Activities of Thomas HÄNDEL related to 2012/2103(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Energy Roadmap 2050, a future with energy
Amendments (6)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the Commission communication and uUnderlines the need for concrete policy proposals; believes that it is crucial to agree on the direction of the Union’s long- term policy in the interest of predictability for industry and society;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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2. Stresses the crucial importance of timely, correct and full implementation adjustment of existing legislation, including the regulatory work called for by the Third Internal Energy Market Package, in order to achieve, by 2014, an integrated and competitive European internal energy market by 2014focusing on security of supply at socially acceptable prices;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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3. Believes that an open, transparent, and integrated and competitive internal energy market is needed in order to achieve competitivsocially acceptable energy prices, security of supply, sustainability and efficient large- scale deployment of renewable energy, and that the completion of such a market still remains an important challenge for all Member States; welcomes the liberalisation of the internal energy market as a necessary step to cut the cost of electricity and gas for consumers while ensuring that the energy markets become more transparent and better monitored;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
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8. Acknowledges that instruments such as energy taxes, and carbon taxes, and emission trading schemes are key drivers to reach the emission reduction targets in a cost-n efficient way, but considers that they will burden the consumers with higher energy prices in the end; is furthermore of the opinion that regulation through levies and taxes should be focused more on large industrial users rather than on private consumers;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
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9. Considers that it should be made clear what can be done through energy policy andis also social policy respectively; believes that the issue of poverty is best dealt with by social policy and not through regulation of energycan be combated as part of energy policy, too, in that non-profit public energy utilities subject to democratic oversight can best guarantee socially acceptable prices.;