Activities of Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS

Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) the CO2 storage site is located in the territory of the Union, its exclusive economic zones or on its continental shelf within the meaning of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), or in third countries that have adopted a specific bilateral arrangement with the Commission; and the CO2 storage project contributes to reaching the objective set out in Article 18;

2023/06/23
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10

(10) To improve the Agency’s market monitoring and make data collection more complete, the current reporting regime needs improvement. The data collected should be expanded to overcome gaps in the data collection and include coupled markets, new balancing markets, contracts for balancing markets and products that have potential delivery in the Union. Organised market places should be required to provide the full order book data set to the Agency. ~~Order book providers should also be designated as persons professionally arranging transactions subject to the obligation to monitor and report suspected breaches.~~

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

Motion for a resolution
Recital -A (new)

-A. whereas EU’s trade policy is at the centre of Europe’s economic prosperity and competitiveness, its core function is facilitating the exchange of goods and services in a manner that creates opportunities for companies and economic welfare, as such it is in EU’s interest to have its supply chains more resilient.

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas disruption to supply intermediate goods and production inputs means that EU exports shrink more than imports, thus negatively impacts its trade balance;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the EU is strategically dependent on external sources of energy, a situation that is undermining the EU’s economic resilience and open strategic autonomy; whereas skyrocketing energy prices are a serious threat to the EU’s production and competitiveness and may put further pressure on many supply chains that have already faced disruption;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas ~~even though the EU must gain more strategic independence in different fields, including agricultural products,~~the EU must diversify in different strategically important sectors, including critical raw materials, semiconductors, medicines and health products~~, this independence has not yet been achieved~~;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas in order to increase the resilience of its supply chains and its competitiveness, the EU should implement a combination of different commodity- based solutions, including boosting existing EU production, reshoring and nearshoring, stockpiling, where necessary, promoting the circular economy and diversifying suppliers through strategic free trade agreements, sectoral partnerships and alliances, and trade and technology councils and by supporting a strong rules- based trading system;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that it is crucial to respond to the possible negative consequences of any external shocks with a rapid and coordinated approach at national and EU level;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Stresses that the COVID-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine have highlighted the EU agricultural sector’s dependence on imports from a small number of countries, especially in the case of wheat and ammonium, which is essential for fertilisers; recalls that the EU should ~~be autonomous~~diversify in primary sector products in order to guarantee its security and ~~avoid~~to reduce dependencey on third parties;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Underlines the need for a ~~harmonis~~coordinated approach on the unilateral, bilateral and multilateral level with a short- , medium- and long-term perspective;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Emphasises that the continuing rise in the cost of bureaucracy, particularly as a result of EU legislation such as the ~~Supply Chain Act~~proposal on Corporate sustainability due diligence directive, places a particular burden on the export industry, which is dominated by SMEs; therefore calls on the Commission to make sure that all legislation and policy actions take due account of the interests of SMEs and for this to invoke regulatory moratorium and to delay all legislation and policy actions that would overburden businesses;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the shortening of supply chains, where necessary and is in EU’s interest, in combination with other instruments, and the relocation to the EU of EU businesses’ production facilities in countries outside the bloc;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Calls on the Commission to develop, in coordination with the Member States, mechanisms to ensure smart stockpiling of certain products, such as medicines and medical equipment, ~~as well as some agricultural products,~~ depending on their expiry date;

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/2040(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to move forward with free trade agreements already concluded and speed up negotiations with new trading partners in order to strengthen and diversify external trade, thus making EU’s position in global value chain stronger,

2022/10/24
Committee: INTA

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point 32

(32) ‘recycled at scale’ means ~~collected, sorted and recycled through installed state-of-the-art infrastructure and processes, covering at least 75 % of the Union population~~the existence of a clear pathway and sufficient capacity for the collected packaging waste to be directed to defined and recognised waste streams through established industrial processes for reprocessing, including packaging waste exported from the Union that meets the requirements of Article 47(5);

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1

~~The Commission is empowered to~~By 1 January 2026, the Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to supplement this Regulation in order to establish design for recycling criteria and recycling performance grades based on the criteria and parameters listed in Table 2 of Annex II for packaging categories listed in Table 1 of that Annex, as well as rules concerning the modulation of financial contributions to be paid by producers to comply with their extended producer responsibility obligations set out in Article 40(1), based on the packaging recycling performance grade, and for plastic packaging, the percentage of recycled content. Design-for-recycling criteria shall consider state of the art collection, sorting and recycling processes and shall cover all packaging components, and shall take into account work initiated by the Circular Plastics Alliance and currently being elaborated by CEN Working group 10 at CEN TC 261.

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6 – introductory part

6. TBy 1 January 2028, the Commission shall, for each packaging type listed in Table 1 of Annex II, establish the methodology to assess if packaging is recyclable at scale. That methodology shall be based at least on the following elements:

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point a

(a) 530 % for contact sensitive plastic packaging, except single use plastic beverage bottles;

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point c

(c) 650 % for plastic packaging other than those referred to in points (a) and (b);

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 7

7. By 31 December 20265, the Commission is empowered to adopt implementing acts establishing the methodology for the calculation and verification of the percentage of recycled content recovered from post-consumer plastic waste, per unit of plastic packaging, and the format for the technical documentation referred to in Annex VII. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 59(3). The methodology shall especially consider the restrictions and certification requirements needed for reporting on recycled content using physical segregation, controlled blending and mass balance chain of custody approaches in line with ISO 22095:2020.

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – paragraph 4

4. The Commission shall ~~be empowered to~~ adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 58 to a~~mend Annex V~~dd or remove packaging formats from Annex V based on an impact assessment study assessing alternatives of restricted packaging formats, in order to adapt it to technical and scientific progress with the objective to reducing packaging waste. When adopting those delegated acts, the Commission shall consider the potential of the restrictions on the use of specific packaging formats and their alternatives to reduce the packaging waste generated while ensuring an overall positive environmental impact, and shall take into account the availability of alternative packaging solutions that meet requirements set out in legislation applicable to contact sensitive packaging, as well as their capability to prevent microbiological contamination of the packaged product.

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 43 – paragraph 3 – point a

(a) be open to the participation of the economic operators of the sectors concerned, the competent public authorities and third parties carrying out waste management on their behalf, in line with specific requirements by the Member State in which the systems are set up;

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex X – paragraph 2 – point f

(f) system operator is a ~~non-profit and~~n independent legal entity;

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex X – paragraph 2 – point g

(g) system operator performs exclusively roles arising from the rules of this Regulation, and any additional roles related to the coordination and operation of the deposit and return system as established by the Member States;deleted

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0396(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex X – paragraph 4

Member States with regions with high transboundary business shall ensure that the functioning of the DRS allows for the inter-operability of DRS and that the implementation of the minimum requirements and of any additional requirements does not result in discrimination of business and consumers and market distortions. By 1 January 2027, the Commission shall develop a guidance on defining inter-operability requirements.

2023/05/25
Committee: ITRE

2022/0160(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 3

(3) Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council18 sets a binding Union target to reach a share of at least 32 % of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy by 2030. Under the Climate Target Plan19 , the share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption would need to increase to 40% by 2030 in order to achieve the Union’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction target20 . In this context, the Commission proposed in July 2021, as part of the package delivering on the European Green Deal, to double the share of renewable energy in the energy mix in 2030 compared to 2020, to reach at least 40%. The REPowerEU Communication21 outlined a plan to make the EU independent from Russian fossil fuels well before the end of this decade. The Communication foresees front-loading of wind and solar energy, increasing the average deployment rate as well as additional renewable energy capacity by 2030 to accommodate for higher production of renewable hydrogen. It also invited the co-legislators to consider a higher or earlier target for renewable energy. In this context, it is appropriate, subject to the completion of sufficient regional impact assessments, to increase the Union renewable energy target up to 45% in order to significantly accelerate the current pace of deployment of renewable energy, thereby speeding up the phase-out of EU’s dependence by increasing the availability of affordable, secure and sustainable energy in the Union. _________________ 18 Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82). 19 Communication from the Commission COM(2020) 562 final of 17.9.2020, Stepping up Europe’s 2030 climate ambition Investing in a climate-neutral future for the benefit of our people. 20 Point 3 of the Communication from the Commission COM(2020) 562 21 REPowerEU: Joint European Action for more affordable, secure and sustainable energy, COM(2022) 108 final (“REPower EU Communication”).

2022/09/29
Committee: ITRE

2022/0160(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 22

(22) Renewable energy sources are crucial to fight climate change, reduce energy prices, decrease the Union’s dependence on fossil fuels and ensure the Union’s security of supply. For the purposes of the relevant Union environmental legislation, in the necessary case-by-case assessments to ascertain whether a plant for the production of energy from renewable sources, its connection to the grid, the related grid itself or storage assets is of overriding public interest in a particular case, Member States should presume these plants and their related infrastructure as being of overriding public interest and serving public health and safety, except where there is clear evidence that these projects have major adverse effects on the environment which cannot be mitigated or compensated. Considering such plants as being of overriding public interest and serving public health and safety would allow such projects to benefit from a simplified assessment.

2022/09/29
Committee: ITRE

Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Jorge BUXADÉ VILLALBA, Enikő GYŐRI

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14

(14) This Directive aims to ensure that companies active in the internal market contribute to sustainable development and the sustainability transition of economies and societies through the identification, prevention and mitigation, bringing to an end and minimisation of potential or actual adverse human rights and environmental impacts connected with companies’ own operations, subsidiaries and ~~value chains.~~supply chains. (This amendment applies throughout the text and is related to the amendment of the definition in Article 3(1), point (g). Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)

2022/11/18
Committee: INTA

(37) As regards direct ~~and indirect~~ business relationships, industry cooperation, industry schemes and multi- stakeholder initiatives can help create additional leverage to identify, mitigate, and prevent adverse impacts. Therefore it should be possible for companies to rely on such initiatives to support the implementation of their due diligence obligations laid down in this Directive to the extent that such schemes and initiatives are appropriate to support the fulfilment of those obligations. Companies could assess, at their own initiative, the alignment of these schemes and initiatives with the obligations under this Directive. In order to ensure full information on such initiatives, the Directive should also refer to the possibility for the Commission and the Member States to facilitate the dissemination of information on such schemes or initiatives and their outcomes. The Commission, in collaboration with Member States, may issue guidance for assessing the fitness of industry schemes and multi-stakeholder initiatives.

2022/12/06
Committee: JURI

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3

3. This Regulation applies to methane emissions occurring outside the Union in what relates to importer information requirements, to the methane transparency database and to the methane emitters monitoring tool.deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8

(8) ‘source’ means a ~~component or a geological structure that releases methane into the atmosphere whether intentionally or unintentionally, intermittent~~structural element or a set of structural elements of the same design or a geological structure that intentionally or accidentally, periodically or per~~sistently~~manently releases methane into the atmosphere;

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9

(9) ‘asset’ means a business or operating unit, which can be composed of several facilities or sites, ~~including assets~~ under the operational control of the operator ~~(operated assets) and assets which are not under the operational control of the operator (non-operated assets)~~;

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 13

(13) ‘direct measurement’ means direct quantification of the methane emission at source-level with a ~~methane measuring~~ device;

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 41

~~(41) ‘importer’ means a natural or legal person established in the Union who, in the course of a commercial activity, places fossil energy from a third country on the Union market.~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1

1. When fixing or approving transmission or distribution tariffs or the methodologies to be used by transmission system operators, distribution system operators, LNG terminal operators or other regulated companies including where applicable underground gas storage operators, regulatory authorities shall take into account the costs incurred and investments made to comply with the obligations under this Regulation, insofar as they correspond to those of an efficient and structurally comparable regulated operator. Additional financial sources should be provided to ease the additional costs incurred on consumers.

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 2

2. Every three years, the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in close cooperation with the relevant national authorities shall establish and make publicly available a set of indicators and corresponding reference values for the comparison of unit investment costs linked to measurement, reporting and abatement of methane emissions for comparable projects.

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6

6. Operators and mine operators shall take all the necessary actions set out in the report referred to in paragraph 5 within the period determined by the competent authorities or any other period agreed with the competent authorities.deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 6

Regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 6

6. Without prejudice to the reporting obligations pursuant to paragraph 7, operators shall record all identified leaks, irrespective of their size, and shall continually survey them to ensure that they are repaired in accordance with paragraph 4. Operators shall keep the record for at least ten years and shall provide that information to competent authorities upon their request.deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2

Regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 2

2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article~~s 8(5), 22(3) and 27(1~~ 22(3) shall be conferred on the Commission for ~~an indeterminate period of time~~5 years from … [date of entry into force of the Regulation].

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 31 – paragraph 3

3. The delegation of power referred to in Article~~s 8(5), 22(3) and 27(1~~ 22(3) 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 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.

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 2 a (new)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 33 – paragraph 2

2 a. By 31 December 2029, or earlier if the Commission considers that sufficient evidence is available, the Commission shall examine the application of this Article, considering in particular: a) reporting of the available methane emissions data collected in the context of the global methane monitoring tool referred to in Article 29; (b) methane emission data analysis by the IMEO; (c) information on monitoring, reporting, verification and mitigation measures of operators located outside of the Union and from whom energy is imported into the Union;and (d) security of supply and the level playing field implications in case of possible additional obligations, including mandatory measures such as methane emission standards or targets, taking into account the oil, gas and coal sectors separately.

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – Part 1 – paragraph 1 – point v – point 1

~~1) all ventilation shafts utilised by the mine when operating, accompanied by: — shaft coordinates — shaft name (if any) — sealing status and sealing method, if known~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – Part 1 – paragraph 1 – point v – point 2

~~2) unused vent pipes~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – Part 1 – paragraph 1 – point v – point 3

~~3) unused gas drainage wells~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – Part 1 – paragraph 1 – point v – point 4

~~4) outcrops;~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – Part 1 – paragraph 1 – point v – point 5

~~5) identifiable strata fractures at the mine’s territory or linked to its former coal deposit;~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – Part 1 – paragraph 1 – point v – point 6

~~6) other recorded potential point emission sources.~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VII – Part 2 – paragraph 1 – point iii

~~(iii) measurements must be accompanied by an information on: 1) date of the measurement 2) atmospheric pressure 3) technical details of the equipment used for the measurement~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0423(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a regulation
Annex VIII

~~[...]~~deleted

2022/10/24
Committee: ENVI ITRE

2021/0422(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14

(14) Sanctions for the offences should be effective, dissuasive and proportionate. To this end, minimum levels for the maximum term of imprisonment should be set for natural persons. Minimum levels for the maximum term of imprisonment may be achieved by national law as a sanction for a single criminal offence, for an aggravated offence or for a combination of concurrent applicable criminal offences. Accessory sanctions are often seen as being more effective than financial sanctions especially for legal persons. Additional sanctions or measures should be therefore available in criminal proceedings. These should include the obligation to reinstate the environment, exclusion from access to public funding, including tender procedures, grants and concessions and withdrawal of permits and authorisations. This is without prejudice to the discretion of judges or courts in criminal proceedings to impose appropriate sanctions in the individual cases.

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0422(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a directive
Recital 14 a (new)

(14a) The criminal law systems of all Member States include provisions on manslaughter, whether it is committed intentionally or by gross negligence. Member States should be able to rely on these provisions when transposing the provisions of this Directive on offences that cause the death of any person, whether committed intentionally or by gross negligence. In this context, gross negligence describes a particularly serious breach of duty of care.

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0422(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point q

(q) production, placing on the market, import, export, use, emission or release of ozone depleting substances as defined in Article 3 (4) of Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council54 or of products and equipment containing or relying on such substances, which cause substantial damage to the quality of air, the quality of soil or the quality of water, or to animals or plants; _________________ 54 Regulation (EC) No 1005/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 on substances that deplete the ozone layer (OJ L 286, 31.10.2009, p. 1–30)

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0422(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point r

(r) production, placing on the market, import, export, use, emission or release of fluorinated greenhouse gases as defined in Article 2 (1) of Regulation 517/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council55 or of products and equipment containing or relying on such gases, which cause substantial damage to the quality of air, the quality of soil or the quality of water, or to animals or plants. _________________ 55 Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on fluorinated greenhouse gases and repealing Regulation (EC) No 842/2006 (OJ L 150, 20.5.2014, p. 195– 230).

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0422(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 3

~~(3)~~3. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the offences referred to in Article 3(1) points (a) to (~~j), (n), (q),~~e) and (h) to (rj) are punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least ~~six~~five years.

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0422(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4

4. Member States shall take the measures necessary ~~measures~~ to ensure that the offences referred to in Article 3(1) points (kf), (~~l), (m), (o),~~g) and (k) to (pr) are punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least ~~four~~three years.

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0422(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5

5. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that offences referred to in Article 3(1) points (k), (l), (m), (o), (p), (q), (r) are punishable by fines, the maximum limit of which shall be not less than 3% of the total worldwide turnover of the legal person [/undertaking] in the business year preceding the fining decision.

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0422(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Where their national law does not allow the level of fines to be determined using a percentage of the total worldwide turnover of the legal person in similar cases, Member States may, as regards the criminal or non-criminal fines referred to in Article 7(4) and (5), use other methods to set a maximum limit and the level of a fine, provided that the result is proportionate to the severity of the conduct and to the individual, financial and other situation of the legal person concerned.

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0422(COD)

Gilles LEBRETON, Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Virginie JORON

Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1

Member States shall ensure that, in accordance with their national legal system, members of the public concerned have appropriate rights to participate in proceedings concerning offences referred to in Articles 3 and 4~~, for instance as a civil party~~.

2022/11/11
Committee: JURI

2021/0402(COD)

Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Enikő GYŐRI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8

(8) The objectives of this Regulation, in particular counteracting third countries’ economic coercion of the Union or a Member State, cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States acting on their own. This is because Member States as distinct actors under international law may not be entitled under international law to respond to economic coercion directed against the Union. Additionally, because of the exclusive competence conferred on the Union by Article 207 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Member States are prevented from taking common commercial policy measures as a response to economic coercion. Therefore, those objectives can be achieved with greater effectiveness at Union level. This must not, however, have a restrictive effect on the scope of measures that may be imposed by Member States in other policy areas.

2022/05/30
Committee: INTA

2021/0402(COD)

Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Enikő GYŐRI

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8 a (new)

(8a) It is of fundamental importance that, in counteracting economic coercion by third countries against the Union or its Member States, the Union must act in accordance with the provisions laid down in Articles 3 and 207 of the TFEU. Article 5(3) TEU provides that the principle of subsidiarity must apply in areas which do not fall within the exclusive competence of the Union.

2022/05/30
Committee: INTA

2021/0402(COD)

Ernő SCHALLER-BAROSS, Enikő GYŐRI

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 2 a (new)

- where, in accordance with Articles 3 and 207 TFEU, the measures adopted by third countries that aim to exert economic coercion and the measures adopted by the Union in response fall within the scope of the common commercial policy and, consequently, fall within the exclusive competence of the European Union.

2022/05/30
Committee: INTA

2021/0297(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 26

(26) Orderly international migration can bring important benefits to the countries of origin and destination of migrants and contribute to their sustainable development needs. Increasing coherence between trade, development and migration policies is key to ensure that the benefits of migration accrue mutually to both the origin and destination countries. In this respectRelated to migration, it is essential for both origin and destination countries to address common challenges, such as, stepping up cooperation on readmission of own nationals and their sustainable reintegration in the country of origin, in particular in order to avoid a constant drain in active population in the countries of origin, with the ensuing long- term consequences on development, and to ensure that migrants are treated with dignity.

2022/02/07
Committee: INTA

2021/0297(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 9

9. Where the Commission considers that the findings justify temporary withdrawal for the reasons referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, it is empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 36, to amend Annex I and Annex II in order to temporarily withdraw the tariff preferences provided under the special incentive arrangement for sustainable development and good governance referred to in Article 1(2), point (b). In adopting the delegated act the Commission ~~may, when appropriate,~~shall consider the socio-economic effect of the temporary withdrawal of tariff preferences in the beneficiary country.

2022/02/07
Committee: INTA

2021/0297(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. The preferential arrangements referred to in Article 1(2) may be withdrawn temporarily, in respect of all or of certain products originating in a beneficiary country as a last resort, for any of the following reasons:

2022/02/07
Committee: INTA

2021/0297(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – point a

(a) serious and systematic violation of principles laid down in the core human and labour rights UN/ILO conventions listed in Annex VI;

2022/02/07
Committee: INTA

2021/0297(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 10

10. Where the Commission considers that the findings justify temporary withdrawal for the reasons referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, it is empowered to adopt delegated acts, in accordance with Article 36, to amend Annex I and Annex II, in order to temporarily withdraw the tariff preferences provided under the preferential arrangements referred to in Article 1(2). In adopting the delegated act the Commission ~~may, where appropriate,~~shall consider the socio- economic effect of the temporary withdrawal of tariff preferences in the beneficiary country.

2022/02/07
Committee: INTA

2021/0297(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 16

16. Where the Commission considers that there is sufficient evidence to justify temporary withdrawal for the reason set out in paragraph 1, point (a) and the exceptional gravity of the violations calls for a rapid response in view of the specific circumstances in the beneficiary country, it shall initiate the procedure for temporary withdrawal in accordance with paragraphs (3) to (15). However, the period referred to in paragraph 4, point (b) is reduced to 2 months and the deadline referred to in paragraph 8 is reduced to 5 months.deleted

2022/02/07
Committee: INTA

2021/0297(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 19 – paragraph 17

17. Where the Commission decides on temporary withdrawal pursuant to paragraph 16 of this Article, such delegated act is adopted in accordance with Article 37 and shall apply one month from its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.deleted

2022/02/07
Committee: INTA

2021/0223(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) Electric heavy-duty vehicles need a distinctively different recharging infrastructure than light-duty vehicles. Public accessible infrastructure for electric heavy-duty vehicles is however currently almost nowhere available in the Union. A combined approach of distance- based targets along the TEN-T network, targets for overnight recharging infrastructure and targets at urban nodes should ensure that a sufficient publicly accessible infrastructure coverage for electric heavy-duty vehicles is established throughout the Union to support the expected market uptake of battery electric heavy-duty vehicles.deleted

2022/02/07
Committee: ITRE

2021/0223(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14

(b) the share of advanced biofuels and biogas produced from the feedstock listed in Part A of Annex IX in the energy supplied to the transport sector is at least 0,2 % in 2022, 0,5 % in 2025 and 2,2 % in 2030, and than indicative share of renewable fuels ~~of non-biological origin is at least 2,6 %~~is at least [x] % in the energy supplied to the transport sector in 2030.

2022/03/17
Committee: ITRE

2021/0218(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14

For the calculation of the reduction referred to in point (a) and the share referred to in point (b), Member States shall take into account renewable fuels of non-biological origin also when they are used as intermediate products for the production of ~~conventional~~transport fuels. For the calculation of the reduction referred to in point (a), Member States ~~may take into account recycled carbon fuels~~shall take into account recycled carbon fuels and may take into account low-carbon electricity meeting criteria in Article 29. point 10 (d), and for the sub-target on renewable fuels of nonbiological origin referred to in point (b) may take into account low- carbon hydrogen.

2022/03/17
Committee: ITRE

2021/0218(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14

1a. Member States may exempt, or distinguish between, different fuel suppliers and different energy carriers when setting the obligation on the fuel suppliers for point (a) and (b), ensuring that the varying degrees of maturity and the cost of different technologies, as well as penetration of electric vehicles are taken into account.

2022/03/17
Committee: ITRE

2021/0218(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 14

2. Member States shall establish a mechanism allowing fuel suppliers in their territory to exchange credits for supplying renewable energy to the transport sector. Economic operators that supply renewable electricity to electric vehicles through public recharging stations or directly to consumers’ location measured and reported by using smart metering system shall receive credits, irrespectively of whether the economic operators are subject to the obligation set by the Member State on fuel suppliers, and may sell those credits to fuel suppliers, which shall be allowed to use the credits to fulfil the obligation set out in paragraph 1, first subparagraph.;

2022/03/17
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 16 – point b

(iv) the share of biofuels and biogas produced from the feedstock listed in Part B of Annex IX in the energy content of fuels and electricity supplied to the transport sector shall, except in Cyprus and Malta, be limited to ~~1,7~~3,4 %; Member States may, in justified cases increase that limit, taking into account the availability of feedstock. Any such modification shall be subject to approval by the Commission;

2022/03/17
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 19

1. Energy from renewable and low- carbon fuels of non-biological origin shall be counted towards Member States’ shares of renewable energy and the targets referred to in Articles 3(1), 15a(1), 22a(1), 23(1), 24(4) and 25(1) only if the greenhouse gas emissions savings independently of the technology from the use of those fuels are at least 70 %.

2022/03/17
Committee: ITRE

~~[...]~~deleted (This amendment applies throughout the Chapter IVa. Adopting it will necessitate corresponding changes throughout.)

2022/02/08
Committee: ITRE

2021/0211(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Annex V – point 2 – point k

(k) for policies that accelerate the uptake of more efficient products and vehicles, ~~except those regarding the use of direct fossil fuel combustion,~~ full credit may be claimed, provided that it is shown that such uptake takes place before expiry of the average expected lifetime of the product or vehicle, or before the product or vehicle would usually be replaced, and the savings are claimed only for the period until end of the average expected lifetime of the product or vehicle to be replaced;

2022/03/22
Committee: ITRE

2021/0202(COD)

-1 In Article 1, paragraph 5a is replaced by the following: "5a. Unless otherwise decided in the first review carried out in accordance with Article 3, from 2023 allowances held in the reserve above ~~the total number of allowances auctioned during the previous year shall no longer be valid. (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02015D1814-~~2000 million allowances shall no longer be valid." Or. en 20180408&qid=1642503924151)

2022/02/01
Committee: ITRE

2021/0202(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2

the Member State’s commitments and national targets for net greenhouse gas removals pursuant to Article 4(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/841 and its contributions aim towards reaching the Union objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero ~~by 2035~~ and achieving negative emissions thereafter pursuant to Article 4(4) of that Regulation;;

2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE

2021/0201(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4

Regulation (EU) 2018/1999
Annex V

~~(4) Annex V is amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.~~deleted

2022/01/28
Committee: ITRE

2021/0201(COD)

2021/0197(COD)

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b

Regulation (EU) 2019/631
Article 1 – paragraph 5a – point a

(a) for the average emissions of the new passenger car fleet, an EU fleet-wide target equal to a ~~100~~ 95% reduction of the target in 2021 determined in accordance with Part A, point 6.1.3, of Annex I; in order to maintain a residual proportion of low-emission plug-in hybrids on the market

2022/02/02
Committee: ITRE

2021/0197(COD)