4 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2007/2118(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is of the opinion that Nord Stream is an infrastructure project with a wide political and strategic dimension for both the EU and Russia; underlines that it is primarily driven by Russian commercial and political interests, aimed at delivering gas straight from Russia to Western Europe, bypassing the transit states; underlines that this project increases Russia's energy leverage over the EU and its neighbours and decreases the ability of small littoral states to act as security providers in the Baltic Sea region; considers that since the project goes against the priorities of several EU Member States, it undermines the EU's ability to act as a unified entity and speak with one voice on energy issues;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – indents 2 and 3
Paragraph 4 – indents 2 and 3
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Suggests, further, that the permission for the construction and maintenance of the pipeline should be managed by an Executive Board nominated by all the littoral states with the participation, where appropriate, of the Commissionthrough a process of open tender, subject to the discipline of the free market and in an environment of complete transparency;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes the lack of institutional structures capable of responding adequately to the environmental and geopolitical security issues associated with this project, and once again calls on the Council to; however, considers the proposal for the creation of the office of High Official for Foreign Energy Policy, who, wearing a "double hat", would act under the authority of the newly created strengthened High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, a Vice- President of the Commissionat the further emasculation of national sovereignty and its absorption into the lethargic bureaucracy of the European Union to be the last thing that Member States currently need.