Activities of Corinne LEPAGE related to 2012/0288(COD)
Plenary speeches (2)
Fuel quality directive and renewable energy directive (A7-0279/2013 - Corinne Lepage) (vote)
Fuel quality directive and renewable energy directive (A7-0279/2013 - Corinne Lepage) (vote)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 98/70/EC relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and amending Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources PDF (1 MB) DOC (1 MB)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Although Directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC refer to ‘biofuels and bioliquids’, their provisions, including the relevant sustainability criteria, apply to all renewable fuels as defined therein.
Amendment 131 #
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, bacteria 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.
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) In order to ensure that the incentive measures to encourage advanced biofuels are effective, the support schemes established by Member States should take account of the need for double checking biofuel volumes so as to prevent fraud in relation to the true origin of biofuels and ensure that the same volumes of biofuel are not declared more than once under two or more national or European schemes.
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) The use of land for growing biofuel feedstocks should not result in the displacement of local and indigenous communities. Special measures to protect indigenous communities’ land therefore need to be introduced.
Amendment 394 #
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 – subparagraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2 – point e – subparagraph 2
Member States shall ensurstablish an independent registration system at European level to guarantee the origin and traceability of all the advanced biofuels which are listed in Annex IX or which are eligible for incentives. The system shall consist of a single database used to certify volumes of advanced biofuels from their point of origin to their point of final consumption. The system shall be designed in particular to prevent fraudulent multiple declarations of the same volumes under two or more national or European systems, to ensure the traceability of biofuels from their point of origin and to guarantee that no raw materials are intentionally modified to be covered by categories (i) to (iii).
Amendment 538 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 3
Annex II – point 3
Directive 2009/28/EC
Annex IX – point a a (new)
Annex IX – point a a (new)
(aa) Bacteria.