7 Amendments of Daciana Octavia SÂRBU related to 2017/2053(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Stresses that in order to boost the transition towards a sustainable, circular and low-carbon economy and, deliver on the commonly agreed Energy Union targets and be consistent with our commitments under the Paris Agreement, significant additional investments are required in the period 2020-2030;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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2. Points out that the report of the High Level Group on Own Resources (HLGOR) put forward new proposals, including reforming the VAT own resourcetax rate on national VAT receipts in order to single out the percentage to be transferred at the EU level, and the EU emissions trading system, a CO2 levy, transport taxation, electricity taxation and revenues deriving from the digital single market; emphasises that the introduction of new ORs could lead to greater policy coherence between the revenue and expenditure sides of the budget;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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2. Is convinced that tangible progress on these key EU policies requires a thorough reform with a view to a more effective EU budget based on genuine own resources, with a direct and transparent link to investments in projects with clear European added value for citizens and, companies and the environment;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that DG Environment accounts for the second largest volume of fines imposed for non-compliance with EU legislation, amounting to EUR 284 million for the period 2014-2017; calls for revenue stemming directly from EU legislation and its enforcement to be invested in common EU projects with tangible added value to the environment;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
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5. Calls for a proportion of the ETS auctioning revenue, from Phase 4 (2021) onwards, to be directed towards a Just Transition Fund as it has been proposed by the European Parliament and concrete common EU projects, such as cross-border energy infrastructure (to facilitate the integration of renewables, for example), energy storage and investments in breakthrough innovation in industry;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
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5. Stresses that agricultural duties are both a policy instrument and a financing tool for the CAP and that free trade agreements will lead to the decrease of revenues from duties; notes that the HLGOR’s report recommends that they be retained in future since they are a simple, efficient and genuine own resource for the Union;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 9
9. Calls for an exploration of the possible introduction of an own resource reflecting the carbon content of consumer goods sold in the single market, such as a carbon-added tax (CAT), that would gradually replace a proportion of the current VAT-based own resource and of a carbon adjustment mechanism imposed at the EU’s borders on all goods entering the Single Market to compensate for the estimated carbon cost of their production compared to EU production.