3 Amendments of Jan-Christoph OETJEN related to 2021/0214(COD)
Amendment 13 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) The CBAM seeks to gradually replace these existing mechanisms by addressing the risk of carbon leakage in a different way, namely by ensuring equivalent carbon pricing for imports and domestic products and by ensuring that Union export products are not replaced by more carbon intensive products, which would undermine the objective of reducing global emissions and would be counterproductive to the aim of supporting developing countries in reaching their climate goals. To ensure a gradual transition from the current system of free allowances to the CBAM while preserving Union competitiveness, the CBAM should be progressively phased in while free allowances in sectors covered by the CBAM are phased outgradually phased out after an assessment by the Commission has proven that the regulation is effective in protection from the risk of carbon leakage for both imports and exports as well as in supporting developing countries in reaching their climate goals. The gradual phase-out of free allowance is essential to ensure a just transition for energy- intensive sectors. The combined and transitional application of EU ETS allowances allocated free of charge and of the CBAM should in no case result in more favourable treatment for Union goods compared to goods imported into the customs territory of the Union.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes a carbon border adjustment mechanism (the ‘CBAM’) for addressing greenhouse gas emissions embedded in the goods referred to in Annex I, upon their importation into the customs territory of the Union, in order to prevent the risk of carbon leakage. It contributes to Union climate action by incentivising and supporting the reduction of emissions in third countries, while not harming or hindering the socioeconomic progress of least developed countries. In this regard, the need for an effective diplomatic language, including with climate vulnerable countries, needs to be taken into account to avoid a shift in significant political energy from other aspects of international climate policy.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 30 – paragraph 2
Article 30 – paragraph 2
2. Before the end of the transitional period, the Commission shall present a report to the European Parliament and the Council on the application of this Regulation. The report shall contain, in particular, the assessment of the possibilities to further extend the scope of embedded emissions to indirect emissions and to other goods at risk of carbon leakage than those already covered by this Regulation, as well as an assessment of the governance system. It shall also contain the assessment of the possibility to further extend the scope to embedded emissions of transportation services as well as to goods further down the value chain and services that may be subject to the risk of carbon leakage in the future. Finally, it shall also contain an analysis of the financial, environmental and social impact of the CBAM in least developed countries.