22 Amendments of Sandra KALNIETE related to 2012/0042(COD)
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The LULUCF accounting rules should reflect efforts made in the agriculture and forestry sectors to enhance the contribution of changes made to the use of land resources to the reduction of emissions. This Decision should provide for accounting rules applicable on a mandatory basis to the forestry activities of afforestation, reforestation, deforestation and forest management, and to the agricultural activities of grazing land management and cropland management. It should also provide for accounting rules applicable on a voluntary basis to the agricultural activities of grazing land management and cropland management, revegetation and wetland drainage and rewetting activities.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) To ensure the environmental integrity of the accounting rules applicable to the Union LULUCF sector, these rules should be based on the accounting principles laid down in Decision -/CMP.7, Decision 2/CMP.6 and Decision 16/CMP.1 of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. and applied in a consistent, comparable and complete manner within the Union and among Member States.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Member State LULUCF Action Plans established as part of the Low Carbon Development Strategies should set out measures to limit or reduce emissions and to maintain or increase removals from the LULUCF sector. Each Member State should define the most appropriate measures to meet national circumstances. Each LULUCF Action Plan should contain certain information as specified in this Decision. Moreover, to promote best practice, an indicative list of measures that may also be included in those plans should be set out in Annex to this Decision. The Commission should periodically evaluate the content and implementation of Member States’ LULUCF Action Plans and, where appropriate, provide recommendations to enhance Member State action.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point q
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point q
(q) ‘forest’ is an minimum area of land of at least 0.5,05-1,0 hectare, with tree crown cover (or an equivalent stocking level) of at least 10 per cent of the area, coveredmore than 10-30 per cent with trees with the potential to reach a minimum height of at least 2-5 metres at maturity at in situ. A forest may consist eitheir place of growth, including groups of growing young natural trees, or aof closed forest formations where trees of various storeys and undergrowth cover a high proportion of the ground or open forest. Young natural stands and all plantation thats which hasve yet to reach a tree crown cover or equivalent stocking level of at least 10 per cent of the areadensity of 10-30 per cent or tree height of at least 2-5 metres, are including any area thated under forest, as are areas normally formsing part of the forest area but on which therewhich are temporarily no treesunstocked as a result of human intervention, such as harvesting, or as a result of natural causes, but which area can be expected to revert to forest;
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Member States shall make any technical corrections and recalculations necessary to include in their existing and newly established accounts, where otherwise excluded, the carbon pools referred to in the first subparagraph, and greenhouse gases referred to in Article 3(2).
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 8
Article 6 – paragraph 8
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. No later than six monthsone year after the beginning of each accounting period specified in Annex I, Member States shall draw up and transmit to the Commission draft LULUCF Action Plans, as a separate document or as a clearly identifiable part of their national Low-carbon Development Strategies, to limit or reduce emissions and maintain or increase removals resulting from the activities referred to in Article 3(1). Member States shall ensure that a broad range of stakeholders are consulted.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall consider includeing in their draft LULUCF Action Plans the following information relating to each of the activities referred to in Article 3(1):
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) an analysis of the potential to limit or reduce emissions and to maintain or increase removals, including through the substitution of greenhouse gas intensive materials and energy feedstocks;
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) a list of measures, including, as appropriate, thosee indicative measures specified in Annex IV by each Member State defining the most appropriate measures to meet national circumstances, to be adopted in order to pursue the mitigation potential, where identified in accordance with the analysis referred to in point (c);
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) policies foreseen to implement the measures referred to in point (d), including a quantitative or qualitative description of the expected effect of those measures on emissions and removals, taking into account other policies and measures related to the LULUCF sector;
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) indicative timetables for the adoption and implementation of the measures referred to in point (d).
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)
The Commission shall provide guidance and technical assistance to Member States and adopt specific guidelines for the LULUCF Action Plans.
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 12 – paragraph 2
Article 12 – paragraph 2
2. The delegation of power referred to in Articles 2(2), 4(7), 6(9, 4(7), 7(6) and 9(4) shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time from the date of entry into force of this Decision.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 12 – paragraph 3
Article 12 – paragraph 3
3. The delegation of power referred to in Articles 2(2), 4(7), 6(94(7), 7(6) and 9(4) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 12 – paragraph 5
Article 12 – paragraph 5
5. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Articles 2(2), 4(7), 6(94(7), 7(6) and 9(4) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of 2 months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by 2 months at the initiative of the European Parliament or the Council.