7 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2010/2108(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. ApprovesTakes note of the Commission’s commitment to complete internal energy market, while respecting the right of Member States to implement their energy mix using available fossil, nuclear andwhile increasing the use of renewable energies in compliance with the imperatives of sustainability, competitiveness, and security of supply; recalls that access to energy is a fundamental right and that the authorities have the obligation to ensure it to all citizens at reasonable price;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses thCalls on the Commission to submit a more ambitious EU plan for policy of energy saving, production of sustainable eneergy, and reasonable use of resources, and to develop synergies between EU energy strategy and external relations with strategic energy suppliers; recommends and with third countries in need of energy imports; calls on the Commission to coinclude trade agreements with those third countries to guarantee EU long-term access to raw materials and energy supplies at fair priceaspects of a balanced and fair access to raw materials and energy supplies at stable and fair prices into new trade agreements within the frame of the 2020 trade strategy;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on Commission to step up through trade agreements adoption of EU compatible safety and energy-efficiency rules for energy saving, generation, transmission, transit, storage and processing/refining of energy imports and export, and to initiate at WTO level global standards to boost open and fair trade in safe energy sources and newenvironmentally clean energy sources and the transfer of new environmentally clean energy technologies;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers diversification of energy sources, supply routes and infrastructure, and the interconnection of networks for oil, gas, and smart grid as key to the long-term security and sustainability of energy supplies to EU and third countries; reminds that these policy trends are also instrumental in fostering new energy technology developments and EU as well as third countries' jobs creation;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises the need to capitalize on the innovative potential of EU public service and EU businesses in renewable energies and technologies, including advanced ICT, to promote through trade agreements a gradualaccelerated and low cost shift towards a low-carbon economy worldwide, thus ensuring new opportunities to selltrade EU products and know-howtransfer knowledge in this area;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reaffirms the importance of increasing EU research and EU FDI in building and modernisation of energy infrastructure in Europe and in developing countries through public-privatecooperation, including public- public partnerships and joint ventures, thus promoting environmentally clean and energy-mix diversification in those countries.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. welcomes the decision of the Ecuadorian government to renounce to the exploitation of the Yasuni oil field in the Amazonian forest in order to save the environment and reduce its dependency to the exportation of fossil energy and considers that the EU should support this effort and other similar ones;