11 Amendments of Irena BELOHORSKÁ related to 2008/0013(COD)
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) Transitional free allocation to installations should be provided for through harmonised Community-wide rules ("benchmarks") in order to minimise distortions of competition within the Community. These rules should take account of the most greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques, the potential, including the technical potential, to reduce emissions, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass, renewables and greenhouse gas capture and storage. Notwithstanding the availability of electric arc furnaces as an alternative production process, these harmonised rules should also take into account emissions related to the use of combustible waste gases when the production of these waste gases cannot be avoided in any integrated ore-based production process for steel, especially in the blast furnace production route, and provide for the allowances to be allocated for free to the production process where these gases originate. Any such rules should not give incentives to increase emissions and should ensure that an increasing proportion of these allowances is auctioned. Allocations must be fixed prior to the trading period so as to enable the market to function properly. They shallould also avoid undue distortions of competition on the markets for electricity and heating and cooling supplied to industrial installations. They should further avoid undue distortions of competition between industrial activities carried out in installations operated by a single operator and production in outsourced installations. These rules should apply to new entrants carrying out the same activities as existing installations receiving transitional free allocations. To avoid any distortion of competition within the internal market, no free allocation should be made in respect of the production of electricity by new entrants. Allowances which remain in the set-aside for new entrants in 2020 should be auctioned.
Amendment 262 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 2 – point (c)
Article 1 – point 2 – point (c)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 3 – point [(v)] (new)
Article 3 – point [(v)] (new)
[(v)] ‘Sectors exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage’ means sectors identified in accordance with the criteria of Article 10a (9) and which are listed in Annex Ia;
Amendment 387 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 10a – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
The measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall, to the extent feasible, establish harmonised benchmarks to ensure that allocation takes place in a manner that gives incentives for greenhouse gas and energy efficient techniques and for reductions in emissions, by taking account of the most efficient techniques and technologies, the potential, including the technical potential, to reduce emissions, substitutes, alternative production processes, use of biomass and greenhouse gas capture and storage, and shall not give incentives to increase emissions. Those measures shall also take into account emissions related to the use of combustible waste gases when the production of these waste gases cannot be avoided in any integrated ore- based production process for steel, especially in the blast furnace production route, and provide for the allowances to be allocated for free to the production process where these gases originate. No free allocation shall be made in respect of any net sale of electricity production. to third parties.
Amendment 515 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 7
Article 10a – paragraph 7
7. Subject to Article 10b, the amount of allowances allocated free of charge under paragraphs 3 to 6 of this Article [and paragraph 2 of Article 3c] in 2013 shall be 80 100% of the quantity determined in accordance with the measures referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3 and thereafter the free allocation shall decrease each year by equal amounts resulting in no80 % free allocation in 2020. The Commission shall review this percentage in 2020 and then periodically every 4 years. The review shall take into account observed environmental and economic impacts. All relevant social partners shall be consulted. Any measures taken by the Commission following that review, designed to amend non-essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)].
Amendment 532 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 8
Article 1 – point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 8
Article 10a – paragraph 8
8. ISubject to Article 10b, in 2013 and in each subsequent year up to 2020, installations in sectors which are exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage shall be allocated all allowances free of charge up to 100 percent of the quantity determined in accordance with paragraphs 2 to 6determined in accordance with paragraphs 1 to 3 free of charge and without changing the total quantity of allowances according to Article 9.
Amendment 548 #
Proposal for a regulation – amending act
Article 1 - point 8
Article 1 - point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10a - paragraph 9
Article 10a - paragraph 9
9. At the latest bBy 30 June 20106 and every 34 years thereafter the Commission shall determine the sectors referred to in paragraph 8. That measurereview Annex Ia. The results of this review shall be implemented in 2020 and every 4 years thereafter. Any measures taken by the Commission following that review, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Directive by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article [23(3)]. All relevant social partners shall be consulted. In the determination of the sectors referred to in the first subparagraph 8 the Commission shall take into account the extent to which it is possible for the sector or sub-sector concerned to pass on the cost of the required allowances in product prices without significant loss of market share to less carbon efficient installations outside the Communityinstallations operating in countries outside the Community that did not impose comparable constraints on emissions, taking into account the following: (a) the extent to which auctioning would lead to a substantial increase in production cost; (b) the extent to which it is possible for individual installations in the sector concerned to reduce emission levels for instance on the basis of the most efficient techniques; (c) market structure, relevant geographic and product market, the exposure of the sectors to international competition; (d) the effect of climate change and energy policies implemented, or expected to be implemented outside the EU in the sectors concerned; (da) the effect of passing through CO2 costs in electricity prices in the sector or sub-sector concerned. For the purposes of evaluating whether the cost increase resulting from the Community scheme can be passed on, estimates of lost sales resulting from the increased carbon price or the impact on the profitability of the installations concerned may inter alia be used.
Amendment 608 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 8
Article 1 - point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10b - indent 2 a (new)
Article 10b - indent 2 a (new)
- adjusting the number of allowances received free of charge to compensate for the indirect effect of passing through CO2 costs in electricity prices for those sectors determined in accordance with Article 10a(3) as being particularly impacted by this pass-through cost. Allowances for the compensation of pass-through of CO2 cost will be additional and subtracted from the allowances allocated according to Article 10(1) and shall not be subject to Article 12(1) and (3).
Amendment 611 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 - point 8
Article 1 - point 8
Directive 2003/87/EC
Article 10b - paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 10b - paragraph 2 a (new)
An international agreement including energy-intensive industries exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage, or a sector specific international agreement on such industries, must comply at least with the following criteria in order to provide a level playing field at installation level for sectors determined to be exposed to significant risks of carbon leakage: (i) the participation of countries representing a critical mass of at least 85% of worldwide production, including the main emerging markets, (ii) equivalent CO2 emission targets, (iii) similar emission reduction systems with equivalent effect and based on benchmarks and imposed by all participating countries or from countries with non-equivalent CO2 emission targets in sectors covered by the Community scheme, (iv) materials in competition have to be subject to equivalent restrictions taking into account life cycle aspects, (v) an effective international monitoring and verification system, (vi) a binding dispute settlement regime and clear penalties for infringement, comparable to the EU system.
Amendment 793 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Annex I - point 3 - point (a)
Annex I - point 3 - point (a)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex I - table - category 1 - activity 2 - row 2 - column 1
Annex I - table - category 1 - activity 2 - row 2 - column 1
Coke ovens - for the production of non- metallurgical coke
Amendment 795 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Annex I - point 3 - point (b) - point (ii)
Annex I - point 3 - point (b) - point (ii)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex I - table - category 2 - paragraph -1 (new)
Annex I - table - category 2 - paragraph -1 (new)
Amendment 816 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Annex I a (new)
Annex I a (new)
Directive 2003/87/EC
Annex I a (new)
Annex I a (new)