54 Amendments of Carlos ZORRINHO related to 2020/2070(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the European Court of Auditors’ Special Report 11/2020: “Energy efficiency in buildings: greater focus on cost-effectiveness still needed”,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
Citation 9 a (new)
- having regard to the Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities adopted at the informal meeting of EU ministers responsible for Urban Development on 24-25 May 2007,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)
Citation 9 b (new)
- having regard to the ‘Pact of Amsterdam - The Urban Agenda for the EU’ agreed at the informal meeting of EU ministers responsible for Urban Matters on 30 May 2016,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas it is estimated that more than 50 million households in the European Union are experiencing energy poverty;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas, according to Commission estimates, EUR 282 billion of investments in the renovation of the European building stock are necessary to achieve the Union's 2030 energy efficiency target;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas investments for the renovation of the building sector create new jobs and contribute to clean economy as a part of the recovery plan and the European Green Deal;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
Neighbourhoods and, communities and affordability
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Demands that building policies be holistic and inclusive, contributing to EU climate goals, include IRPs that integrate social services and affordability, smart readiness, healthy indoor climate, mobility, technical, industrial and energy efficient functions of buildings, and enable on-site renewables production and demand-side flexibility; demands in this respect the continuous removal of national and European barriers to the renovation of building stocks such as regulatory barriers regarding renovations of buildings with multiple owners, high up-front costs and the tenant-owner dilemma;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned by the gentrification and ‘renoviction’ of neighbourhoods driven by investment capital interests, and by the rising numbers of citizens in energy poverty, and of citizens suffering from increasing accommodation cost load, gender disparity, and marginalisation; considers that a community approach in addition to safeguards at a regulatory level could reduce the level of destruction of existing communities; reminds about the need to support the most vulnerable citizens by enabling their access to dignified living conditions, comfort and health and highlights the important role of social housing;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Acknowledges, that the building renovations have to be implemented in a cost-effective and sustainable way, taking into account the affordability as for private owners and their tenants; stresses that new renovations towards energy efficient buildings should not allow renting market to greatly increase the prices for tenants due to more energy efficient buildings;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Underlines the fact that the ownership of buildings, tenancy laws and numbers of home-owners and tenants as well housing support schemes vary across Member States; urges the Commission and Member States to take that into account when taking renovation measures; underlines especially that these renovations should not lead to an unbearable rental cost burden for tenants;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Emphasises the important role that citizens play in renovation of the residential buildings stock and the importance to create efficient tools, best practices and make all possible information and knowledge available at local level including opportunities related to technologies (i.e. smart meters) offered to consumer;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Stresses the need to ensure the adequate level of knowhow of building maintenance and use;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the success of one-stop- shops, capacity building for municipalities, and the active involvement of local actors such as energy communities, consumer organisations, educational institutions, local businesses and housing cooperatives;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for a policy to facilitate IRPs at community level providing for deep renovationand staged-deep renovations, considering building’s needs; calls on the Commission to step up work on the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy and the EU City Facility;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Welcomes various financial practices and instruments such as green subsidies, tax and loan incentives; underlines the importance of avoiding retroactive policies which negatively affect issued incentives for energy efficiency investments;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Highlights the important role of grants for research, innovation and demonstration programmes (e.g. for nearly zero energy buildings, smart homes and smart cities) for implementation of deep and staged-deep renovation across Member States;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Notes that contracts with Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) can be used in the off-balance financing of the sustainable renovation of buildings, as they can relief, in particular, the financial burden for social housing, housing corporations and business parks;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that all IRPs should set aside funds for marginalised citizens and to tackle energy poverty, accessibility, technical and infrastructure barriers;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Acknowledges the role that new business models such as energy performance contracting, energy performance standardisation centres and energy service companies can play in renovations;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Highlights the importance of energy efficiency measures on a national level including a strategy on how to implement them, of energy saving goals for individual renovation projects and of policy measures ensuring deep renovations creating financial triggers and investment stability;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure and increase the cost-effectiveness of energy efficiency renovations of buildings; encourages a thorough monitoring of the cost- efficiency of operational programmes based on the costs per saved unit of CO2; further believes that the Commission should ensure that national administrations respect the principles of cost-effectiveness, effectiveness for the purpose of energy saving and profitability when granting EU money to renovation projects, and proposes the development of key indicators for that;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Highlights the need to decrease costs, speed up duration, effectivity, reliability and integration to increase IRPs through creating renovation markets, industrially produced, prefabricated elements, and to engage in serial and district renovations, highlighting the role of circular economy;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses that, when considering the replacement of old heating devices, the Commission should provide appropriate incentives to ensure that no citizens are left behind; notes that, in order to accelerate the replacement of old heaters, scrapping schemes supported by energy labels can help change to more efficient heaters or to other more sustainable energy systems;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines the importance of the energy efficiency first principle and affordability in decarbonising heating and cooling, with electrification of residual demand through renewable energy combined with heat pumps orand efficient district heating and cooling systems, as well as in load management and flexibility; underlines the need to plan IRPs in order to achieve synergies;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Highlights the importance of considering all available technologies to speed up the decarbonisation of the building stock; notes that, along with investments for the decarbonisation of the building stock, investments to decarbonise the heating sector are required;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Underlines the importance of decarbonised district heating and cooling in order to guarantee carbon-neutrality to a large amount of citizens as soon as possible, taking into consideration that district heating and cooling with integrated storage plays an important role for more connected and integrated energy communities;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 c (new)
Paragraph 19 c (new)
19c. Underlines that renewable energy, distributed to buildings using gas infrastructure or district heating systems, should be considered as a full alternative to on-site energy systems;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 d (new)
Paragraph 19 d (new)
19d. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the incentives and encourage new buildings to be designed and built as nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB) with an ambition to become net zero energy buildings by 2050; highlights that this can greatly foster the increase of net zero energy districts by 2050;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that energy-efficient buildings should be safe, healthy, affordable, and sustainable; underlines the importance of embodied energy, sustainability in buildings, resource efficiency, and life-cycle approaches in line with the circular economy;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Stresses that the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) needs to ensure that data on the sustainability performance of construction products defined by BWR7 in CPR is in coherence with the common European approach for life-cycle calculation of the buildings in accordance with the above mentioned existing European standards; notes in this context that the CPR needs to ensure that design of all renovated buildings at all stages is in line with circular economy and can greater increase digitalisation and climate-proofing of buildings stock; highlights the importance to increase the recyclability of construction waste;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls on the Member States to maximise and promote the reuse, recycling, and recuperation of materials in their procurement strategies, as well as in publicly financed renovation and construction projects;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Underlines the importance of co- benefits with renovation requirements at trigger points; highlights that minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) for worst-performing rented buildings especially benefit occupants that are at risk of energy poverty; and unhealthy indoor climate conditions; further highlights that ways of financing of such renovation measures need to be found that do not represent an additional financial burden for tenants while remaining affordable for owners;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Is convinced that the introduction of a building renovation passport to trackfoster and coordinate continued improvement and to monitor renovation depth, as well possible health and comfort improvements of occupants and energy performance benefits house owners and building operators; further believes that the information in this passport should also be accessible for tenants;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Calls on the Commission to launch an EU skills and information initiative in the renovation and building sector, which includes a gender dimension, in order to engage with stakeholders in retraining, upskilling and capacity building, with a focus on employment and promoting the skills and high knowledge in designing new buildings and renovations, and in order to disseminate information on the necessity and on ways how to implement and finance energy-efficient renovations among tenants and building owners;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Considers digitalisation as an enabler for distributed generation, storage, flexibility and, sector integration and coupling;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate the need to review the charging infrastructure requirements in EPBD; stresses that smart charging infrastructure is pre-condition for the increase of clean electro-mobility;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Highlights the importance of very high capacity networks for communication infrastructure as crucial to readiness of smart buildings, smart homes and smart cities and the application of smart technologies such as domotics; stresses that such smart digital solutions in the built environment contribute to better connected communities and enable new digital services for occupants;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Highlights the importance of smart grids as enabler for the efficient integration of renewables to electricity grids and looks for new opportunities with interfaces with TSOs and DSOs for better energy efficiency and electricity services; stresses that smart buildings connected to nano or micro grids can ensure improved stability of electrical supply and availability of heating/cooling systems;
Amendment 312 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 d (new)
Paragraph 27 d (new)
27d. Calls on the Commission to widen the current requirements under the necessary application of the building automation and control systems (BACs) in non-residential buildings with an effective rated output of 290kW, under Article 14 of EPBD; stresses that this should include more non-residential buildings to consider the requirements for necessary equipment of building automation and control systems;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 e (new)
Paragraph 27 e (new)
27e. Welcomes the aim of the revised EPBD to further promote smart buildings technologies, through Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) as a supportive tool in rating the smart readiness of buildings and raising the awareness among building owners and occupants on the value of BACs for overall performance of buildings;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 f (new)
Paragraph 27 f (new)
27f. Highlights the importance of non- intrusive digital technologies that upgrade the intelligence of non-smart energy devices to improve their energy efficiency;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Underlines that housing and consumer rights require social safeguards, data protection and consent that are in line with the GDPR;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Recognises the need to digitalise national Energy performances certificate databases, building data and other construction information to be available as applying digital building passport and other smart building applications; recognises that digitalised data for both manufacturing and construction processes should considerably improve the productivity during renovations at all stages;
Amendment 322 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 b (new)
Paragraph 28 b (new)
28b. Is concerned about the lack of data regarding energy efficiency renovation projects in buildings in the EU, their cost-effectiveness, their CO2 savings and their other benefits for the environment and life quality; calls for clear indicators to measure these aspects and for the establishment of a European data base to exchange information and best practices;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 a (new)
Subheading 5 a (new)
Healthy buildings and indoor environmental quality (IEQ)
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 c (new)
Paragraph 28 c (new)
28c. Highlights that, in addition to the climate neutrality target, renovations should always lead to healthy buildings taking into account indoor air quality, mould free houses and overall energy efficiency performance and comfort of occupants; (This new paragraph would be added under the new heading ‘Healthy buildings and indoor environmental quality (IEQ)’)
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 d (new)
Paragraph 28 d (new)
28d. Emphasises that buildings with good indoor environmental quality contribute to the health and productivity of building users and increase their work or learning performance; (This new paragraph would be added under the new heading ‘Healthy buildings and indoor environmental quality (IEQ)’)
Amendment 327 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 e (new)
Paragraph 28 e (new)
28e. Calls on the Commission to take account in legislative proposals, such as the Renovation Wave, the requirement of healthy buildings in addition to the energy efficiency first principle; (This new paragraph would be added under the new heading ‘Healthy buildings and indoor environmental quality (IEQ)’)
Amendment 329 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Views the renovation wave as an opportunity to achieve an energy-efficient and climate-neutral building stock by 2050 through an action plan for renovations of buildings for IRPs with a focus on communities, especially for those in energy poverty, and to provide healthy, decent, affordable and energy efficient buildings where people can reach their full potential in line with the European Green Deal and the climate neutrality target for 2050;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Highlights that the renovation wave may mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis, by fostering high-quality jobs in the construction and renewable energy industries and supporting small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) workers; emphasises that the renovation wave can play an important role in green and sustainable recovery and can represent the key element of any post-COVID recovery plans, therefore the Commission should not delay this proposal and should provide all the funding options available;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the Member States’ long-term renovation strategies (LTRSs) in setting out 2030 and 2040 milestones towards the climate neutrality objective; calls all Member States to timely submit their Long Term Renovation Strategies;
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Welcomes the announcement made by the Commission to promote renovations in schools, hospitals and social housing for those in need; yet highlights the challenge of addressing the large residential building stock and the importance of providing financial assistance;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission to enshrine the renovation wave’s measures into EU law and increase the 2030 climate and energy targets while ensuring that the renovation of buildings is integrated as a key policy to fill the gap in the 2030 targets and while ensuring affordability of housing for owners and tenants;