{"id":7176,"date":"2020-05-06T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T10:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2020-05-08T14:40:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T11:40:43","slug":"propozytsiyi-uabio-do-kontseptsiyi-zelenogo-energetychnogo-perehodu-ukrayiny-do-2050-roku-lyst-480","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/news\/7176\/","title":{"rendered":"UABIO appealed to government on the release the biomass burning plants from the payment CO2 tax and support electricity production from biomethane. Letter 485"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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UABIO continues to lobby the biomass burning plants\u00a0release from the payment of CO2 tax in Ukraine.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The letter UABIO dated 06.05.2020 was sent to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services GERUS A.M.<\/em>, as well as: Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services SEMINSKY O.V.<\/em>, Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee of issues of energy and housing and communal services SHAPOVALOVA Y.A.<\/em>, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services KOT A.B. <\/em>and to the People’s Deputy of Ukraine, member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services GRUB \u0412.\u041e.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full text of UABIO\u2019s letter No 485 on the release the biomass burning plants from the payment CO2 tax and support electricity production from biomethane.<\/a> (in Ukrainian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annex 1: Response from the Ministry of Environment No 457 from 03.06.2019<\/a> (in Ukrainian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annex 2: Draft Law of Ukraine \u201cOn Amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine Concerning Exemption Biofuel Combustion Plants from Tax on Carbon Dioxide Emissions\u201d, Comparative Table and Explanatory Note to it.<\/a> (in Ukrainian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annex 3: Comparative table to the draft Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to the Law of Ukraine” On Alternative Energy Sources “to stimulate the production of electricity from biomethane”. <\/a> (in Ukrainian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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UABIO previous work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In June and in November 2019 UABIO sent a letter to Prime Minister of Ukraine\u00a0Groysman V. B.<\/em>, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine\u00a0Semerak O. M.<\/em>, to the People\u2019s Deputies\u00a0and others with a request to release the biomass burning plants from the payment CO2 tax.\u00a0Details are\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full UABIO Letter from 03.06.2019<\/a> on supplement clause 243.4. Article 243 of the Tax Code of Ukraine on the release the biomass burning plants from the payment CO2 tax<\/a>\u00a0(in Ukrainian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Full UABio letter from 11.11.2019 to People\u2019s Deputies with the Draft Law on the release the biomass burning plants from the payment of CO2 tax\u00a0<\/a>(in Ukrainian)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 2019 \u0440\u043e\u043a\u0443 we received a positive response from the Ministry of Environment (see Annex 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Situation in Ukraine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Business entities that burn biomass<\/strong> on stationary sources of pollution are taxpayers for carbon dioxide emissions<\/strong> (according to Article 240 Tax Code of Ukraine). From January 1, 2019, the tax rate for carbon dioxide emissions<\/strong> from stationary sources has been raised from 0.41 UAH per ton to 10 UAH per ton, ie increased by 24.4 times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This state of affairs does not correspond to world practice, since biomass is considered as \u0421\u041e2-neutral fuel, because the amount of carbon dioxide formed during burning equals the amount carbon dioxide which absorbed by plants during growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Situation in Europe<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

All EU Member States do not apply carbon dioxide taxes on energy production from biomass:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. According to\u00a0the clean development mechanism methodology of the\u00a0United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change<\/a>, carbon dioxide emissions from biomass are not taken into account.
2. According to\u00a0Guiding Principles on National Greenhouse Fas Inventories from\u00a0IPCC<\/a>\u00a0(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Experts) CO2 emissions from biomass combustion are reported as zero in the energy sector.
3. In Sweden, the carbon dioxide tax is charged on the supply, import and production of fossil fuels for heating,\u00a0biomass is exempt from this tax<\/a>.
4. In the UK, the Carbon Price Floor tax is charged on fossil fuels for electricity generation and\u00a0is not applicable to biomass<\/a>.
5. In Denmark, the carbon dioxide tax is charged on production, processing, storing fossil fuels for heating, including energy taxes on petroleum products, coal, lignite, coke and certain energy products.\u00a0Biomass is exempt from these taxes.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ask to exempt businesses which are burning biomass from stationary sources of pollution from paying carbon dioxide taxes.<\/p>UABIO<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Position of the UABIO is prepared, discussed and agreed upon by the members of the UABIO<\/a>, which produce more than 50% of all energy from biomass and biogas in Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UABIO continues to lobby the biomass burning plants\u00a0release from the payment of CO2 tax in Ukraine. The letter UABIO dated 06.05.2020 was sent to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and Communal Services GERUS A.M., as well as: Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uabio-news","category-news"],"views":1274,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uabio.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}