5 Amendments of Nora MEBAREK related to 2023/0077(COD)
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43 a (new)
Recital 43 a (new)
(43a) Electricity should be considered as an essential service, a Common that no one should be deprived of to live with dignity. A basic amount of energy, allowing the basic needs of households linked to health and dignity should be considered as a right and must be allowed freely or through an affordable price. This amount should guarantee adequate warmth, cooling, lighting, and energy to power appliances, that are essential services that underpin a decent standard of living and health1a _________________ 1a https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32 020H1563 Commission Recommendation EU 2020/1563 of 14/10/2020 on energy poverty
Amendment 347 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52 a (new)
Recital 52 a (new)
(52a) Electricity disconnections should be banned all year long, to protect households' dignity and take into account future heat waves or meteorologic events. It should also be banned and for all types of customers, not only the “vulnerables”, as not being able to pay an energy bill should be a vulnerability criterion in itself. A consumer who is in default of payment and whose energy is cut off is not a bad payer but is a vulnerable consumer who, before being cut off, has reduced his budget for food, leisure or health.
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 52 b (new)
Recital 52 b (new)
(52b) Power limitation, allowing essential services, should be an alternative to disconnections.
Amendment 351 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 53
Recital 53
(53) Public interventions in price setting for the supply of electricity constitute, in principle, a market-distortive measure. Such interventions may therefore only be carried out as public service obligations and are subject to specific conditions. Under this Directive regulated prices are possible for energy poor and vulnerable households, including below costs, and, as a transition measure, for households and micro-enterprises. In times of crisis, when wholesale and retail electricity prices increase significantly, and this is having a negative impact on the wider economy, Member States should be allowed to extend, temporarily, the application of regulated prices also to SMEs. For both households and SMEs, Member States should be temporarily allowed to set regulated prices below costs as long as this does not create distortion between suppliers and suppliers are compensated for the costs of supplying below cost. However, it needs to be ensured that such price regulation is targeted and does not create incentives to increase consumption. Hence, such price regulation should be limited to 80% of median household consumption for households, and 70% of the previous year’s consumption for SMEs. The Commission should determine when such an electricity price crisis exists and consequently when this possibility becomes applicable. The Commission should also specify the validity of that determination, during which the temporary extension of regulated prices applies, which may be for up to one year. To the extent that any of the measures envisaged by the present Regulation constitute State aid, the provisions concerning such measures are without prejudice to the application of Articles 107 and 108 TFEU. Public intervention in price setting for the supply of electricity is also valid as a public service obligation for the benefit of household customers, micro-enterprises and local and regional authorities. Regulated stacked tariffs for the sale of electricity, covering costs and being contestable, in the sense that they objectively reflect the costs generated for suppliers, do not by their nature constitute an obstacle to the proper functioning of the retail electricity market.
Amendment 1083 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 10 – paragraph 11
Article 10 – paragraph 11
(2a) Article 10 paragraph 11 is replaced by the following : Suppliers shall inform the competent authorities and inform residential customers of the existing support measures before any power reduction. These measures may refer to energy audits, energy consultancy services, alternative payment plans, debt management advice, and do not constitute an extra cost to the customers facing a reduction in power.