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<EntPE>EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT</EntPE>

1999 / / 2004

<Commission>{ENVI}Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy</Commission>

<Date>{07-02-2001}9 February 2001</Date> PE<PNo>297.214</PNo>/<ANo>5-12</ANo>

AMENDMENTS 5-12

<TitreType<Projet1>DRAFT RECOMMENDATION FOR SECOND READING by</Projet1> <Projet2>Riitta Myller</Projet2</TitreType> (PE297.214)

<Titre>NATIONAL EMISSION CEILINGS FOR CERTAIN ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTANTS</Titre>

<TitreRecueil<Propos1>Common position of the Council</Propos1> <Propos2>10674/1/2000 – C50563/2000 – 1999/0067(COD)</Propos2</TitreRecueil>

Common position of the Council / Amendments

<LANG:EN<Amend>(Amendment <NumAm>5</NumAm>, by <Members>Anneli Hulthén</Members>)

<Article>Recital 11</Article>

11. A set of national ceilings for each Member State for emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and ammonia is a cost-effective way of broadly meeting the interim environmental objectives. Such emission ceilings will allow the Community and the Member States flexibility in determining how to comply with them. / 11. A set of national ceilings for each Member State for emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and ammonia is a cost-effective way of meeting the interim environmental objectives. Such emission ceilings will allow the Community and the Member States flexibility in determining how to comply with them.

Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>

<TitreJust>Justification:</TitreJust>

<AmJust> At its first reading, the Parliament supported the Commission’s proposal for interim environmental objectives, and that these should be achieved by 2010. These interim objectives are however far from ambitious; The critical loads and levels in relation to exposure to acidifying, eutrophying, and photochemical air pollutants will still be exceeded over large areas throughout the EU, and a large share of the EU population will still be exposed to air pollutants exceeding the air quality guidelines of the World Health Organisation. Consequently there is no justification to lower the level of ambition even further by watering out the text in the way proposed by the Council.</AmJust>

</Amend</LANG:EN<LANG:EN<Amend>(Amendment <NumAm>6</NumAm>, by <Members>Chris Davies</Members>)

<Article>Recital 15</Article>

15. The Commission should for this purpose prepare a report to the European Parliament and the Council and, if it considers it necessary, propose appropriate amendments to this Directive taking account of any relevant Community legislation inter alia setting emission limits and product standards for relevant sources of emissions. / 15. The Commission should for this purpose prepare a report to the European Parliament and the Council and, if it considers it necessary, propose appropriate amendments to this Directive taking account of any relevant Community legislation inter alia setting emission limits and product standards for relevant sources of emissions and international regulations concerning ship and aircraft emissions.

Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>

<TitreJust>Justification:</TitreJust>

<AmJust> International regulations on emissions in the context of IMO and ICAO must be taken into account during the review. This amendment brings the recital into line with Article 9(1)(e).</AmJust>

</Amend</LANG:EN<LANG:EN<Amend>(Amendment <NumAm>7</NumAm>, by <Members>Chris Davies</Members>)

<Article>Recital 15a (new)</Article>

15a. Sea transport is a significant contributor to emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides and also to concentrations and depositions of air pollutants in the Community and it is threfore necessary to reduce these emissions. Article 7(3) of Council Directive1999/32/EC requires that the Commission shall, if appropriate, before the end of 2000, make proposals for measures to reduce emissions from the combustion of marine fuels.

Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>

<TitreJust>Justification:</TitreJust>

<AmJust> A study on the "economic, legal, environmental and practical implications of a European Union system to reduce ship emissions of SO2 and Nox" by M.E.Davies for the European Commission was published in August 2000. The study concluded that, with a one percent limit for sulphur in bunker oils used in EU waters, overall emissions of sulphur from shipping would come down by 35-40%.</AmJust>

</Amend</LANG:EN<LANG:EN<Amend>(Amendment <NumAm>8</NumAm>, by <Members>Anneli Hulthén</Members>)

<Article>Article 5, 1st paragraph</Article>

The national emission ceilings in Annex I shall have as their purpose to meet broadly the following interim environmental objectives, for the Community as a whole, by 2010: / The national emission ceilings in Annex I shall have as their purpose to meet the following interim environmental objectives, for the Community as a whole, by 2010:

Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>

<TitreJust>Justification:</TitreJust>

<AmJust> At its first reading, the Parliament supported the Commission’s proposal for interim environmental objectives, and that these should be achieved by 2010. These interim objectives are however far from ambitious; The critical loads and levels in relation to exposure to acidifying, eutrophying, and photochemical air pollutants will still be exceeded over large areas in the EU, and a large share of the EU population will still be exposed to air pollutants exceeding the air quality guidelines of the World Health Organisation. Consequently there is no justification to lower the level of ambition even further by watering out the text in the way proposed by the Council.</AmJust>

</Amend</LANG:EN<LANG:EN<Amend>(Amendment <NumAm>9</NumAm>, by <Members>Ria G.H.C. Oomen-Ruijten</Members>)

<Article>Article 9(3a) (new)</Article>

3a. Without prejudice to Article 9 paragraph 1, the Commission is requested to put forward, before the end of 2001, specific proposals for EU-wide economic instruments, targeted to attain by the year 2010 the emission ceilings laid down in Annex I and interim environmental objectives set out in Article 5, in the most cost-effective way; any taxes or charges proposed will be minimum requirements leaving the Member States the full freedom to set higher taxes or charges, if they so wish;

Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>

<TitreJust>Justification:</TitreJust>

<AmJust> In order to attain the emission reductions in the most cost effective way, legislative measures should be complemented with EU-wide economic instruments.</AmJust>

</Amend</LANG:EN<LANG:EN<Amend>(Amendment <NumAm>10</NumAm>, by <Members>Chris Davies</Members>)

<Article>Article 9a (new)</Article>

Review
In the light of progress towards attaining the emission ceilings by the year 2010, scientific and technical progress, the situation regarding the exceedance of critical load limits and the WHO's guideline values for air pollution, and having regard to the other factors referred to in Article 9(1), the Commission shall carry out a review of this Directive, including further investigation of the estimated costs and benefits of emission ceilings, and, at the latest before the end of the year 2004, shall propose amendments to this Directive. The review shall include proposals for amendments to the emission ceilings laid down in Annex I, interim environmental objectives set out in Article 5, proposals for measures to ensure compliance with the emission ceilings and proposals for further reductions in emissions. The Commission shall take into account the ceilings laid down in Annex IIa, to which Member States shall seek to commit.

Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>

<TitreJust>Justification:</TitreJust>

<AmJust> In drafting proposal COM(1999) 125 on National Emissions Ceilings, the Commission used the RAINS model, which has been developed by IIASA to provide a consistent framework for analysing emissions reduction strategies for acidification, ozone and eutrophication, to compare the costs and environmental benefits of a range of interim objectives and, in its optimisation mode, to identify cost-optimal allocations of emissions reductions. These ceilings must be taken into account at the review.</AmJust>

</Amend</LANG:EN<LANG:EN<Amend>(Amendment <NumAm>11</NumAm>, by <Members>Anneli Hulthén</Members>)

Common position of the Council

<Article>ANNEX I</Article>

National emission ceilings for SO2, NOx, VOC and NH3, to be attained by 20101

Country / SO2
Kilotonnes / NOx
Kilotonnes / VOC
Kilotonnes / NH3
Kilotonnes
Austria / 39 / 103 / 159 / 66
Belgium / 99 / 176 / 139 / 74
Denmark / 55 / 127 / 85 / 69
Finland / 110 / 170 / 130 / 31
France / 375 / 810 / 1050 / 780
Germany / 520 / 1051 / 995 / 550
Greece / 523 / 344 / 261 / 73
Ireland / 42 / 65 / 55 / 116
Italy / 475 / 990 / 1159 / 419
Luxembourg / 4 / 11 / 9 / 7
Netherlands / 50 / 260 / 185 / 128
Portugal / 160 / 250 / 180 / 90
Spain / 746 / 847 / 662 / 353
Sweden / 67 / 148 / 241 / 57
UK / 585 / 1167 / 1200 / 297
EC15 / 3850 / 6519 / 6510 / 3110

1 These national emission ceilings are designed with the aim of broadly meeting the interim environmental objectives set out in Article5. Meeting those objectives is expected to result in a reduction of soil eutrophication to such an extent that the Community area with depositions of nutrient nitrogen in excess of the critical loads will be reduced by about30% compared with the situation in 1990.

Amendments

<Article>ANNEX I</Article>

National emission ceilings for SO2, NOx, VOC and NH3, to be attained by 20101

Country / SO2
Kilotonnes / NOx
Kilotonnes / VOC
Kilotonnes / NH3
Kilotonnes
Austria / 39 / 91 / 129 / 67
Belgium / 76 / 127 / 102 / 57
Denmark / 55 / 127 / 85 / 69
Finland / 110 / 152 / 110 / 31
France / 218 / 679 / 932 / 718
Germany / 463 / 1051 / 924 / 413
Greece / 523 / 264 / 173 / 73
Ireland / 28 / 59 / 55 / 116
Italy / 475 / 869 / 962 / 419
Luxembourg / 3 / 8 / 6 / 7
Netherlands / 50 / 238 / 156 / 104
Portugal / 141 / 144 / 102 / 67
Spain / 746 / 781 / 662 / 353
Sweden / 67 / 148 / 219 / 48
UK / 497 / 1167 / 964 / 264
EC15 / 3491 / 5905 / 5581 / 2806

Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>

<TitreJust>Justification:</TitreJust>

<AmJust> In its first reading, the Parliament supported the emission ceilings, proposed by the Commission. According to the analysis made by the Commission these ceilings constitute the most cost-effective way for EU as a whole to meet the interim environmental objectives in the year 2010. The analysis also shows that the estimated monetary benefits of the Commission’s original proposal outweigh the (over)estimated costs by more than four times.

The Council’s compromise proposal will however result in higher emissions for all four pollutants; For the EU as a whole, these ceilings are 6% higher for SO2, 10% higher for NOx, 17% higher for VOCs, and 10% higher for ammonia. So far no analysis has been made as to the environmental implications of the Council’s proposal. Neither have the costs and monetary benefits been estimated. It is however apparent that the Council’s compromise ceilings will not reduce emissions enough to meet the interim environmental objectives by 2010.

The so-called Gothenburg Protocol to the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution was signed in December 1999, i.e. half a year after the Commission presented its proposed national emissions ceilings in June 1999. All Member States have signed this Protocol, and in a few cases (for some Member States and some pollutants) the ceilings in the Protocol are lower (stricter) than those proposed by the Commission. Consequently, also the Council’s compromise ceilings are in a few cases lower than those of the Commission’s proposal. One could therefore argue that - since Member States have already committed to those lower ceilings - these should replace those.</AmJust>

</Amend</LANG:EN<LANG:EN<Amend>(Amendment <NumAm>12</NumAm>, by <Members>Chris Davies</Members>)

Amendments

<Article>ANNEX IIa (new)

</Article>

National emissions ceilings for SO2, Nox, VOC and NH3 (thousand tonnes), to be taken into account at the review to be carried out at the latest before the end of the year 2004

Country / SO2
Kilotonnes / NOx
Kilotonnes / VOC
Kilotonnes / NH3
Kilotonnes
Austria / 40 / 91 / 129 / 67
Belgium / 76 / 127 / 102 / 57
Denmark / 77 / 127 / 85 / 71
Finland / 116 / 152 / 110 / 31
France / 218 / 679 / 932 / 718
Germany / 463 / 1051 / 924 / 413
Greece / 546 / 264 / 173 / 74
Ireland / 28 / 59 / 55 / 123
Italy / 566 / 869 / 962 / 430
Luxembourg / 3 / 8 / 6 / 7
Netherlands / 50 / 238 / 156 / 104
Portugal / 141 / 144 / 102 / 67
Spain / 746 / 781 / 662 / 353
Sweden / 67 / 152 / 219 / 48
UK / 497 / 1181 / 964 / 264
EC15 / 3634 / 5923 / 5581 / 2827

Or. <Original>{EN}en</Original>

<TitreJust>Justification:</TitreJust>

</Amend</LANG:EN>

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