Activities of Josefa ANDRÉS BAREA related to 2012/0288(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Making the internal energy market work - Micro-generation (debate)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Article 19(7) of Directive 2009/28/EC and Article 7d(6) of Directive 98/70/EC require the impact of indirect land-use changes on greenhouse gas emissions to be taken into account and appropriate steps to be taken to address that impact, while taking due account of the need to protect investments already made.
Amendment 58 #
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 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 biofuels 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. F. Further incentives should be provided by introducing a mandatory target for advanced biofuels within the 10% target for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional biofuels. However, to avoid market distortions and frauds related to the production of advanced biofuels also the latter should comply with the relevant sustainability criteria as for conventional biofuels. In addition in an energy system based on renewable energy electrical vehicles (EVs) can deliver CO2 free transportation. In Directive 2009/28/EC, Article 3(4)(c) EVs are given a counting of 2,5. EVs should keep their relative advantage and further incentives should be provided by increasing the weighting of advanced biofuelEVs towards the 10% target for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional and advanced biofuels. In this context, onlyEVs and advanced biofuels with low estimated low indirect land use change impacts and high overall greenhouse gas savings should be especially supported as part of the post 2020 renewable energy policy framework.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) In order to ensure the long-term competitiveness of bio-based industrial sectors, and in line with the 2012 Communication ‘Innovating for Sustainable growth: A Bioeconomy for Europe’11 and the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe12 , promoting integrated and diversified biorefineries across Europe, enhanced incentives under Directive 2009/28/EC should be set in a way that gives preference to the use of biomass feedstocks that do not have a high economic value for other uses than biofuels and that use waste materials for energy purposes only in accordance with the waste hierarchy.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) The use of land for growing biofuel feedstocks should not result in the displacement of local and indigenous communities. To this end, only biofuels and bioliquids whose production does not impinge on the rights of local and indigenous communities should be considered as sustainable.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) The Commission should review the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive, based on the best and latest available scientific evidence, in limiting indirect land-use change greenhouse gas emissions and addressing ways to further minimise that impact, which cshould include the introduction of estimated indirect land-use change emission factors in the sustainability scheme as of 1st January 2021sustainability criteria to be met for advanced biofuels.
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point b
Article 2 – point 2 – point b
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
For the purpose of compliance with target referred to in the first subparagraph, the maximum joint contribution from biofuels and bioliquids produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops, oil crops and other energy crops grown on land shall be no more than the energy quantity corresponding to the maximum contribution as set out in Article 3(4)d.