Brussels, 25/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - The watchwords of Avril Doyle (EPP-ED, Ireland), rapporteur on review of the Community system for trading greenhouse gas emission quotas (ETS), are respect for the basic architecture of the European Commission's proposal but also extension of the scope of the ETS directive. The main points recommended in her draft report presented to colleagues at the Parliament's environment committee in Brussels on 25 June are: - emissions reduction: keeping to the unilateral objective of at least 20% by 2020, bearing in mind the final goal of 30% within the international Copenhagen agreement of December 2009 and the necessity to show how to achieve this at the Poznan conference in December 2008. To those who would immediately like to aim at -30% and provide for a Plan B (falling to -20% if talks stall), she points out the reality of the situation: - scope to include maritime transport, forestry and forests; - trading of emissions quotas: this must begin “well before” 1 January 2013 (at least 18 months earlier) to give operators certainty. The list of high energy use sectors exposed to carbon leaking must be established by June 2009 (six months earlier than what the Commission suggests) but brandishing the list of European companies to be protected would reduce the chances of reaching a good agreement in Copenhagen. “We must be diplomatic. If needs be, let's use this tool but, what we want, is an international agreement”, Ms Doyle stated; - allocation of income from trading: 50% would be transferred by member states to a Community or international fund to combat deforestation and finance adaptation to climate change in developing countries. To prevent dictating what should be done, it would be appropriate to create a “voluntary coalition”;- clean development mechanism: precise criteria should be established to ensure that only very high quality investment projects open the right to emissions credits. (A.N./transl.jl)