22 Amendments of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2016/0375(COD)
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The European Energy Union should cover five key dimensions: energy security and affordability to consumers; the internal energy market; energy efficiency; decarbonisation; and research, innovation and competitiveness.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The goal of a resilient Energy Union with an ambitious climate policy at its core is to give Union consumers, both households and businesses, secure, sustainable, competitive and affordable energy, which requires a fundamental transformation of Europe's energy system. That objective can onlybe best achieved by promoting localized solutions suitable to emerging technologies in the renewable sector which will have the twin benefits of respecting the proximity principle and ensuring local control of energy supply. This can be achieved through coordinated action, combining both legislative and non- legislative acts at Union and national level.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The European Council also concluded on 24 October 201414 that a reliable and transparent governance system, without any unnecessary administrative burden, should be developed to help ensure that the Union meets its energy policy goals, with the necessary flexibility forrecognizing that provision of energy is a competence of the Member States and fully respecting their freedom to determine their energy mix. It emphasized that such governance system should build on existing building blocks, such as national climate programmes, national plans for renewable energy and energy efficiency as well as the need to streamline and bring together separate planning and reporting strands. It also agreed to step up the role and rights of consumers, transparency and predictability for investors, inter alia by systematic monitoring of key indicators for an affordable, safe, competitive, secure and sustainable energy system and to facilitate coordination of national energy policies and foster regional cooperation between Member States. _________________ 14 Conclusions of the European Council 23 - 24 October 2014 (EUCO 169/14).
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Therefore, the main objective of the Energy Union Governance should be to enable the achievement of the objectives of the Energy Union and in particular the targets of the 2030 Framework for Climate and Energy. This Regulation is therefore linked to sectorial legislation implementing the 2030 targets for energy and climate. While Member States need flexibility to choose policies that are best-matched to their national energy mix and preferences, that flexibility should be compatible with further markaffordability, where local populations ret aintegration control of their own energy supplies, increased genuine competition, the attainment of climate and energy objectives and the gradual shift towards a low-carbon economy.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In line with the Commission's strong commitment to Better Regulation, the Energy Union Governance should result in a significant reduction of administrative burden for the Member States, the Commission and other Union Institutions and it should help to ensure coherence and adequacy of policies and measures at Union and national level with regard to the transformation of the energy system towards a low-carbon economy., in addition to achieve the aims of the energy union there should be coherence across all sectors most notably in trade policy where the current direction of globalization runs counter to the objectives on this regulation;
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) Regional cooperation is key to ensure an effective achievement of the objectives of the Energy Union. Member States should get the opportunity to comment on other Member States' plans before they are finalised to avoid inconsistencies and potential negative impacts on other Member States and ensure that common objectives are met collectively. Regional cooperation in elaborating and finalising national plans as well as in the subsequent implementation of national plans should be essential to improve effectiveness and efficiency of measures and foster market integratiostrong regional energy providers which can aunderpin energy affordability and security.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) National plans should be stable to ensure transparency and predictability of national policies and measures in order to ensure the need and rights of local populations are balanced against investor certainty. Updates of national plans should however be foreseen once during the ten- year period covered to give Member States the opportunity to adapt to significant changing circumstances. For the plans covering the period from 2021 to 2030, Member States should be able to update their plans by 1 January 2024. Targets, objectives and contributions should only be modified to reflect an increased overall ambition in particular as regards the 2030 targets for energy and climate. As part of the updates, Member States should make efforts to mitigate any adverse environmental impacts that become apparent as part of the integrated reporting.
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) To help ensure coherence between national and Union policies and objectives of the Energy Union, there should be an on-going dialogue between the Commission and the Member States. As appropriateWhile recognizing the competence of the Member States in this area, the Commission shouldmay issue recommendations to Member States including on the level of ambition of the draft national plans, on the subsequent implementation of policies and measures of the notified national plans, and on other national policies and measures of relevance for the implementation of the Energy Union. Member States should take utmost account of such recommendations and explain in subsequent progress reports how they have been implemented.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) energy security, and affordability to consumers;
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d – point 3
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d – point 3
(3) national objectives related to other aspects of the internal energy market such as market integdeveloping interlinked regional structures for energy generation and couplingdelivery, including a timeframe for when the objectives should be met;
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – point 3
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e – point 3
(3) national objectives with regard to competitiveness. and the rights of citizens to an energy supply;
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall collectively ensure that the sum of their contributions adds up to at least 27% of energy produced from renewable sources in gross final energy consumption at Union level by 2030 excluding imported biomass from third countries.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) interactions between existing (implemented and adopted) and planned policies and measures within a policy dimension and between existing (implemented and adopted) and planned policies and measures of different dimensions for the first ten- year period at least until the year 2030. Projections concerning security of supply, development of regional infrastructure and market integrationsustainability shall be linked to robust energy efficiency scenarios.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 9 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the level of ambition of objectives, targets and contributions in view of collectively achieving the Energy Union objectives and notably the Union's 2030 targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency which should exclude the importation of biomass from third countries in order to meet targets;
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point a – point 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point a – point 1
(1) national trajectory for the overall share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption from 2021 to 2030 excluding imports of biomass from third countries;
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point b – point 5
Article 18 – paragraph 1 – point b – point 5
(5) measures promoting the use of energy from biomass, especially for new biomass mobilisation taking into account biomass availability (both the domestic potential and the, excluding biomass imports from third countries), and other biomass uses (agriculture and forest-based sectors), as well as measures for the sustainability of biomass produced and used;
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point b – point 6
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point b – point 6
(6) regional cooperation in the area of energy efficiency, if applicable;
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) national objectives with regard to reducing energy import dependency from third countries with a focus on reducing the imports of biomass form third countries;
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) national objectives related to other aspects of the internal energy market such as market integdeveloping regional market structures for energy generation and couplingdelivery, if applicable;
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – point f
(f) national objectives with regard to ensuring electricity system adequacy and affordability to combat fuel poverty, if applicable;
Amendment 1005 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) achieve -at the latest by 2040 - a highly energy efficient and fully renewables-based energy system and net- zero greenhouse gas emissions within the Union, going into negative emissions by 2050.
Amendment 1008 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) total greenhouse gas emissions reductions and enhancements of removals by sinks;, with a separate target for enhancing removals by sinks that is consistent with pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C. These targets should be established no later than the UNFCCC Facilitative Dialogue in 2018, and should represent a fair and equitable contribution to the global carbon budget."