2 Amendments of Inese VAIDERE related to 2020/2043(INI)
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges that the proposed CBAM apply to all imports in order to avoid distortion in the internal marketConsiders that a CBAM should cover all imports, but that as a starting point already by 2023 it should cover the power sector and energy-intensive industrial sectors like cement, steel, chemicals and fertilisers, which continue to receive substantial free allocations, and still represent 94% of Union industrial emissions;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recommends that a design be introduced that measures the carbon content of imports through their basic materials composition (as outlined in the proposal from the European Economic and Social Committee); recalls that this feasible approximation would weigh each basic material covered by the EU ETS and multiply it by its carbon intensity value – which ideally should be defined at countryproducer level; stresses, however, that importers who are more carbon efficient should be allowed to demonstrate the specific carbon intensity of their products;