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3 Amendments of Seán KELLY related to 2020/2006(INL)

Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas Indirect Land-use Change (ILUC) can occur when land previously devoted to food or feed production is converted to produce biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels. In that case, food and feed demand still needs to be satisfied, which can lead to the extension of agricultural land into areas with high carbon stock, thereby contributing to global deforestation;
2020/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Recalls that the Renewable Energy Directive1a limits the contribution to the Union Renewable Energy target of food and feed crops considered to have a high indirect land use change (ILUC) risk, and in relation to which a significant expansion of their feedstock production area into land with high carbon stock is observed; notes that the contribution of these high ILUC-risk biofuels will be reduced to 0% by 2030; considers this to be a vitally important provision which limits negative and unintended impacts of Union's Renewable Energy policy on global deforestation; _________________ 1aDirective (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82).
2020/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes that under certain circumstances, the ILUC impacts of fuels generally considered to be high ILUC-risk can be avoided; welcomes that the Commission, as empowered by the co- legislators under the Renewable Energy Directive1a, has set out criteria to allow for the identification and certification of low ILUC-risk biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels; notes that such certified biofuels are excluded from the limits and gradual reduction target set for high ILUC-risk biofuels; _________________ 1a Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (OJ L 328, 21.12.2018, p. 82).
2020/03/31
Committee: ITRE