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35 Amendments of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2021/0206(COD)

Leila CHAIBI, Petros KOKKALIS, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, José GUSMÃO, Manuel BOMPARD, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ, Sandra PEREIRA, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)

(3a) Buildings in the EU are responsible for 36% of greenhouse gas emissions. Transports are responsible for 27% of greenhouse gas emissions, from which 72% amount to road transport. In parallel, mobility and heating/cooling represent the biggest lines in European household budgets, being close to one third of their annual expenditure. Decarbonising buildings and transports is particularly challenging because households are locked into existing infrastructures, which are costly to change and, therefore, have little options to choose a sustainable alternative. Given this scope, the Commission’s proposal to extend the EU’s carbon trading scheme to buildings and transports would hit households hard, in particular the vulnerable ones. Indeed, energy bills will increase, making low and middle-income households poorer, pushing households at risk of poverty or social exclusion into energy poverty and fatally hitting vulnerable households. Changing transport systems and heating/cooling systems for homes is not only crucial from a climate and environmental perspective but also very important in terms of social justice. Therefore, the ecological transition cannot be achieved by market mechanisms and the price signals that follow from them.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3.º – paragraph 3 – point b

(b) finance measures and investments to increase the uptake of zero- and low- emission mobility and transport, including strengthening of public collective passenger transport services.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – 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 transport poverty and the vulnerability of households, micro- enterprises and transport users to an increase of road transport and heating fuel prices;

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5.º – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)

(ba) promotion of public housing, including social housing;

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) zero- and low-emission mobility and transport and strengthening of public collective passenger transport services;

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

Leila CHAIBI, Petros KOKKALIS, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, José GUSMÃO, Manuel BOMPARD, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ, Sandra PEREIRA, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. The activities financed by the Fund shall be subject to a social conditionality. Any activity financed by the Fund and necessitating the hiring of workers should be conditional to decent wages, decent working conditions - including for health and safety aspects- and direct employment contracts, adequate trade union representation, social dialogue and collective bargaining rights. Any activity financed by the fund shall therefore respect applicable collective agreements as well as social and labour law at national and EU and ILO conventions.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – 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 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).

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) support building renovations, especially for those occupying worst- performing buildings, including in the form of financial support or fiscal incentives such as deductibility of ~~renovation costs from the rent~~associated costs, independently of the ownership of the buildings concerned, while ensuring measures to regulate the property and rental market, as a means of preventing speculative increases and evictions;

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

(ca) promote the development of public housing and public social housing;

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point d

(d) provide access to zero- and low- emission vehicles and bikes, including financial support or fiscal incentives for their purchase as well as for appropriate public and private infrastructure, including dedicated traffic lanes (such as cycling routes) and infrastructure for recharging and refuelling; for support concerning low- emission vehicles, a timetable for gradually reducing the support shall be provided;

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6.º – paragraph 2 – point d a (new)

(da) promote and finance the strengthening of public collective passenger transport services;

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7

Exclusions from the estimated total costs 1. 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 for households already benefiting: (a) price level of the fuels covered by Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC; (b) price setting for the supply of gas in accordance with Article 3(3) of Directive 2009/73/EC; 2. State concerned in its Plan that the public interventions referred to in paragraph 1 do not fully off-set the price increase resulting from the inclusion of the sectors of buildings and road transportArticle 7 Deleted of Social Climate Plans The Fund shall not support, and from public intervention in the from public interventions into the ~~scope of Directive 2003/87/EC, direct income support may be included in the estimated total costs in the limits of the price increase not fully off-set.~~Where it is proven by the Member

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

Petros KOKKALIS, Leila CHAIBI, Manuel BOMPARD, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1

1. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Fund for the period 20253-2027 shall be ~~EUR 23 7~~at least EUR 48 500 000 000 in current prices.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

Petros KOKKALIS, Leila CHAIBI, Manuel BOMPARD, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2

2. The financial envelope for the implementation of the Fund for the period 2028-2032 shall be ~~EUR 48 500~~at least EUR 270 625 000 000 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~~.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 11.º – paragraph 1

The Fund shall be implemented by the Commission ~~in direct~~and the Member States in shared management in accordance with the relevant rules adopted pursuant to Article 322 TFEU, in particular Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council59. _________________ 59 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (OJ L 433I, 22.12.2020, p. 1).

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 12.º – paragraph 2 a (new)

2a. National budgetary expenditure additional to the support under the Fund is not included for the purposes of the criteria laid down in Protocol No 12 TFEU.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall contribute ~~at least to 50 percent of~~to the total estimated costs of their Plans.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14.º – paragraph 2

2. Member States shall inter alia use revenues from the auctioning of their allowances in accordance with Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC for their national contribution to the total estimated costs of their Plans.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15.º

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2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 16.º

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2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 17.º

1. Where a Social Climate Plan, including relevant milestones and targets, is no longer achievable, either in whole or in part, by the Member State concerned because of objective circumstances, in particular because of the actual direct effects of the emission trading system for buildings and road transport established pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/87/EC, the Member State concerned may submit to the Commission an amendment of its Plan to include the necessary and duly justified changes. Member States may request technical support for the preparation of such request. 2. The Commission shall assess the amended Plan in accordance with Article 15. 3. Where the Commission gives a positive assessment to the amended Plan, it shall in accordance with Article 16(1) adopt, within three months of the official submission of the amended Plan by the Member State, a decision setting out the reasons for its positive assessment, by means of an implementing act. 4. Where the Commission gives a negative assessment to the amended Plan, it shall reject the request within the period referred to in paragraph 3, after having given the Member State concerned the possibility to present its observations within three months of the communication of the Commission’s assessment. 5. By 15 March 2027 each Member State concerned shall assess the appropriateness of its Plans in view of the actual direct effects of the emission trading system for buildings and road transport established pursuant to Chapter IVa of Directive 2003/087/EC. Those assessments shall be submitted to the Commission as part of the biennial progress reporting pursuant to Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.Article 17.º deleted Amendment of Social Climate Plans

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18.º – 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 2025-2027. 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.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 18.º – paragraph 2

2. The individual legal commitment covering the period 2028-2032 shall be concluded subject to the availability of the amounts referred to in Article 9(2) of this Regulation under the annual ceilings of the multiannual financial framework referred to in Article 312 TFEU.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 1

1. Payments of financial allocations to the Member State concerned under this Article shall be made upon completion of the relevant agreed milestones and targets indicated in the Plan as approved in accordance with Article 16 and subject to available funding. Upon such completion, the Member State concerned shall submit to the Commission a duly justified request for payment of the financial allocation. Such requests for payment shall be submitted by the Member States to the Commission once or twice a year by 31 Julin anticipation of the funding needs determined thereby.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 2

2. The Commission shall assess without undue delay, and at the latest within two months of receiving the request, whether the relevant milestones and targets set out in the Commission decision referred to in Article 16 have been satisfactorily fulfilled. The satisfactory fulfilment of milestones and targets shall presuppose that measures related to previously satisfactorily fulfilled milestones and targets have not been reversed by the Member State concerned. The Commission may be assisted by experts.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

3. Where the Commission makes a positive assessment, it shall adopt without undue delay a decision authorising the disbursement of the financial allocation in accordance with Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 4

4. Where, as a result of the assessment referred to in paragraph 3, the Commission establishes that the milestones and targets set out in the Commission decision referred to in Article 16 have not been satisfactorily fulfilled, the payment of all or part of the financial allocation shall be suspended. The Member State concerned may present its observations within one month of the communication of the Commission’s assessment. The suspension shall only be lifted where the milestones and targets have been satisfactorily fulfilled as set out in the Commission decision referred to in Article 16.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 5

5. By way of derogation from Article 116(2) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046, the payment deadline shall start running from the date of the communication of the decision authorising the disbursement to the Member State concerned pursuant to paragraph 3 of this Article, or from the date of the communication of the lifting of a suspension pursuant to the second subparagraph of paragraph 4 of this Article.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – paragraph 6

6. Where the milestones and targets have not been satisfactorily fulfilled within a period of six months from the suspension, the Commission shall reduce the amount of the financial allocation proportionately after having given the Member State concerned the possibility to present its observations within two months from the communication of its conclusions.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19.º – 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. 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.deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

Leila CHAIBI, Petros KOKKALIS, Özlem DEMIREL, Konstantinos ARVANITIS, Eugenia RODRÍGUEZ PALOP, Nikolaj VILLUMSEN, Marc BOTENGA, José GUSMÃO, Manuel BOMPARD, Cornelia ERNST, Marisa MATIAS, Idoia VILLANUEVA RUIZ, Sandra PEREIRA, João PIMENTA LOPES

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23 – paragraph 1 – point g a (new)

(ga) information on the involvement of trade union organisations and employers' organisations, local and regional authorities, civil society organisations, youth organisations and other relevant stakeholders in the implementation of the Plan.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 23.º – paragraph 4

~~4. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts in accordance with Article 25 to supplement this Regulation in order to set out the common indicators to be used for reporting on the progress and for the purpose of monitoring and evaluation of the Fund towards the achievement of the objectives set out in Article 1.

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Article 25.º

~~1. The power to adopt delegated acts shall be conferred on the Commission subject to the conditions laid down in this~~ Article. 2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 23(4) shall be conferred on the Commission for an indeterminate period of time. 3. The delegations of power referred to in Article 23(4) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect on the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force. 4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making. 5. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council. 6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 23(4) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or by the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.5.º deleted Exercise of delegation

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – subheading 1

~~Methodology for the calculation of the maximum financial allocation per Member State under the Fund pursuant to Article 13~~deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI

João PIMENTA LOPES, Sandra PEREIRA

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II

Maximum financial allocation per Member State under the Fund pursuant to Article 9 and Article 13 The application of the methodology in Annex I to the amounts referred to in Article 9 (1) and (2) results in the following share and maximum financial allocation (MFA) per Member State. Any amounts pertaining from Article 9(3) will be covered within the limits of the maximum financial allocation per Member State on a pro rata basis. [...]deleted

2022/02/23
Committee: EMPL ENVI