66 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2016/0380(COD)
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The Energy Union Framework Strategy sets out the vision of an Energy Union with citizens at its core, where citizens take ownership of the energy transition, benefit from new technologies to reduce their bills, participate actively in the market, and where vulnerable and energy poor consumers are protected.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) The Communication from the Commission of 15 July 2015 'Delivering a new deal for energy consumers30 ' put forward the Commission's vision for a retail market that better serves energy consumers, including by better linking wholesale and retail markets. Taking advantage of new technologyies, new and innovative energy service companies should enable all consumers to raise their awareness of their energy consumption and to fully participate in the energy transition, managing their consumption to deliver energy efficient solutions which save them money and contribute to overall reduction of energy consumption. __________________ 30 COM (2015) 339 final of 15.7.2015.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The Communication from the Commission of 15 July 2015 'Launching the public consultation process on a new energy market design'31 highlighted that the move away from generation in large central power plants towards de-centralized production from renewable energy sources and decarbonized markets requires an adaptation of the current rules of electricity trading and changes to the roles of existing market roleparticipants. It underlined needs to organisze electricity markets in a more flexible manner and to fully integrate all market players – including renewable energy producers, new energy service providers, energy storage and flexible demand. __________________ 31 COM (2015) 340 final of 15.7.2015.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Consumers are essential to achieving the flexibility necessary to adapt the electricity system to variable, and distributed renewable generation. Technological progress in grid management and renewable generation has unlocked many opportunities for consumers, and h. Healthy competition on retail markets will be essential to ensuring the market-driven deployment of innovative new services that cater to theaddress consumers' changing needs and abilities, while increasing system flexibility. By empowering consumers to participate in the energy market more, and participate in new ways, citizens should benefit from the internal market in electricity and the Union's renewable targets should be attained.
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) Member States should maintain a wide discretion to impose public service obligations on electricity undertakings in pursuing objectives of general economic interest. Member States should ensure that household customers and, where Member States deem it appropriate, small enterprises, enjoy the right to be supplied with electricity of a specified quality at clearly comparable, transparent and competitive prices. Nevertheless, public service obligations in the form of supply price regulation constitute a fundamentally distortive measure that often leads to the accumulation of tariff deficits, limitation of consumer choice, poorer incentives for energy saving and energy efficiency investments, lower standards of service, lower levels of consumer engagement and satisfaction, restriction of competition as well as fewer innovative products and services on the market. Consequently, Member States should apply other policy tools, and in particular targeted social policy measures, to safeguard the affordability of electricity supply to their citizens. Interventions in price setting should only be applied in limited exceptional circumstancesas a transitional measure in extreme circumstances of force majeure or as a short-term solution while adequate social or other policy measures are developed and adopted. A fully liberalised retail electricity market would stimulate price and non-price competition among existing suppliers and incentivise new market entries therefore improving consumers' choice and satisfaction.
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) All consumers should be able to benefit from directly participating in the market, in particular by adjusting their consumption according to market signals and in return benefit from lower electricity prices or other incentive payments. The benefits of this active participation are likely to increase over time when electric vehicles, heat pumps and other flexible loads become more competitivethe awareness of otherwise passive consumers is raised about their possibilities as active consumers and when the information on the possibilities of active participation are better accessible and known. Consumers should be enabled to participate in all forms of demand response and therefore should have the possibility to opt for having a smart metering system and a dynamic electricity pricing contract. This should allow them to adjust their consumption according to real time price signals that reflect the value and cost of electricity or transportation in different time periods, while Member States should ensure a reasonable exposure of consumers to the wholesale price risk. Consumers should be informed about potential price risk of dynamic price contracts. Member States should also ensure that those consumers who choose not to actively engage in the market are not penalised but instead their informed decision making on the options available to them should be facilitated in the manner that is the most suitable for domestic market conditions.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) In order to assist consumers' active participation in the electricity market, the smart metering systems to be deployed by Member States in their territory should be interoperable, not represent a barrier to switching of supplier, and should be equipped with fit-for-purpose functionalities that allow consumers to have near-real time access to their consumption data, modulate their energy consumption and, to the extent that the supporting infrastructure permits, offer their flexibility to the network and to energy services companies, be rewarded for it, and achieve savings in their electricity bill. Smart meters shall be free of charge to energy-poor final household consumers.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) Energy services areupply is fundamental to safeguard the well-being of the Union citizens. Adequate warmthHeating, cooling, lighting and the energy to power appliances are essential services to guarantee a decent standard of living and citizens' health. Furthermore, access to these energy servicesenergy empowers European citizens to fulfil their potential and it enhances social inclusion. Energy poor households are unable to afford these energy services due to a combination of low income, high energy expenditure and poor energy efficiency of their homes. Member States should collect the right information to monitor the number of households in energy poverty. Accurate measurement should assist Member States to identify those households affected by energy poverty in order to provide targeted support through their social welfare systems or other policy measures. The Commission should actively support the implementation of the provisions on energy poverty by facilitating the sharing of good practices between Member States.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) Energy poverty is a growing problem in the Union. Member States which are affected by energy poverty and which have not yet done so should therefore develop national action plans or other appropriate frameworks to tackle energy poverty this problem, aiming at decreasing the number of people suffering such situationenergy poor customers. Low income, high energy expenditure, and poor energy efficiency of homes are relevant factors in designing indicators for the measurement of energy poverty. In any event, Member States should ensure the necessary energy supply for vulnerable and energy poor customers. In doing so, an integrated approach, such as in the framework of energy and social policy, could be used and measures could include social policies or energy efficiency improvements for housing. At the very least, tThis Directive should allowenhance national policies in favour of vulnerable and energy poor customers.
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 42
Recital 42
(42) Distribution system operators have to cost-efficiently integrate new electricity generation especially generating installations using renewable energy sources and new loads such as heat pumps and electric vehicles. For this purpose distribution system operators should be enabled and incentivised to use services from distributed energy resources such as demand response and energy storage, based on market procedures, in order to efficiently operate their networks and avoid costly network expansions. Member States should put in place appropriate measures such as national network codes and market rules, and incentivise distribution system operators through network tariffs which do not create obstacles toincentivise flexibility or to the improvement of energy efficiency in the grid. Member States should also introduce network development plans for distribution systems in order to support the integration of generating installations using renewable energy sources, facilitate the development of storage facilities and the electrification of the transport sector, and provide to system users adequate information regarding the foreseen expansions or upgrades of the network, as currently such procedure does not exist in the majority of Member States.
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Directive establishes common rules for the generation, transmission, distribution, storage and supply of electricity, together with consumer protection provisions, with a view to creating truly integrated competitive, consumer-centered and flexible electricity markets in the Union. Using the advantages of an integrated market, the Directive aims at ensuring affordable energy prices for consumers, a high degree of security of supply and a smooth transition towards a sustainable and decarbonised energy system. It lays down key rules relating to the organisation and functioning of the European electricity sector, in particular rules on consumer empowerment and protection, on open access to the integrated market, on third party access to transmission and distribution infrastructure, unbundling rules, and on independent national energy regulators. .
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 7
7. 'local energy community' means: a group of consumers, 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,ose installations are involved in distributed generation and in performing activities of a distribution system operator, supplier or aggregator at local level, including across borders; customers that cannot locate installations on their building behind their meter could benefit by a virtual net metering scheme by owning or leasing or entering into long term agreements with installations located in a certain radius.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 9
9. ‘electricity supply contract’ means a contract for the supply of electricity, but does not include an electricity derivative;. A fixed long term electricity supply contract’ is not considered a derivative.
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 25
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 25
25. ‘ energy from renewable sources’ means energy from renewable non-fossil sources , in particular wind, solar (solar thermal and solar photovoltaic) , geothermal energy, ambient heat, hydropower and tide, ocean , wave energy , and combustible renewables: biofuels, bioliquids, biogas, solid biofuels and combustible wastes of renewable origin , and energy stored in batteries for a transitory period of time;
Amendment 228 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that their national legislation does not unduly hamper cross-border flows of electricity, consumer participation including through demand–side response, aggregators, investments into flexible energy generation, energy storage, the deployment of electro-mobility or new interconnectors, and that electricity prices reflect actual demand and supply.
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 1
1. Electricity suppliers shall be free to determine the price at which they supply electricity to customers. Member States shall take appropriate actions to ensure effective competition between electricity suppliers and address undue discrimination between energy customers, particularly those on pre-paid tariffs.
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall ensure the protection of energy poor or vulnerable customers in a targeted manner by social policy or other policy measures, prioritisation of energy efficiency measures and other means than public interventions in the price-setting for the supply of electricity.
Amendment 295 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Article 5 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall notify the measures taken in accordance with the first subparagraph to the Commission within one month after adoption and may apply them immediately. The notification shall be accompanied by an explanation why other instruments including social policy and other measures and prioritisation of energy efficiency measures could not sufficiently address the situation and how the beneficiaries and the duration of the measure have been determined. The notification shall be considered as complete if, within two months from its receipt, or from the receipt of any additional information requested, the Commission does not request any further information.
Amendment 298 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure the implementation of a system of third party access to the transmission and distribution systems based on published tariffs, applicable to all eligible customers and applied objectively and without discrimination between system users, in order to support the necessary network development according to reach the 2030 targets. Member States shall ensure that those tariffs, or the methodologies underlying their calculation, are approved prior to their entry into force in accordance with Article 59 and that those tariffs, and the methodologies — where only methodologies are approved — are published prior to their entry into force.
Amendment 302 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point j
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point j
(j) the contribution of the generating capacity to meeting the overall Union target of at least a 20 % share of energy from renewable sources in the Union ’s gross final consumption of energy in 2020 referred to in Article 3(1) of Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council41 ; and and a target of at least a 35 % share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy in 2030 according to Article 3(1) of Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources; and __________________ 41 Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy sources (OJ L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 16).
Amendment 303 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point j
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – point j
(j) the contribution of the generating capacity to meeting the overall Union target of at least a 20 % share of energy from renewable sources in the Union ’s gross final consumption of energy in 2020 referred to in Article 3(1) of Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council41 ; and of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources; and the overall Union target for 2030 of at least 35% referred to in Directive COM(2016) 767 __________________ 41 Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy sources (OJ L 140, 5.6.2009, p. 16).
Amendment 330 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a – paragraph 1 – indent 2
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point a – paragraph 1 – indent 2
- all services provided (including whether services providedare carried out by a provider different from the electricity service provider), the service quality levels offered, as well as the time for the initial connection,
Amendment 370 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point i a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point i a (new)
(ia) shall define the concept of vulnerable customers as referred to in Article 28 and set rules for the protection of customers who are indebted including the prohibition of disconnection of electricity and gas to such customers in critical times
Amendment 371 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point i a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point i a (new)
(ia) shall, in accordance with the concept of vulnerable consumers as described in Article 28, prohibit the disconnection of electricity and gas to vulnerable consumers;
Amendment 382 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point j b (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 2 – point j b (new)
(jb) shall ensure that all suppliers provide an efficient, fair and effective complaint handling procedure. National Regulatory Authorities can ensure this and best practices and standards of complaint handing may be introduced.
Amendment 416 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 11 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Every final customer shall always be required to give active consent before being switched to a dynamic price contract.
Amendment 422 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 3
Article 11 – paragraph 3
3. Member States, through their National Regulatory Authorities, shall monitor and report annually, for at least a ten-year period after such contracts become available, on the main developments of such contracts including market offers, the impact on consumers' electricity bills and specifically the level of price volatility, and on consumers' sensitivity to the level of financial risktake appropriate measures when the monitoring reveals that current protection levels are insufficient for household customers.
Amendment 488 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 3
Article 13 – paragraph 3
3. Member States shall ensure that final customers terminating a fixed term contract with an aggregator before its maturity are not charged any termination fee that exceeds the direct economic loss to the aggregator, including the cost of any bundled investments, appliances or services already provided to the final customer as part of the contract.
Amendment 520 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2
Article 14 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall appoint an independent competent authority responsible for certifying comparison tools and ensuring that certified comparison tools continue to meet the criteria set out in Annex I. The independent authority shall also investigate, together with national regulators, DSOs and suppliers, the best way to pro-actively provide consumers with comparisons of offers in order to enable all consumers, even those without internet access or skills, to find out whether they could reduce their energy bills by switching.
Amendment 524 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 3
Article 14 – paragraph 3
3. Member States mayshall require the comparison tools referred to in paragraph 1 to include comparative determinants relating to the nature of the services offered by the suppliers. Electricity suppliers, electricity service providers and aggregators and relevant intermediaries shall provide the information necessary for comparison tools on request, including information on the different range and use of tariffs, charges and other relevant information.
Amendment 556 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. final household customers have easy and clear access to information, including through their single point of contact in Article 25, on their rights that apply to their participation in the market as active consumers.
Amendment 591 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) benefit from a non-discriminatory treatment with regard to their activities, rights and obligations as final customers, suppliers, generators, distribution system operators or aggregators;
Amendment 603 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d – point i (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 – point d – point i (new)
Amendment 616 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) final household and public customers are entitled to voluntarily participate as members in a local energy community. SME final customers may be allowed to become a member of a local energy community, provided that this participation does not constitute their primary economic activity;
Amendment 617 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point a a (new)
(aa) final customers that are vulnerable or energy poor are able to participate in a local energy community if they so wish
Amendment 623 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point b
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point b
(b) shareholders or members of a local energy community shall not lose theirhave the same rights as household customers or active customers;
Amendment 638 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point g
Article 16 – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) where relevant system users that are not shareholders or members of the local energy communitysystem users connected to the distribution network operated by a local energy community shall be subject to non- discriminatory, fair and cost-reflective network charges. If such system users that are not shareholders or members of a local energy community operating a distribution network and local energy communities cannot reach an agreement on network charges, both parties may request the regulatory authority to determine the level of network charges in a relevant decision;
Amendment 659 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall ensure that national regulatory authorities encourageallow final customers, including those offering demand response through aggregators, to participate alongside generators in a non- discriminatory manner in all organised markets.
Amendment 668 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – introductory part
3. Member States shall ensure that their regulatory framework encouragesallow the participation of aggregators in the wholesale and retail markets and that it contains at least the following elements:
Amendment 682 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – point d
Article 17 – paragraph 3 – point d
Amendment 702 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 17 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
In order to ensure that balancing costs and benefits induced by aggregators are fairly assigned to market participants, Member States may exceptionally allow compensation payments between aggregators and balance responsible parties. Such compensation payments must be limited to situations where one market participant induces imbalances to another market participant resulting in a financial cost. Members States shall define regulatory frameworks for compensation payments.
Amendment 714 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Member States shall ensure that final customers always have the right to switch off advanced functionalities of products and systems used to provide demand side response or similar flexibility at any time and without being charged penalties.
Amendment 743 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 18 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Billing shall take place on the basis of actual consumption at least once a year. Billing information shall be made available at least once every three months, upon request or where the final customers have opted to receive electronic billing at any time or else twice a year.
Amendment 747 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 2
This obligation may be fulfilled by a system of regular readings by the operator or voluntary self-reading by the final customers whereby they communicate readings from their meter to the supplier. Only when the final customer has not been provided a meter reading for a given billing interval may billing be based on estimated consumption or a flat rate. The estimated consumption shall be based on a transparent calculation of either the previous year's consumption or the consumption of a comparable household.
Amendment 752 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 4
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. also through websites or other innovative means
Amendment 772 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 8
Article 18 – paragraph 8
8. Member States shall require that information and estimates for electricity costs, as well as demand response data or data on electricity sold or fed into the grid are provided to final customers on demand in a timely manner and in an easily understandable format. In the case that there will be a future change of product or price in the contract, then this information should be clearly included in the bill, along with the date of this change. A separate notification of this change shall also be sent in advance to the final customer.
Amendment 776 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Bills and settlement statements shall provide the most important information for consumers on the first page. The first page may contain a shortened version of the key information, with further details included in the in subsequent pages of the bill or settlement statement. Final customers will also be able to access more detailed information both online and through an offline format that is free of charge, consumer friendly and easily accessible so that household consumers without internet access are not at a disadvantage.
Amendment 778 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Where a final customer has been on the same tariff for more than 2 years, Member States shall require suppliers to notify the customer, in or alongside the energy bill, whether a more suitable or advantageous tariff is available, and facilitate their move to the new tariff.
Amendment 780 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 8 b (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Suppliers shall inform final household customers when a cheaper tariff is available through clearly stating this on the first page of their bill. They shall then provide more detailed information and how customers can switch in the subsequent pages of the bill.
Amendment 782 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 8 c (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Consumer organisations shall be consulted by Member States when they consider changes to the format of bills, as keeping the clarity of information for consumers is fundamentally important. Consumer organisations shall also be involved for the testing of new bill formats.
Amendment 795 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 4
Article 19 – paragraph 4
4. Member States that proceed with smart metering deployment shall ensure that final customers contribute to the associated costs of the roll-out in a transparent and non-discriminatory manner. Member States shall regularly monitor this deployment in their territories to track the evolution of costs and benefits for the whole value chain, including the delivery of net benefits to consumers. Energy-poor final household customers shall not be required to contribute to the associated costs and shall have the same access to smart meters as other final customers.
Amendment 813 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) Smart meters shall include a communication gateway, to enable electricity suppliers and aggregators to provide information on scarcity or abundance of electricity, as well as to current electricity prices to consumers, who will be able to make it accessible to a third party acting on their behalf. Otherwise, the consumer should have access to these data thanks to a web-based user interface. This information should be made available to consumers through an EU-wide common and open communication protocol to be defined in standards; this information should be made available at no additional cost and timely, in order to support automated energy efficiency programmes, demand response and other services.
Amendment 820 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) if final customers request it, metering data on their electricity input and off-take shall be made available to them, via a local standardised communication interface and/or remote access, or to a third party acting on their behalf, as close as possible to real time, in an easily understandable format as provided for in Article 24, allowing them to compare deals on a like-for-like basis;
Amendment 824 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 20 – paragraph 1 – point g
(g) smart metering systems, subject to a preliminary cost-benefit analysis, shall enable final customers to be metered and settled at the same time resolution as the imbalance period in the national market.
Amendment 837 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 23 – paragraph 2
Article 23 – paragraph 2
2. Member States shall organise the management of data in order to ensure efficient data access and exchange and a secure grid operation. Independently of the data management model applied in each Member State, the party or parties responsible for data management shall provide to any eligible party with the explicit consent of the final customer, access to the data of the final customer. Eligible parties should have at their disposal in a non-discriminatory manner and simultaneously the requested data. Access to data shall be easy, while relevant procedures shall be made publicly available.
Amendment 841 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 23 – paragraph 4
Article 23 – paragraph 4
4. No additional costs shall be charged to final customers for access to their data. Member States shall be responsible for setting the relevant costs for access to data by eligible parties. Regulated entities which provide data services shall not profit from that activitybe able to fully recover costs related to metering infrastructure.
Amendment 851 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 24 – paragraph 2
Article 24 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission, by means of implementing acts adopted in accordance with the advisory procedure referred to in Article 68, shall determine a common European data format and non- discriminatory and transparent procedures for accessing the data, listed under Article 23 (1), that will replace national data format and procedure adopted by Member States in accordance with paragraph 1. Member States shall ensure that market participants apply a common European data format. shall monitor that all Member States apply the data format defined at Article 24(1)
Amendment 909 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 31 – paragraph 5
Article 31 – paragraph 5
5. Each distribution system operator shall procure the energy it uses to cover energy losses and the non-frequency ancillary services in its system according to transparent, non-discriminatory and market based procedures, whenever it has such a function. Unless justified by a cost-benefit analysis, the procurement of non- frequency ancillary services by a distribution system operator shall be transparent, non-discriminatory and market-based ensuring effective participation of all market participants including renewable energy sources, demand response, energy storage facilities and aggregators, in particular by requiring regulatory authorities or distribution system operators in close cooperation with all market participants, to define technical modalities for participation in these markets on the basis of the technical requirements of these markets and the capabilities of all market participants .
Amendment 940 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 33 – paragraph 1
Article 33 – paragraph 1
1. Member States, also taking into account investments already made, shall provide the necessary regulatory framework to facilitate the connection of publicly accessible and private recharging points to the distribution networks. Member States shall ensure that distribution system operators cooperate on a non- discriminatory basis with any undertaking that owns, develops, operates or manages recharging points for electric vehicles, including with regard to connection to the grid.
Amendment 982 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 36 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
Article 36 – paragraph 2 – introductory part
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, Member States, taking into account investments already made, may allow distribution system operators to own, develop, manage or operate storage facilities only if the following conditions are fulfilled:
Amendment 1048 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 40 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Article 40 – paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 1056 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 51 – paragraph 1
Article 51 – paragraph 1
1. At least every two years, transmission system operators shall submit to the regulatory authority a ten-year network development plan based on existing and forecast supply and demand after having consulted all the relevant stakeholders. That network development plan shall contain efficient measures and demonstrate the use of demand response, energy storage facilities or other resources that the transmission system operator is using as an alternative to system expansion in order to guarantee the adequacy of the system and the security of supply.
Amendment 1157 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 59 – paragraph 1 – point n
Article 59 – paragraph 1 – point n
(n) monitoring the level and effectiveness of market opening and competition at wholesale and retail levels, including on electricity exchanges, prices for household customers including prepayment systems, dynamic price contracts and benefits from the use of smart meter, switching rates, disconnection rates, charges for and the execution of maintenance services, the relationship between household and wholesale prices, the evolution of grid tariffs and levies and complaints by household customers, as well as any distortion or restriction of competition, including providing any relevant information, and bringing any relevant cases to the relevant competition authorities;
Amendment 1180 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 59 – paragraph 1 – point q
Article 59 – paragraph 1 – point q
(q) helping to ensure, together with other relevant authorities, that the new and existing consumer protection measures, including rights of active customers and, in particular, final household customers are effective and enforced;
Amendment 1281 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
Annex II – point 1 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) the price to pay and, where relevant, the final price per kWh; and, where possible, the breakdown of price;
Amendment 1290 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex II – point 1 – paragraph 2 – point d
Annex II – point 1 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) the contact details of the supplier including a conswith at least the phone number support hotlineand email address;