11 Amendments of Pavel POC related to 2015/2113(INI)
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that all proposals forming part of the Energy Union, in particular the climate and energy targets, follow the ordinary legislative procedure, thus fully involving the European Parliament at all stages and ensuring effective democratic oversight; underlines the crucial role of a legislative proposal for a robust and predictable 2030 governance system in order to ensure the implementation of the 2030 climate and energy targets in a transparent and democratic manner where the European Parliament is fully involved;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the key role of the Emissions Trading System (ETS) as a cost-effective tool to achieve the EU’s 2030 emission reduction target; in addition to the Market Stability Reserve (MSR), a structural post 2020 reform of the ETS should be implemented, to take into account the 2030 CO2 reduction target, and including as long as no comparable efforts are undertakiming at reducing industrial emissions and promoting investment in other major economies tangible and more harmonised measures on carbon leakage to safeguard EU industry, by ensuring that there will be no additional direct and indirect ETS costs at the level of best performers and by taking into account changing production levelslow carbon technologies; doing so in a manner that creates a level playing field for competing technologies, that gives companies the flexibility to develop their own mitigation strategy, and that provides for specific measures to combat carbon leakage;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to recognise the importance of energy efficiency and its role in both lowering costs to consumers and maintaining security supply and emphasises the importance of investing in energy efficiency across the European Union in any energy Security plans;
Amendment 122 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to urgently step up the EU’s efforts to pursue the decarbonisation of the transport sector, ; calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal setting ambitious emissions performance standards for cars and light duty vehicles for 2025; recalls that international shipping still is excluded from binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; calls on the European commission to present a legislative proposal on greenhouse gas reduction targets for international shipping, unless binding measures are agreed in the IMO before the end of 2016;
Amendment 127 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Regrets the Commission’s decision to withdraw its proposal on a reviewed energy taxation directive, and the failure of Member States to agree on a model where energy taxation is based on the CO2 and energy content;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Insists on the need for more ambitious EU initiatives for developing and stimulating incentives for the roll-out of alternative fuels infrastructure, to further incentivise the production and use of advanced biofuels and to speed up the electrification of transport; notes that biomass from sustainable forestry could make a contribution towards the achievement of climate and energy goals of the 2030 framework;
Amendment 191 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Considers that the EU governance, as it has been proposed by the Commission, should be adopted, notwithstanding if in legislative or non- legislative form, only if it removes or simplifies the reporting obligations under the current legislation;
Amendment 194 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on Member States and the Commission to establish a pathway for phasing out of fossil fuels subsidies in the EU by 2020 and to fully integrate such effort in the Energy Union; underlines the need for swift action in this regard in order to ensure that external costs are fully internalized throughout the economy;
Amendment 197 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Considers that any framework for capacity markets within the EU must ensure that the capacity markets are being technologically neutral, non- discriminatory and open for cross-border participants; capacity markets must be subject to a regional supervision.
Amendment 198 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls for full transparency in the accounting of fossil fuels’ subsidies in the EU; welcomes in this regard the clarity provided in such reporting, for example the OECD 2013 report on Budgetary Support and Tax Expenditures for Fossil Fuels which identified an inventory of 550 measures that support fossil fuel production in 34 member countries with a value of USD 55-90 billion annually between 2005 and 2011;
Amendment 200 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Emphasises the importance of research and investment in energy storage technologies and considers that energy storage is key in facilitating an affordable, equitable and practical transition to renewable energies;