Activities of Preslav BORISSOV related to 2012/0288(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 98/70/EC relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and amending Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources
Amendments (23)
Amendment 19 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Based on forecasts of biofuel demand provided by the Member States and estimates of indirect land-use change emissions for different biofuel feedstocks it is likelythere are grounds to believe that greenhouse gas emissions linked to indirect land use change are significant, and could negate some or all of the greenhouse gas savings of individual biofuels. This is because almost the entire biofuel production in 2020 is expected to come from crops grown on land that could be used to satisfy food and feed markets. In order to reduce such emissions, it is appropriate to distinguish between crop groups such as oil crops, cereals, sugars and other starch containing crops accordinglyNonetheless, the Commission's Impact Assessment indicates, that the use of biofuels in the EU saves emissions, also when estimated indirect land-use change emissions are included.
Amendment 26 #
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. Further incentives should be provided by. Further incentives should be provided through public support schemes and tax exemptions thus increasing the weighting 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.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) To prepare for the transition towards advanced biofuels and minimise the overall indirect land use change impacts in the period to 2020, it is appropriate to limit the amount of biofuels and bioliquids obtained from food crops as set out in part A of Annex VIII to Directive 2009/28/EC and part A of Annex V to Directive 98/70/EC that can be counted towards targets set out in Directive 2009/28/EC. Without restricting the overall use of such biofuels, the share of biofuels and bioliquids produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugarintroduce a legally binding target for advanced biofuels within the 10 % target, that will create a strong incentive for the expansion of the production capacity for advanced biofuels and owil crops that can be counted towards the targets of Directive 2009/28/EC should be limited to the share of such biofuels and l grant investors the necessary predictabioliquids consumed in 2011ty.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The estimated indirect land-use change emissions should be included in the reporting of greenhousin accordance with the current scientific knowledge are not reliable enough to be the gbas emissions fromis of policy- making. Taking into account that the development of the biofuels uinder Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC. Biofuels made from feedstocks that do not lead to additional demand for land, such as those from waste feedstocks, should be assigned a zero emissionsustry in the EU is predominantly policy-driven, it is particularly important to ensure consistency, basing the changes in legislature on solid scientific factors.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The Commission should review 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 inperiodically review the lighst of adaptation to technical and scientific progress. To this end, and if warrvailable advantced 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 marketiofuels as laid down in Annex IX in order to take account of technical and scientific progress.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 98/70/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly diverse grassland, the methodology for the calculation and reporting of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, the methodology for the calculation of indirect land-use change emissions, the permitted level related to the metallic additives content in fuels, the permitted analytical methods related to the fuel specifications and the vapour pressure waiver permitted for petrol containing bioethanol.
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 2009/28/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the list of biofuel feedstockadvanced biofuels that are counted multiple times towards the 2 % target set in Article 3(4), the energy content of transport fuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly biodiverse grassland, the methodology for the calculation of indirect land-use change emissions, and the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels and bioliquids.
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – subpoint a
Article 1 – point 1 – subpoint a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 6
Article 7a – paragraph 6
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 –subpoint a
Article 1 – point 2 –subpoint a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 7b – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The greenhouse gas emission saving from the use of biofuels taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be at least 60 % for biofuels produced in installations starting operation after 1st July 20145. An installation is “in operation” if the physical production of biofuels has taken place.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint a
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 7b – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
In the case of installations that were in operation on or before 1st July 20145, for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1, biofuels shall achieve a greenhouse gas emission saving of at least 35% until 31 December 2017 and at least 50% from 1 January 2018.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – subpoint a
Article 1 – point 3 – subpoint a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7d – paragraph 6
Article 7d – paragraph 6
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint ii
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint ii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d
for the calculation of biofuels in the numerator, the share of energy from biofuels produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops shall be no more than 5%, the estimated share at the end of 2011,advanced biofuels shall be at least 2 % of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint iii
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint iii
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – subparagraph 2
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint iii
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – subparagraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point e – subparagraph 3
The list of feedstock set out in Annex IX may be adapted to scientific and technical progress, in order to ensure a correct implementation of the accounting rules set out in this Directive. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 25 (b) concerning the list of feedstock set out in Annex IX'
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint a
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint a
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
The greenhouse gas emission saving from the use of biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be at least 60 % for biofuels and bioliquids produced in installations starting operation after 1st July 20145. An installation is “in operation” if the physical production of biofuels or bioliquids has taken place.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint a
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint a
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
In the case of installations that were in operation on or before 1st of July 20145, for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1, biofuels and bioliquids shall achieve a greenhouse gas emission saving of at least 35% until 31 December 2017 and at least 50% from 1 January 2018.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 7 – subpoint c
Article 2 – point 7 – subpoint c
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 6
Article 19 – paragraph 6
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 9
Article 2 – point 9
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 22 – paragraph 2
Article 22 – paragraph 2
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex I - point 2
Annex I - point 2
Directive 98/70/EC
Annex V
Annex V
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II - point 2
Annex II - point 2
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex VIII
Annex VIII
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX
Annex IX
(3) The following Annex IX is added: 'Annex IX Part A. Feedstocks whose contribution towards the target referrThe biofuels produced from the following feed sto in Article 3(4) shall be considered to be four times their energy contentcks will be considered advanced biofuels (a) Algae. (b) Biomass fraction of mixed municipal waste, but not separated household waste subject to recycling targets under Article 11(2)(a) of Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives. (c) Biomass fraction of industrial waste. (d) Straw. (e) Animal manure and sewage sludge. (f) Palm oil mill effluent and empty palm fruit bunches. (g) Tall oil pitch. (h) Crude glycerine. (i) Bagasse. (j) Grape marcs and wine lees. (k) Nut shells. (l) Husks. (m) Cobs (n) Bark, branches, leaves, saw dust and cutter shavings. Part B. Feedstocks whose contribution towards the target referred to in Article 3(4) shall be considered to be twice their energy content (o) Used cooking oil. (p) Animal fats classified as category I and II in accordance with EC/1774/2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by- products not intended for human consumption. (q) Non-food cellulosic material. (r) Ligno-cellulosic material except saw logs and veneer logs.