34 Amendments of Mairead McGUINNESS related to 2012/0042(COD)
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The LULUCF accounting rules should reflect efforts made in the agriculture and forestry sectors to enhance the contribution of changes made to the use of land resources to the reduction of emissions. This Decision should provide for accounting rules applicable on a mandatory basis to the forestry activities of afforestation, reforestation, deforestation and forest management, and. It should also provide for accounting rules applicable on a voluntary basis to the agricultural activities of grazing land management and cropland management. It should also provide for accounting rules applicable on a voluntary basis and to revegetation and, wetland drainage and rewetting activities.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1
Article 1
This Decision sets out accounting rules applicable to emissions and removals resulting from land use, land use change and forestry activities with a view to accounted emissions and removals arising from such activities being included in the Union reduction commitment. It also provides for Member State LULUCF Action Plans to limit or reduce emissions and to maintain or increase removals, and for the evaluation of those plans by the Commission.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point t
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point t
(t) ‘natural disturbances’ is any non- anthropogenicare non- anthropogenic events or non- anthropogenic circumstances. For the purposes of this Decision, these events or circumstances are those that causes significant emissions in forests or agricultural soils and the occurrence of which is beyond the control of the relevant Member State provided the Member State is also objectively unable to significantly limit the effect of the event or circumstance, even after its occurrence, on emissions; and are beyond the control of, and not materially influenced by, a Member State. These may include wildfires, insect and disease infestations, extreme weather events, including droughts and floods, and/or geographical disturbances, beyond the control of, and not materially influenced by, a Member State. These exclude harvesting and prescribed burning;
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States may also choose to draw up and maintain accounts for the first accounting period that accurately reflect emissions and removals resulting from cropland management and grazing land management, revegetation, and wetland drainage and rewetting.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 10 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Member States may include in their accounting of forest management under Article 3(4) of the Kyoto Protocol, anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks resulting from the harvest and conversion of forest plantations accounted for under forest management, to non-forest land, provided that all of the requirements below are met: (a) the forest plantation was first established through direct human- induced planting and/or seeding of non- forest land before 1 January 1990, and, if the forest plantation was re-established, that this last occurred on forest land through direct human-induced planting and/or seeding after 1 January 1960; (b) a new forest of at least equivalent area as the harvested forest plantation is established through direct human- induced planting and/or seeding of non- forested land that did not contain forest on 31 December 1989; (c) this newly established forest will reach at least the equivalent carbon stock that was contained in the harvested forest plantation at the time of harvest, within the normal harvesting cycle of the harvested forest plantation, and, if not, a debit would be generated under Article 3(4) of the Kyoto Protocol.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 10 b (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 10 b (new)
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – title
Article 8 – title
Accounting rules for cropland management, grazing land management, revegetation, and wetland drainage and rewetting
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. In accounts relating to cropland management and grazing land management, Member States shallthe event that a Member State elects to draw up and maintain accounts for categories referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 3(1), it shall, without prejudice to any future decision on international accounting rules reflect emissions and removals resulting from such activities, calculated as emissions and removals in each accounting period specified in Annex I, minus the value obtained by multiplying the number of years in that accounting period by a Member State’'s emissions and removals resulting from such activities in its base year, as submitted to the UNFCCC in that Member States reviewed initial report on base year emission data pursuant to the Annex of Decision 13/CMP.1.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. The Commission shall evaluateassess a Member State's draft LULUCF Action Plan within three months of receiving all relevant information from that Member State. The Commission shall publish the results of that evaluation and may issue recommendations, as appropriate, with a view to enhance Member States‘ efforts to limit or reduce emissions and maintain or increase removalit. The Commission shall publish a synthesis report of Member States' Action Plans.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1
5. The Commission shall evaluate the implementation by Member States of their LULUCF Action Plans within six months of receiving the reports referred to in paragraph 4publish a synthesis of those progress reports.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The 17th Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC, meeting in Durban in December 2011, adopted Decision - 2/CMP.7 of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (‘Decision -2/CMP.7’) and Decision 16/CMP.1. That decision set out rules for accounting for the LULUCF sector as of a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol. This Decision should be in line with that decision to ensure an appropriate level of coherence between the Union's internal rules and methodologies agreed within the UNFCCC to avoid any duplication of national reporting. This Decision should also reflect the particularities of the Union LULUCF sector.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The LULUCF accounting rules should reflect efforts made in the agriculture and forestry sectors to enhance the contribution of changes made to the use of land resources to the reduction of emissions. This Decision should provide for accounting rules applicable on a mandatory basis to the forestry activities of afforestation, reforestation, deforestation and forest management, and to. It should also provide for accounting rules applicable on a voluntary basis for the agricultural activities of grazing land management and cropland management. It should also provide for accounting rules applicable on a voluntary basis and to revegetation and, wetland drainage and rewetting activities.
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission to update the definitions laid down in Article 2 in the light of changes to definitions adopted by the bodies of the UNFCCC or the Kyoto Protocol or other multilateral agreement relevant to climate change concluded by the Union, to amend Annex I to add accounting periods and ensure consistency between those accounting periods ands arising in the arelevant periods applicable to Union emission reduction commitments in other sectors, to amend Annex II with updated reference levels in accordance with the proposed reference levels submitted by Member States pursuant to Article 6 subject to corrections made in accordance with this Decisiona of climate change with which the Union must comply, to revise the information specified in Annex III in accordance with scientific progress and to revise the conditions relating to the accounting rules for natural disturbances laid down in Article 9(2) in the light of scientific progress or to reflect revisionto minor changes to acts adopted by the UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol bodies. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level. The Commission, when preparing and drawing-up delegated acts, should ensure a simultaneous, timely and appropriate transmission of relevant documents to the European Parliament and Council.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 1
Article 1
This Decision sets out accounting rules applicable to emissions and removals resulting from land use, land use change and forestry activities. It also provides for Member State LULUCF Action Plans to limit or reduce emissions and to maintain or increase removals, and for the evaluation of those plans by the Commission.
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point t
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point t
(t) ‘'natural disturbance’ is any non- anthropogenics' are non- anthropogenic events or non- anthropogenic circumstances. For the purposes of this Decision, these events or circumstances are those that causes significant emissions in forests or agricultural soils and the occurrence of which is beyond the control of the relevant Member State provided the Member State is also objectively unable to significantly limit the effect of and are beyond the control of, and not materially influenced by, a Member State. These may include wildfires, insect and disease infestations, extreme weather event or circumsts and/or geographical disturbances, even after its occurrence, on emissionsbeyond the control of, and not materially influenced by, a Member State. These exclude harvesting and prescribed burning;
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point u
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point u
(u) ‘'half-life value’' is the number of years it takes for the carbon content ofquantity of carbon stored in a wood product to decrease to one half of its initial quantityvalue;
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 2
Article 2 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 12 to amend the definitions in paragraph 1 of this Article for the purpose of updatingto ensure consistency between those definitions in the light ofand any changes to relevant definitions adopted by the bodies of the UNFCCC or the Kyoto Protocol, or other multilateral agreement relevant to climate change concluded by the Unions arising in the area of climate change with which the Union must comply.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point e
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. No later than one year before the end of each accounting period, Member States shall communicate to the Commission proposed revised reference levels for the following accounting period in accordance with the methodology in Decision -/CMP.7 used for calculating the reference levels set out in that decision.
Amendment 207 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 5
Article 6 – paragraph 5
5. If there are changes to the relevant provisions of Decision -/CMP.7, the Member States shall communicate to the Commission proposed revised reference levels reflecting those changes no later than six months after the adoption of those changes.
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 6
Article 6 – paragraph 6
6. If improved methodologies become available allowing a Member State to calculate reference levels in a significantly more accurate manner or where there are significant improvements in the quality of data available to a Member State, the Member State concerned shall communicate to the Commission proposed revised reference levels reflecting those changes without delay.
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 7
Article 6 – paragraph 7
7. For the purposes of paragraphs 4, 5 and 6, Member States shall specify the amount of annual emissions resulting from natural disturbances which have been included in their proposed revised reference levels and the manner in which they estimated that amount.
Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 8
Article 6 – paragraph 8
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. In accounts relating to cropland management and grazing land management, Member States shallthe event that a Member State elects to draw up and maintain accounts for categories referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 3(1), it shall, without prejudice to any future decision on international accounting rules reflect emissions and removals resulting from such activities, calculated as emissions and removals in each accounting period specified in Annex I, minus the value obtained by multiplying the number of years in that accounting period by a Member State's emissions and removals resulting from such activities in its base year, as submitted to the UNFCCC in that Member State's reviewed initial report on base year emission data pursuant to the Annex of Decision 13/CMP.1.
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
No later than sixeighteen months after the beginning of each accounting period specified in Annex I, Member States shall draw up and transmit to the Commission draft LULUCF Action Plans to limit or reduce emissions and maintain or increase removals resulting from the activities referred to in Article 3(1). Member Stathe first subparagraph of Article 3(1) and where systems shall ensuare in place and data available from activities referred that a broad range of stakeholders are consultedo in Subparagraph 2 of Article 3(1). Member States shall consult with stakeholders in drawing up action plans.
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall includeconsider including the following in their draft LULUCF Action Plans the following information relating to each of the activities referred to inrelating to the first subparagraph of Article 3(1) and where systems are already in place and data available relating to in Subparagraph 2 of Article 3(1):
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall evaluate a Member State's draft LULUCF Action Plan within three months of receiving all relevant information from that Member State. The Commission shall publish the results of that evaluation and may issue recommendations, as appropriate, with a view to enhance Member States‘ efforts to limit or reduce emissions and maintain or increase removalpublish a synthesis report of Member States' Action Plans.
Amendment 305 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 4
Article 10 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall submit to the Commission, by the date falling in the mid-point of each accounting period specified in Annex I, and by the end of each accounting period specified in Annex I, a report describing the progress in the implementation of their LULUCF Action Plans. The Commission shall publish a synthesis report on the progress of implementation of Member States' Action Plans.
Amendment 307 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 5
Article 10 – paragraph 5