11 Amendments of Sophie AUCONIE related to 2012/0288(COD)
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Article 3(4) of Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable energy sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/777/EC and 2003/30/EC requires Member States to ensure that the share of energy from renewable energy sources in all forms of transport in 2020 is at least 10% of their final energy consumption. The blending of biofuels is one of the methods available for Member States to meet this target, and is expected to be the main contributor. However, in the light of new findings about the value-for-money aspect of biofuels, their development – and therefore the percentage of fuel which must, by 2020, be derived from renewable sources – should be scaled back. The Commission will have to assess whether additional measures are needed in order to meet the 20% target for renewable energy as a proportion of overall EU energy consumption.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
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. New types of advanced biofuel unrelated to food crops, such as ligno-cellulosic residues, should also be developed.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
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, oEstablishing progressively more ambitious mandatory targets for advanced biofuels will send a clear signal of support for them at Union level. Mandatory targets for advanced biofuels should thus be established according to a timetable so as to offer investors stability and allow them to plan ahead. 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.
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
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 for the percentage of fuel that has to be derived from renewable sources. 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.
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
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.
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – point 3 – point a
Article 1 – point 3 – point a
Directive 98/70/EC
Article 7d – paragraph 6
Article 7d – paragraph 6
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.' As far as possible, these delegated acts shall favour the development of innovative and efficient technologies responding to the environmental challenges.’
Amendment 333 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point -i (new)Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point -i (new)Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
-i) The first subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘4. Each Member State shall ensure that the share of energy from renewable sources in all forms of transport in 2020 is at least 8 % of final consumption of energy in transport in that Member State.’
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point -i (new)Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point -i (new)Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraphs 1 a and 1 b (new)
-i) the following subparagraphs are inserted after the first subparagraph: ‘In 2020, at least 2% of the final consumption of energy in transport shall be met with energy from advanced biofuels. In 2025, at least 4% of the final consumption of energy in transport shall be met with energy from advanced biofuels.’
Amendment 369 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Article 2 – point 2 – point c – point iii
Directive 2009/28/EC
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e
Amendment 472 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3
Article 3
The Commission shall, before 31 December 2017, submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council reviewing, on the basis of the best latest available scientific evidence, the effectiveness of the measures introduced by this Directive in limiting indirect land- use change greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production of biofuel and bioliquids. The report shall, if appropriate, be accompanied by a legislative proposal based on the best available scientific evidence, for introducing estimated indirect land use change emissions factors into the appropriate sustainability criteria to be applied from 1st January 2021 and a review of the effectiveness of the incentives provided for biofuels from non- land using feedstocks and non-food crops under Article 3(4)d of Directive 2009/28/EC.
Amendment 524 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/CE
Annex IX
Annex IX