14 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2011/0172(COD)
Amendment 330 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Buildings of special architectural or historical merit shall be exempted from the minimum requirements set by this Directive.
Amendment 486 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3a Renovation of buildings Member States shall, as an integral part of their national plans, as referred to in Article 19, promote policies and adopt appropriate measures to encourage renovation of buildings. These should include at least: (a) a register of buildings by building category; (b) measures to meet technical and regulatory requirements; (c) financial incentives in the construction sector, including tax reductions, lower VAT rates for renovation work and low interest loans, for example eco-loans, i.e. access to ten-year zero-rate loans up to a maximum of EUR 30 000 for any beneficiary certified to have taken at least two of the following measures: increasing the energy efficiency of roofing and flooring or outer walls or windows, external doors and solar shading, replacing heating or domestic hot water appliances and systems, installing heating and electricity production appliances and systems using renewable or equivalent sources, installing domestic hot water appliances and systems using renewable or equivalent sources; (d) measures to ensure that owners and/or tenants are not financially penalised;
Amendment 529 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall establish a national effort-sharing mechanism for achieving the 3 % target applicable to public buildings. In establishing this effort-sharing mechanism, they shall take into account the financial resources of regional and local authorities and the practical possibilities of renovating such buildings. They shall support their regional and local public bodies, for example by improving access to contracting and intracting.
Amendment 667 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Each Member State shall set up an energy efficiency obligation scheme. This scheme shall ensure that either all energy distributors or all retail energy sales companies operating on the Member State's territory achieve annual energy savings equal to 1.5% of their energy sales, by volume, in the previous year in that Member State excluding energy used in transport. This amount of energy savings shall be achieved by the obligated parties among final customers. The energy saving target shall be introduced gradually and with a starting level differentiated on a national basis in order to take into full account early actions and results achieved so far, including efficiency measures already adopted in the fuel sector. Measures that target long term savings or structured programs proposed by operators in the energy efficiency sector should be encouraged through incentives or specific fiscal treatment.
Amendment 728 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Member States shall ensure that at least 40% of the amount of energy savings required from each obligated party is the result of deep renovations of the existing building stock.
Amendment 773 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
They shall do so: (a) by respecting the strict independence between the energy distributor and the energy service provider; (b) by implementing clear, transparent and open partnerships between energy distributors and energy service providers in order to optimise the energy saving obligations towards the end-customer.
Amendment 774 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. The Member States shall ensure that the energy efficiency targets are met by offering incentives to make private dwellings more energy-efficient, in the form of ‘eco-loans’, i.e. access to ten-year zero-rate loans up to a maximum of EUR 30 000 for any beneficiary certified to have taken at least two of the following measures: increasing the energy efficiency of roofing and flooring or of outer walls or windows, external doors and solar shading, replacing heating or domestic hot water appliances and systems, installing heating and electricity production appliances and systems using renewable or equivalent sources, installing domestic hot water appliances and systems using renewable or equivalent sources.
Amendment 916 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Member States shall ensure that, where technically feasible and cost-effective for the investor, including consideration of maintenance, management and replacement costs, final customers for electricity, natural gas, district heating or cooling and district- supplied domestic hot water are provided with individual meters that accurately measure and allow to make available their actual energy consumption and provide information on actual time of use, in accordance with Annex VI.
Amendment 1344 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – point b
b) identifying concrete measures and investments for the introduction of cost- effective energy efficiency improvements or measures aiming to facilitate the integration of renewable energy production in the network infrastructure, with a detailed timetable for their introduction.
Amendment 1358 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Article 12 – paragraph 4
4. Member States shall ensure the removal of those incentives in transmission and distribution tariffs that unnecessarily increase the volume of distributed or transmitted energy and refocus these incentives towards consumer participation to system efficiency, including demand response. In this respect, in accordance with Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/72/EC and Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/73/EC, Member States may impose public service obligations relating to energy efficiency on undertakings operating in the electricity and gas sectors.
Amendment 1406 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. As part of the future national action plan with targets for the implementation of Smart Grids, Member States shall develop information on how demand resources could be integrated into the regional electricity markets and include details about the deployment of technologies facilitating connection of demand-side resources to the energy grid in end-users.
Amendment 1419 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a (new)
Article 13 a Member States shall ensure that information on available energy efficiency mechanisms and financial and legal frameworks is transparent and widely and actively disseminated to all relevant market actors, including consumers, builders, architects, engineers, environmental auditors and installers of building elements as defined in Directive 2010/31/EU. They shall ensure that banks and other financial institutions are informed of the possibilities of participating in the financing of energy efficiency improvement measures. 1b. Member States shall establish appropriate conditions and incentives for market operators to provide adequate and targeted information and advice to energy consumers on energy efficiency. 1c. Member States, with the participation of stakeholders, including local and regional authorities, shall develop suitable information, awareness-raising and training programmes to inform citizens of the benefits and practicalities of taking energy efficiency improvement measures. 1d. The Commission shall ensure that information on best energy-saving practices in Member States is exchanged and widely disseminated.
Amendment 1441 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 1 – point e a (new)
e a) developing innovative financing models to enable skilled SMEs and crafts to offer energy performance contracting;
Amendment 1461 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b a (new)
b a) legal and regulatory provisions that impede or restrict the possibility to constitute groups or consortia of independent SMEs to be able to provide more complex contract structures such as energy performance contracting.