Activities of Rareș-Lucian NICULESCU related to 2009/0108(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Explanations of vote
Amendments (7)
Amendment 10 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) A major disruption of gas supply to the Community canis liable to impact on the EU's strategic interests, as well as affecting all Member States and Contracting Parties of the Energy Community Treaty and lead to severe economic damages across the Community economy, as well as indirectly affecting subsidiary sectors. Likewise, the disruption of gas supply can have severe social impacts in particular on vulnerable groups of customers.
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Sufficient gas infrastructure within a Member State and across the Community isand emphasising preparation and coordination capacity for emergencies are essential factors for tackling supply interruptions. Common minimum criteria on security of gas supply should ensure a level playing field for security of gas supply and should create significant incentives to build the necessary infrastructure and to improve the level of preparedness in case of crisis. Demand side measures such as fuel switching may have a valuable role to play in ensuring energy security where they can be applied quickly and reduce demand appreciably to react to a supply disruption.
Amendment 12 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Investments in new gas infrastructure should be strongly promoted. They should enhance the security of gas supply while ensuring the proper functioning of the internal market in natural gas from the political and institutional viewpoint and should be financed via the various specific instruments existing at national and Community level. Where an infrastructure investment is of cross-border nature the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators established by Regulation (EC) No .../… of the European Parliament and of the Council ("ACER") and the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas ("ENTSO-G") should be closely involved in order to take better account of the cross -border implications.
Amendment 14 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) This Regulation should enable natural gas undertakings and customers to rely on market mechanisms for as long as possible when coping with disruptions. It should also provide for emergency mechanisms to be used when markets are no longer able to deal adequately with a gas supply disruption. Even in an Eemergency, market based instruments should be given priority to mitigate the effects of the supply disruption, provided the general interest of consumers in the Member States concerned is not affected.
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17
Recital 17
(17) It is essential for the well-functioning of the market that the necessary investments in indigenous production and infrastructures, such as interconnections, equipment allowing physical bidirectional flows on pipelines, storage, and LNG re- gasification facilities, are made by the natural gas undertakings in time, bearing in mind possible supply disruptions such as the one that occurred in January 2009. With a view to ensuring the necessary balance for the proper functioning of the market in an emergency, Member States should be able to participate in the cofinancing of projects that are essential to prevent possible blockages, on the basis of a selection made by the Commission.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) It is important that gas supply is maintained, particularly as regards household customers, as well as other protected customers such as schools and hospitals, in cases in which the market cannot continue to supply them. It is essential that the measures to be taken during a crisis are defined in advance of any crisis, in the framework of a joint representative committee (made up of representatives of the Commission, the Council and the European Parliament) which would be the only authority empowered to centralise requirements and propose measures to be taken at Union level in case of a disturbance of security of supply.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21
Recital 21
(21) The ENTSO-G and ACER, as members of the Gas Coordination Group, should be fully involved in the process of cooperation and, identification and formulation of solutions, as well as in the consultations at Community level.