1 Amendments of Leila CHAIBI related to 2023/0077(COD)
Amendment 1071 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 b (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 b (new)
(1b) (1 b) The following Article 3a is inserted: Article 3a Possibility for States to derogate from market-based nature of electricity generation, distribution and supply. 1. Considering that electricity is an essential good that impacts all social and economic activities, Member States are free to decide to organise both production and supply of electricity as a public monopoly which action shall follow the following principles : (a) Ensuring the transition to a carbon neutral economy; (b) Limiting the impact of electricity production on the environment; (c) Developing the necessary electricity production to address the increase of electricity usage; (d) Lower prices for consumers to preserve their bargaining power and standards of living; (e) Lower prices for companies to protect their competitiveness; (f) Equalisation of electricity prices for all final consumers with exception of energy intensive industries and energy poor households. 2. The pricing system of electricity of a publicly operated monopoly shall be the same for all final consumers and reflect the average cost of production of electricity on the territory of the concerned Member State, including the net cost of imports and exports of electricity, amortization of new infrastructures, applicable taxes and investments in the grid. 3. The aforementioned national public monopoly shall not operate beyond the limit of the Member States in which it has been established and shall not have any other competences than production, storage and supply of electricity. 4. All the profits made by this public monopoly shall be invested in the generation and storage of electricity from renewable sources and adequate on peak generation capacity. 5. The existence of such a monopoly is without prejudice to the duty of Member States to provide, to the extent of their capacity, to other Member States electricity if they require so; to that effect, Member States shall further develop physical interconnexions between Member States. 6. In the framework of this public monopoly, Member States shall authorise physical persons the right to generate electricity for their own needs.