6 Amendments of Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN related to 2015/2232(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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1. Emphasises that improving energy efficiency is crucial to achieving our climate targetsthe EU's first and strategic measure to enable post-Paris climate action, to create jobs and sustainable growth, and to reducing our dependence on energy imports;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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2. Stresses that common efforts by the EU will help to create a common market for goods and services that help to save energy, which will bring down costs for all energy consumers and create a more level playing field for industry;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
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3. Stresses that the Energy Efficiency Directive triggered many positive developments in the Member States, but that poor implementation is hindering its full potential; welcomes the increased technical support and the enforcement efforts from the Commission to ensure correct and speedy implementation;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
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5. Regrets the very unambitious target of at least 27 % for improving energy efficiency in 2030 adopted by the European Council in 2014, which in contrast to the 40% target adopted by the European Parliament; notes that the 27 % is mainly justified by an extremely unrealistic high discount rate in a previous impact assessment; recalls that the discount rate of 17.5 % is higher than the discount rate for energy investment in Iraq (15 %)1; calls on the Commission to move to comprehensive cost-benefit analysis and a societal interest perspective, in line with its own Better Regulation guidelines1a; __________________ 1 Friends of the Earth Europe (2015): Battle of the Discount Rates https://www.foeeurope.org/sites/default/files/energy _savings/2015/battle-discount-rates.pdf 1a Better Regulation guidelines SWD 2015, 111, tool 54
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
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6. Stresses that a high, private discount rate would reflect the unrealistic assumption that cost- efficient investments in energy efficiency will not happen because of a number of obstacles, whereas it is the duty of political actors to overcome obstacles to such investments; also notes that this overlooks the role of EU and national public bodies to drive energy efficiency improvements, particularly in setting common EU performance standards and national procurement and infrastructure and buildings policies;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
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7. Insists that loopholes in the existing Directive, especially in Article 7, must be eliminated, while keeping flexibility for the Member States to choose among the measures; notes in particular that phasing in and early actions under Article 7(2) are no longer relevant and that the statistical removal of energy used in transport and ETS sectors from setting the target has diminished the effectiveness and transparency of the 1.5% p.a. energy savings requirement and produces unnecessary reporting complexities;