26 Amendments of Ivars IJABS related to 2021/0206(COD)
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 b (new)
Recital 11 b (new)
(11 b) Further fiscal or stimulus measures may also be necessary in order to support vulnerable households, vulnerable micro-enterprises or vulnerable transport users.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 c (new)
Recital 11 c (new)
(11 c) It is important to set a definition of vulnerable households, which takes into account a sufficient set of variables which point to the fact that a household could be vulnerable for a number of economic, social and geographical reasons. Therefore, when defining a vulnerable household, it is necessary to view this definition as setting a spectrum rather than a binary form of definitions.
Amendment 142 #
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 transport 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 156 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The financial envelope of the Fund should, in principle, be commensurate to amounts corresponding to 25% of the expected revenues from the inclusion of buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC in the period 2026-2032. Pursuant to Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/205341 , Member States should make those revenues available to the Union budget as own resources. Member States are to finance 50%a significant share of the total costs of their Plan themselves corresponding to at a maximum 50% for targeted structural measures and investments. By way of derogation, it should be possible for the national co-financing share for targeted structural measures and investments to be limited to 40% for Member States that are eligible for a top-up from the EIB's Modernisation Fund. For this purpose, as well as for investment and measures to accelerate and alleviate the required transition for citizens negatively affected, Member States should inter alia use their expected revenues from emissions trading for buildings and road transport under Directive 2003/87/EC for that purpose. _________________ 41 Council Decision (EU, Euratom) 2020/2053 of 14 December 2020 on the system of own resources of the European Union and repealing Decision 2014/335/EU, Euratom (OJ L 424, 15.12.2020, p. 1).
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25 a (new)
Recital 25 a (new)
(25 a) To ensure that support under the Plan can be effectively implemented from the initial years of the entry into force of the Social Climate Fund, it should be possible for an amount of up to 13% of the financial contribution of Member States to be paid in the form of pre- financing.
Amendment 183 #
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 191 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 4
Article 1 – paragraph 4
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 215 #
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 intotransition towards climate neutrality, especially the price impacts of the revised Directive 2021/0213 and the extension of the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC 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 220 #
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 price impacts of the inclusion of buildings intotransition towards climate neutrality, especially the price impacts of the revised Directive 2021/0213 and the 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 227 #
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 intotransition towards climate neutrality, at risk of mobility poverty, especially because of the price impacts of the revised Directive 2021/0213 and the extension of the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC to 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 244 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. The Plan may include national measures providing temporary direct income support to vulnerable households and households that are vulnerable transport users to reduce the impact of the increase in the price of fossil fuels resulting from the revised Directive 2021/0213 and the inclusion of buildings and road transport into the scope of Directive 2003/87/EC.
Amendment 268 #
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, comprising in particular an estimate and the identification of vulnerable households, vulnerable small and micro- enterprises and vulnerable transport users; 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 in a continuous manner taking into consideration the fact that a household may become vulnerable at any particular moment and for varying socio-economic reasons;
Amendment 278 #
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 date of application date of the revised Directive 2003/87/EC];
Amendment 327 #
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 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 cease within the time limits identified under Article 4(1) point (d).
Amendment 352 #
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 364 #
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 373 #
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 384 #
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 funds, programmes and instruments. Measures and investments supported under the Fund may receive support from other Un, national and, where appropriate, regional funds, programmes and instruments provided that such support does not cover the same cost.
Amendment 386 #
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 InvestEU Programme, the Technical Support Instrument, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and the Funds covered by Regulation (EU) 2021/1060.
Amendment 392 #
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 399 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Member States shall contribute at a maximum 50 percent of the total estimated costs of the measures and investments referred to in Article 6(2) in their Plans. By way of derogation, the contribution of the Member States providing funding for measures or direct income support in a region with a GDP per capita at market prices below 75% of the Union average during the period 2016 to 2018 shall be limited to a maximum of 40 percent of the total estimated costs of the measures and investments referred to in Article 6(2) in their Plans.
Amendment 439 #
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 455 #
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 468 #
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 471 #
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 473 #
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 1 January 2024. _________________ 64 [Directive (EU) yyyy/nnn of the European Parliament and of the Council…. (OJ …..).] [Directive amending Directive 2003/87/EC]