6 Amendments of Maria da Graça CARVALHO related to 2011/0302(COD)
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Commission has committed to mainstream climate change into Union spending programmes and to direct at least 20% of the Union budget to climate-related objectives. It is important to ensure that climate change mitigation and adaptation as well as risk prevention and management are promoted in the preparation, design and implementation of projects of common interest and that priority is therefore given to electricity interconnection investments. Infrastructure investments covered by this Regulation should contribute to promoting the transition to a low-carbon and climate- and disaster-resilient economy and society and minimise support for long-term high- carbon projects which lock in fossil fuels into our energy system for several decades and undermine the EU's 2020 and 2050 climate targets.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In the Communication on ‘Energy infrastructure priorities for 2020 and beyond – a Blueprint for an integrated energy network’ adopted in November 2010, the Commission identified the priority corridors, which are necessary to allow the Union to meet its ambitious energy and climate targets by 2020 for completing the internal energy market, ensuring security of supply, enabling the integration of renewable sources of energy and to prepare the networks for further decarbonisation of the energy system beyond 2020. It recalls, in particular, the importance of improving the electricity and gas interconnection capacity between Iberian peninsula and France.
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Major investments are needed to modernise and expand Europe's energy infrastructure and to interconnect networks across borders to meet the Union's energy and climate policy objectives of competitiveness, sustainability and security of supply in a cost-effective way. Long- distance electricity highways will help significantly to overcome the variability of renewable sources of electricity by sharing and distributing those resources throughout the Union. The estimated investment needs in energy infrastructure up to 2020 amount to EUR 1 trillion, of which ca. EUR 200 billion in electricity and gas transmission and storage infrastructures considered of European relevance. Among projects of European relevance, approximately EUR 100 billion of investments is at risk of not being delivered due to obstacles related to permit granting, regulation and financing.
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42 a (new)
Recital 42 a (new)
Amendment 226 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 48
Recital 48
(48) Some of the infrastructure projects of Union interest might need to link with and pass through neighbourhood, pre-accession and other third countries such as in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, which has substantial solar energy that could be imported into the EU via long- distance electricity connections. The Connecting Europe Facility should offer simplified means of linking and financing these infrastructures, in order to ensure coherence between internal and external instruments of the Union budget.
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point b – point ii
(ii) enhancing Union security of supply in both the electricity and gas sectors, to be measured by the evolution of system resilience and efficiency and security of system operations as well as number of projects enabling access to domestic renewable energy sources and allowing diversification of supply sources, supplying counterparts and routes;