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17 Amendments of Teresa RIERA MADURELL related to 2007/0196(COD)

Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 12
(12) The implementation of effective unbundling should respect the principle of non discrimination between the public and private sectors. To this effect, the same person should not be able to exercise any influence, solely or jointly, over the composition, voting or decision of the bodies of both transmission system operators and supply undertakings. Provided that the Member State in question can demonstrate that this requirement is respected, two distinct public bodies could control on the one hand generation and supply activities and on the other transmission activities.
2008/04/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) Energy regulators and financial market regulators need to cooperate in order to enable each other to have an overview over the markets concerned, and should have the power to obtain relevant information from energy companies through appropriate and sufficient powers for investigation and for dispute settlement.
2008/04/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point –1 (new)
(–1) Throughout the text, the words "transmission system" are replaced by "transmission and/or storage and/or LNG system"
2008/04/07
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 5
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 7c
Article 7c Designation of storage and LNG system operators Member States shall designate, or shall require natural gas undertakings which own storage or LNG facilities to designate, for a period of time to be determined by Member States having regard to considerations of efficiency and economic balance, one or more system operators.deleted
2008/04/10
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 11
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 15
This directive shall not preventpromotes, as the most efficient solution for ensuring the effective third party access, the operation of a combined transmission, LNG, storage and distribution system operator provided it complies, for each of its activities, with the applicable provisions of Articles 7, 9a and 13(1). Combined transmission, LNG and storage system operator shall be implemented in each Member State.
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 11 c (new)
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 1
(Adding new elements to Article 19 paragraph 1 of Directive 2003/55/EC, including partly(11c) In Article 19, paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following: "1. For the organisation of access to storage facilities and linepack when technically and/or economically necessary for providing efficient access to the system for the supply of customers, as well as for the organisation of access to ancillary services, Member States shall adopt the procedures referred to in paragraph 3 [...]. These procedures shall operate in accordance with objective, transparent and non-discriminatory criteria." Or. en the wording of Commission proposal)
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 300 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 12
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall define and publish criteria according to which it may be determined whether access to storage facilities and linepack is technically and/or economically necessary in order to provide efficient access to the system for the supply of customers. Member States shall make public, or oblige storage and transmission system operators to make public, which storage facilities, or which parts of those storage facilities, and which linepack is offered under the different procedures referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4.
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 303 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 12 a (new)
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 3
(12a) In Article 19, paragraph 3 shall be deleted.
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 308 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 12 b (new)
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 19 – paragraph 4
(12b) In Article 19, paragraph 4 shall be replaced by the following: "4. As to regulated access, Member States shall take the necessary measures to give natural gas undertakings and eligible customers either inside or outside the territory covered by the interconnected system a right to access to storage, linepack and other ancillary services, on the basis of published tariffs and/or other terms and obligations for use of that storage and linepack, when technically and/or economically necessary for providing efficient access to the system, as well as for the organisation of access to other ancillary services. This right of access for eligible customers may be given by enabling them to enter into supply contracts with competing natural gas undertakings other than the owner and/or operator of the system or a related undertaking." Or. en (Changes wording of Article 1 paragraph 4 of Directive 2003/55/EC)
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 13
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 22 – paragraph 1 - introductory part
1. Major new gas infrastructures, i.e. interconnectors between Member States, LNG and storage facilities, may, upon request, be exempted, for a limited period of time, from the provisions of Articles 7, 18, 19, 20, and 24c(4), (5) and (6) under the following conditions:
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 315 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 13
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – point (c a) (new)
"(ca) the infrastructure must be operated by a legal person independent from the system operators in whose systems that infrastructure will be built;"
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 13
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 22 – paragraph 1 – point (e)
(e) the exemption is not detrimental to competition or the effective functioning of the internal gas market, or the efficient functioning of the regulated system to which the infrastructure is connectnecessary capacity available for third party access is ensured.
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 332 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 13
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 22 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 4
Before granting an exemption the regulatory authority shall decide upon the rules and mechanisms for management and allocation of capacity. The rules shall require that all potential users of the infrastructure are invited to indicate their interest in contracting capacity before capacity allocation in the new infrastructure, including for own use, takes place. The allocation procedure shall not increase the relative weight of the dominant supplier unless the entire capacity demand of third parties is reasonably covered. The regulatory authority shall decide on this aspect. The regulatory authority shall require congestion management rules to include the obligation to offer unused capacity on the market, and shall require users of the facility to be entitled to trade their contracted capacities on the secondary market. In its assessment of the criteria referred to in paragraph 1(a), (b) and (e) of this Article, the regulatory authority shall take into account the results of that capacity allocation procedure.
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 13
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – point (a)
(a) the detailed reasons stating the specific Articles on the basis of which the regulatory authority granted the exemption, including the financial information justifying the need for the exemption;
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 13
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – point (b)
(b) the analysis undertaken of the effect on competition and the effective functioning of the internal gas market resulting from the grant of the exemption, especially the reasons stating the specific Articles on the basis of which the exemption will enhance competition;
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 13
Directive 2003/55/EC
Article 22 – paragraph 4 – point (e a) (new)
"(ea) if the exemption relates to an interconnector, the additional capacity open to third party access favouring the free trading across the European internal market."
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE
Amendment 542 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Article 1 – point 17
Directive 2003/55/EC
Annex A – point (i)
(i) shall be properly informed every monthand regularly informed of actual gas consumption and costs, based on actual metering or estimates when the metering data are not available. No additional costs can be charged to the consumer for this service.
2008/03/31
Committee: ITRE