BETA

20 Amendments of Paul RÜBIG related to 2016/0380(COD)

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7

7. 'local energy community' means: an association, a cooperative, a partnership, a non-profit organisation or other legal entity which is effectively controlled by local shareholders or members, generally value rather than profit-driven, involved in distributed generation and in performing activities of a distribution system operator, supplier or aggregator at local level, including across borders and competes on a level-playing field;

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 14

14. ‘aggregator’ means a market participant that combines multiple customer loads or generated electricity for sale, for purchase or auction in any organised energy market and competes on a level-playing field;

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 a (new)

Article 3 a Ensuring fair and undistorted competition In order to ensure fair and undistorted competition, implementing the polluter- pays principle and avoiding imposing excessive burdens on future generations, Member States shall ensure that, by [OP: two years after implementation], operators of nuclear energy installations participating in the internal market meet the following requirements: (a) set up a segregated fund with appropriate external control and transparent management, financed by contributions from the revenues obtained from their nuclear activities during the designed lifetime, in order to assume full financial responsibility for the decommissioning of the nuclear energy installations they operate as well as for the organisation of final storage of spent fuel and radioactive waste generated by the operation of their nuclear energy installations; operators of nuclear energy installations shall not be allowed to evade their liability through company restructuring; (b) comply with the obligations set out in Council Directive 2011/70/Euratom of 19 July 2011, with particular regard to making corresponding contributions to national financing schemes for spent fuel and radioactive waste; (c) be covered by a full insurance obligation and bear responsibility to society for nuclear damages caused by the nuclear energy installations operated by the operators concerned.

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 3 b (new)

Article 3 b Removal of obstacles to fair competition in the internal energy market By [OP: two years after entry into force] the Commission shall submit a report to the Parliament and to the Council on existing distortions of competition in the internal market linked to national rules on the decommissioning of commercial nuclear installations, spent fuel and radioactive waste management and insurance for civil liability for nuclear damages. The report shall provide for appropriate measures to remove such distortions, including legislative proposals under the relevant Euratom Treaty provisions, to achieve the internalisation of external costs deriving from the operation of commercial nuclear energy installations.

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

2. Without prejudice to Union rules on consumer protection and proportionality, in particular Directive 2011/83/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council42 and Council Directive 93/13/EEC (43 ), Member States shall ensure that customers: __________________ 42 OJ L 304, 22.11.2011, p. 64–88 43 OJ L 95, 21.4.1993, p. 29–34

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point b

(b) are given adequate notice of any intention to modify contractual conditions and are informed about their right to dissolve the contract when the notice is given. Suppliers shall notify their customers directly of any adjustment in the supply price as well as of the reasons and preconditions for the adjustment and its scope, at an appropriate time no later than one normal billing period before the adjustment comes into effect in a transparent and comprehensible manner. Member States shall ensure that customers are free to withdraw from contracts if they do not accept the new contractual conditions or adjustments in the energy supply price notified to them by their electricity supplier ;

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ensure that ~~every final customer is entitled, on request, to~~there are no barriers for suppliers to offer a dynamic electricity price contract ~~by his suppli~~to final customers.

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 12 a (new)

Article 12 a Any market distortions which have arisen as a result of the incomplete implementation of the Recommendation of 24 October 2006 on the management of financial resources for the decommissioning of nuclear installations, spent fuel and radioactive waste, and of Council Directive 2011/70/Euratom, must be removed as quickly as possible; the involvement of commercial nuclear installations in the internal energy market should be subordinated to the internalising of external costs, which is linked to the operation of the installations.

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c

(c) benefit from a non-discriminatory treatment with regard to their activities, rights and obligations as final customers, generators, distribution system operators, suppliers or aggregators;

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 16 a (new)

Article 16 a Member States shall ensure that local energy communities are acting on equal footing with other market participants.

2017/09/28
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – point d

~~(d) aggregators shall not be required to pay compensation to suppliers or generators;~~deleted

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 1

1. Member States shall ensure that billsing and billing information fulfil the minimum requirements ~~for billing and billing information~~ as set out in Annex II. The information contained in bills shall be correct, clear, concise and presented in a manner that facilitates comparison by consumers.

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 4

4. Where final customers have meters that allow remote reading by the operator, accurate billing information based on actual consumption shall be provided at least once a month electronically upon request.

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 7

7. Member States may lay down that, at the request of the final customers, the information contained in these bills shall not be considered to constitute a request for payment. In such cases, Member States shall ensure that suppliers offer flexible arrangements for payments.deleted

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 32 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1

The development of a distribution system shall be based on a transparent network development plan that distribution system operators shall submit every two years to the regulatory authority. The network development plan shall contain the planned investments for the next five to ten years, with particular emphasis on the main distribution infrastructure which is required in order to connect new generation capacity and new loads including re-charging points for electric vehicles. The network development plan shall also demonstrate the use of demand response, energy efficiency, energy storage facilities or other resources that distribution system operator is using as an alternative to system expansion.deleted

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 47 – paragraph 3

3. TSubsidiaries of the vertically integrated undertaking ~~and its subsidiaries~~ performing functions of generation or supply shall not have any direct or indirect shareholding in the transmission system operator. The transmission system operator shall neither have any direct or indirect shareholding in any subsidiary of the vertically integrated undertaking performing functions of generation or supply, nor receive dividends or any other financial benefit from that subsidiary.

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Article 59 – paragraph new8

8. With a view to increasing transparency in the market and provide to all interested parties all necessary information, decisions or proposals for a decision concerning transmission and distribution tariffs as referred in Article 60(3), regulatory authorities shall make available to market parties the detailed methodology and underlying costs used for the calculation of the relevant network tariffs.deleted

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Annex I – paragraph 1 – point c

(c) set out clear, objective criteria on which the comparison will be based displaying included services;

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 4 – paragraph 2 – introductory part

Suppliers shall specify in bills or billing information:

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 4 – paragraph 2 – point c a (new)

(ca) the country of origin of the electricity purchased

2017/09/26
Committee: ITRE