14 Amendments of Philippe LAMBERTS related to 2011/0300(COD)
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) Projects of common interest should be given ‘priority status’ at national level to ensure rapid administrative treatment. Projects of common interest shall be considered by competent authorities as being in public interest. Authorisation should be given to projects which have an adverse impact on the environment, for reasons of overriding public interest, when all the conditions provided for under Directives 92/43/EC and 2000/60/EC are met.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20
Recital 20
(20) Projects of common interest should be given ‘priority status’ at national level to ensure rapid administrative treatment. Projects of common interest shall be considered by competent authorities as being in public interest. Authorisation should be given to projects which have an adverse impact on the environment, for reasons of overriding public interest, when all the conditions proviThere is a need to identify, according to a hierarchy of importance and in the interest of cost- effectiveness, where investment in new infrastructure could be minimised through energy efficiency policies and demand-side management, where existing national and cross-border infrastructure can be upgraded for under Directives 92/43/EC and 2000/60/EC are met. modernised and where new infrastructure is needed and can be built alongside the existing energy or transport infrastructure.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32 a (new)
Recital 32 a (new)
(32a) When the Council and the Commission assess whether sufficient progress has been made towards meeting the medium-term budgetary objective and in so doing examine the growth curve of government expenditure, the expenditure aggregate should exclude interest expenditure, expenditure on Union programmes fully matched by Union funds revenue and non-discretionary changes in unemployment benefit expenditure as laid down in Article 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1466/97 on the strengthening of the surveillance of budgetary positions and the surveillance and coordination of economic policies1. ____________________ 1 OJ L 209, 2.8.1997, p. 1
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. Each Group shall draw up its proposed list of projects of common interest according to the process set out in section 2 of Annex III, according to the contribution of each project to implementing the energy infrastructure priority corridors and areas set out in Annex I and according to their fulfilment of the criteria set out in Article 4. The Groups shall adopt the proposed list by simple majority of their members. Each individual proposal for a project shall require the approval of the Member State(s), to the territory of which the project relates.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Where appropriate, the coefficients used to weigh criteria when drawing up the list of projects of common interest, ranking them and assessing their eligibility for Union financial support in the form of grants for works, shall be specified by means of delegated acts in accordance with Article 18a and subject to the conditions of Article 18b.The relevant criteria and their associated coefficients need not be identical for all specific energy infrastructure categories.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Projects involving at least one Member State experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability and/or that have requested or are in receipt of financial assistance under Regulation (EU) No …/2012 shall be awarded top priority status when projects of common interest are ranked.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. The Agency and the Groups shall monitor the progress achieved in implementing the projects of common interest. The Groups may request additional information provided in accordance with paragraphs 3, 4 and 5, verify the provided information on site and convene meetings with the relevant parties. The Groups may also request the Agency to take measures to facilitate the implementation of projects of common interest. The Groups shall decide to send the request by simple majority of their members.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 5 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) The costs incurred exceed by 30 % the costs estimated in the implementation plan for the same period, provided that this over-run is not justified by reasonably unexpected changes in market conditions in the annual report referred to in paragraph 3.
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 15 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the project specific cost-benefit analysis pursuant to paragraph 4(a) of provides evidence concerning the existence of significant positive externalities, such as environmental and social benefits, security of supply, solidarity or innovation; and
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15 a (new)
Article 15a Energy infrastructures as part of macro- economic adjustment programmes 1. The technical assistance provided by the Commission to Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties with respect to their financial stability and/or that have requested or are in receipt of financial assistance under Regulation (EU) No …/2012 shall include a consultation of their national competent authorities and the project promoters concerned in order to: a) speed up the implementation of projects of common interest set out in the list specified in Article 3 in accordance with the urgency criteria set out in Article 4(4); b) explore all available means to ease financing conditions for the various stakeholders involved. 2. In order to apply point (a) of paragraph 1, the time periods laid down in Articles 10(3), 11, 13(5) and 13(6) maybe shortened. 3. The public participation of the relevant stakeholders may not be weakened by a tighter time-frame.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Chapter V a (new)
Chapter V a (new)
Chapter Va – Fast-track procedure in Member States experiencing or threatened with serious difficulties
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 a (new)
Article 18 a (new)
Article 18a Delegation of power The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18b in order to establish the coefficients referred to in Article 4(3a) used to weigh criteria when drawing up the list of projects of common interest, ranking them, assessing their eligibility for Union financial support in the form of grants for works.
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 b (new)
Article 18 b (new)
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex 5 – point 5
Annex 5 – point 5
(5) The cost-benefit analysis shall at least take into account the following costs: capital expenditure, operational and maintenance expenditure over the technical lifecycle of the project and decommissioning and waste management costs, where relevant. The methodology shall give guidance on discount rates to be used for the calculations, especially on the internalising of environmental externalities in these discount rates pursuant to the Directive on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment.