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30 Amendments of Artur ZASADA related to 2012/0288(COD)

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 4

(4) Where pasture or agricultural land previously destined for the food, feed and fibre markets is diverted to biofuel production, the non-fuel demand will still need to be satisfied either through intensification of current production or by bringing non-agricultural land into production elsewhere. The latter case represents indirect land-use change and when it involves the conversion of high carbon stock land it can lead to significant greenhouse gas emissions. Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC should therefore include provisions to address indirect land use change given that current biofuels are mainly produced from crops grown on existing agricultural land.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 5

(5) Based on forecasts of biofuel demand provided by the Member States and estimates of indirect land-use change emissions for different biofuel feedstocks it is likely that greenhouse gas emissions linked to indirect land use change are significant, and could negate some or all of the greenhouse gas savings of individual biofuels. This is because almost the entire biofuel production in 2020 is expected to come from crops grown on land that could be used to satisfy food and feed markets. In order to reduce such emissions, it is appropriate to distinguish between crop groups such as oil crops, cereals, sugars and other starch containing crops accordingly.deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 6

(6) Liquid renewable fuels are likely to be required by the transport sector in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. Advanced biofuels, such as those made from wastes and algae, provide high greenhouse gas savings with low risk of causing indirect land use change and do not compete directly for agricultural land for the food and feed markets. It is appropriate, therefore, to encourage greater production of such advanced biofuels as these are currently not commercially available in large quantities, in part due to competition for public subsidies with established food crop based biofuel technologies. Further incentives should be provided by increasing the weighting of advanced biofuels towards 10% target for transport set in Directive 2009/28/EC compared to conventional biofuels. In this context, only advanced biofuels with low estimated indirect land use change impacts and high overall greenhouse gas savings should be supported as part of the post 2020 renewable energy policy framework by setting 2% target for advanced biofuels.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 9

(9) To prepare for the transition towards advanced biofuels and minimise the overall indirect land use change impacts in the period to 2020, it is appropriate to limit the amount of biofuels and bioliquids obtained from food crops as set out in part A of Annex VIII to Directive 2009/28/EC and part A of Annex V to Directive 98/70/EC that can be counted towards targets set out in Directive 2009/28/EC. Without restricting the overall use of such biofuels, the share of biofuels and bioliquids produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugar and oil crops that can be counted towards the targets of Directive 2009/28/EC should be limited to the share of such biofuels and bioliquids consumed in 2011.deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 10

(10) The 5% limit set up in Article 3(4)d does not affect the Member States' freedom to arrange their own trajectory as to compliance with this prescribed share of conventional biofuels within the overall 10% target. As a consequence, the access to the market of the biofuels produced by the installations in operation before the end of 2013 remains fully open. Therefore this amending directive does not affect the legitimate expectations of the operators of such installations.deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11

(11) ~~The estimated indirect land-use change emissions should be included in the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels under Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC.~~ Biofuels made from feedstocks that do not lead to additional demand for land, such as those from waste feedstocks or yield increases, should be assigned a zero emissions factor.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 12

(12) The Commission should review the methodology for estimating land-use change emission factors included in Annexes VIII and V to Directives 2009/28/EC and 98/70/EC respectively in the light of adaptation to technical and scientific progress. To this end, and if warranted by the latest available scientific evidence, the Commission should consider the possibility of revising the proposed crop group indirect land-use change factors, as well as introducing factors at further levels of disaggregation and including additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to market.deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 18

(18) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 98/70/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of the mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly diverse grassland, the methodology for the calculation and reporting of lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, ~~the methodology for the calculation of indirect land-use change emissions,~~ the permitted level related to the metallic additives content in fuels, the permitted analytical methods related to the fuel specifications and the vapour pressure waiver permitted for petrol containing bioethanol.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 19

(19) In order to permit adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Directive 2009/28/EC, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of ~~the list of biofuel feedstocks that are counted multiple times towards the target set in Article 3(4),~~ the energy content of transport fuels, criteria and geographic ranges for determining highly biodiverse grassland, ~~the methodology for the calculation of indirect land-use change emissions,~~ and the methodological principles and values necessary for assessing whether sustainability criteria have been fulfilled in relation to biofuels and bioliquids.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Recital 20

(20) The Commission should review the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive, based on the best and latest available scientific evidence, in limiting indirect land-use change greenhouse gas emissions and addressing ways to further minimise that impact~~, which could include the introduction of estimated indirect land-use change emission factors in the sustainability scheme as of 1st January 2021~~.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 1 – subpoint a

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7a – paragraph 6

(a) the following paragraph 6 is inserted: ‘6. Fuel suppliers shall by 31 March each year report to the authority designated by the Member State, the biofuel production pathways, volumes, and the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy, including the estimated indirect land-use change emissions set out in Annex V Member States shall report these data to the Commission.’deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 2 – subpoint b

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7b – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2

(b) in paragraph 3, the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 10a concerning the criteria and geographic ranges to determine which grassland shall be covered by point (c) of the first subparagraph.’deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – subpoint a

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7d – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2

~~The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated ~~acts pursuant to Article 10a concerning the correction of the estimated typical and default values in Parts B and E of Annex IV.~~

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – subpoint a

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7d – paragraph 6

~~The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated acts pursuant to Article 10a concerning the adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Annex V, including by the revision of the proposed crop group indirect land-use change values; the introduction of new values at further levels of disaggregation; the inclusion of additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to market as appropriate, review the categories of which biofuels are assigned zero indirect land-use change emissions; and the development of factors for feedstocks from non-food cellulosic and ligno- cellulosic materials.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – subpoint b

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7d – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1

(b) in paragraph 7, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘7. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts pursuant to Article 10a concerning the adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Annex IV, including by the addition of values for further biofuel production pathways for the same or for other raw materials and by modifying the methodology laid down in Part C.’deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 7

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 2

The delegation of power referred to in Article 7a(5), the second subparagraph of Article 7b(3), Articles 7d(5), ~~7d(6), 7d(7),~~ 8a(3) and 10(1) shall be conferred for an indeterminate period of time from the date of entry into force of this Directive.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 7

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 3

The delegation of powers referred to in Articles 7a(5), the second subparagraph of Article 7b(3), Articles 7d(5), ~~7d(6), 7d(7),~~ 8a(3) and 10(1) may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision of revocation shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 7

Directive 98/70/EC
Article 10a – paragraph 5

A delegated act adopted pursuant to Articles 7a(5), the second subparagraph of Article 7b(3), Articles 7d(5), ~~7d(6), 7d(7),~~ 8a(3) and 10(1) shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of 2 months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by 2 months at the initiative of the European Parliament or the Council.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint b Directive 2009/28/EC

(b) in paragraph 1, the following second subparagraph is added: ‘For the purpose of compliance with target referred to in the first subparagraph, the maximum joint contribution from biofuels and bioliquids produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops shall be no more than the energy quantity corresponding to the maximum contribution as set out in Article 3(4)d.’deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint ii a (new)

(ii a) in paragraph 4 the following point (da) is inserted: '(da) The share of energy from renewable sources shall be maintained by Member States at least at the level provided in the first subparagraph in the subsequent years after 2020.'

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – subpoint c – subpoint ii

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – point d

for the calculation of biofuels in the numerator, the share of energy from ~~biofuels produced from cereal and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops shall be no more than 5%, the estimated share at the end of 2011,~~advanced biofuels shall be no less than 2% of the final consumption of energy in transport in 2020.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint b

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 3

(b) in paragraph 3, the second subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 25 (b) to establish the criteria and geographic ranges to determine which grassland shall be covered by point (c) of the first subparagraph.’deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 5 – subpoint b a (new)

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 17 – paragraph 6

(b a) Paragraph 6 is replaced by the following: 6. Biofuels and bioliquids taken into account for the purposes referred to in points (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph 1 obtained from agricultural raw materials cultivated in the Community obtained in accordance with the requirements and standards under the provisions referred to under the common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and in accordance with the minimum requirements for good agricultural and environmental condition defined pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009, comply with the sustainability criteria set out in Article 17(3) to (5)

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 7 – subpoint b

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 5

~~(b) in paragraph 5, the last sentence is replaced by the following: ‘To this end, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 25 (b).’~~deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 7 – subpoint c

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 6

(c) paragraph 6 is replaced by the following: ‘The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts pursuant to Article 25(b) concerning the adaptation to technical and scientific progress of Annex VIII, including the revision of the proposed crop group indirect land-use change values; the introduction of new values at further levels of disaggregation (i.e. at a feedstock level); the inclusion of additional values should new biofuel feedstocks come to market as appropriate; and the development of factors for feedstocks from non-food cellulosic and ligno-cellulosic materials.’deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 7 – subpoint d

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 7

(d) in paragraph 7, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘7. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts pursuant to Article 25 (b) concerning the adaptation of Annex V to technical and scientific progress, including by the addition of values for further biofuel production pathways for the same or for other raw materials and by modifying the methodology laid down in part C’deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 11

Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 25b – paragraph 2

The delegation of power referred to in Article 3(4)(d), Article 5(5), the third subparagraph of Article 17(3)(c), Articles 19(5), 19(6) and 19(7) shall be conferred on the Commission for ~~an indeterminate period of time~~5 years from [the date of entry into force of this Directive]with the possibility of lengthening this period.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 1

Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex V – Part C – points 7, 8 and 9

(1) Annex V, part C is amended as follows: (a) point 7 is replaced by the following: ‘7. Annualised emissions from carbon stock changes caused by land-use change, el, shall be calculated by dividing total emissions equally over 20 years. For the calculation of these emissions the following rule shall be applied: el = (CSR – CSA) × 3,664 × 1/20 × 1/P, where el = annualised greenhouse gas emissions from carbon stock change due to land-use change (measured as mass (grams) of CO2-equivalent per unit biofuel energy (megajoules)); CSR = the carbon stock per unit area associated with the reference land use (measured as mass (tonnes) of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). The reference land-use shall be the land-use in January 2008 or 20 years before the raw material was obtained, whichever was the later; CSA = the carbon stock per unit area associated with the actual land-use (measured as mass (tonnes) of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). In cases where the carbon stock accumulates over more than one year, the value attributed to CSA shall be the estimated stock per unit area after 20 years or when the crop reaches maturity, whichever the earlier; and P = the productivity of the crop (measured as biofuel or bioliquid energy per unit area per year).’ (b) points 8 and 9 are deleted.

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 2

Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex VIII

~~(2) The following Annex VIII is add~~deleted:

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN

Artur ZASADA, Andrzej GRZYB

Proposal for a directive
Annex II

Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex VIII – Part B – footnote 14

~~14 Perennial crops are defined as multi- annual crops whose stem is usually not annually harvested such as short rotation coppice and oil palm as defined in (2010/C 160/02)~~deleted

2013/05/23
Committee: TRAN