72 Amendments of Flavio ZANONATO related to 2016/0030(COD)
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Natural gas (gas) remainis an essential component of the energy supply of the Union. A large proportion of such gas is imported into the Union from third countrThis makes security of gas supply a key element of the Union's overall energy security, with relevance to the Union's competitiveness and growth. Even though more than 50 % of gas consumption in the Union and the rest of the European Economic Area is currently covered by domestic production, a growing proportion of gas is imported from third countries. Enhancing the Union's energy security and making its gas market more resilient thus requires creating a stable, market-based regulatory framework for developing gas production from domestic sources. Furthermore, increasing energy efficiency as well as the use of renewable energy sources reduces the Union's reliance on gas imports, thereby also addressing dependence on dominant external suppliers.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The Union is committed to lessening its dependency on fossil fuels and to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions consistently with the commitment to holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) This Regulation aims to ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to safeguard an uninterrupted supply of gas throughout the Union, in particular to protected customers in the event of difficult climatic conditions or disruptions of the gas supply. These objectiveis should be achieved through the most cost- effective measures and in such, in a way that energy markets are not distorted, in accordance with Article 194 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and with the goals of the Energy Union to deliver secure, affordable and climate-friendly energy.
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) The Commission's Communication on Energy Efficiency (COM(2014)520), highlighted that energy efficiency has a fundamental role to play in the transition towards a more competitive, secure and sustainable energy system with an internal energy market at its core. Saving energy and reducing gas consumption should therefore be a priority to secure gas supply and improve Europe's energy independence. Member States should give energy efficiency primary consideration to decrease the use of gas, particularly in the construction and renovation of buildings as gas accounts for around half of the EU principal energy consumption for heating and cooling.
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5 a (new)
Recital 5 a (new)
(5a) The Commission's Communication of the 2050 Energy Roadmap highlights that fossil fuels such as gas will need to be phased out by 2050. New gas infrastructure should therefore only be prioritised in case of utmost necessity and should always respond to a real gas demand, in order to avoid the creation of a new carbon lock-in and of possible stranded assets.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
Recital 6 a (new)
(6a) Energy efficiency first is a central principle of the Energy Union strategy. It is the most effective way to cut emissions, bring savings to consumers, protect the most vulnerable, and reduce the EU's fossil fuel import dependency. First and foremost, security of supply means minimising the Union's gas dependency by becoming more energy efficient. For every 1% improvement in energy efficiency, EU gas imports fall by 2.6%. Policies and measures to reduce gas consumption by improving energy efficiency, particularly in buildings, should therefore be included in preventive action plans.
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly is the best guarantee of well-interconnected and well- functioning internal gas market, free of "energy islands", is the best means by which to ensure security of energygas supply across the Union and towhile reduceing the exposure of individual Member States to the harmful effects of supply disruptions. Where a Member State's security of gas supply is threatened, there is a risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and damage the gas supply to customers in other Member Statedamage gas supply to customers in other Member States, negatively affecting the proper functioning of the internal gas market and causing costly stranded assets. To allow the internal gas market to function even in the face of a shortage of supply, provision must be made for solidarity and coordination in the response to supply crises,at regional and Union level as regards both preventive action and the reaction to actual disruptions of supply.
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) So far, the potential forof regional and inter-regional cooperation to introduce more efficient and less costly measures through regional and inter-regional cooperation has not been fully exploited. This has to do not only withapplies to better coordination of national mitigation actions in emergency situations, but also ofas well as national preventive measures, such as improved energy efficiency, national storage or policies related to liquefied natural gas (LNG), which can be strategically important in certain regions.
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) So far, the potential forof regional and inter-regional cooperation to introduce more efficient and less costly measures through regional and inter-regional cooperation has not been fully exploited. This has to do not only withapplies to better coordination of national mitigation actions in emergency situations, but also ofas well as national preventive measures, such as improved energy efficiency, national storage or policies related to liquefied natural gas (LNG), which can be strategically important in certain regions.
Amendment 182 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In a spirit of solidarity, regional cooperation, which involvinges both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be is the guiding principle of this Regulation, towith the aim of identifying the relevant risks in each region and, optimiseing the benefits of coordinated measures to mitigate them and to imp, whilem ent the most cost-effective measures for Union consumersuring that the measures are cost-effective for customers and ensuring affordable energy prices for citizens. This could be facilitated by providing in-depth analysis at Union level on the relevant Emergency Supply Corridors, based on gas supply sources common for a group of Member States.
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
Recital 9 a (new)
(9a) In a spirit of system integration, cooperation between electricity and gas authorities and undertakings should be another guiding principle of this regulation, to identify the relevant synergies between gas and electricity system development and operation, and optimise the benefits of coordinated approaches to implementing the most cost-effective measures for EU consumers.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Responsibility for security of gas supply should be shared by natural gas undertakings, Member States, acting through their competent authorities; and the Commission, within their respective remits. Such shared responsibility requires very close cooperation between these partiesose parties as well as, where appropriate, with electricity undertakings in cases where they can provide an alternative source of energy or serve to decrease the gas demand. However, customers using gas for electricity generation or industrial purposes may also have an important role to play in security of gas supply, as they can respond to a crisis by taking demand-side measures such as interruptible contracts and fuel switching, which have an immediate impact on the supply/demand balance. -demand balance. These would be most effective if taken as an addition to longer-term energy efficiency measures to reduce gas demand for heating and cooling in buildings, as well as improved industrial processes that lead to reduced gas demand. Security of gas supply to customers using gas for electricity generation or industrial purposes may also be considered to be essential in some cases. They could be granted a certain level of protection by ensuring that during an emergency they are among the last consumers to forego supply. Member States should be able to provide for this possibility when identifying the supply restrictions orders to be applied in the case of an emergency.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)
Recital 11 a (new)
(11a) Responsibility for the development of sustainable, affordable and secure energy and in particular for the delivery of the EU's climate and energy objectives is shared by Member States and the Commission.
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) A regional approach to assessing risks and defining and adopting preventive and mitigating measures enables efforts to be coordinated, bringing significant benefits in terms of the effectiveness of measures and optimisation of resources. This applies particularly to measures designed to guarantee a continued supply, under very demanding conditions, to protected customers, and to measures to mitigate the impact of an emergency. Assessing correlated risks at regional level, taking both gas and electricity systems into account, which is both more comprehensive and more precise, will ensure that Member States are better prepared for any crises. Moreover, in an emergency, a coordinated and pre-agreed approach to security of supply ensures a consistent response and reduces the risk of negative spill-over effects that purely national measures could have in neighbouring Member States. As preparation for a coordinated and pre- agreed approach, it is important that Member States, have also assessed and implemented the cost-effective demand reduction measures available in their areas, especially for the reduction of heating and cooling demand in buildings, but also by improving industrial processes using gas. The regional approach should not lift the responsibility from individual Member States to comply with their national security of supply standards, and should not prevent inter-regional cooperation outside the regions established in Annex I of this Regulation.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when definestablishing the regional groups: supply patterns, supply and energy demand patterns, existing and planned interconnections and interconnection capacity between Member States both for electricity and gas, market development and maturity, existing regional cooperation structures, andthe level of diversification of gas routes sources of gas supply, the number of Member States in a region, which should be limited to ensure that the group remains of a manageable size, as well as the potential for inter-regional cooperation.
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, infrastructural, commercial, financial, social, political and, geopolitical, environmental, climate, market- related risks, and any other relevant onerisks, including, where appropriate, the disruption of the supplies from the single largesdominant suppliers. All risks should be addressed by effective, proportionate and non- discriminatory measures to be developed in the preventive action plan and the emergency plan and include both demand-side as well as supply-side measures. The results of the risk assessments should also contribute to the all hazard risk assessments foreseen under aprovided for in Article 6 of Decision No 1313/2013/EU18 of the European Parliament and of the Council. __________________ 18 Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on a Union Civil Protection Mechanism (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 24).
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) To provide input to the risk assessments, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas ('ENTSO for gGas'), in consultation with the Gas Coordination Group and with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO- E), should carry out integrated Union-wide simulations similar to the stress test conducted in 2014. Such simulations should be updated at least every two years. A smarter integration of European gas and electricity systems and demand side management can significantly improve European resilience and energy security while decreasing investment in gas infrastructure. The Gas coordination group, the Union-wide simulations carried out by ENTSOG, national assessments, preventive and emergency action plans shall evolve to reflect the integration of energy systems.
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) To ensure maximum preparedness, so as to avoid a supply disruption and mitigate itsthe effects of such a disruption should it nevertheless occur, the competent authorities of a given region mustshould draw up preventive action plans and emergency plans, after consulting the stakeholders. Regional plans should take account of the specific characteristics of each Member State, including their cost-effective potential for reducing gas demand, particularly in the building sector for heating and cooling. They should also clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the natural gas undertakings and the competent authorities as well as, where appropriate, electricity undertakings. National measures to be designed should take fully account of the regional measures set out in the preventive action plan and emergency plan. They should be so designed so as to address national risks in a way that takes full advantage of the opportunities provided by regional cooperation, energy efficiency and integration with the electricity system. The plans should be technical and operational in nature, their function being to help prevent the occurrence or escalation of an emergency and to mitigate its effects. The plans should take the security of electricity systems into account and be consistent with the EU's climate and energy objectives the Energy Union's strategic planning and reporting tools.
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) The roles and responsibilities of all natural gas undertakings and competent authorities, as well as, where appropriate electricity undertakings, should therefore be defined precisely in order to keep the internal gas market functioning properly, particularly in the event of supply disruptions and crises. Such roles and responsibilities should be established in such a way as to ensure that a three-level approach is respected which would involve first the relevant natural gas and electricity undertakings and industry, then Member States at national or regional level, and then the Union. This Regulation should, including when appropriate, building regulatory authorities, and then the Union. To that end, effective information-sharing across all levels should provide early warning with regard to disruption and the means of mitigation. This Regulation is intended to enable natural gas and electricity undertakings and customers to rely on market mechanisms for as long as possible when coping with disruptions. However, it should alsis also intended to provide for mechanisms that can be deployed when markets alone are no longer able to deal adequately with a gas supply disruption.
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
Recital 28
(28) Demand-side measures, such as encouraging the use of renewable energy sources, reducing heating and cooling demand in buildings by coordinated energy efficiency and demand response measures, fuel switching or reducing the gas supply to large industrial consumers in an economically efficient ordmanner, may have a valuable role to play in ensuring energy security, if they can be applied quickly and significantly reduce demand in response to a supply disruption. Much more should be done to promote efficient energy use, particularly where demand-side measures are needed. The environmental impact of any demand and supply-side measures proposed must be taken into account, with preference being given, as far as possible, to measures that have least impact on the environment and the climate. At the same time, security of gas supply andshould remain a priority for measures undertaken in the case of disruption to supply, while competitiveness aspects must beshould also be properly taken into account.
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) The preventive action plans and emergency plans should be updated on a regularly basis and published. They should be subject to peer review which should be monitored by the Commission. The peer review process is intended to allows for early identification of inconsistencies and measures that could endanger the security of gas supply of other Member States', security of supplyuch as poor energy efficiency performance, thereby ensuring thatconsistency of the plans fromacross different regions are consistent with one another. It also enables Member States to share best practice. The plans should be coherent with the Union's climate and energy targets.
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 33
Recital 33
(33) To ensure that the emergency plans are always up-to-date and effective, Member Statthe competent authorities should carry out tests between the updates of the plans by simulating high and medium-impact scenarios and responses in real time and by taking into account the risk of stranded assets. The competent authorities should present the test results at the Gas Coordination Group.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
Recital 34
(34) Mandatory comprehensive templates including all the risks to be covered by the risk assessment and all the components of the preventive action plans and the emergency plans are needed to facilitate the risk assessment and preparation of the plans, their peer review and their assessment by the Commission. These templates should also include demand-side measures that could cost- effectively reduce security of supply risks by reducing the gas demand.
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, aAll Member States which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, iIf the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings, even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggeredaken to ensure the supply to households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member State experiencing the emergency. Member States should identify and describe the details of these solidarity measures in their emergency plans, ensuring fair and equitable compensation ofor the natural gas and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings..
Amendment 314 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 39
Recital 39
(39) Completing the internal energy market will create a level playing field, ensuring that all energy supply contracts throughout the Union are based on market prices and competition rules. In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries should be made more transparent and compatible with the Union energy security provisions. In this context an efficient and targeted mechanism for Member States' access to key gas supply contracts should ensure a comprehensive assessment of relevant risks that can lead to a supply disruption or interfere with the necessary mitigating measures should a crisis nevertheless occur. Under that mechanism certain key gas supply contracts should be automatically notified, immediately after their conclusion, to the Member States. However, any obligation to notify a contract automatically needs to be proportionate. Applying this obligation to contracts between a supplier and a buyer covering 40% of the national market strikes the right balance in terms of administrative efficiency and lays down clear obligations for market participants. This does not mean that other gas supply contracts are not relevant to security of supply. Accordingly, Member States should have the right to request other contracts which might negatively affect security of supply of a Member State or region or of the Union as a whole. The Commission should have the same access to the gas supply contracts as Member States, given its role in assessing the consistency and effectiveness of the preventive action plans and emergency plans to address risks to security of supply at national, regional and EU level. The Commission may call on the Member States to amend the plans so as to take account of the information obtained from the contracts. The confidentiality of commercially sensitive information should be ensured. Improved Commission access to information on commercial contracts should not affect the Commission's ongoing efforts to monitor the gas market under Regulation No. 1227/2011 or other regulatory frameworks at European and national level, and the Commission should intervene if violations of the Union law are identified. The provisions of this Regulation should be without prejudice to the right of the Commission to launch infringement proceedings in accordance with Article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and to enforce competition rules, including swith regard to State aid,.
Amendment 319 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) One of the Union goals is to strengthen the Energy Community that wouldin order to ensure effective implementation of the Union energy acquis, energy market reforms and incentivising investments in the energy sector, including renewable energy and demand side measures enhancing energy efficiency, by closer integration of the Union and Energy Community energy markets. This also entails also introducing common crisis management by proposing preventive action plans and emergency plans at the regional level including the Energy Community Contracting Parties. Furthermore, the Commission Communication of 16 October 2014 on the short term resilience of the European gas system from October 2014 refers to the need to apply internal energy market rules on the flow of energy between the Union Member States and the Energy Community Contracting Parties. In this regard, in order to ensure an efficient crisis management on borders between the Union Member States and the Energy Community Contracting Parties, the necessary arrangements following the adoption of a Joint Act should be set so that specific cooperation with any individual Energy Community Contracting Party can take place once the required mutual provisions have been duly put into place.
Amendment 326 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42
Recital 42
(42) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, assess their sustainability, carbon footprint and long-term viability, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to the Union. The Commission should be entitled to deploy a task force to monitor gas flows into the Union in crisis situations, in consultation with the third countries involved, and, where a crisis arises from difficulties in a third country, to act as mediator and facilitator.
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
Article 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
This Regulation also encourages preventive measures reducing gas demand, for example through measures enhancing energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy, in order to decrease the Union's dependency on gas imports.
Amendment 383 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Article 3 – paragraph 4
4. When implementing the measures provided for in this Regulation, the competent authority shall establish the roles and responsibilities of the different actors involved in such a way as to ensure that a three-level approach is respected which involves first the relevant natural gas and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings, and industry, then Member States at national or regional level, and then the Union.
Amendment 387 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 6
Article 3 – paragraph 6
6. The measures to ensure the security of gas supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined, transparent, proportionate, non-discriminatory and verifiable, verifiable, sustainable and compatible with the EU's climate and energy objectives, shall consider energy efficiency and renewable energy sources as a priority solution to improve the EU's energy security, shall not unduly distort competition and the effective functioning of the internal market in gas and shall not endanger the security of gas supply of other Member States or, regions ofr the Union as a whole.
Amendment 402 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2 a (new)
The regional approach should be without prejudice to the responsibility of individual Member States to comply with their national security of supply standards, and should not prevent inter- regional cooperation outside the regions established in Annex I of this Regulation.
Amendment 428 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The competentnational regulatory authority shall require the natural gas undertakings, that it identifies, to take measures, in close collaboration with electricity undertakings, to ensure the supply of gas to the protected customers of the Member State in each of the following cases:
Amendment 442 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3
The competent authority shall identify the natural gas and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings referred to in the first subparagraph and specify them in the preventive action plan. Any new measures envisaged to ensure the supply standard, such as enhanced energy efficiency measures, notably in buildings, shall comply with the procedure established in Article 8(4).
Amendment 455 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 5
Article 5 – paragraph 5
5. Natural gas undertakings shall be allowed to meet their obligations under this Article at a regional or Union level, where appropriate. The competent authorities shall not require the standards laid down in this Article to be met based on infrastructure or demand-side measures located only within its territory.
Amendment 473 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, geopolitical, environmental, climate, commercial, social, political and other risks. The risk assessment shall be carried out by:
Amendment 480 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) taking into account all relevant national and regional circumstances, in particular market size, network configurationthe potential for gas demand reduction through energy efficiency measures and the deployment of renewable energy sources, network configuration, gas consumption trends, the utilisation rate of existing infrastructure, actual flows, including outflows from the Member States concerned, the possibility of physical gas flows in both directions including the potential need for consequent reinforcement of the transmission system, the presence of production and storage and the role of gas in the energy mixes, in particular with respect to district heating and electricity generation and for the operation of industries, and safety and gas quality considerations;
Amendment 500 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. The risk assessment shall be prepared in accordance with the template in Annex IV. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to amend those templates taking into account Member State implementation timeframes.
Amendment 502 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 4
Article 6 – paragraph 4
4. Natural gas undertakings, industrial gas customers, the relevant organisations representing the interests of household and industrial gas customers, the national regulatory authority for buildings, as well as Member States and the national regulatory authority, where it is not the competent authority, shall cooperate with the competent authorities and provide it upon request with all necessary information for the risk assessment.
Amendment 504 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5
Article 6 – paragraph 5
5. The risk assessment once agreed by all Member States in the region shall be notified to the Commission for the first time no later than on 1 September 2018. The risk assessment shall be updated every four years unless circumstances warrant more frequent updates. The risk assessment shall take account of progress made in investments, including energy efficiency investments, needed to cope with the infrastructure standard defined in Article 4 and of country-specific difficulties encountered in the implementation of new alternative solutions. It shall also build on the experience acquired through the simulation of the emergency plans contained in Article 9 (2).
Amendment 516 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The competent authorities of the Member States of each region as listed in Annex I, in cooperation with the national regulatory authorities where they are not the competent authorities, after consulting the natural gas undertakings, the relevant organisations representing the interests of household and industrial gas customers, including electricity producers, and the national regulatory authorities, where they are not the competent authorities, shall establish jointlythe relevant organisations managing the Member States' energy demand and energy dependency, the national environmental agency, shall establish jointly, after having drafted their national plans:
Amendment 529 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) an emergency plan containing the measures, including demand-side measures, for example through closer coordination with the electricity sector, to be taken to remove or mitigate the impact of a gas supply disruption in the region, including events of purely national dimension, in accordance with Article 9.
Amendment 546 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. The preventive action plan and the emergency plan shall be developed in accordance with the templates contained in Annex V. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to amend those templates taking into account Member State implementation timeframes.
Amendment 563 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e
(e) endangers the security of gas supply of other Member States or of the Union as a whole, notably through poor energy efficiency.
Amendment 573 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
In the event of disagreement, the Commission may, within three months of the reply of the competent authorities, take a decision requiring the amendment of the relevant plan. The competent authorities shall adopt and publish the plan, taking into account Member State consultation requirements, no later than within three months of the notification of Commission decision.
Amendment 581 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) the measures, volumes and capacities needed to fulfil the infrastructure and supply standards in each Member State of the region, as laid down in Articles 4 and 5, including the assessment of the potential for gas demand reduction through refurbishing of the building stock and economy wide energy efficiency measures, where applicable, the extent to which demand-side measures can sufficiently compensate, in a timely manner, for a supply disruption as referred to in Article 4(2), the identification of the single largest gas infrastructure of common interest in the case of application of Article 4(3), the identification of the single largest gas supplier, the necessary gas volumes per category of protected customers and per scenario as referred to in Article 5(1) and any increased supply standard under Article 5(2), including a justification ofreasons for the compliance with the conditions set in Article 5(2) and a description of a mechanism to temporarily reduce any increased supply standard or additional obligation in accordance with Article 12;
Amendment 598 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point j
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point j
(j) information on existing and future interconnections, including those providing access to the gas network of the Union, cross-border flows, cross-border access to storage and LNG facilities and the bi- directional capacity, in particular in the event of an emergency, as well as calculations and impact assessments to compare the possibility through demand- side measures to cost-effectively reduce or eliminate the need for these supply-side infrastructural investments;
Amendment 601 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(ka) Information on alternative sources of energy to ensure security of supply, in particular renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures.
Amendment 605 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The preventive action plan shall only encourage the construction of new gas infrastructure in case of utmost necessity and after other alternatives via renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures have been duly assessed.
Amendment 611 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4 – point c
Article 8 – paragraph 4 – point c
(c) potential impact on the security of gas supply of neighbouring Member States, notably for those measures that could reduce the liquidity in regional markets or restrict flows to neighbouring Member States, such as poor energy efficiency;
Amendment 634 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) define the role and responsibilities of natural gas and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings and of industrial gas customers including relevant electricity producers, taking account of the different extent to which they are affected in the event of gas supply disruptions, and their interaction with the competent authorities and where appropriate with the national regulatory authorities at each of the crisis levels defined in Article 10(1);
Amendment 636 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) identify, if appropriate, the measures and actions to be taken to mitigate the potential impact of a gas supply disruption on district heating and the supply of electricity generated from gas, notably through an integrated view of energy systems operations across electricity and gas;
Amendment 640 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point k
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point k
(k) detail the reporting obligations imposed on natural gas and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings at alert and emergency levels;
Amendment 645 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
Article 9 – paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. During an emergency and on reasonable grounds, a Member State may decide to prioritise the gas supply to certain critical gas-fired power plants over the supply to certain categories of protected consumers. The measure shall be based on the risk assessment provided for in Article 6 and shall only apply where the lack of gas supply to such critical gas- fired power plants would significantly deteriorate or impede supply of either the remaining gas or electricity to protected consumers as a result of severe damages in the functioning of the electricity system. Such critical gas-fired plants shall be identified by the transmission system operators of the electricity system in coordination with the transmission system operators of the gas system.
Amendment 659 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10a 1. By 1 November 2021, ENTSO for Gas and Electricity shall carry out a joint Union wide simulation of supply and infrastructure disruption scenarios. The scenarios shall be defined jointly by ENTSO for Gas and Electricity in consultation with the Energy Coordination Group. The Competent authorities – including electricity, gas, energy efficiency and environmental authorities, shall provide the ENTSOs with the necessary data for the simulations such as peak demand values, production capacity and demand side measures. It shall establish and asses Emergency Supply Corridors complementary to the regional approach, along which gas can flow from a gas source across regions in order to prevent fragmentation of the internal gas market. The results of that assessment and the proposal of the Emergency Supply Corridors shall be discussed in the Gas Coordination Group. That Union-wide simulation and those Emergency Supply Corridors shall be updated every four years unless circumstances warrant more frequent updates. 2. In the event of an emergency declared by one or more competent authorities , the Member States on the Emergency Supply Corridors shall ensure that all essential information is provided as regards the gas supply, in particular, available gas quantities, possible modalities and sources for gas channelling to the Member States having declared the emergency . Member States on the Emergency Supply Corridor shall ensure that no measures prevent the supply of gas to the Member States that have declared the emergency. 3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to establish the Emergency Supply Corridors.
Amendment 673 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 1
1. Where a Member State has declared the emergency crisis level in accordance with Article 10(1), and when such Member States have proved that all measures described in its emergency plan have been used, and that the technical, legal and commercial terms defined in the solidarity agreement in the emergency plan have been met, any increased supply standard or additional obligation imposed on natural gas undertakings in other Member States under Article 5(2) with interconnected systems shall be temporarily reduced to the level established in Article 5(1).
Amendment 702 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Article 12 – paragraph 4
4. The technical, legal and financial arrangements for the application of paragraph 3 shall be agreed among the Member States which are directly connected to each other and described in the emergency plans of their respective regions, and after consulting natural gas undertakings. Such arrangements mayshall cover, among others, gas prices to be applied, use of interconnectors, including guaranteed bi-directional capacity, gas volumes and the coverage of, gas prices to be applied and the compensation mechanism to be implemented in order to refund the overall costs incurred because of the interruption of gas supplies, with a detrimental effect on the electricity sector. ACER should act as a facilitator in calculating compensation costs. Market- based measures such as auctions shall be preferred for the implementation of the obligation laid down in paragraph 3. In case the technical, legal and financial arrangements necessary to apply paragraph 3 are amended, the relevant emergency plan shall be updated accordingly.
Amendment 715 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. During an emergency, the natural gas and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings concerned shall make available in particular the following information to the competent authority on a daily basis:
Amendment 716 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b
(b) daily flow of gas and gas-fired electricity at all cross-border entry and exit points as well as all points connecting a production facility, a storage facility or an LNG terminal to the network, in million cubic meters per day (mcm/d);
Amendment 717 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) information on the measures planned to be undertaken and already implemented by the competent authority to mitigate the emergency, including demand-side measures, and information on their effectiveness;
Amendment 725 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4
Article 13 – paragraph 4
4. In duly justified circumstances irrespective of a declaration of emergency, the competent authority may require natural gas undertakings to provide the information referred to in paragraph 1 or additional information necessary to assess the overall situation of the gas supply in the Member State or other Member States, including contractual information. The Commission may request from the competent authorities the information provided by natural gas undertakings.
Amendment 742 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 6 – point b
Article 13 – paragraph 6 – point b
(b) to the competent authority and to the Commission immediately after their conclusion or modification the gas supply contracts with a duration of more than 1 year concluded or modified after [OP: Please insert the date of entry in force of this Regulation] that individually or cumulatively with other contracts with the same supplier or its affiliates provide more than 40% of yearly natural gas consumption in the Member State concerned. The notification obligation shall not apply to the modifications related only to the gas price. The notification obligation shall also apply to all commercial agreements relevant for the execution of the gas supply contract. The national regulatory authorities shall monitor the market supply structure and inform the relevant natural gas undertakings once the 40% threshold is exceeded.
Amendment 762 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 9
Article 13 – paragraph 9
9. The competent authorities and the Commission shall preserve the strict confidentiality of commercially sensitive information made available through Article 13.
Amendment 763 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 1
Article 14 – paragraph 1
1. A Gas Coordination Group is established to facilitate the coordination of measures concerning security of gas supply. The Group shall be composed of representatives of the Member States, in particular of their competent authorities, as well as the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (the "Agency"), the ENTSO for Gas and representative bodies of the industry concerned and those of relevant customers, environmental protection and energy management authorities and electricity operators. The Commission shall, in consultation with the Member States, decide on the composition of the Group, ensuring it is fully representative. The Commission shall chair the Group. The Group shall adopt its rules of procedure.
Amendment 771 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) all information relevant for security of gas supply at national, regional and Union levels, including information and data on implemented and planned demand-side policies and measures;
Amendment 834 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point 1.1 – point f a (new)
Annex IV – point 1 – point 1.1 – point f a (new)
(fa) Describe the role of additional energy efficiency measures and their effect on annual final gas consumption.
Amendment 837 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point 1.2 – point g a (new)
Annex IV – point 1 – point 1.2 – point g a (new)
(ga) Describe the role of additional energy efficiency measures and their effect on annual final gas consumption.
Amendment 852 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 1 – point 1.1 – point f a (new)
Annex V – point 1 – point 1.1 – point f a (new)
(fa) Describe the role of additional energy efficiency measures and their effect on annual final gas consumption.
Amendment 854 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 1 – point 1.2 – point g a (new)
Annex V – point 1 – point 1.2 – point g a (new)
(ga) Describe the role of additional energy efficiency measures and their effect on annual final gas consumption.
Amendment 865 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 5 – introductory part
Annex V – point 5 – introductory part
Please describe the preventive measures in place or to be adopted, including measures to reduce gas demand and those regarding L-gas:
Amendment 868 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 5 – point b
Annex V – point 5 – point b
(b) Describe other measures, including energy efficiency measures, adopted for reasons other than the risk assessment but with a positive impact for the security of supply of the region/Member State
Amendment 869 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 5 – point b a (new)
Annex V – point 5 – point b a (new)
(ba) Explain the extent to which efficiency measures, including on the demand side, have been considered to increase security of supply
Amendment 872 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 5 – point b b (new)
Annex V – point 5 – point b b (new)
(bb) Explain the extent to which renewable energy sources have been considered to increase security of supply