European Parliament
European Parliament
Monday, 23 February 2009 17:11
The Parliament’s environment Committee discussed whether to move for a resolution to earmark some of the funding from the EU’s ETS (emission trading scheme) for tackling deforestation on 16 February. Although the resolution will probably be passed before EP elections in June, it is unlikely that it will impact directly upon climate legislation immediately, but paves the way for future developments.
European Parliament
Monday, 23 February 2009 17:10
A report on the follow up of national energy efficiency action plans (NEEAPs) prepared by András Gyürk, a Hungarian EPP-ED MEP, was approved during a plenary session in Brussels (616 in favour, 24 against and 17 abstentions). It is critical of the fact that national action plans have not been submitted by Member States yet, warning this may ‘endanger the attainment of the EU's efficiency and climate protection objectives’.
European Parliament
Monday, 23 February 2009 17:04
Eco-design directive
Members of the environment Committee backed Commission proposals to extend the scope of the existing Eco-design directive by a comprehensive majority on 17 February (45 in favour,4 against, 3 abstentions). They narrowly rejected a report (27 against, 24 in favour) by Liberal MEP Magor Imre Csibi however, which sought to include all products with an impact on energy except for transport in the revised directive.
Members of the environment Committee backed Commission proposals to extend the scope of the existing Eco-design directive by a comprehensive majority on 17 February (45 in favour,4 against, 3 abstentions). They narrowly rejected a report (27 against, 24 in favour) by Liberal MEP Magor Imre Csibi however, which sought to include all products with an impact on energy except for transport in the revised directive.
European Parliament
Monday, 23 February 2009 17:02
The environment Committee has effectively approved plans to phase out incandescent light-bulbs by 2012, after it voted against a proposal which sought to block the move. Liberal MEP Holger Krahmer and EPP-ED MEP Anja Weisgerber had drawn up a resolution opposing plans proposed by the Eco-design regulatory Committee to move to more efficient lighting, on the grounds that such legislative proposals should not be regulatory Committee procedures. However MEPs voted against the resolution by a margin of 44 against and only 14 in favour.
European Parliament
Monday, 23 February 2009 16:59
A draft report by Green MEP and GLOBE EU member Caroline Lucas has been unanimously adopted by the environment Committee on 17 February (51 in favour, 1 against, 1 abstention). The ambition of the adopted report goes beyond that of the Commission proposal, as it includes biomass among the timber products for which responsibility is to be shared by all operators on the timber supply side, in order to eliminate the risk of introducing illegally harvested timber and timber products in the EU market. The Committee is calling for tougher legislation on illegal timber and timber products sold on the EU market, a practise which the Committee says is the main cause of deforestation.
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