2 Amendments of Lena KOLARSKA-BOBIŃSKA related to 2010/2105(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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1. Points out that successful implementation of the 20-20-20 targets requires substantial financial commitment and new ways of supplementing existing financing for initiatives tackling climate change and energy challenges; encourages efforts by the Commission and Member States to find innovative means of financing through a shift towards basing taxation systems on industrial carbon emissions as this would create revenues for the budgetary authorities and climate- friendly incentives to consumers and industry;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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2. Acknowledges the divergent forms of carbon tax that already exist in some Member States and warns against the risk they pose to competitiveness in the Single Market and interference with the EU ETS; believes in the greater benefit of introducing carbon taxation in a coordinated manner; stresses that unilateral carbon taxation by Member States should be avoided and only accepted after a debate in the Council; calls on the Commission to further examine possible instruments for coordinating carbon taxation for non-ETS sectors at EU level;