimum quality standards for the recovery of fluorinated greenhouse gases from products as well as equipment that has been collected. Those standards shall reflect the state of the art and be published by the Commission.
2013/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 20 amending the list set out in Annex III to include other products and equipment that contain fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential of 150 or more, or that rely on them to work, if it has been established that alternatives to the use of fluorinated greenhouse gases or to the use of specific types of fluorinated greenhouse gases are available, and their use would result in lower overall greenhouse gas emissions and to exclude, where appropriate for a specified period of time, certain categories of products or equipment for which alternative substances which fall below the specified global warming potential limit are not available for technical, economic or safety reasons, or due to energy efficiency during its operation if life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, including by- product emissions during the manufacturing process of the fluorinated greenhouse gases and any feedstocks and process agents, are lower than that from equivalent equipment.
2013/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
It shall not apply to producers or importers of less than 1 000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent of hydrofluorocarbons per year.
2013/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
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2013/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
The electronic registry shall be made available to the public, in electronic form, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1367/2006.
2013/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 293 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. By 31 March 2014 and every year after that, each producer, importer and exporter that produced, imported or exported more than one metric tonne or 1 0010 tonnes of CO2 equivalent of fluorinated greenhouse gases and gases listed in Annex II during the preceding calendar year shall report to the Commission the data specified in Annex VII on each of those substances for that calendar year.
2013/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 310 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 – point c (new)
(c) an overview of European and international standards, national safety legislation and building codes in Member States impeding the transition to flammable refrigerants, such as hydrocarbons;
2013/04/05
Committee: ENVI
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 3 – point d a (new)
(d) a review of the availability of technically feasible and cost-effective alternatives to products and equipment containing fluorinated greenhouse gases for products and equipment not listed in Annex III, taking into account energy- efficiency;
2013/04/05
Committee: ENVI