1 Amendments of Maria MATSOUKA related to 2007/0196(COD)
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 24 a (new)
Recital 24 a (new)
(24a) Given that consumers do not automatically benefit from market competition (as has been shown in practice on different occasions) care should be taken to promote a high level of protection in particular for vulnerable consumers by means of a comprehensive universal service including access to the natural gas market with genuine choices, reasonable prices, channels of legal protection and protection from unethical practices. To this end, the regulatory authorities are urged to uphold and promote the European Charter on the Rights of Energy Consumers, which the Commission undertook to draw up in its communication of 5 July 2007 (COM(2007)0386).