31 Amendments of Christofer FJELLNER related to 2012/0042(COD)
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a decision
Title
Title
DECISION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on accounting rules and action plans on greenhouse gas emissions and removals resulting from activities related to land use, land use change and forestry
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 2
Recital 2
Amendment 83 #
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 - /CMP.7 of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (‘'Decision -/CMP.7’'). 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 fully in line with that decision to ensure an appropriate level of coherence between the Union's internal rules and methodologies agreed within the UNFCCC. This Decision should also reflect the particularities of the Union LULUCF sector.
Amendment 94 #
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 the agricultural activities of grazing land management and cropland management. It should also provide for accounting rules applicable on a voluntary basis to revegetation and, wetland drainage, and rewetting activities, and the agricultural activities of grazing land management and cropland management.
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) The accounting rulesMember States should be allowed to determine the accounting rules and half-life values. These should ensure that Member States accurately reflect in accounts the time emissions of greenhouse gasses from harvested wood take place, to provide incentives for the use of harvested wood products with long life cycles. The first-order decay function applicable to emissions resulting from harvested wood products should therefore correspond to equation 12.1 of the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (‘IPCC’) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, and the relevant default half-life values should be based on Table 3a.1.3 of the 2003 IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry.
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Member State LULUCF Action Plans should set out measures to limit or reduce emissions and to maintain or increase removals from the LULUCF sector. Each LULUCF Action Plan should contain certain information as specified in this Decision. Moreover, to promote best practice, an indicative list of measures that may also be included in those plans should be set out in Annex to this Decision. The Commission should periodically evaluate the content and implementation of Member States‘' LULUCF Action Plans and, where appropriate, provide recommendations to enhance Member State action. Participation of the public during the preparation, modification and review of these plans should be provided for in this Decision.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) Member State LULUCF Action Plans should set out measures to limit or reduce emissions and to maintain or increase removals from the LULUCF sector. Each LULUCF Action Plan should contain certain information as specified in this Decision. Moreover, to promote best practice, an indicative list of measures that may also be included in those plans should be set out in Annex to this Decision. This should take place in accordance with the decision on monitoring mechanisms and strategies (MMD) in the interest of progress towards a low-carbon society. The Commission should periodically evaluate the content and implementation of Member States’ LULUCF Action Plans and, where appropriate, provide recommendations to enhance Member State action.
Amendment 139 #
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 140 #
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 202 #
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 revisednew reference levels for the following accounting period in accordance with the process and methodology in Decision - 2/CMP.6 and 2/CMP.7 used for calculating the reference levels set out in that decision. Decision 2/CMP.7. Reference levels for forest management shall be identical to those established by acts adopted by the UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol bodies.
Amendment 206 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 5
Article 6 – paragraph 5
5. If there are changes to the relevant provisions of Decision -2/CMP.7, the Member States shall communicate to the Commission proposed revised reference levels reflecting those changes no later than six mo affecting the annual reporting including historical time series for forest management, the Member States shall carry out adjustmenths after the adoption of those changesfollowing the provisions in Decision 2/CMP.7.
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 6
Article 6 – paragraph 6
6. If improved methodologies become available allowing a Member State to calculate annual emissions and removals in forest management 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 delayarry out a technical adjustment following the provisions in Decision 2/CMP.7.
Amendment 214 #
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 221 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 8
Article 6 – paragraph 8
8. TFor the purposes of paragraph 4, and in the absence of relevant acts adopted by the UNFCCC or Kyoto Protocol bodies or other successor frameworks establishing forest management reference levels, the Commission shall verify the accuracy of proposed revisednew reference levels.
Amendment 226 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Amendment 229 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 9
Article 6 – paragraph 9
9. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 12 to update the reference levels in Annex II as necessaryIn the absence of a UNFCCC decision or Kyoto Protocol decision on forest management reference levels, the Commission shall establish a process involving Member States, to set reference levels.
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) woody energy
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Member States may use country-specific methodologies and half-life values instead of the methodologies and half-life values specified in Annex III provided that those values are determined by the Member State on the basis of transparent and verifiable datamethodologies and data and that they are at least as detailed or accurate as those in Annex III.
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Member States may use country-specific half-life values and methods instead of the half-life values specified in Annex III provided that those values are determined by the Member State on the basis of transparent and verifiable data.
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3
In accounts relating to exported harvested wood products, Member States may use country-specific half-life values instead of the half-life values specified in Annex III, provided that those values are determined by the Member State on the basis of transparent and verifiable data on the use of those harvested wood products in the importing country and that they are at least as detailed or accurate as those Annex III.
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 6
Article 7 – paragraph 6
6. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 12 to revise the information specified in Annex III in accordance with scientific progresto reflect changes adopted by the bodies of the UNFCCC or the Kyoto Protocol or other successor frameworks.
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10
Article 10
Article deleted
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
No later than six monthsone year after the beginning of each accounting period specified in Annex I, Member States shall draw up and transmit to the Commission draft LULUCF Action Plansinformation on LULUCF actions, as a separate document or as a clearly identifiable part of the reporting requirements of Articles 14 and 15 of Regulation (EU) No .../... [Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and for reporting other information at nation and Union level relevant to climate change (COM (2011)0789 final – 2011/0372(COD)], to limit or reduce emissions and maintain or increase removals resulting from the activities referred to in Article 3(1). Member States shall ensure that a broad range of stakeholders are consulted.
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 275 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2
Amendment 277 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. Member States shall consider includeing, in their draft LULUCF Aaction Plans the following information relating to each of the activities referred to in Article 3(1):
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point c
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point c
(c) an analysis of the potential to limit or reduce emissions and to maintain or increase removals; including through the substitution of greenhouse gas intensive materials and energy feed stocks.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point f
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point f
(f) indicative timetables for the adoption and implementation of the measures referred to in point (d).
Amendment 292 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 295 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
The Commission shall evaluate amay synthesise its findings from all Member States's draft LULUCF Action Plans 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 removal a view to facilitating the exchange of knowledge and best practices among Member States.
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 4
Article 10 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall submit to the Commission, where relevant as part of their reporting subject to Regulation (EU) No .../... [Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and for reporting other information at nation and Union level relevant to climate change (COM (2011)0789 final – 2011/0372(COD)] 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 Aaction Plans. Member States shall make available to the public the reports pursuant to paragraphs 1 and 4 within three months of submitting them to the Commission.