6 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2016/0231(COD)
Amendment 18 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) On 10 June 2016 the Commission presented the proposal for the EU to ratify the Paris agreement. The agreement entered into force on 4 November 2016 and aims at keeping the increase in global temperature to well below 2 °C above pre- industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, believes that in order to attain these targets more sustainable farming practices will have to be adopted. This legislative proposal forms part of the implementation of the EU’s commitment in the Paris agreement. The Union’s commitment to economy-wide emission reductions was confirmed in the intended nationally determined contribution of the Union and its Member States that was submitted to the Secretariat of the UNFCCC on 6 March 2015.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Regulation [ ] [on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry into the 2030 climate and energy framework] lays down accounting rules on greenhouse gas emissions and removals relating to land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF). While the environmental outcome under this Regulation in terms of the levels of greenhouse gas emission reductions that are made is affected by taking into account a quantity up to the sum of total net removals and total net emissions from deforested land, afforested land, managed cropland and managed grassland as defined in Regulation [ ], flexibility for a maximum quantity of 280 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent of these removals divided among Member States according to the figures in Annex III should be included as an additional possibility for Member States to meet their commitments when needed. This should however not be used by Member States as an alternative to adopting genuine sustainable agricultural practices to encourage climate change mitigation. Where the delegated act to update the forest reference levels based on the national forestry accounting plans pursuant to Article 8 (6) of Regulation [LULUCF] is adopted, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of Article 7 to reflect a contribution of the accounting category managed forest land in the flexibility provided by that Article. Before adopting such a delegated act, the Commission should evaluate the robustness of accounting for managed forest land based on available data, and in particular the consistency of projected and actual harvesting rates. In addition, the possibility to voluntarily delete annual emission allocation units should be allowed under this Regulation in order to allow for such amounts to be taken into account when assessing Member States’ compliance with requirements under Regulation [ ].
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) As a means to enhance the overall cost-effectiveness of total reductions, Member States should be able to transfer part of their annual emission allocation to other Member States, this should not allow Member States to abdicate their responsibilities to introduce climate change mitigation measures in their own states. The transparency of such transfers should be ensured and may be carried out in a manner that is mutually convenient, including by means of auctioning, the use of market intermediaries acting on an agency basis, or by way of bilateral arrangements.
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 4
Article 5 – paragraph 4
4. A Member State may transfer up to 5% of its annual emission allocation for a given year to other Member States only if the receiving state has introduced emission reducing measures and its emissions are on a downward trajectory. The receiving Member State may use this quantity for compliance under Article 9 for the given year or for subsequent years until 2030.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. In 2027 and 2032, if the reviewed greenhouse gas emissions of a Member State exceeds its annual emission allocation for any specific year of the period, pursuant to paragraph 2 of this Article and the flexibilities used pursuant to Articles 5 to 7, the following measures shall apply: