1 Amendments of Geoffrey VAN ORDEN related to 2009/0108(COD)
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of gas supply of the Community, the Commission should coordinate the actions with regard to third countries, working with producer and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and to ensure a stable gas flow to the Community. Turkey is a particularly important transit state and should be encouraged to participate by the immediate opening of the energy chapter in the accession negotiations. The Commission should be entitled to deploy a task force to monitor gas flows in crisis situations within and, in consultation with the third countries involved, outside the Community and, where a crisis arises due to difficulties in a third country, to assume a mediation and facilitation role.