47 Amendments of Eleonora EVI related to 2016/0230(COD)
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Paris Agreement, inter alia, sets out a long-term goal in line with the objective to keep the global temperature increase well below 2°C above pre- industrial levels and to pursue efforts to keep it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels which scientists agree requires the world to enter into a period of negative emissions, where forests will play a central role in achieving this. In order to achieve this goal, the Parties should prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions. The Paris Agreement replaces the approach taken under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which will not be continued beyond 2020. The Paris Agreement also calls for a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century, and invites Parties to take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, including forests.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Paris Agreement, inter alia, sets out a long-term goal in line with the objective to keep the global temperature increase well below 2°C above pre- industrial levels and to pursue efforts to keep it to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels which scientists agree requires the world to enter into a period of negative emissions, where forests will play a central role in achieving this. In order to achieve this goal, the Parties should prepare, communicate and maintain successive nationally determined contributions. The Paris Agreement replaces the approach taken under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol which will not be continued beyond 2020. The Paris Agreement also calls for a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century, and invites Parties to take action to conserve and enhance, as appropriate, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, including forests.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Agriculture and land use are the sectors impacting most directly and significantly upon EU's biodiversity and ecosystems services. For this reason, an important objective of the sector is to ensure ongoing coherence with European Union biodiversity objectives aimed at halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In light of this, LULUCF sector measures undertaken by member states aimed in particular towards climate change mitigation, should also ensure coherence with the achieving EU's biodiversity objectives, including those set out in the European Union Biodiversity Strategy, the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) Agriculture and land use are sectors that have a direct and significant impact on the Union’s biodiversity and ecosystems services. For this reason, an important objective of the sector is to ensure ongoing coherence with the Union’s biodiversity objectives aimed at halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In light of this, measures undertaken by Member States in the LULUCF sector and aiming in particular to achieve climate change mitigation, should also ensure coherence with the achievement of the Union’s biodiversity objectives, including those set out in the EU Biodiversity Strategy, and the Birds and Habitats Directives.
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
This Regulation has the ultimate objective of contributing to the global commitment of keeping temperatures below 2 degrees above pre-industrial level, pursuing efforts to limit to warming to 1.5 degrees.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) managed wetlands: land use reported as wetland remaining wetland, and settlement, other land converted to wetland and wetland converted to settlement and other land.
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 14 to adapt the definitions in paragraph 1 to scientific developments or technical progress and to ensure consistency between those definitions and any changes to relevant definitions in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories ('IPCC Guidelines') and the 2013 IPCC Wetlands Supplementary Guidelines for national Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
For the period from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030, taking into account the flexibilities provided for in Article 11, each Member States shall ensdeavoure that emissions do not exceedo increase their removals, calculated as the sum of total emissions and removals on their territory in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2 combined, as accounted in accordance with this Regulation, in line with Union long term commitments under the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Member States by 30 June 2019 have to submit an action plan to the Commission, that sets out targets for 2040, 2050, 2060 and 2070 to increase removals, calculated as the sum of total emissions and removals on their territory in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2 combined, as accounted in accordance with this Regulation. These can take the form of the National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) as set out in the Regulation [Governance].
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall account for emissions and removals resulting from afforested land and deforested land, as the totalcalculated as emissions and removals for each of the years in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five the Member State's average annual emissions and removals resulting from managed afforested land and deforested land, in its base period 2005-2007.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. By derogation from the requirement to apply the default value established in Article 5(3), a Member State mayust make a written application to the European Commission with scientific justification to transition cropland, grassland, wetland, settlements and other land from the category of such land converted to forest land to the category of forest land remaining forest land after 30 years from the date of conversion. Any decision to grant this derogation is based on the IPCC guidelines and must be approved by an expert review team, and the Member State must demonstrate that the rotation length is at least double the length of the maximum transition period, in this case 60 years.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 a (new)
It is the ultimate objective of this Regulation to contribute to the global objective to keep temperatures below 2 degrees, pursuing efforts to limit to warming to 1.5 degrees.
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6a Preserve biodiversity In order for removals to be included in a Member State's accounts, the removal must have evaluated the impact of mitigation activities on EU biodiversity objectives, as specified in the EU biodiversity strategy and in the Birds and Habitats Directives.
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Member States that have chosen to include managed wetland in the scope of their commitments in accordance with Article 2 shall account for emissions and removals resulting from managed wetland, calculated as emissions and removals in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and/or from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five the Member State’'s average annual emissions and removals resulting from managed wetland in its base period 2005-2007.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall account for emissions and removals resulting from managed forest land, calculated as emissions and removals in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five itsannual average emissions and removals in the forest reference levelperiod. A forest reference levelperiod is an estimate of the average annual net emissions or removals resulting from managed forest land within the territory of the Member State in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 20261990 to 20309.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) managed wetland: land use reported as wetland remaining wetland, and settlement, other land converted to wetland and wetland converted to settlement and other land.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 2
2. Where the result of the calculation referred to in paragraph 1 is negative in relation to its forest reference levelperiod, a Member State shall include in its managed forest land accounts total net removals of no more than the equivalent of 3,5 per cent of the Member State’'s emissions in its base year or period as specified in Annex III, multiplied by five.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The national forestry accounting plan shall contain all the elements listed in Annex IV, section B and include a proposed new forest reference level based on the continuation of current forest management practice and intensity, as documented between 1990-2009 per forest type and per age class in national forests, expressed in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, assuming a constant ratio between solid and energy use of forest biomass.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 14 to adapt the definitions in paragraph 1 to scientific developments or technical progress and to ensure consistency between those definitions and any changes to relevant definitions in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories ('IPCC Guidelines') and the 2013 IPCC Wetlands Supplementary Guidelines for national Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
For the period from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030, taking into account the flexibilities provided for in Article 11, each Member States shall ensdeavoure that emissions do not exceedo increase their removals, calculated as the sum of total emissions and removals on their territory in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2 combined, as accounted in accordance with this Regulation, so that removals exceed emissions in line with the Union’s long term commitments under the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Member States shall submit, by 30 June 2019, an action plan to the Commission that sets out targets for 2040, 2050, 2060 and 2070 to increase removals. These removals shall be calculated as the sum of total emissions and removals on their territory in the land accounting categories referred to in Article 2 combined, as accounted in accordance with this Regulation. These can take the form of National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs).
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. At the end of the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030, Member States may exclude from their accounts for afforested land and managed forest land greenhouse gas emissions resulting from natural disturbances exceeding the average emissions caused by natural disturbances in the period 2001-2020, excluding statistical outliers ('background level') calculated in accordance with this Article and Annex VI.
Amendment 147 #
2. To the extent that total removals exceed emissions in a Member State and after subtraction of any quantity taken into account under Article 7 of Regulation [ ] on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030, that Member State may transfer the remaining quantityup to 50% of exceedance to another Member State. The transferred quantity shall be taken into account when assessing the receiving Member State's compliance with its commitment pursuant to Article 4.
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall account for emissions and removals resulting from afforested land and deforested land, as the totalcalculated as emissions and removals for each of the years in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five the Member State's average annual emissions and removals resulting from afforested land and deforested land in its base period 2005- 2007.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3
Article 11 – paragraph 3
3. To the extent that total removals exceed emissions in a Member State in the period from 2021 to 2025, and after subtraction of any quantity taken into account under Article 7 of Regulation [ ] on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 or transferred to another Member State pursuant to paragraph 2, that Member State may bank the remaining quantity to the period 2026- 2030 up to a limit of 50%.
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2
2. ByThe Commission may grant a derogation from the requirement to apply the default value established in Article 5(3), a Member State mayon the basis of a written application submitted by a Member State including a scientific assessment justifying the transition of cropland, grassland, wetland, settlements and other land from the category of such land converted to forest land to the category of forest land remaining forest land after 30 years from the date of conversion. A derogation shall only be granted if the Member State demonstrates that this derogation is based on the IPCC guidelines and has been approved by an expert review team. The Member State must demonstrate that the rotation length is at least double the length of the maximum transition period, in this case 60 years.
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 5
Article 11 – paragraph 5
5. If a Member State is not in compliance with the monitoring requirements laid down in Article 7(1) da) of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013, the Central Administrator designated under Article 20 of Directive 2003/87/EC shall temporarily prohibit that Member State from transferring or banking pursuant to paragraphs 2-3.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a Preserving biodiversity In order for removals to be included in the accounts of a Member State, the Member State concerned shall ensure that its mitigation activities do not negatively impact Union biodiversity objectives, as specified in the EU biodiversity strategy and in the Birds and Habitats Directives.
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
The Commission shall review the ambition of this proposal after the 2018 facilitative dialogue. It shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council by 28 February 2024 and every fivetwo years thereafter on the operation of this Regulation, its contribution to the EU's overall 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target and its contribution to the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, and may make proposals if appropriate.
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The Commission with assistance from the EEA shall review the combined ambition of the Regulations [ ESR ] [ LULUCF ] and [ETS ] after the 2018 UNFCCC facilitative dialogue has taken place. The Commission shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council within a year of the facilitative dialogue, making proposed changes to the EU's 2030 and 2050 greenhouse gas emissions targets, including LULUCF, to ensure coherence with achieving the Paris Agreement's long-term goals. These goals are to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2˚C above pre- industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C, and to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part A – paragraph 1 – point c
Annex IV – part A – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) Reference levels should ensure a robust and credible accounting that excludes the impact of policies on the development of the forest sink, to guarantee that emissions and removals resulting from biomass use are properly accounted for;
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Member States that have chosen to include managed wetland in the scope of their commitments in accordance with Article 2 shall account for emissions and removals resulting from managed wetland, calculated as emissions and removals in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and/or from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five the Member State’s average annual emissions and removals resulting from managed wetland in its base period 2005-2007.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall account for emissions and removals resulting from managed forest land, calculated as emissions and removals in the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030 minus the value obtained by multiplying by five itsannual average emissions and removals in the forest reference levelperiod. A forest reference levelperiod is an estimate of the average annual net emissions or removals resulting from managed forest land within the territory of the Member State in the periods from 20211990 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030.09. (The change of “forest reference level” to “forest reference period” applies throughout the text.)
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 8 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The national forestry accounting plan shall contain all the elements listed in Annex IV, section B and include a proposed new forest reference level based on the continuation of current forest management practice and intensity, as documented between 1990-2009 per forest type and per age class in national forests, expressed in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year, assuming a constant ratio between solid and energy use of forest biomass.
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. At the end of the periods from 2021 to 2025 and from 2026 to 2030, Member States may exclude from their accounts for afforested land and managed forest land greenhouse gas emissions resulting from natural disturbances exceeding the average emissions caused by natural disturbances in the period 2001-2020, excluding statistical outliers ('background level') calculated in accordance with this Article and Annex VI.
Amendment 248 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. To the extent that total removals exceed emissions in a Member State and after subtraction of any quantity taken into account under Article 7 of Regulation [ ] on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030, that Member State may transfer the remaining quantityup to 50% of the exceedance to another Member State. The transferred quantity shall be taken into account when assessing the receiving Member State’s compliance with its commitment pursuant to Article 4.
Amendment 254 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 3
Article 11 – paragraph 3
3. To the extent that total removals exceed emissions in a Member State in the period from 2021 to 2025, and after subtraction of any quantity taken into account under Article 7 of Regulation [ ] on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 or transferred to another Member State pursuant to paragraph 2, that Member State may bank the remaining quantity to the period 2026- 2030 up to 50% of the exceedance.
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Article 11 – paragraph 4
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 5
Article 11 – paragraph 5
5. If a Member State is not in compliance with the monitoring requirements laid down in Article 7(1) da) of Regulation (EU) No 525/2013, the Central Administrator designated under Article 20 of Directive 2003/87/EC shall temporarily prohibit that Member State from transferring or banking pursuant to paragraphs 2-3.
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1
Article 15 – paragraph 1
The Commission shall review the ambition of this proposal after the 2018 facilitative dialogue. It shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council by 28 February 2024 and every fivetwo years thereafter on the operation of this Regulation, its contribution to the EU's overall 2030 greenhouse gas emission reduction target and its contribution to the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, and may make proposals if appropriate.
Amendment 276 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
The Commission with assistance from the EEA shall review the combined ambition of the Regulations [ESR] [LULUCF] and [ETS] after the 2018 UNFCCC facilitative dialogue has taken place. The Commission shall report to the European Parliament and to the Council within a year of the facilitative dialogue, proposing changes to the EU's 2030 and 2050 greenhouse gas emissions targets, including LULUCF, to ensure coherence with achieving the Paris Agreement's long-term goals. These goals are to hold the increase in global average temperature to well below 2˚C above pre- industrial levels and pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C, and to achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – part A – paragraph 1 – point c
Annex IV – part A – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) Reference levels should ensure a robust and credible accounting that excludes the impact of policies on the development of the forest sink, to guarantee that emissions and removals resulting from biomass use are properly accounted for;