5 Amendments of Nikolaos VAKALIS related to 2008/0014(COD)
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In order to provide for flexibility for Member States in implementing their commitments, to promote sustainable development in third countries, in particular in developing countries, and to provide certainty to investors, the Community should continue to recognise a certain amount of credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in third countries before a future international agreement on climate change has been reached. Member States should ensure that their policies for purchasing these credits enhance the equitable geographical distribution of projects and enhance the achievement of a future international climate change agreement. and that credits fulfil not only strict environmental and social criteria but also additionality criteria which meet with international quality requirements such as the ‘Gold Standard’.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) Upon the conclusion by the Community of an international agreement on climate change the eCommission limits for Member States should be adjustedshall submit a proposal to the European Parliament and the Council concerning the adjustment of emission limits for Member States in order to achieve the Community’s greenhouse gas emission reduction commitment set out in that agreement, taking into account the principle of solidarity between Member States and the need for sustainable economic growth across the Community. The proposal shall specify the amount of credits from greenhouse gas emission reduction projects in third countries that each Member State can use should be increased by up to half of the additional reduction effort from sources not covered under Directive 2003/87/EC.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The measures necessary for the implementation of this Decision should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission. In particular power should be conferred on the Commission to adopt, after the conclusion of an international agreement, measures for the adjustment of Member State emission limits, as well as measures for the use of additional types of project credits in accordance with that agreement, as well as to adopt the measures necessary to check transactions under this Decision. Since those measures are of general scope and are designed to amend non-essential elements of this Decision and to supplement this Decision by the addition or modification of new non-essential elements, they should be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny provided for in Article 5a of Decision 1999/468/EC.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall ensure that their policies for purchasing these credits enhance the equitable geographical distribution of projects and the achievement of an international agreement on climate change and that the credits fulfil not only strict environmental and social criteria but also additionality criteria which meet international quality requirements such as the ‘Gold Standard’.
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6
Article 6
1. Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 shall apply uUpon the conclusion by the Community of an international agreement on climate change leading to mandatory reductions exceeding those pursuant to Article 3. 2. From the year following the conclusion of the agreement referred to in paragraph 1, the Community's greenhouse gas emissions from sources not covered under Directive 2003/87/EC in 2020 pursuant to Article 3(1) shall be further reduced by a quantity equal to the overall additional reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the Community from all sources to which the international agreement commits the Community, multiplied by the share of the Community's total greenhouse gas emission reductions for the year 2020 to which the Member States are contributing through greenhouse gas emission reductions from sources not covered under Directive 2003/87/EC pursuant to Article 3. 3. Each Member State shall contribute to the Community's additional reduction effort in proportion to its share of the Community's total emissions from sources not covered under Directive 2003/87/EC for the year 2020 pursuant to Article 3. The Commission shall amend the Annex to adjust the emission limits in accordance with the first subparagraph. That measure, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Decision shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 9(2); 4. Member States may increase the use of greenhouse gas emission reduction credits referred to in Article 4(4) from third countries which have ratified the agreement referred to in paragraph 1 and in accordance with paragraph 5 by up to half of the additional reduction taking place in accordance with paragraph 2. Each Member State may transfer the unused part of that quantity to another Member State. 5. The Commission shall adopt measures to provide for the use by Member States of additional types of project credits or the use by Member States of other mechanisms created under the international agreement, as appropriate. Those measures, designed to amend non- essential elements of this Decision by supplementing it, shall be adopted in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny referred to in Article 9(2) the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament and the Council a proposal for the amendment of this decision.