Activities of Reino PAASILINNA related to 2008/0016(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (debate)
Amendments (22)
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Information and training gaps, especially in the heating and cooling sector, should be removed in order to encourage the deployment of energy from renewable sources and hybrid systems combining conventional energy and renewable energy sources.
Amendment 349 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point b
Article 2 – point b
(b) “biomass” means the biodegradable fraction of products, waste and residues from agriculture (including vegetal and animal substances), forestry and related industries, peat, as well as the biodegradable fraction of industrial and municipal waste;
Amendment 461 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 3
The electricity generated by hydropower shall be accounted for in accordance with the normalisation rule in Annex IInormalised in order to take into account the annual variation after the date of entry into force of this Directive. Acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 21, the Commission shall develop rules for the normalisation by xxx.
Amendment 509 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensure that all guarantees of origin to be issued in respect of renewable energy generated in a given calendar year are issued, at the latest, three months after the end of that yearleast every 3 months.
Amendment 560 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Member States that wish establish a joint market for guarantees of origin may decide not to apply this paragraph.
Amendment 563 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 3
Article 8 – paragraph 3
Amendment 586 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Article 9 – paragraph 2
Amendment 598 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. Subject to the provisions adopted pursuant to paragraph 2bilateral or multilateral agreements between Members States, guarantees of origin may be transferred between persons in differentthose Member States provided they have been issued in relation to energy produced from renewable sources by installations that became operational after the date of entry into force of this Directive.
Amendment 600 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 9 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. Subject to the provisions adopted pursuant to paragraph 2, guarantees of origin may be transferred between persons in different Member States provided they have been issued in relation to energy produced from renewable sources by installations that became operational after the date of entry into force of this Directive or if they have been issued for a unit of energy produced from biomass.
Amendment 607 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 9 – paragraph 4
Article 9 – paragraph 4
Amendment 623 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11
Article 11
For the purpose of Article 5(9), Article 6(2), Article 8(2) and Article 9(3) units of renewable energy imputable to an increase in the renewable capacity of an installation shall be treated as if they were produced by a separate installation becoming operational at the moment at which the increase of capacity occurred.
Amendment 627 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12
Article 12
Article 12 deleted
Amendment 704 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 2
Article 13 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure that information on the net benefits, cost and energy efficiency of equipment and systems for the use of heating, cooling and electricity from renewable sources and hybrid systems combining conventional energy and renewable energy sources is made available either by the supplier of the equipment or system or by the national competent authorities.
Amendment 709 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 3
Article 13 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall develop certification schemes for installers of small-scale biomass boilers and stoves, fuelled by biomass or bioliquid blends, solar photovoltaic and solar thermal systems and heat pumps. Those schemes shall be based on the criteria laid down in Annex IV, and must be of an equivalent standard to those presently required for installers of conventional energy heating and cooling systems and technologies. Member States should encourage the combination of conventional and renewable heating training expertise, education and certification schemes by national and regional authorities, and existing recognized training bodies. Each Member State shall recognize certification awarded by other Member States in accordance with these criteria.
Amendment 792 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 2
Article 15 – paragraph 2
2. The greenhouse gas emission saving from the use of biofuels and other bioliquidenergy from biomass taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be at least 35%. In the case of biofuels and other bioliquids produced by installations that were in operation in January 2008, the first subcalculated on the basis of Article 17(1) and shall be at least 35%. With effect from 1 January 2015, the greenhouse gas emission saving from the use of biofuels and other bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall apply from 1 April 2013be at least 50% based upon review by 2013 by the European Commission and every 2 years thereafter.
Amendment 807 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 3
Article 15 – paragraph 3
3. Biofuels and other bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be made from raw material obtained from land with recognised high biodiversity value, that is to say land that had one of the following statuses in or after January 2008, whether or not the land still has this status: (a) forest undisturbed by significant human activity, that is to say, forest where there has been no known significant human intervention or where the last significant human intervention was sufficiently long ago to have allowed the natural species composition and processes to have become re-established; (b) areas designated: (a) areas designated by law for nature protection purposes, unless evidence is provided that the production of that raw material did not interfere with those purposes; (cb) highly biodiverse grassland, that is to say grassland that is species-rich, not fertilised and not degraded. The Commission shall establish the criteria and geographic ranges to determine which grassland shall be covered by point (c). Such a measure designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 21(3); (c) areas where illegal change of land use or devastation of pristine wetlands has occurred which might lead to depletion of the soil carbon stock.
Amendment 822 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 4
Article 15 – paragraph 4
4. BWood based raw materials used for the production of biofuels and other bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in paragraph 1, shall not be made from raw material obtained from land with high carbon stock, that is to say land that had one of the following statuses in January 2008 and no longer has this status: (a) wetlands, that is to say lbe obtained from forests that are: (a) managed and that is covered with or saturated by water permanently or for a significant part of the year, including pristine peatland; (b) continuously forested areas, that is to say land spanning more than 1 hectare with trees higher than 5 metres and a canopy cover of more than 30%, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ; The provisions in this paragraph shall not apply if at the time the raw material was obtained, the land had the same status as it had in January 2008rvested according to MCPFE criteria for sustainable forest management or comparable criteria set in (b) obeying national forest and environmental legislation.
Amendment 948 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Amendment 949 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 3
Article 18 – paragraph 3
Amendment 1005 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 5
Article 20 – paragraph 5
5. In its reports, the Commission shall analyse: (a) the relative environmental and social benefits and costs of different biofuels, the effects of the Community's import policies thereon, the security of supply implications and the ways of achieving a balanced approach between domestic production and imports; (b) the impact of increased demand for biofuel on sustainability in the Community and in third countries; (c) the impact of EU biofuel policy on the availability of foodstuffs in exporting countries, in particular in Low Income Food Deficit Countries and Least Developed Countries, the ability of and access to people in developing countries to afford these foodstuffs, and wider development issues; and (d) the impact of increased demand for biomass on biomass using sectors. (da) the availability of biofuels made from wastes, residues, non-food cellulosic material and ligno-cellulosic material. (db) the impact of EU biofuel policy on direct and indirect land use change and the implications for land use rights. It shall, if appropriate, propose corrective action.
Amendment 1013 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 5 – points d a – d d (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 5 – points d a – d d (new)
(da) the implementation of markets for guarantees of origin, including the systems of prior authorisations; (db) the impact of the national targets on the functioning and integration of EU electricity market; (dc) the availability of renewable fuels, technologies and plant components with respect to the targets in Annex I; (dd) the economic impacts of the directive.
Amendment 1034 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II
Annex II