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2015/0239(COD) European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices
RoleCommitteeRapporteurShadows
Lead ITRE
Lead committee dossier: ITRE/8/05106
Legal Basis TFEU 338-p1

Activites

  • 2015/11/26 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • 2015/11/18 Legislative proposal published
    • COM(2015)0496
    • DG {'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy/index_en.htm', 'title': 'Energy'}, ARIAS CAÑETE Miguel

Documents

History

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  • PURPOSE: to establish a common framework for the development, production and dissemination of comparable European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices for household and final non-household customers in the EU.

    PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council.

    ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council.

    BACKGROUND: high quality, comparable, up-to-date, reliable and harmonised information on natural gas and electricity prices charged to final customers are needed in order to draft Energy Union policy and monitor the Member States’ energy markets.

    Up to the present date,  Directive 2008/92/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council  has provided a common framework for producing, transmitting and disseminating comparable statistics on the natural gas and electricity retail prices charged to industrial customers in the Union. National authorities collect price data for household customers on the basis of a voluntary agreement.

    The growing complexity of the internal energy market make it increasingly difficult to obtain reliable and up-to-date price data for natural gas and electricity in the absence of  legally binding obligations to provide such data, in particular for the household sector.

    In order to guarantee the reporting of high quality price data for the household sector and for the non-household sector, the Commission considered that the collection of both types of data should be covered by a legal act.

    The European Commission adopted on 25 February 2015 the Energy Union Package. One of the actions of the Energy Union Package under the chapter of the internal energy market defines an analysis of energy prices and costs to be carried out in 2016 and every 2 years thereafter.

    CONTENT: the proposed Regulation seeks to establish a common framework for the development, production and dissemination of comparable European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices for household and final non-household customers in the EU. It repeals Directive 2008/92/EC.

    While applying the principle of maintaining a reduced burden on respondents and of administrative simplification, Member States shall compile data on natural gas and electricity prices and their sub-components on network costs and taxes, levies, fees and charges as referred to in Annexes I and II and on consumption volumes.

    The system of consumption bands used by the Commission (Eurostat) in its price publications should ensure the transparency of the market and the broad dissemination of non-confidential price data and should enable the calculation of European aggregates.

    Detailed data on the breakdown of consumption bands and their respective market shares are an essential part of natural gas and electricity price statistics.

    Members States should regularly prepare quality reports and assessments of the quality of the price data.

    Member States shall not be obliged to transmit data on natural gas prices for household customers to the Commission (Eurostat) if the consumption of natural gas in the household sector is below a threshold of 1 % of national total energy consumption in the household sector.

    Based on a justified request from a Member State, the Commission may grant derogations to Member States in relation to those specific obligations for which the application of this Regulation to the national statistical system of a Member State requires major adaptations and is likely to lead to a significant additional burden on respondents.

    DELEGATED ACTS: the proposal contains provisions empowering the Commission to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

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8.60 European statistical legislation
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3.60.12 Energy statistics
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2015-11-26T00:00:00
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Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
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ITRE/8/05106
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Preparatory phase in Parliament
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Awaiting committee decision
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  • date: 2015-11-18T00:00:00 docs: url: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/docs_autres_institutions/commission_europeenne/com/2015/0496/COM_COM(2015)0496(ANN)_EN.pdf title: COM(2015)0496 type: Legislative proposal published celexid: CELEX:52015PC0496:EN type: Legislative proposal published body: EC commission: DG: url: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy/index_en.htm title: Energy Commissioner: ARIAS CAÑETE Miguel
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  • body: EP responsible: True committee_full: Industry, Research and Energy committee: ITRE
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  • body: EC dg: url: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy/index_en.htm title: Energy commissioner: ARIAS CAÑETE Miguel
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2015/0239(COD)
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Legislation
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Treaty on the Functioning of the EU TFEU 338-p1
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Preparatory phase in Parliament
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Repealing Directive 2008/92/EC
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Regulation
title
European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices
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COD - Ordinary legislative procedure (ex-codecision procedure)
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