Activities of Edouard MARTIN related to 2018/0228(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Establishing the Connecting Europe Facility (debate) FR
Amendments (35)
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The Programme should aim at supporfighting climate change, by decarbonizing the transport and energy sector, supporting environmentally and socially sustainable projects and, where appropriate, by climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. In particular, the contribution of the Programme to achieving the goals and objectives of the Paris Agreement to keep the global average temperature rise well below 2°C with the aim to stay below 1.5°C, as well as the proposed 2030 climate and energy targets and long-term decarbonisation objective should be reinforced.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Reflecting the importance of tackling climate change in line with Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement, and the commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, this Regulation should therefore mainstream climate action and lead to the achievement of an overall target of 2530% of the EU budget expenditures supporting climate objectives18 . Actions under this Programme are expected to contribute 60% of the overall financial envelope of the Programme to climate objectives, based inter alia on the following Rio markers: i) 100% for the expenditures relating to railway infrastructure, alternative fuels, clean urban transport, electricity transmission, electricity storage, smart grids, CO2 transportation and renewable energy; ii) 40% for inland waterways and multimodal transport, and gas infrastructure - if enabling increased use of renewable hydrogen or bio- methanerenewable fuels leading to significant greenhouse gas reductions. In order to monitor the climate action contribution of CEF and other programmes, a centrally managed climate tracking data base stooled on Rio markers and an expanded list of 'intervention categories' should be developed to evaluate and document all spending of the programmes of the EU budget. Relevant actions will be identified during the Programme's preparation and implementation, and reassessed in the context of the relevant evaluations and review processes. In order to prevent that infrastructure is vulnerable to potential long term climate change impacts and to ensure that the cost of greenhouse gas emissions arising from the project is included in the project's economic evaluation, projects supported by the Programme should be subject to climate proofing in accordance with guidance that should be developed by the Commission coherently with the guidance developed for other programmes of the Union where relevant. __________________ 18. Guiding principles for climate proofing should be the exclusion of all direct and indirect support from the EU budget for fossil fuel projects; a lifecycle assessment of all projects screening them in the context of the Paris Agreement, the 2 and 1.5 degrees climate scenarios and ensuring compliance with the general decarbonisation target and the sector specific emission reduction goals, taking into account the "energy efficiency first" principle. __________________ 18 COM(2018) 321, page 13 COM(2018) 321, page 13
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4 a (new)
Recital 4 a (new)
(4a) Aside from setting the overall target of 30% of the EU budget expenditures supporting climate objectives, it is at least as important to make sure not a single action or project supported by the EU budget undermines or goes against our commitments to tackle climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the achievement of a net-zero greenhouse gas emissions economy by 2050 and the pathway to reach the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) An important objective of this Programme is to deliver increased synergies between the transport, energy and digital sector. For that purpose, the Programme should provide for the adoption of cross-sectoral work programmes that could address specific intervention areas, for instance as regards connected and automated mobility or alternative fuel, remote sensing for monitoring transport emissions, or renewable fuels leading to significant greenhouse gas reductions. In addition, the Programme should allow, within each sector, the possibility to consider eligible some ancillary components pertaining to another sector, where such an approach improves the socio-economic benefit of the investment. Synergies between sectors should be incentivized through the award criteria for the selection of actions.
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council27 identifies the trans-European energy infrastructure priorities which needed to be implemented in order to meet the former Union's energy and climate policy objectives, identifies projects of common interest necessary to implement those priorities, and lays down measures in the field of the granting of permits, public involvement and regulation to speed up and/or facilitate the implementation of those projects, including criteria for the eligibility of such projects for Union financial assistance. Before the end of 2021, the list of projects of common interest, eligibility criteria and TEN-E guidelines should be revised to divert investments from fossil fuel projects and towards electricity and energy efficiency projects in order to reach the Union's climate and energy targets for 2030 and the commitments of the Paris Agreement; __________________ 27 Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2013 on guidelines for trans- European energy infrastructure and repealing Decision No 1364/2006/EC and amending Regulations (EC) No 713/2009, (EC) No 714/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 (OJ L 115, 25.4.2013, p. 39).
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18 a (new)
Recital 18 a (new)
(18a) Regulation (EU) 375/2016 stresses “the need for Member States to use the 'energy efficiency first’ principle , which means to consider, before taking energy planning, policy and investment decisions, whether cost-efficient, technically and environmentally sound alternative energy efficiency measures could replace in whole or in part the envisaged planning, policy and investment measures, whilst still achieving the objectives of the respective decisions”
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) While completion of network infrastructure remains the priority to achieve the development of renewable energy, integrating cross-border cooperation on renewable energy and developing a smart and efficient energy system including storage and demand response solutions that help balance the grid, reflects the approach adopted under the Clean Energy for all Europeans initiative with a collective responsibility to reach an ambitious target for renewable energy in 2030 and the changed policy context with ambitious long-term decarbonisation objectives.
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) Innovative infrastructure technologies that enable the transition to a low carbon energy and mobility systems and improve security of supply are essential in view of the Union's decarbonisation agenda. In particular, in its Communication of 23 November 2017 "Communication on strengthening Europe's energy networks"28 , the Commission emphasised that the role of electricity, where renewable energy will constitute half of the electricity generation by 2030, will increasingly be driving the decarbonisation of sectors so far dominated by fossil fuels, such as transport, industry and heating and cooling and that accordingly, the focus underEurope is on track to achieve a well interconnected and shock resilient gas grid by the early 2020s. Accordingly, the trans- European energy infrastructure policy is increasingly on electricityshould support electricity projects such as interconnections, electricity storages, demand response and smart grids projects. To support the Union's decarbonisation objectives, due consideration and priority should be given to technologies and projects contribuboosting to the transition to a low carbon economy and no direct or indirect support should go to fossil fuel projects or projects undermining or going against our commitments to tackle climate change, implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The Commission will aim at increasing the number of cross-border smart grid, innovative storage as well as carbon dioxide transportation projects to be supported under the Programme. __________________ 28 COM(2017) 718 COM(2017) 718
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) In order to favour an integrated development of the innovation cycle, it is necessary to ensure complementarity between the innovative solutions developed in the context of the Union Research and Innovation framework programmes and the innovative solutions deployed with support from the Connecting Europe Facility. For this purpose, synergies with Horizon Europe, which are consistent with the commitments under the Paris Agreement, will ensure that: (a) research and innovation needs in the areas of transport, energy and in the digital sector within the EU are identified and established during Horizon Europe’s strategic planning process; (b) the Connecting Europe Facility supports large- scale roll-out and deployment of innovative technologies and solutions in the fields of transport, energy and digital infrastructure, and in synergies between those fields, in particular those resulting from Horizon Europe; (c) the exchange of information and data between Horizon Europe and the Connecting Europe Facility will be facilitated, for example by highlighting technologies from Horizon Europe with a high market readiness that could be further deployed through the Connecting Europe Facility.
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 35
Recital 35
(35) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination is the framework to identify national reform priorities and monitor their implementation. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of these reform priorities. These strategies should be presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union funding. They should also serve to use Union funding in a coherent manner and to maximise the added value of the financial support to be received notably from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and Cohesion Fund, the European Investment Stabilisation Function, InvestEU and the Connecting Europe Facility, where relevant. Financial support should also be used in a manner consistent with Union and national energy and climate plans where relevantand the energy efficiency first principle.
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45 a (new)
Recital 45 a (new)
(45a) The Regulation's investment priorities shall be reviewed following the update of the Union's own nationally determined contribution, expected around the UNFCCC stock take in 2023 to guarantee consistency with the Union's climate change commitments;
Amendment 375 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) “energy efficiency first” means the prioritisation, in all energy planning, policy and investment decisions, of measures to make energy demand and energy supply more efficient, by means of cost-optimal energy end-use savings, demand-side response initiatives and more efficient conversion, transmission and distribution of energy;
Amendment 407 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. The Programme has the general objective to develop, decarbonise and modernise the trans-European networks in the fields of transport, energy and digital and to facilitate cross-border cooperation in the field of renewable energy, taking into account and energy efficiency, in full consistency of the long- term decarbonisation commitments and with emphasis on synergies among sectors.
Amendment 470 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 3 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) In the energy sector, to contribute to the decarbonisation of the economy by the development of projects of common interest relating to further integration of the internal energy market, interoperability of networks across borders and sectors, facilitating decarbonisation and ensuring security of supply, and toensuring security of supply by increasing the EU’s energy independence, facilitateing cross- border cooperation in the area of renewable energy and to stimulate energy efficiency;
Amendment 541 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) up to EUR 8,650,000,000 for the specific objectives referred to in Article 3(2)(b), out of which up to 1at least 20% for the cross-border projects in the field of renewable energy
Amendment 620 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. Studies aiming at the development and identification of cross-border projects in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency shall be eligible for funding under this Regulation.
Amendment 622 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 4 – point a
(a) the project specific cost-benefit analysis pursuant to point 3 of Part IV of the Annex shall be compulsory for all supported projects, is performed in a transparent, comprehensive and complete manner and provides evidence concerning the existence of significant cost savings and/or benefits in terms of sustainability, system integration, security of supply or innovation, and;
Amendment 715 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b – point ii
(ii) actions supporting telematic applications systems, including for safety and emissions control purposes, in accordance with Articles 31 (Telematic applications), 33 (New technologies and innovation), 34 (Safe and secure infrastructure) and 36 (Environmental protection) of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013;
Amendment 730 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b – point iv
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point b – point iv
(iv) actions supporting new technologies and innovation, including automation, enhanced transport services, modal integration and, if contributing to emissions reductions, alternative fuels infrastructure, in accordance with Article 33 of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013;
Amendment 784 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point -a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point -a (new)
(-a) Actions relating to the decarbonisation of the economy:
Amendment 787 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point a
(a) actions relating to projects of common interest as set out at Article 14 of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013, falling under Annex I.1 and I.4 and Annex II.1;
Amendment 790 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point a a (new)
(aa) Actions relating to energy efficiency or demand side response;
Amendment 791 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point a b (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – point a b (new)
(ab) actions supporting smart grid projects, where such projects integrate electricity generation, distribution or consumption using real time system management and influencing cross- border energy flows;
Amendment 811 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. All projects shall be subject to a climate, environmental and social sustainability assessment in order to minimise harmful impacts and maximise benefits for society. The Commission shall come forward with an assessment tool, based on the 1.5 and 2 degrees climate scenarios and the energy efficiency first principle. The programme shall not support fossil fuel projects.
Amendment 816 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
1. Actions contributing to the achievement of one or more objectives of at least two sectors, as provided for in Article 3(2) (a), (b) and (c) shall be eligible to receive Union financial assistance under this Regulation, if they do not undermine or counteract the Union's contributions to the Paris Climate Change Agreement. Such actions shall be implemented through specific cross- sectoral work programmes addressing at least two sectors, including specific award criteria and financed with budget contributions from the sectors involved.
Amendment 845 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) economic, social, climate and environmental impact (benefits and costs);
Amendment 867 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) Efficiency first principle
Amendment 870 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
(ea) Completion, comprehensiveness and transparency of the project's climate, environmental and social sustainability assessment and cost benefit analysis;
Amendment 878 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) need to overcome financial obstacles such as insufficient commercial viability, high upfront costs or the lack of market finance;
Amendment 880 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point i
(i) cConsistency witribution to the Union and national energy and climate plans., the EU decarbonisation objectives and commitments under the Paris agreement;
Amendment 884 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point i a (new)
(ia) Contribution to lowering the EU's greenhouse gas emissions;
Amendment 961 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – point b
Article 14 – paragraph 3 – point b
(b) The co-financing rates may be increased to a maximum of 75 % for actions in line with the EU's commitments under the Paris Agreement and contributing to the development of projects of common interest which, based on the evidence referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) No 347/2013, provide a high degree of regional or Union-wide security of supply, strengthen the solidarity of the Union or comprise highly innovative solutions.
Amendment 989 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Grants cannot be combined with Funds granted to Projects of Energy Community's Interest;
Amendment 1031 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – title
Article 21 – title
Evaluation and review
Amendment 1035 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 2
Article 21 – paragraph 2
2. The interim evaluation of the Programme shall be performed once there is sufficient information available about the implementation of the Programme, but no later than four years after the start of the programme implementation. It shall document the Programme's contribution to the decarbonisation of the EU. Based on the results of this interim evaluation, recommendations for a review of the Programme shall be proposed, bearing in mind a possible increase in the EU decarbonisation objectives in accordance with Art.14 of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.