Activities of Lena KOLARSKA-BOBIŃSKA related to 2011/0238(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Intergovernmental agreements between Member States and third countries in the field of energy (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) This Decision should not concern agreements between commercial entities, except and only as far as the intergovernmental agreements refer explicitly to such commercial agreements or when, exceptionally, an energy project which has an impact on the internal market for energy or on the security of energy supply lacks an intergovernmental agreement. Commercial operators negotiating commercial agreements with operators from third countries may nevertheless seek guidance from the Commission in order to avoid potential conflicts with Union law.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 12
Recital 12
(12) The Commission should make all received information available to all other Member States in secure electronic form. The Commission should respect requests from Member States to treat information, in particular commercial information, submitted as confidential. Requests for confidentiality should however not restrict access of the Commission itself to confidential information as the Commission needs to have comprehensive information for its own assessment. The requests for confidentiality are without prejudice to the right of access to documents as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2001 regarding public access to European Parliament, Council and Commission documents.16
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) ‘intergovernmental agreements’ means any legally binding agreements or memoranda of understanding between Member States and third countries which are likely to have an impact on the operation or the functioning of the internal market for energy or on the security of energy supply in the Union;
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
1. Member States shall submit all existing and provisionally applied intergovernmental agreements between them and third countries in their entirety, including their annexes and other texts they refer to explicitly and all amendments thereto to the Commission at the latest three months after the entry into force of this Decision. Member States shall submit all official language versions of these agreements and in addition, a summary note of each agreement in the three working languages of the Commission. The Commission shall make the received documents accessible in secure electronic form to all other Member States. Existing or provisionally applied intergovernmental agreements which have already been communicated in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 to the Commission at the date of entry into force of this Decision, which are fulfilling the requirements of this paragraph, shall be considered as communicated for the purposes of this Decision.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 2
Article 3 – paragraph 2
2. When a Member State intends to enter into negotiations with a third country in order to amend an existing intergovernmental agreement or to conclude a new intergovernmental agreement, the Member State shall inform the Commission in writing of its intention at the earliest possible moment before the envisaged opening of the negotiations. The information provided to the Commission shall include the relevant documentation, an indication of the provisions to be addressed in the negotiations, the objectives of the negotiations and other relevant information. In case of amendments to an existing agreement, the provisions that are to be renegotiated shall be indicated in the information provided to the Commission. The Commission shall make the received information accessible to all Member States in secure electronic form. The Member State concerned shall keep the Commission informed regularly of the ongoing negotiations. On request of the Commission or the Member State concerned, the Commission may participate as an observer in the negotiations.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 – paragraph 3
Article 3 – paragraph 3
3. Upon ratification of an intergovernmental agreement or of an amendment to an intergovernmental agreement, the Member State concerned shall submit the agreement or the amendment of the agreement, including their annexes and other texts these agreements or amendments refer to explicitly, to the Commission which shall make the received documents, with the exception of confidential parts identified according to Article 7, accessible to all other Member States in secure electronic form.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 3 a (new)
Article 3 a (new)
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c a (new)
(ca) encourage the development of multilateral intergovernmental agreements involving multiple Member States or the Union as a whole as opposed to national bilateral agreements with third countries.
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Where a Member State requests that part of an agreement be regarded as confidential, the Commission shall delete that information from documents shared with Member States, providing information in the place of the deletion on what has been deleted.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 10 – paragraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 1
This Decision is addressed to the Member States and entities under Article 3a.