38 Amendments of Jan-Christoph OETJEN related to 2021/0206(COD)
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12 a (new)
Recital 12 a (new)
(12 a) Mobility poverty has been underexposed and no clear Union-level or national definitions are available. However, the problem is becoming more pressing to address as a result of the increasing phase-out requirements for combustion engine vehicles, high fuel prices, or high dependencies on transport availability, accessibility and costs for daily mobility needs especially in rural, insular, outermost regions, mountainous, remote or less accessible areas or in less developed regions or territories, including less developed peri-urban area, caused by one or a combination of factors, such as high fuel expenditures, high costs for the replacement of internal combustion engine vehicles with low and/or zero- emission vehicles, or lack of availability of adequate, affordable public or alternative modes of transport;
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) A Social Climate Fund (‘the Fund’) should therefore be established to provide funds to the Member States to support their policies to address the social impacts of the emissions trading for buildings and road transport on vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and, vulnerable transport users and workers in affected sectors. This should be achieved notably through temporary income support and measures and investments intended to reduce reliance on fossil fuels through increased energy efficiency of buildings, decarbonisation of heating and cooling of buildings, including the integration of energy from renewable sources, and granting improved access to zero- and low-emission mobility and transport including attractive and safe active mobility, and public transport to the benefit of vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and vulnerable transport users and to update the workers qualification in affected sectors.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) For that purpose, each Member State should submit to the Commission a Social Climate Plan (‘the Plan’). Those Plans should pursue two objectives. Firstly, they should provide vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and, vulnerable transport users and businesses in affected sectors the necessary resources to finance and carry out investments in energy efficiency, decarbonisation of heating and cooling, in zero- and low-emission vehicles and mobility, including attractive and safe active mobility, public transport and upskilling and reskilling of employees. Secondly, they should mitigate the impact of the increase in the cost of fossil fuels on the most vulnerable and thereby prevent energy and transportmobility poverty during the transition period until such investments have been implemented. The Plans should have an investment component promoting the long-term solution of reduce fossil fuels reliance and could envisage other measures, including temporary direct income support to mitigate adverse income effects in the shorter term.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Ensuring that the measures and investments are particularly targeted towards energy poor or vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises and, vulnerable transport users and workers in affected sectors is key for a just transition towards climate neutrality. Support measures to promote reductions in greenhouse gas emissions should help Member States to address the social impacts arising from the emissions trading for the sectors of buildings and road transport.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Pending the impact of those investments on reducing costs and emissions, well targeted direct income support for the most vulnerable would help the just transition. Such support should be understood to be a temporary measure accompanying the decarbonisation of the housing and transport sectors. It would not be permanent as it does not address the root causes of energy and transportmobility poverty. Such support shcould only concern direct impacts of the inclusion of building and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC, not electricity or heating costs related to the inclusion of power and heat production in the scope of that Directive. Eligibility for such direct income support should be limited in timbe considered as a means of enabling the most vulnerable households, microenterprises and businesses to meet their essential socio- economic needs. Eligibility for such direct income support should be limited in time, but harmonised with the phasing in of the relevant directives and regulations affecting vulnerable actors in the Fit for 55 package.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Article 1 – paragraph 3
The measures and investments supported by the Fund shall benefit vulnerable households, vulnerable small and micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users and workers in sectors, which are vulnerable and particularly affected by the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC, especially households in energy poverty and citizens without public transport alternative to individual cars (in remote and rural areas).
Amendment 149 #
The general objective of the Fund is to contribute to the transition towards climate neutrality by addressinglimiting as much as possible the social impacts of the transition and the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC. The specific objective of the Fund is to support vulnerable households, vulnerable micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users through temporary direct income support and through measures and investments intended to increase energy efficiency of buildings, decarbonisation of heating and cooling of buildings, including the integration of energy from renewable sources, and granting improved access to zero- and low-emission mobility and transport, and helping to ensure workers are sufficiently supported in order to re-skill or upskill their qualifications.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
(2 a) ‘mobility poverty’ means households that have a disproportionate share of mobility expenditure to their disposable income or a limited availability of affordable public or alternative modes of transport required to meet essential socio-economic needs, with a particular focus on households in rural, insular, outermost regions, mountainous, remote and less accessible areas or less developed regions or territories, including less developed (peri-)urban areas, caused by one or a combination of factors: high fuel prices, the phase-out of internal combustion engine vehicles, high costs for the replacement of internal combustion engine vehicles with zero-emission vehicles, high-costs or lack of availability of adequate, affordable public or alternative modes of transport;
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 11
(11) ‘vulnerable households’ means households in energy poverty or households, including lower middle- income onehouseholds, that are significantly affected by the price impacts of the inclusion of buildings into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC and lack the means to renovate the building they occupytransition towards climate neutrality, especially the price impacts of the revised Directive 2021/0213 to buildings and road transport and lack the means to renovate the building they occupy and lack the means to be able to be mobile when necessary for their economic or social wellbeing;
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 12
(12) ‘vulnerable small and micro- enterprises’ means small and micro- enterprises that are significantly affected by the transition towards climate neutrality, especially the price impacts of the inclusion of buildings intorevised Directive 2021/0213 and the potential extension of the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC to buildings and road transport and lack the means to renovate the building they occupy or to purchase zero and low-emission vehicles;
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13
(13) ‘vulnerable transport users’ means transport users, including from lower middle-income households, that are significantly affected by the price impacts of the inclusion of road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/ECtransition towards climate neutrality, at risk of mobility poverty, especially because of the price impacts of the revised Directive 2021/0213 and the potential inclusion of road transport and lack the means to purchase zero- and low- emission vehicles or to switch to alternative sustainable modes of transport, including public transport, particularly in rural and remote areas.
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall submit to the Commission a Social Climate Plan (‘the Plan’) together with the update to the integrated national energy and climate plan referred to in Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 in accordance with the procedure and timeline laid down in that Article. The Plan shall contain a coherent set of measures and investments to address energy and mobility poverty, in particular the impact of carbon pricing on vulnerable households, vulnerable micro- enterprises and, vulnerable transport users and workers in affected sectors in order to ensure affordable heating, cooling and mobility while accompanying and accelerating necessary measures to meet the climate targets of the Union.
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 3 – point b a (new)
(b a) finance measures and investments to ensure workers reskilling and upskilling in affected sectors.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) an estimate of the likely effects of that increase in prices on households, and in particular on incidence of energy poverty, on small and micro-enterprises and on transport users, and of the needed upskilling and reskilling of workers in affected sectors, comprising in particular an estimate and the identification of vulnerable households, vulnerable small and micro- enterprises and, vulnerable transport users and affected sectors and workers; these impacts are to be analysed with a sufficient level of regional disaggregation, taking into account elements such as access to public transport and basic services and identifying the areas mostly affected, particularly territories which are remote and rural; these impacts shall also be analysed and assessed regularly taking into consideration the fact that a household may become vulnerable at any particular moment and for varying socio- economic reasons;
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) where the Plan provides for measures referred to in Article 3(2), the criteria for the identification of eligible final recipients, the indication of the envisaged time limit for the measures in question and their justification on the basis of a quantitative estimate and a qualitative explanation of how the measures in the Plan are expected to reduce energy and transportmobility poverty and, the vulnerability of households, micro-enterprises and transport users to an increase of road transport and heating fuel prices and to update the qualifications of workers;
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) envisaged milestones, targets and an indicative timetable for the implementation of the measures and investments to be completed by 31 July 2032[10 years after the transposition date of the revised Directive 2003/87/EC];
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) zero- and low-emission mobility and transport, taking into account the carbon footprint of vehicles throughout their life cycle;
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) greenhouse gas emissions reductions relating to measures and investments in accordance with Article 6;
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point e a (new)
(e a) update of the qualifications of workers in affected sectors.
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States may include the costs of measures providing temporary direct income support, including reduction of taxes and fees, as a transitional measure to vulnerable households and vulnerable households that are transport users to absorb the increase in road transport and heating fuel prices. Such support shall decrease over time and be limited to the direct impact of the revised measures outlined in Directive 2021/0213 and emission trading for buildings and road transport. Eligibility for such direct income support shall ceases within the time limits identified underset out in Article 4(1) point (d).
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point b
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) support public and private entities, in particular public-private cooperation, in developing and providing affordable energy efficiency renovation solutions and appropriate funding instruments in line with the social goals of the Fund;
Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) provide financial support or fiscal incentives to improve access to zero- and low- emission vehicles and bikcycles, including financial support covering the purchase or fiscal incentives for their purchase or lease as well as for appropriate public and private infrastructure, including for recharging and refuelling; as well as for the development of a second-hand zero and low-emission vehicle market; for support concerning low-emission vehicles, a timetable for gradually reducing the support shall be provided; for support concerning the purchase of low- and/or zero emission vehicles.
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)
(d a) help operators develop and strengthen the supply of quality public transport, in terms of timing, frequency, punctuality and service, in particular those serving areas in habited mainly by vulnerable households;
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) support public and private entities in developing and providing affordable zero- and low-emission mobility and transport services and the uptake of attractive and safe active mobility options for rural, insular, outermost regions, mountainous, remote and less accessible areas or for less developed regions or territories, including less developed peri- urban areas. including investments in attractive and safe active mobility infrastructure;
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The Fund shall not support, and the estimated total costs of Plans shall not include measures in the form of direct income support pursuant to Article 3(2) of this Regulation to the extent that these are additional and complementary to the support provided for households already benefiting:
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 1
1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Fund for the period 20254-2027 shall be at least EUR 23 700 000 000 in current prices.
Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Fund for the period 2028-2032 shall be at least EUR 48 500 000 000 in current prices, subject to the availability of the amounts under the annual ceilings of the applicable multiannual financial framework referred to in Article 312 TFEU.
Amendment 351 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. Support under the Fund shall be additional to the support provided under other Union, national and, where appropriate, regional funds, programmes and instruments. Measures and investments supported under the Fund may receive support from other Union funds, programmes and instruments provided that such support does not cover the same cost.
Amendment 352 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Support under the Fund shall be used in synergy, complementarity, coherence and consistency with other funds, programmes and instruments at Union, national and, where appropriate, regional levels, in particular the Modernisation Fund established by Directive 2003/87/EC, the Invest EU Programme, the Technical Support Instrument, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and the Funds covered by Regulation (EU) 2021/1060.
Amendment 357 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a Pre-financing 1. Subject to the adoption by the Commission of the implementing decision referred to in Article 16(1), when a Member State requests pre-financing together with the submission of the Plan, the Commission shall make a pre- financing payment of an amount of up to 13% of the financial contribution. By derogation from Article 116(1) of the Financial Regulation, the Commission shall make the corresponding payment within, to the extent possible, two months after the adoption by the Commission of the legal commitment referred to in Article 18. 2. In cases of pre-financing under paragraph 1 of this Article, the financial contributions shall be adjusted proportionally.
Amendment 391 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 1
1. After the Commission has adopted a decision as referred to in Article 16, it shall in due time conclude an agreement with the Member State concerned constituting an individual legal commitment within the meaning of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 covering the period 20254-2027. That agreement may be concluded at the earliest one year before the year of the start of the auctions under Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC.
Amendment 395 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 7
Article 19 – paragraph 7
7. Where, within 12 months of the date of the conclusion of relevant agreements referred to in Article 18, no tangible progress has been made in respect of any relevant milestones and targets by the Member State concerned, the Commission shall terminate the relevant agreements referred to in Article 18 and shall de-commit the amount of the financial allocation. Any pre-financing in accordance with Article [13a] shall be recovered in full. The Commission shall take a decision on the termination of agreements referred to in Article 18 after having given the Member State concerned the possibility to present its observations within a period of two months of the communication of its assessment as to whether no tangible progress has been made. Any decommitted amounts shall be proportionally allocated to other Member States.
Amendment 396 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
The Commission and the Member States concerned shall, in a manner commensurate to their respective responsibilities, foster synergies and ensure effective coordination between the Fund and other Union programmes and instruments, including the Modernisation Fund, InvestEU Programme, the Technical Support Instrument, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and the Funds covered by Regulation (EU) 2021/1060. For that purpose, they shall:
Amendment 408 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. By 31 December 2033, the Commission shall provide the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions with an independent ex post evaluation report of the Fund's use between 2024-2032.
Amendment 411 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 3
Article 24 – paragraph 3
3. The evaluation report shall, in particular, assess to which extent the objectives of the Fund laid down in Article 1 have been achieved, the efficiency of the use of the resources and the Union added value. It shall consider the continued relevance of all objectives and actions set out in Article 6 in light of the potential impact on greenhouse gas emissions from the emission trading system for buildings and road transport pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC and from the national measures taken to meet the binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council63 . It shall also consider the continued relevance ofexamines to what extent the financial envelope of the Fund remains relation toevant with regard to the possible developments concerningolution of the costs of the transition such as the auctioning of allowances underwithin the framework of the emissions trading system for buildings and road transport pursuant to, in accordance with the Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC, and other relevant considerations such as the evolution of the prices of energy and raw materials necessary for the ecological transition. _________________ 63Regulation (EU) 2018/842 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 contributing to climate action to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement and amending Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 (OJ L 156, 19.6.2018, p. 26-42).
Amendment 414 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24 – paragraph 5
Article 24 – paragraph 5
5. The ex post evaluation report shall consist of a global assessment of the Fund and shall include information on its impact.
Amendment 417 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
It shall apply from no later than the date by which the Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Directive (EU) [yyyy/nnn] of the European Parliament and the Council64 amending Directive 2003/87/EC as regards Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC, and at the earliest on 1st January 2024. _________________ 64[Directive (EU) yyyy/nnn of the European Parliament and of the Council…. (OJ …..).] [Directive amending Directive 2003/87/EC]