21 Amendments of Catherine TRAUTMANN related to 2011/0172(COD)
Amendment 314 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
This Directive establishes a common framework for the promotion of energy efficiency within the Union in order to ensure the achievement of the Union's target of 20% primary energy savings by 2020, taking into account the energy intensity indicator, and to pave the way for further energy efficiency improvements beyond that date.
Amendment 347 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – point 2 a (new)
2a. ‘energy intensity’ means energy consumption in relation to an economic activity indicator such as GDP ;
Amendment 362 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 4
Article 2 – point 4
4. 'public bodies' means 'contracting authorities' as defined in Article 1(9) of Directive 2004/18/EC;1; - ‘public authorities’ means the State, regional or local authorities, or associations formed by one or several of such authorities. - ‘bodies governed by public law’, i.e. any body: a) established for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, not having an industrial or commercial character, b) having legal personality, and c) financed, for the most part, by the State, regional or local authorities, or other bodies governed by public law, or subject to management supervision by those bodies, or having an administrative, managerial or supervisory board, more than half of whose members are appointed by the State, regional or local authorities, or by other bodies governed by public law; ________________ 1 Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts (OJ L 134, 30.4.2004, p. 114)
Amendment 371 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5
Article 2 – point 5
5. 'energy management systemtrategy' means a set of interrelated or interacting elements of a plan which sets an energy efficiency objective and a strategy to achieve that objective;
Amendment 381 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 11
Article 2 – point 11
11. 'energy service provider' means a natural or legal person who delivers energy services or other energy efficiency improvement measures in a final customer's facility or premises, including landlords of buildings with communal heating;
Amendment 384 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 11 a (new)
Article 2 – point 11 a (new)
11a. 'energy consumption modulation programmes’ means a set of measures to reduce energy consumption temporarily in response to energy supply conditions. Energy consumption modulation allows cooperation between the energy supplier and user for the purpose of encouraging a reduction in consumption in energy peak situations or improving the efficiency of the energy value chain;
Amendment 410 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 25
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 25
Amendment 449 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall set a national energy efficiency target expressed as an absolute level of primary energy consumption in 2020. When setting these targets, they shall take into account the Union’s target of 20 % energy savings, the energy intensity ratio, the measures provided for in this Directive, the measures adopted to reach the national energy saving targets adopted pursuant to Article 4(1) of Directive 2006/32/EC and other measures to promote energy efficiency within Member States and at Union level.
Amendment 516 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Amendment 562 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall support bodies governed by public law to undertake the renovation of 3% of the total floor area they own each year.
Amendment 914 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall ensure that final customers for electricity, natural gas, district heating or cooling and district- supplied domestic hot water are provided with individual meters that accurately measure, and allow to make availablereadings to be taken of, their actual energy consumption and provide information on actual time of use, in accordance with Annex VI, without such customers, and particularly the most vulnerable among them, being disadvantaged by any additional charges, and with due regard to the European framework of rules on personal data protection.
Amendment 993 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
In addition to the obligations resulting from Directive 2009/72/EC and Directive 2009/73/EC with regard to billing, Member States shall ensure, not later than 1 January 2015on the basis of national plans for the roll-out of smart meters drawn up pursuant to Directive 2009/72/EC, that billing is accurate and based on actual consumption, for all the sectors covered by the present Directive, including energy distributors, distribution system operators and retail energy sales companies, in accordance with the minimum frequency set out in Annex VI(2.1). Appropriate information shall be made available with the bill to provide final customers with a comprehensive account of current energy costs, in accordance with Annex VI(2.2).
Amendment 1010 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall require that if requested by final customers, information on their energy billing and historical consumption is made available to an energy service provider or other third party designated by the final customer.
Amendment 1108 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 – introductory part
Member States shall ensure, after a cost- benefit analysis, that all new thermal electricity generation installations with a total thermal input exceeding 20 MW:
Amendment 1339 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Member States shall ensure that national energy regulatory authorities encourage the management of energy demand (demand response) in local or regional wholesale markets.
Amendment 1357 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Article 12 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensure the removal of those incentives in transmission and distribution tariffs that unnecessarily increase the volume of distributed or transmitted energy and promote measures to encourage end user participation in energy markets, particularly through energy consumption modulation programmes. In this respect, in accordance with Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/72/EC and Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/73/EC, Member States may impose public service obligations relating to energy efficiency on undertakings operating in the electricity and gas sectors.
Amendment 1394 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall take the appropriate steps to ensure that high-efficiency cogeneration operators and energy consumption modulation programme aggregators can offer balancing services and other operational services at the level of transmission system operators or distribution system operators where this is consistent with the mode of operation of the high-efficiency cogeneration installation. Transmission system operators and distribution system operators shall ensure that such services are part of a services bidding process which is transparent and open to scrutiny.
Amendment 1405 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. In the context of the future national action plans on the deployment of smart grids, Member States should explain in detail how energy consumption modulation programmes could be integrated into energy markets, particularly at local and regional level, and give details on the deployment of technologies facilitating the connection of buildings and industrial sites to the energy network.
Amendment 1408 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. With a view to achieving a high level of technical competence, objectivity and reliability, Member States shall ensure that, by 1 January 2014, certification schemes or equivalent qualification schemes are available for providers of energy services, energy audits and energy efficiency improvement measures, including for installers of building elements as defined in Article 2(9) of Directive 2010/31/EU. These certification or qualification schemes are detailed in Annex XIIIa.
Amendment 1451 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
b) legal and, regulatory and fiscal provisions, and administrative practices, regarding public purchasing and annual budgeting and accounting, with a view to ensuring that individual public bodies are not deterred from making efficiency-improving investments.
Amendment 1799 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex XIII a (new)
Annex XIII a (new)