125 Amendments of Simona BONAFÈ related to 2016/0382(COD)
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Promoting renewable forms of energy is one of the goals of the Union energy policy, in accordance with Article 194(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). The increased use of energy from renewable sources, together with energy savings and increased energy efficiency, constitutes an important part of the package of measures needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and comply with the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the Union 2030 energy and climate framework, including the binding target to cut emissions in the Union by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. It also has an important part to play in promoting the security of energy supply, technological development and innovation and providing opportunities for employment and regional development, especially in rural and isolated areas or regions with low population density.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) On 12th December 2015, the EU agreed together with other nations on the Paris Agreement on climate action, which the EU successfully ratified on 4th October 2016 and which entered into force on 4th November 2016. The objectives of the global agreement commit the EU to further action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to reassess its contribution to the global commitment of limiting the increase of atmospheric temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius while pursuing efforts to limit the increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. The revision of this Directive must be in line with the EU's obligations as a party of the Paris Agreement.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The European Parliament, in its Resolutions on "A policy framework for climate and energy in the period from 2020 to 2030" and on "the Renewable energy progress report", has favoured a binding Union 2030 target of at least 30% of total final energy consumption from renewable energy sources, stressing that that target should be implemented by means of individual national targets taking into account the individual situation and potential of each Member State. In its resolution of 23 June 2016 on "The renewable energy progress report", the European Parliament went further, stressing that, in light of the Paris Agreement, a Union target significantly more ambitious was desirable.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) National binding targets have been straightforward measurable indicators against which progress can be measured to assess the effectiveness of the measures included in this Directive.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) It is thus appropriate to establish a Union binding target of at least 2740% share of renewable energy. Member States should define their contribution to the achievement of this target as part of their Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans through the governance process set out in Regulation [Governance], to be accompanied by national binding targets.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Promoting renewable forms of energy is one of the goals of the Union energy policy. The increased use of energy from renewable sources, together with energy savings and increased energy efficiency, constitutes an important part of the package of measures needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and comply with the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the Union 2030 energy and climate framework, including the binding target to cut emissions in the Union by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. It also has an important part to play in promoting the security of energy supply, technological development and innovation and providing opportunities for employment and regional development, especially in rural and isolated areas orin regions with low population density and in territories subject to partial deindustrialization.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) The promotion of energy from renewable sources should be based on the principles of the circular economy and the cascading use of resources in order to increase resource efficiency for products and materials and minimise the generation of waste. Therefore this Directive should be consistent with these principles and further promote the reprocessing of waste into secondary raw materials in accordance with the targets established in the Directive 2008/98/EC.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In order to support Member States' ambitious contributions to the Union in reaching their targets, a financial framework aiming to facilitate investments in renewable energy projects in those Member States should be established, also through the use of financial instruments.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The Commission should facilitate the exchange of best practices between the competent national or regional and local authorities or bodies, for instance through regular meetings to find a common approach to promote a higher uptake of cost-efficient renewable energy projects, encourage investments in new, flexible and clean technologies, and set out an adequate strategy to manage the retirement of technologies which do not contribute to the reduction of emissions or deliver sufficient flexibility, based on transparent criteria and reliable market price signals.
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Support schemes for electricity generated from renewable sources have proved to be an effective way of fostering deployment of renewable electricity. If and when Member States decide to implement support schemes, such support should be provided in a form that is as non-distortive as possible for the functioning of electricity markets. To this end, an increasing number of Member States allocate support in a form where support is granted in addition to market revenues. In the case of biomass sources where competition with material manufacturers may exist, support schemes should be as non-distortive as possible to the functioning of the biomass supply market. Or.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Electricity generation from renewable sources, including energy storage, should be deployed at the lowest possible cost for consumers and taxpayers. When designing support schemes and when allocating support, Member States should seek to minimise the overall system cost of deployment, taking full account of grid and system development needs, the resulting energy mix, and the long term potential of technologies.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) The opening of support schemes to cross-border participation limits negative impacts on the internal energy market and can, under certain conditions, help Member States achieve the Union target more cost- efficiently. Cross-border participation is also the natural corollary to the development of the Union renewables policy, with a Union-level binding target replacaccompanying national binding targets. It is therefore appropriate to require Member States to progressively and partially open support to projects located in other Member States, and define several ways in which such progressive opening may be implemented, ensuring compliance with the provisions of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, including Articles 30, 34 and 110.
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) In order to ensure that Annex IX takes into account the principles of the waste hierarchy established in Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council17, the Union sustainability criteria, and the need to ensure that the Annex does not create additional demand for land while promoting the use of wastes and residues, the Commission, when regularly evaluating the Annex, should consider the inclusion of additional feedstocks that do not cause significant distortive effects on markets for (by-)products, wastes or residues. or the exclusion of those already causing such distortion; __________________ 17 Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 on waste and repealing certain Directives (OJ L 312, 22.11.2008, p. 3).
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In order to support Member States' ambitious contributions to the Union in reaching their targets, a financial framework aiming to facilitate investments in renewable energy projects in those Member States should be established, also through the use of financial instruments.
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 26
Recital 26
(26) To create opportunities for reducing the cost of meeting the Union targets laid down in this Directive and to give flexibility to Member States to comply with their obligation not to go below their 2020 national targets after 2020, it is appropriate both to facilitate the consumption in Member States of energy produced from renewable sources in other Member States, and to enable Member States to count energy from renewable sources consumed in other Member States towards their own renewable energy share. For this reason, cooperation mechanisms are required to complement the obligations to open up support to projects located in other Member States. Those mechanisms include statistical transfers, joint projects between Member States or joint support schemes.
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Support schemes for electricity generated from renewable sources have proved to be an effective way of fostering deployment of renewable electricity. If and when Member States decide to implement support schemes, such support should be provided in a form that is as non-distortive as possible for the functioning of electricity markets. To this end, an increasing number of Member States allocate support in a form where support is granted in addition to market revenues. In the case of woody biomass sources where competition with material manufacturers may exist, support schemes should be as non- distortive as possible to the functioning of the woody biomass supply market. Policy measures adopted by the Union and the Member States in support of bioenergy production, and especially of energy from solid biomass, should always take into due account the principle of resource efficiency and of optimized use of biomass.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Member States should be encouraged to pursue all appropriate forms of cooperation in relation to the objectives set out in this Directive. Such cooperation can take place at all levels, bilaterally or multilaterally. Apart from the mechanisms with effect on target renewable energy share calculation and target compliance, which are exclusively provided for in this Directive, namely statistical transfers between Member States, joint projects and joint support schemes, cooperation should also take place within the framework of macro-regional partnership as established by Regulation [Governance] and can also take the form of, for example, exchanges of information and best practices, as provided for, in particular, in the e-platform established by Regulation [Governance], and other voluntary coordination between all types of support schemes. The European Commission's Trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E) strategy should support the objectives of this Directive and set out additional incentives for cross-border cooperation as well as regional cooperation between Member States in the area of renewable energy.
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) It should be possible for imported electricity, produced from renewable energy sources outside the Union to count towards Member States’ renewable energy sharestargets. In order to guarantee an adequate effect of energy from renewable sources replacing conventional energy in the Union as well as in third countries it is appropriate to ensure that such imports can be tracked and accounted for in a reliable way. Agreements with third countries concerning the organisation of such trade in electricity from renewable energy sources will be considered. If, by virtue of a decision taken under the Energy Community Treaty18 to that effect, the contracting parties to that Treaty are bound by the relevant provisions of this Directive, the measures of cooperation between Member States provided for in this Directive should be applicable to them. __________________ 18 OJ L 198, 20.7.2006, p. 18.
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) It is important to provide information on how the supported electricity isrenewable energy sources injected into electricity and gas grids are allocated to final customers. In order to improve the quality of that information to consumers, Member States should ensure that guarantees of origin are issued for all units of renewable energy produced and injected into both electricity and gas grid. In addition, with a view to avoiding double compensation, renewable energy producers already receiving financial support should not receive guarantees of origin. However, those guarantees of origin should be used for disclosure so that final consumers can receive clear, reliable and adequate evidence on the renewable origin of the relevant units of energy. Moreover, for electricitrenewable energy that received support, the guarantees of origin should be auctioned to the market and the revenues should be used to reduce public subsidies for renewable energy.
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53
Recital 53
(53) With the growing importance of self-consumption of renewable electricity, there is a need for a definition of renewable self-consumers and a regulatory framework which would empower self-consumers to generate, store, consume and sell electricity without facing disproportionate burdens. Collective self-consumption should be allowed in certain cases so thatfor citizens living in apartments who for example can benefit from consumer empowerment to the same extent as households in single family homes.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53 a (new)
Recital 53 a (new)
(53a) Since energy poverty affects around 11% of the population and around 50 million households of the Union, renewable energy policies have an essential role to play in addressing energy poverty and consumer vulnerability.
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53 b (new)
Recital 53 b (new)
(53b) Member States should therefore actively support policies that focus especially on low-income households at risk of energy poverty or in social housing.
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 55
Recital 55
(55) The specific characteristics of local renewable energy communities in terms of size, ownership structure and the number of projects can hamper their competition on equal footing with large-scale players, namely competitors with larger projects or portfolios. Measures to offset those disadvantages include enabling energy communities to operate in the energy system and easing, aggregate their offers, and to ease their market integration and participation.
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 57
Recital 57
(57) Several Member States have implemented measures in the heating and cooling sector to reach their 2020 renewable energy target. However, in the absence of binding national targets post- 2020, the remaining national incentives may not be sufficient to reach the long- term decarbonisation goals for 2030 and 2050. In order to be in line with such goals, reinforce investor certainty and foster the development of a Union-wide renewable heating and cooling market, while respecting the energy efficiency first principle, it is appropriate to encourage the effort of Member States in the supply of renewable heating and cooling to contribute to the progressive increase of the share of renewable energy. Given the fragmented nature of some heating and cooling markets, it is of utmost importance to ensure flexibility in designing such an effort. It is also important to ensure that a potential uptake of renewable heating and cooling does not have detrimental environmental side-effects. To that end, the sustainability criteria for biomass have to ensure a high level of sustainable sourcing of biomass, including the consideration of the cascading use principle for biomass feedstock and have to guarantee a high efficiency of plants using biomass for heating.
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 57
Recital 57
(57) Several Member States have implemented measures in the heating and cooling sector to reach their 2020 renewable energy target. However, in the absence of binding national targets post- 2020, the remaining national incentives may not be sufficient to reach the long- term decarbonisation goals for 2030 and 2050. In order to be in line with such goals, reinforce investor certainty and foster the development of a Union-wide renewable heating and cooling market, while respecting the energy efficiency first principle, it is appropriate to encourage the effort of Member States in the supply of renewable heating and cooling to contribute to the progressive increase of the share of renewable energy. Given the fragmented nature of some heating and cooling markets, it is of utmost importance to ensure flexibility in designing such an effort. It is also important to ensure that a potential uptake of renewable heating and cooling does not have detrimental environmental side-effects and, to that end, the sustainability criteria for biomass are important.
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Without prejudice to adaptations of support schemes to bring them in line with StateSubject to Article 107 aind rules108 TFEU, renewables support policies should be stable and avoid frequentany retroactive changes. Such changes have a direct impact on capital financing costs, the costs of project development and therefore on the overall cost of deploying renewables in the Union. Member States should prevent the revision of any support granted to renewable energy projects from having a negative impact on their economic viability. In this context, Member States should promote cost-effective support policies and ensure their financial sustainability.
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 64
Recital 64
(64) Advanced biofuels and other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX, renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non- biological origin, and renewable electricity in transport can contribute to low carbon emissions, stimulating the decarbonisation of the Union transport sector in a cost- effective manner, and improving inter alia energy diversification in the transport sector while promoting innovation, growth and jobs in the Union economy and reducing reliance on energy imports. The cascading use principle should be taken into account in order to make sure that the use of feedstock for advanced biofuel production does not compete with other uses in which the feedstock would have to be replaced with more emission intensive raw materials. The incorporation obligation on fuels suppliers should encourage continuous development of advanced fuels, including biofuels, and it is important to ensure that the incorporation obligation also incentivises improvements in the greenhouse gas performance of the fuels supplied to meet it. The Commission should assess the greenhouse gas performance, technical innovation and sustainability of those fuels.
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 65
Recital 65
(65) The promotion of low carbon fossil fuels that are produced from fossil waste streamscarbon capture and utilization can also contribute towards the policy objectives of energy diversification and transport decarbonisation. It is therefore appropriate to include those fuels in the incorporation obligation on fuel suppliers. Nonetheless, the portion of gaseous wastes or by- products used for "carbon capture and utilization fuels" should not be credited under other emissions reduction schemes, such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 65
Recital 65
(65) The promotion of low carbon fossil fuels that are produced from fossil waste streamscarbon capture and utilization can also contribute towards the policy objectives of energy diversification and transport decarbonisation. It is therefore appropriate to include those fuels in the incorporation obligation on fuel suppliers.
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 66
Recital 66
(66) Feedstocks which have low indirect land use change impacts when used for biofuels, should be promoted for their contribution to the decarbonisation of the economy. Especially feedstocks for advanced biofuels, for which technology is more innovative and less mature and therefore needs a higher level of support, should be included in an annex to this Directive. In order to ensure that this annex is up to date with the latest technological developments while avoiding unintended negative effects, an evaluation should take place after the adoption of the Directive in order to assess the possibility to extendreview the annex to new feedstocks.
Amendment 229 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 44
Recital 44
(44) It is appropriate to allow the consumer market for renewable electricity from renewable energy sourceand gases injected into grids to contribute to the development of energy from renewable sources. Member States should therefore require electricity suppliers who disclose their energy mix to final customers in accordance with Article X of Directive [Market Design], or who market energy to consumers with a reference to the consumption of energy from renewable sources, to use guarantees of origin from installations producing energy from renewable sources. They should also support energy installations in dismissed or partially dismissed industrial areas, in order to limit land use.
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 68 a (new)
Recital 68 a (new)
(68a) The synergy between circular economy, bio-economy and the promotion of renewable energy should be further emphasized in order to ensure the most valuable use of the raw materials and the best environmental outcome. Policy measures adopted by the Union and the Member States in support of renewable energy production should always take into account the principle of resource efficiency and of optimized use of biomass.
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 71
Recital 71
(71) The production of agricultural and forest raw material for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels, and the incentives for their use provided for in this Directive, should not have the effect of encouraging the destruction of biodiverse lands Such finite resources, recognised in various international instruments to be of value to all mankind, should be preserved. It is therefore necessary to provide sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions savings criteria ensuring that biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels qualify for the incentives only when it is guaranteed that the agricultural or forest raw material does not originate in biodiverse areas or, in the case of areas designated for nature protection purposes or for the protection of rare, threatened or endangered ecosystems or species, the relevant competent authority demonstrates that the production of the agricultural and forest raw material does not interfere with such purposes. Forests should be considered as biodiverse according to the sustainiability criteria, where they are primary forests in accordance with the definition used by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in its Global Forest Resource Assessment, or where they are protected by national nature protection law. Areas where the collection of non-wood forest products occurs should be considered to be biodiverse forests, provided the human impact is small. Other types of forests as defined by the FAO, such as modified natural forests, semi- natural forests and plantations, should not be considered as primary forests. Having regard, furthermore, to the highly biodiverse nature of certain grasslands, both temperate and tropical, including highly biodiverse savannahs, steppes, scrublands and prairies, biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels made from agricultural raw materials originating in such lands should not qualify for the incentives provided for by this Directive. The Commission should establish appropriate criteria to define such highly biodiverse grasslands in accordance with the best available scientific evidence and relevant international standards.
Amendment 248 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 48
Recital 48
(48) There is a need to support the integration of energy from renewable sources into the transmission and distribution grid and the use of energy storage systems for integrated variable production of energy from renewable sources, in particular as regards the rules regulating dispatch and access to the grid. Directive [Electricity Market Design] lays down the framework for the integration of electricity from renewable energy sources. However, this framework does not include provisions on the integration of gas from renewable energy sources into the gas gridtransport, distribution and storage infrastructures. It is therefore necessary to keep them in this Directive.
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 76
Recital 76
(76) To ensure that, despite the growing demand for forest biomass, harvesting is carried out in a sustainable manner in forests where regeneration is ensured, that special attention is given to areas explicitly designated for the protection of biodiversity, landscapes and specific natural elements, that biodiversity resources are preserved and that carbon stocks are tracked, woody raw material should come only from forests that are harvested in accordance with the principles of sustainable forest management developed under international forest processes such as Forest Europe and are implemented through national laws or the best management practices at the forest holding level. Operators should take the appropriate steps in order to minimise the risk of usingavoid to use unsustainable forest biomass for the production of bioenergy. To that end, operators should put in placefollow a risk- based approach. In this context, it is apporpriate for the to be developed by the European Commission to developalongside operational guidance on the verification of compliance with the risk based approach, following the consultation of the Energy Union Governance Committee, and the Standing Forestry Committee established by Council Decision 89/367/EEC24. __________________ 24 Council Decision 89/367/EEC of 29 May 1989 setting up a Standing Forestry Committee (OJ L 165, 15.6.1989, p. 14).
Amendment 262 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 77
Recital 77
(77) In order to minimise the administrative burden, the Union sustainability and greenhouse gas saving criteria should apply only to electricity and heating from biomass fuels produced in installations with a fuel capacity equal or above to 205 MW.
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 78
Recital 78
(78) Biomass fuels should be converted into electricity and heat in an efficient way in order to maximise energy security and greenhouse gas savings, as well as to limit emissions of air pollutants and minimise the pressure on limited biomass resources. For this reason, public support to installations with a fuel capacity equal to or exceeding 205 MW, if needed, should only be given to highly efficient combined power and heat installations as defined Article 2(34) of Directive 2012/27/EU. Existing support schemes for biomass- based electricity should however be allowed until their due end date for all biomass installations. In addition electricity produced from biomass in new installations with a fuel capacity equal to or exceeding 205 MW should only count towards renewable energy targets and obligations in the case of highly efficient combined power and heat installations. In accordance with State aid rules, Member States should however be allowed to grant public support for the production of renewables to installations, and count the electricity they produce towards renewable energy targets and obligations, in order to avoid an increased reliance on fossil fuels with higher climate and environmental impacts where, after exhausting all technical and economic possibilities to install highly efficient combined heat and power biomass installations, Member States would face a substantiated risk to security of supply of electricity.
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53
Recital 53
(53) With the growing importance of self-consumption of renewable electricity, there is a need for a definition of renewable self-consumers and a regulatory framework which would empower self-consumers to generate, store, consume and sell electricity without facing disproportionate burdens. Collective self-consumption should be allowed in certain cases so thatfor citizens living in apartments who for example can benefit from consumer empowerment to the same extent as households in single family homes.
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 53 a (new)
Recital 53 a (new)
(53a) Member States should therefore ensure that incentives and proactive policies are put in place to facilitate the take-up of renewable generation and heating and cooling not only in middle and high-income households, but also in low-income households at risk of energy poverty or in social housing.
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 101
Recital 101
(101) Since the objectives of this Directive, namely to achieve at least 2740% share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy by 2030, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale of the action, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Directive establishes a common framework for the promotion of energy from renewable sources. It sets a binding Unionminimum targets for the overall share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy in 2030. It also lays down rules on financial support to electricity produced from renewable sources, self-consumption of renewable electricity, andThe Union target is to be collectively achieved by Member States through binding national targets. It also lays down rules on financial support to electricity produced from renewable sources and access to the electricity grid for energy from renewable sources, self-consumption of renewable electricity, renewable energy communities and their cross-border cooperation, renewable energy use in the heating and cooling and transport sectors, regional cooperation between Member States and with third countries, guarantees of origin, administrative procedures and information and training. It establishes sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels.
Amendment 295 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) ‘energy from renewable sources’ means energy from renewable non-fossil sources, namely wind, solar (solar thermal and solar photovoltaic) and, geothermal energy, ambient heat, tide, wave and other ocean energy, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas, biogases and biogasesmethane;
Amendment 300 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) ‘biomass’ means the biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from biological origin from agriculture, including vegetal and animal substances, forestry and related industries including fisheries and aquaculture, as well as the biodegradable fraction of waste, including industrial, commercial and municipal waste of biological origin ;
Amendment 305 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point n a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point n a (new)
(na) 'residual waste' means waste resulting from a treatment or a recovery operation, including recycling, which cannot be recovered further and, as result, has to be disposed of;
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a a
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a a
(aa) ‘renewable self-consumer’ means an active customer as defined in Directive [MDI Directive] or a group of customers, acting together, who consumes and may store and sell renewable electricity which is generated within his or its premises, including a multi-apartment block, a commercial or shared services site or a closed distribution system, including through aggregators, provided that, for non-household renewable self- consumers, those activities do not constitute their primary commercial or professional activity;
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 68 a (new)
Recital 68 a (new)
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point e e
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point e e
(ee) ‘advanced biofuels’ means biofuels that are produced from feedstocks listed in part A of Annex IX; no waste streams or residues listed in Annex IX can be used if waste management options that are higher ranked in the waste hierarchy of Directive 2008/98/EC are available
Amendment 334 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 101 a (new)
Recital 101 a (new)
(101a) The Commission shall, every two years, report to the European Parliament and to the Council, in respect of both third countries and Member States that are a significant source of biofuels or of raw material for biofuels consumed within the Community, on national measures taken to respect the sustainability criteria set out in the directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewables sources and for soil, water and air protection. The First report shall be submitted in 2022. The Commission shall, if appropriate, propose corrective actions, in particular if evidence shows that biofuels production has a significant impact on food prices or on land-use rights, in particular the rights of local and indigenous communities in developing countries;
Amendment 341 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) ‘energy from renewable sources’ means energy from renewable non-fossil sources, namely wind, solar (solar thermal and solar photovoltaic) and, geothermal energy, ambient heat, tide, wave and other ocean energy, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases, biomethane, hydrogen, synthetic natural gas produced from renewable electricity and energy stored in batteries for a transitory period of time;
Amendment 349 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point f f
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point f f
(ff) ‘waste-based fossil“carbon capture and utilisation fuels’” means liquid and gaseous fuels produced from gaseous waste streams of non-renewable origin, including waste processing gases and exhaust gasesthat incorporate carbon which would otherwise be emitted or stay in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide;
Amendment 372 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point n n
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point n n
(nn) 'biowaste' means biodegradable garden and park waste, food and kitchen waste from households, restaurants, caterers and retail premises, and comparable waste from the food processing industry and other waste with similar biodegradability and compostability properties;
Amendment 374 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point qq a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point qq a (new)
(qqa) ‘biomethane’ means renewable gas with the same physical properties as natural gas and derive from the upgrading of biogas produced by anaerobic digestion or from power to gas by upgrading;
Amendment 381 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – title
Article 3 – title
Union and national binding overall targets for 2030
Amendment 385 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall collectively ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in the Union’s gross final consumption of energy in 2030 is at least 2740%.
Amendment 391 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Amendment 394 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall ensure that their national policies are designed to conform to the waste hierarchy, as set out in Article 4 of the Directive 2008/98/EC. To this end, Member States shall regularly review their national policies and justify any deviations in the reports required under Article 18(c) of Regulation (Governance).
Amendment 398 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 5
Article 3 – paragraph 5
Amendment 398 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point z
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point z
(z) ‘repowervamping’ means renewing power plants producing renewable energy, including the full or partial replacement of installations or operation systems and equipment, in order to replace capacity or increase efficiency;
Amendment 399 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3a Mandatory national overall targets Each Member State shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources, calculated in accordance with Articles 7 to 13, in gross final consumption of energy in 2030, is equal to at least its national overall target for the share of energy from renewable sources in that year, as set out in the third column of the table in part A of Annex I. Such mandatory national overall targets shall be consistent with a target of at least a 40 % share of energy from renewable sources in the Union’s gross final consumption of energy in 2030. In order to achieve the targets laid down in this Article more easily, each Member State shall promote and encourage energy efficiency and energy saving.
Amendment 399 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point z a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point z a (new)
(za) 'repowering' means renewing power plants producing renewable energy, including the full or partial replacement of installations or operation systems and equipment, in order to increase capacity.
Amendment 401 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a a
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point a a
(aa) ‘renewable self-consumer’ means an active customer or a group of jointly acting customers as defined in Directive [MDI Directive] who consumes and may store and sell renewable electricity which is generated within his or its premisesbehind the point of his or its connection to the grid, including a multi- apartment block, a commercresidential area, a commercial, industrial or shared services site or a closed distribution system, a branch of the distribution grid, including through aggregators, provided that, for non-household renewable self- consumers, those activities do not constitute their primary commercial or professional activity;
Amendment 407 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Support schemes for electricity from biomass sources shall be designed to avoid unnecessary distortions of material markets.
Amendment 415 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, Member States shall ensure that no support scheme for energy from renewable sources is provided for municipal waste which does not comply with the separate collection obligations set out in the Directive 2008/98/EC.
Amendment 464 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point uu a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point uu a (new)
(uu a) Biomethane: renewable gas with the same physical properties as natural gas and derived from the upgrading of biogas produced by anaerobic digestion, gasification or from power to gas by upgrading .
Amendment 466 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point uu b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point uu b (new)
(uu b) 'Sectoral integration' means a holistic system approach which strives to link infrastructures and services in the electricity, gas, heating and cooling and transport sectors, where the use and conversion of all energy carriers plays a key role.
Amendment 472 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 32 to amend the list of feedstocks in parts A and B of Annex IX in order to add feedstocks, but not or to remove them. Each delegated act shall be based on an analysis of the latest scientific and technical progress, taking due account of the principles of the waste hierarchy established in Directive 2008/98/EC, in compliance with the Union sustainability criteria, supporting the conclusion that the feedstock in question does not create an additional demand for land and promoting the use of wastes and residues, while avoiding significant distortive effects on markets for (by-)products, wastes or residues, delivering substantial greenhouse gas emission savings compared to fossil fuels, and not creating risk of negative impacts on the environment and biodiversity.
Amendment 477 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Every 2 years, the Commission shall carry out an evaluation of the list of feedstocks in parts A and B of Annex IX in order to add or remove feedstocks, in line with the principles set out in this paragraph. The first evaluation shall be carried out no later than 6 months after [date of entry into force of this Directive]. If appropriate, the Commission shall adopt delegated acts to amend the list of feedstocks in parts A and B of Annex IX in order to add feedstocks, but not or to remove them.
Amendment 483 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3 a (new)
When a feedstock is removed from the list in Annex IX, installations producing advanced biofuels from that feedstock shall be permitted to use it for five years after the entry into force of the delegated act removing the feedstock from Annex IX, provided it is an advanced biofuel according to Article 2 of this Directive.
Amendment 486 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) deducted from the amount of energy from renewable sources that is taken into account in measuring the renewable energy sharecompliance with the national target of the Member State making the transfer for the purposes of this Directive; and
Amendment 487 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) added to the amount of energy from renewable sources that is taken into account in measuring the renewable energy share ofcompliance with the national target of the Member State accepting the transfer for the purposes of this Directive .
Amendment 489 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) deducted from the amount of electricity or heating or cooling from renewable energy sources that is taken into account, in measuring the renewable energy sharecompliance with the national target of the Member State issuing the letter of notification under paragraph 1; and
Amendment 490 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Electricity from renewable energy sources produced in a third country shall be taken into account only for the purposes of measuring compliance with Member States' renewable energy sharetargets if the following conditions are met:
Amendment 500 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Member States shall ensure via their permit or concession granting processes that by 31 December 2020 all fuel stations along the roads of the core network established by Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 ('TEN-T Core Network') are equipped with public accessible charging points for electric vehicles. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 32 to extend the scope of this paragraph to fuels falling under Article 25.
Amendment 504 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 6
Article 18 – paragraph 6
6. Member States, with the participation of local and regional authorities, shall develop suitable information, awareness-raising, guidance or training programmes in order to inform citizens of the benefits and practicalities of developing and using energy from renewable sources, including by self- consumption or in the framework of renewable energy communities, as well as of the benefits of cooperation mechanisms between Member States and different kinds of cross-border cooperation.
Amendment 508 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 – point f a (new)
(fa) whether and to what extent the energy source from which the energy was produced met sustainability criteria and greenhouse gas emissions savings referred to Article 26 of this Directive.
Amendment 513 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 515 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
For the purposes of this Directive, a renewable energy community shall be an SME or a not-for-profit organisation, the shareholders or members of which cooperate in the generation, distribution, storage or supply of energy from renewable sources, while this cooperation may take place across Member States' borders, fulfilling at least four out of the following criteria:
Amendment 516 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) shareholders or members are natural persons, regional or local authorities, including municipalities, or SMEs operating in the fields or renewable energy;
Amendment 525 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
1. Subject to State aid rules, in order to reach the Union target set in Article 3(1), Member States may apply support schemes. Support schemes for electricity from renewable sources shall be designed so as to avoid unnecessary distortions of electricity markets and ensure that producers take into account the supply and demand of electricity as well as possible system integration costs or grid constraints.
Amendment 555 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that support for renewable electricity is granted in an open, transparent, competitive, non- discriminatory and cost-effective manner. Member States shall be allowed to opt-out from technology-neutral support schemes to ensure networks stability or to deploy infant technologies
Amendment 560 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. With effect from 1 January 2021, Member States shall require fuel suppliers to include a minimum share of energy from advanced biofuels and other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX, from renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, from waste-based fossilcarbon capture and utilization fuels and from renewable electricity in the total amount of transport fuels they supply for consumption or use on the market in the course of a calendar year.
Amendment 575 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States shall also support energy installations in former dismissed or partially dismissed industrial areas, after environmental remediation and in order to limit land use.
Amendment 577 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
The minimum share shall be at least equal to 1.5% in 2021, increasing up to at least 6.89% in 2030, following the trajectory set out in part B of Annex X. Within this total share, the contribution of advanced biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in part A of Annex IX shall be at least 0.5% of the transport fuels supplied for consumption or use on the market as of 1 January 2021, increasing up to at least 3.6% by 2030, following the trajectory set out in part C of Annex X. Or.
Amendment 586 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall assess the effectiveness of their support for electricity from renewable sources at least every four years. Decisions on the continuation or prolongation of support and design of new support shall be based on the results of the assessments and shall be communicated to the Commission. Existing support schemes should be preserved without modifications until their expiration.
Amendment 594 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point a
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point a
(a) for the calculation of the denominator, that is the energy content of road and rail transport fuels supplied for consumption or use on the market, petrol, diesel, natural gas, biofuels, biogas, renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, waste-based fossilcarbon capture and utilisation fuels and electricity, shall be taken into account;
Amendment 607 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – subparagraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – subparagraph 1
(b) for the calculation of the numerator, the energy content of advanced biofuels and other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX, renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, waste based fossilcarbon capture and utilisation fuels supplied to all transport sectors, and renewable electricity supplied to road vehicles, shall be taken into account.
Amendment 614 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – subparagraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 – point b – subparagraph 2
For the calculation of the numerator, the contribution from biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock included in part B of Annex IX shall be limited to 1.7% of the energy content of transport fuels supplied for consumption or use on the market and the contribution of fuels supplied in the aviation and maritime sectorof renewable electricity supplied to road vehicles shall be considered to be 1.22.5 times theirits energy content.
Amendment 633 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Fuel suppliers only supplying fuels in the form of electricity and renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non- biological origin do not need to comply with the minimum share of advanced biofuels, other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX.
Amendment 639 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. To determine the share of renewable electricity for the purposes of paragraph 1 either the average share of electricity from renewable energy sources in the Union or the share of electricity from renewable energy sources in the Member State where the electricity is supplied, as measured two years before the year in question may be usedshall be used. However, electricity obtained from direct connection to an installation generating renewable electricity that is not connected to the grid may be fully counted as renewable electricity. In both cases, an equivalent amount of guarantees of origin issued in accordance with Article 19 shall be cancelled.
Amendment 641 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 25 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
The share of renewable energy in liquid and gaseous transport fuels shall be determined on the basis of the share of renewable energy in the total energy input used for the production of the fueltransport fuel. An equivalent amount of guarantees of origin issued in accordance with Article 19 shall be cancelled.
Amendment 672 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 6
Article 25 – paragraph 6
6. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 32 to further specify the methodology referred to in paragraph 3(b) of this Article to determine the share of biofuel resulting from biomass being processed with fossil fuels in a common process, to specify the methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emission savings from renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin and waste-based fossilcarbon capture and utilization fuels and to determine minimum greenhouse gas emission savings required for these fuels for the purpose of paragraph 1 of this Article.
Amendment 681 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 7
Article 25 – paragraph 7
7. By 31 December 2025, in the context of the biennial assessment of progress made pursuant to Regulation [Governance], the Commission shall assess whether the obligation laid down in paragraph 1 effectively stimulates innovation, the transition towards a circular economy and promotes greenhouse gas savings in the transport sector, and whether the applicable greenhouse gas savings requirements for biofuels and biogas are appropriate. The Commission shall, if appropriate, present a proposal to modify the obligation laid down in paragraph 1.
Amendment 695 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
However, biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from waste and residues, other than agricultural, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry residues, need onlyto comply with the waste hierarchy, as laid down in Directive 2008/98/EC, and fulfil the greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria set out in paragraph 7 in order to be taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of this paragraph. This provision shall also apply to waste and residues that are first processed into a product before being further processed into biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels.
Amendment 704 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 26 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Biomass fuels shall have to fulfil the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria set out in paragraphs 2 to 7 only if used in installations producing electricity, heating and cooling or fuels with a fuel capacity equal to or exceeding 205 MW in case of solid biomass fuels and with an electrical capacity equal to or exceeding 0.5 MW in case of gaseous biomass fuels. Member States may apply the sustainability and greenhouse gas emission saving criteria to installations with lower fuel capacity.
Amendment 705 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point a
(a) administrative procedures are streamlined and expedited at the appropriate administrative level; and foresee predictable timeframes for the issue of the necessary permits and licenses;
Amendment 719 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 3
Article 15 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that investors have sufficient predictability of the planned support for energy from renewable sources. To this aim, Member States shall define and publish a long-term schedule in relation to expected allocation for support, covering at least the following threfive years and including for each scheme the indicative timing, the capacity, the budget expected to be allocated, as well as a consultation of stakeholders on the design of the support.
Amendment 723 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point c – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point c – introductory part
(c) highly biodiverse grassland spanning more than one hectare that is:
Amendment 725 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point c – point ii
Article 26 – paragraph 2 – point c – point ii
(ii) non-natural, namely grassland that would cease to be grassland in the absence of human intervention and which is species-rich and not degraded andor has been identified as being highly biodiverse by the relevant competent authority, unless evidence is provided that the harvesting of the raw material is necessary to preserve its status as highly biodiverse grassland.
Amendment 728 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 26 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from agricultural or forest biomass taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 shall not be made from raw material obtained from land with high carbon stock, namely land that had one of the following statuses in January 2008 and no longer has that status:
Amendment 733 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 4
Article 26 – paragraph 4
4. Biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels produced from agricultural or forest biomass taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 shall not be made from raw material obtained from land that was peatland in January 2008.
Amendment 739 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Article 15 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3
Member States shall, in their building regulations and codes or by other means with equivalent effect, require the use of minimum levels of heat provided by renewable heating appliances in new buildings and of energy from renewable sources in new buildings and in existing buildings that are subject to major renovation, reflecting the results of the cost-optimal calculation carried out pursuant to Article 5(2) of Directive 2010/31/EU. Member States shall permit those minimum levels to be fulfilled, inter alia, using a significant proportion of renewable energy sources.
Amendment 762 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 9
Article 15 – paragraph 9
9. Member States shall remove administrative and regulatory barriers to corporate long- term power purchase agreements to finance renewables and facilitate their uptake, ensuring these are not subject to disproportionate procedures and charges that are not cost-reflective.
Amendment 772 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point iv
Article 26 – paragraph 5 – point a – point iv
iv) the impacts of forest harvesting on soil quality, soil carbon and biodiversity are minimised; and
Amendment 788 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 5
Article 16 – paragraph 5
5. Member States shall facilitate the repowering of existing renewable energy plants by, inter alia, ensuring a simplified and swift permit granting process, which shall not exceed one year from the date on which the request for repowering is submitted to the single administrative contact point. Member States shall ensure that access and connection rights to the grid are maintained for the repowered projects, at least for the capacity of the original project.
Amendment 797 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. In order to limit land use, Member States support the construction of RES- based installations in dismissed or partially dismissed, after environmental remediation.
Amendment 806 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. Demonstration projects and installations with an electricity capacity of less than 510 kW shall be allowed to connect to the grid following a notification to the distribution system operator.
Amendment 834 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 846 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3
Article 26 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 3
Amendment 878 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point d
Article 26 – paragraph 7 – point d
(d) at least 80 70% for electricity, heating and cooling production from biomass fuels used in installations starting operation after 1 January 2021in operation on or before [adoption of this Directive], 80 % for installations starting operation after [adoption of this Directive] and 85% for installations starting operation after 1 January 2026.
Amendment 892 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 1
8. Electricity from biomass fuels produced in installations with a fuel capacity equal to or exceeding 205 MW shall be taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 only if it is produced applying high efficient cogeneration technology as defined under Article 2(34) of Directive 2012/27/EU. For the purposes of points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1, this provision shall only apply to installations starting operation after [3 years from date of adoption of this Directive]. For the purposes of point (c) of paragraph 1, this provision is without prejudice to public support provided under schemes approved by [3 years after date of adoption of this Directive].
Amendment 896 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 916 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 10 a (new)
Article 26 – paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. In order to inform the final costumer to what extent the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels laid down in this Article are met, that information shall, where appropriate, be included in the guarantee of origin in accordance with Article 19.
Amendment 922 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. In order to facilitate cross border trade and disclosure to consumers, guarantees of origin for renewable energy injected into the grid shall contain information on the sustainability criteria and greenhouse gas emission savings as defined in Article 26(2) to (7) and may be transferred separately.
Amendment 1027 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex IX – Part A – point b
Annex IX – Part A – point b
(b) Biomass fraction of mixedresidual municipal waste, but not separated household waste subject to recycling targets under point (a) of Article 11(2) ofsubject to the separate collection obligations as defined in the Directive 2008/98/EC.
Amendment 1028 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex IX – Part A – point d
Annex IX – Part A – point d
(d) Biomass fraction ofresidues resulting from other renewable industrial wasteproduction not fit for use in the food orchain, feed chain, or for reprocessing into not food material. This includinges material resulting from retail and wholesale and the bio-based chemical productions, agro-food and fish and aquaculture industry, and excluding feedstocks listed in part B of this Annex.
Amendment 1045 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex IX – Part A – point o
Annex IX – Part A – point o
(o) Biomass fraction of residual wastes and residues from forestry and forest-based industries, i.e. bark, branches, pre- commercial thinnings, leaves, needles, tree tops, saw dust, cutter shavings, black liquor, brown liquor, fibre sludge, lignin.
Amendment 1054 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 23 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 23 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) physical incorporation of renewable energy in the energy and energy fuel supplied for heating and cooling, including through efficient district heating systems as defined in/by Directive 2012/27/EU;
Amendment 1062 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex IX – Part B – title
Annex IX – Part B – title
Part B. FOther feedstocks for the production of biofuels, the contribution of which towards the minimum share established in Article 25(1) is limitedadvanced biofuels:
Amendment 1113 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall lay down the necessary measures to allow customers of those district heating or cooling systems which are not 'efficient district heating and cooling' within the meaning of Article 2(41) of Directive 2012/27/EU to disconnect from the system in order to produceuse themselves heating or cooling fpromvided by renewable energy sources themselvor by efficient heating or cooling appliances, or to switch to another supplier of heat or cold which has access to the system referred to in paragraph 4.
Amendment 1124 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 4
Article 24 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall lay down the necessary measures to ensure non- discriminatory access to district heating or cooling systems for heat or cold produced from renewable energy sources or from cogeneration and for waste heat or cold. This non- discriminatory access shall enable direct supply of heating or cooling from such sources to customers connected to the, in line with the definition of efficient district heating orand cooling system by suppliers other than the operator of the district heating or cooling system.(Article 2(41) of Directive 2012/27/EU) [...]
Amendment 1135 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 5
Article 24 – paragraph 5
5. An operator of a district heating or cooling system may refuse access to suppliersIndependent authorities, designated by Member States according to the provisions of paragraph 9 may refuse access to suppliers to an existing district heating or cooling system where the system lacks the necessary capacity due to other supplies of waste heat or cold, of heat or cold from renewable energy sources or of heat or cold produced by high-efficiency cogeneration. Member States shall ensure that where such a refusal takes place the operator of the district heating or cooling system provides relevant information to the competent authority according to paragraph 9 on measures that would be necessary to reinforce the system.
Amendment 1142 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 6
Article 24 – paragraph 6
6. New district heating or cooling systems may, upon request, be exempted from the application of paragraph 4 for a defined period of time. The competent authority shall decide on such exemption requests on a case-by-case basis. An exemption shall only be granted if the new district heating or cooling system constitutes 'efficient district heating and cooling' within the meaning of Article 2(41) of Directive 2012/27/EU and if it exploits the potential for the use of renewable energy sources and, cogeneration ofr waste heat or cold identified in the comprehensive assessment made in accordance with Article 14 of Directive 2012/27/EU.
Amendment 1269 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 30 – paragraph 1
Article 30 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall monitor the origin of biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels consumed in the Union and the impact of their production, including impact as a result of displacement, on land use in the Union and the main third countries of supply. Such monitoring shall be based on Member States’ integrated national energy and climate plans and corresponding progress reports required in Articles 3, 15 and 18 of Regulation [Governance] , , and those of relevant third countries, intergovernmental organisations, scientific studies and any other relevant pieces of information. The Commission shall also monitor the commodity price changes associated with the use of biomass for energy and any associated positive and negative effects on food security and on competing material uses. .
Amendment 1277 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 30 June1 January 2021, at the latest. They shall immediately communicate the text of those measures to the Commission .