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BUZEK Jerzy (![]() |
GRIFFIN Theresa (![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Committee Opinion | AFET |
SARYUSZ-WOLSKI Jacek (![]() |
Javier COUSO PERMUY (![]() ![]() |
Committee Opinion | ECON | ||
Committee Opinion | ENVI | ||
Committee Opinion | IMCO | ||
Committee Opinion | TRAN | ||
Committee Opinion | REGI |
PORĘBA Tomasz Piotr (![]() |
Ivan JAKOVČIĆ (![]() ![]() ![]() |
Committee Legal Basis Opinion | JURI |
GUTELAND Jytte (![]() |
Lead committee dossier:
Legal Basis:
TFEU 194-p2
Legal Basis:
TFEU 194-p2Subjects
Events
PURPOSE: to safeguard the security of gas supply in the European Union.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) 2017/1938 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2017 concerning measures to safeguard the security of gas supply and repealing Regulation (EU) No 994/2010.
CONTENT: this Regulation aims to reinforce the European Union energy security , reducing its dependency on others for energy supplies and ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to safeguard an uninterrupted supply of gas throughout the Union, in particular to protected customers in the event of difficult climatic conditions or disruptions of the gas supply.
The Regulation is part of the energy union strategy . It provides for:
for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the gas supplies required, including solidarity measure of a last resort; the clear definition and attribution of responsibilities among natural gas undertakings , the Member States and the Union regarding both preventive action and the reaction to concrete disruptions of gas supply; transparent mechanisms concerning, in a spirit of solidarity, the coordination of planning for, and response to, emergencies at national, regional and Union level.
The main elements of the Regulation are:
enhanced regional cooperation and coordination set on risk-based groups of Member States mandatory regional preventive action plans and emergency plans, as well as regional risk assessments, to be prepared jointly by all member states within the same risk-group; establishment of a Gas Coordination Group to facilitate the coordination of measures concerning the security of gas supply; mandatory regional preventive action plans and emergency plans , as well as regional risk assessments, to be prepared jointly by all member states within the same risk-group. In this context, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG) shall, by 1 November 2017 at the latest, carry out a Union-wide simulation of gas supply and infrastructure disruption scenarios. This simulation shall be repeated at least every four years; the obligation for each Member State or its competent authority to ensure that the necessary measures are taken so that, in the event of the failure of the largest gas infrastructure , the technical capacity of the remaining infrastructure, is able to satisfy total gas demand of the calculated area during a day of exceptionally high gas demand occurring with a statistical probability of once in 20 years; the obligation for natural gas companies identified by the competent authorities to take measures to ensure the supply of gas to protected customers (i.e. households and customers providing essential social services) of the Member State, by example in the case of extreme temperatures during a peak period of 7 days or a period of 30 days of exceptionally high gas demand; a solidarity mechanism which will have a mandatory application in extreme crisis scenarios in which supply to solidarity protected customers as an essential need and a necessary priority is at stake in a Member State. At the same time, solidarity is a measure of last resort that applies only in an emergency and only under restrictive conditions. The Member State providing solidarity should be paid fair compensation promptly by the Member State receiving solidarity; increased control over the provisions of gas supply contracts : the Regulation provides for the obligation to automatically notify the competent authority of contracts between a supplier and a buyer covering the equivalent of 28% or more of the annual consumption of gas on the national market; specific obligations of the EU Member States towards the Energy Community , as well as Commission powers to coordinate the application of the legal framework between the EU and the Energy Community.
ENTRY INTO FORCE: 1.11.2017.
DELEGATED ACTS: the Commission may adopt delegated acts with regard to the composition of risk groups as well as templates for risk assessments and for preventive action plans and emergency plans. The power to adopt such acts is conferred on the Commission for a period of five years (renewable) from 1 November 2017. The European Parliament or the Council shall have the right to oppose a delegated act within a period of two months (extendable two months) from the notification of the act.
The European Parliament adopted by 567 votes to 61, with 23 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning measures to safeguard the security of gas supply and repealing Regulation (EU) No 994/2010.
The European Parliament’s position adopted at first reading following the ordinary legislative procedure amended the Commission proposal as follows:
Objective : the Regulation seeks to lay down provisions to safeguard the security of gas supply in the Union by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas, by allowing for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the gas supplies required, including solidarity measure of a last resort.
Responsibility : the amended text clarifies that the security of gas supply shall be the shared responsibility of natural gas undertakings, the Member States, in particular through their competent authorities, and the Commission.
For the purpose of the risk-based approach , risk groups should be defined based on the major transnational risks to the security of gas supply in the Union.
Those risk groups shall serve as the basis for enhanced regional cooperation to increase the security of gas supply and shall enable agreement on appropriate and effective cross-border measures of all Member States concerned within the risk groups or outside the risk groups along the emergency supply corridors.
The Commission may update the composition of the risk groups by means of a delegated act.
Annex I to the Regulation lists the risk groups of Member States which would serve as a basis for risk-based cooperation, namely risk groups supplied with gas via (i) the eastern corridor; (ii) the North Sea corridor; (iii) the North African corridor; and (iv) the Southeast corridor.
Risk assessment : competent authorities should assess all risk factors that could lead to the materialisation of the major transnational risk for which the risk group was created, including the breakdown of gas supply from the single largest supplier.
In order to contribute to common and national risk assessments, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSO) should conduct a Union-wide simulation of gas supply failure and infrastructure failures. This simulation should be repeated at least every two years.
Preventive action plans and contingency plans : the competent authority of each Member State should put in place such plans containing the measures necessary to eliminate or mitigate the identified risks. These plans should contain regional chapters when a Member State is part of different risk groups. The Commission would play a facilitating role in this context.
The Commission should assess the preventive action plans and emergency plans and recommend that plans be reviewed , in particular if they do not address the risks identified in the risk assessment, distort competition or adversely affect the functioning of the internal energy market or threaten the security of gas supply in other Member States.
The competent authority of the Member State should take account of the recommendations of the Commission. In case of disagreement with the Commission, the competent authority should make public the justification underlying its final position.
Protected customers : the Regulation aims to ensure that all necessary measures are taken to ensure the continuity of gas supply throughout the Union, in particular for protected customers.
The amended text clarified that the definition of solidarity protected customers should be limited to households , while still being able to include, under specific conditions, certain essential social services and district heating installations.
It is therefore possible for Member States to treat, in accordance with that framework, healthcare, essential social care, emergency and security services as solidarity protected customers , including where those services are performed by a public administration.
Solidarity : in order to guarantee cooperation with more vulnerable Member States, the Regulation provides for a solidarity mechanism designed to deal with extreme circumstances in which a Member State has the essential need to supply protected customers.
If a Member State has requested the application of the solidarity measure, a Member State which is directly connected to the requesting Member State or, where the Member State so provides, its competent authority or transmission system operator or distribution system operator shall as far as possible without creating unsafe situations, take the necessary measures to ensure that the gas supply to customers other than solidarity protected customers in its territory is reduced or does not continue to the extent necessary and for as long as the gas supply to solidarity protected customers in the requesting Member State is not satisfied.
At the same time, solidarity is a measure of last resort that applies only in an emergency and only under restrictive conditions. The Member State providing solidarity should be paid fair compensation promptly by the Member State receiving solidarity.
Transparency of contracts : in order to enable the competent authorities and the Commission to assess the state of gas supply security at national, regional and EU level, each natural gas undertaking shall notify the competent authority of certain details relating to gas supply contracts with a cross-border dimension and a duration of more than one year.
The amended text thus introduced the obligation to automatically notify the competent authority of contracts between a supplier and a buyer covering the equivalent of 28 % or more of the annual gas consumption on the national market.
The notification obligation shall also cover all commercial agreements that are relevant for the execution of the gas supply contract, including relevant agreements that may be related to infrastructure, storage and any other aspect important for the security of gas supply.
The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy adopted the report by Jerzy BUZEK (EPP, PL) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning measures to safeguard the security of gas supply and repealing Regulation (EU) No 994/2010.
The committee recommended that the European Parliament’s position adopted at first reading, following the ordinary legislative procedure, should amend the Commission proposal as follows:
Scope : this Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding, in the spirit of solidarity , the security of gas supply: (i) by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas ("gas"), based on credible gas demand trends; (ii) by allowing for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the required gas supplies to the protected customers and; (iii) by providing for a clear definition and attribution of responsibilities among natural gas undertakings, the Member States and the Union regarding both preventive action and immediate reaction to concrete disruptions of supply, either at the source or in transit.
Furthermore, this Regulation shall:
provide for transparent mechanisms for the coordination of planning for, and response to, an emergency at Member State, regional and Union level. encourage preventive measures reducing gas demand, including through measures enhancing energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy, in order to decrease the Union's dependence on gas imports.
Protected customer : Members proposed introducing a harmonised definition of protected customers at EU level.
According to the amended text, the national regulatory authority shall require the natural gas undertakings, that it identifies, to take measures, in close collaboration with electricity undertakings, to ensure that the supply of gas necessary for the security and health of the protected customers of the Member State is maintained in each of the cases stated in the Regulation.
Security of gas supply : the measures to ensure the security of gas supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined, to the extent possible market based, transparent, proportionate, non-discriminatory verifiable, sustainable and compatible with the Union's climate and energy objectives .
The composition of regions for the purposes of the regional cooperation as provided for in this Regulation shall also be based on the ability to satisfy gas demand of protected consumers during interruption from the single largest gas supplier.
Infrastructure standard : Member States shall ensure that, as a first step, the market is always tested in a transparent, detailed and non-discriminatory manner , to assess whether the investment intended to fulfil the obligations set out in the Regulation is required.
Gas flow through bi-directional interconnection points to a Member State which has declared an emergency shall have priority over gas flow to other points of the system of the Member State from which the gas is supplied and which has not declared an emergency.
Risk assessment : the competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall, in cooperation with any national regulatory authorities, jointly and after consulting the relevant stakeholders make an assessment:
by taking into account and drawing appropriate conclusions from the results of the Union-wide simulation of supply and infrastructure scenarios carried out by ENTSO for Gas;; by taking into account all relevant national, regional and inter-regional circumstances ; by running various scenarios of demand reduction resulting from energy efficiency measures; by running various scenarios of exceptionally high gas demand and supply disruption and assessing their likely consequences, such as: (i) geopolitical risks that may directly or indirectly affect the Member State by increased dependence or; (ii) the ability to satisfy the demand of protected customers in the region during supply disruption from the single largest supplier from a third country; by taking into account risks relating to the control of infrastructure relevant to security of gas supply by natural gas undertakings in a third country.
On the basis of the regional risks, the Commission shall carry out an EU-wide risk assessment , in cooperation with the Coordination Group, and send its conclusions to the European Parliament and the Council.
Content of the preventive action and emergency plans : the preventive action plans and the emergency plans shall take account of the Union wide simulations carried out by ENTSO for Gas for the preparation of the risk assessments, preventive action plans and emergency plans. The emergency plan shall identify the contribution of market-based measures, including voluntary demand aggregation , for coping with the situation at alert level and mitigating the situation at emergency level.
Declaration of crisis : during an emergency and on reasonable grounds, a Member State may decide to prioritise the gas supply to certain critical gas-fired power plants over the supply to certain categories of protected customers. Such critical gas-fired power plants shall be identified by the transmission system operators of the electricity system in coordination with the transmission system operators of the gas system.
Emergency Supply Corridors : as part of the Union-wide simulation, ENTSO for Gas shall identify and asses the Emergency Supply Corridors, which complement and facilitate the regional approach, along which gas can flow between regions in order to prevent fragmentation of the internal gas market.
The Union-wide simulation and the Emergency Supply Corridors shall be updated every four years.
Regional and Union emergency responses : upon receipt of a notification from a competent authority of the declaration of an early warning in a Member State, or on its own initiative, the Commission shall use appropriate external policy tools to prevent the deterioration of the situation in gas supply.
A Member State, in which an emergency has been declared and which, despite having implemented the measures provided for in the emergency plan, is not able to supply gas to protected customers, may call for solidarity measures to apply.
Information exchange : in the event of a regional or Union emergency, the Commission shall have the right to request the competent authority to provide information without delay on information on the measures planned to be undertaken and already implemented by the competent authority to mitigate the emergency, including demand-side measures.
Irrespective of a declaration of emergency, the competent authority may require natural gas undertakings to provide the information referred to in the Regulation.
The national regulatory authorities shall monitor the market supply structure and inform the relevant natural gas undertakings once the 40 % threshold of total annual gas imports from third countries to the Member State concerned is exceeded in the framework of gas supply contracts with the same supplier from a third country or from its affiliates.
PURPOSE: to safeguard the security of gas supply in the European Union.
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: Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning measures to safeguard security of gas supply has already had a significant positive impact on the Union situation as regards the security of the gas supply, both in terms of preparation and mitigation.
Member States are better prepared to face a supply crisis now that they are required to draw up plans including preventive and emergency measures, and they are better protected now that they have to meet a number of obligations regarding infrastructure capacity and gas supply.
Five years after the adoption of Regulation 994/2010, the security of the gas supply remains a highly topical issue , given the tensions prevailing between Ukraine and Russia:
the implementation report of Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 of October 2014 highlighted areas in which improvements to that Regulation could further bolster the Union supply security;
the Commission's Communication on the short-term resilience of the European gas system from October 2014 analysed the effects of a partial or complete disruption of gas supplies from Russia and concluded that purely national approaches are not very effective in the event of severe disruption, given their scope, which is by definition limited. This stress test showed how a more cooperative approach among Member States could significantly reduce the impact of very severe disruption scenarios in the most vulnerable Member States; the Commission Communication 'Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy' from February 2015, highlights the fact that the Energy Union rests on solidarity and trust, which are necessary features of energy security.
The increasing interconnection of the EU gas markets and the 'corridor approach' for enabling the reverse flows on gas interconnectors call for coordinated measures. Cooperation should also be extended to specific measures to foster solidarity between Member States in security of supply matters.
IMPACT ASSESSMENT: the Impact Assessment Board issued a positive opinion on 16 December 2015. Four policy options were examined and the option maintained consisted of ensuring a better coordination, with some principles/standards being set at EU level . This option: (i) will have a very limited overall impact on costs and prices; (ii) should be good for market participants and consumers; (iii) should help make the single energy market operate better.
CONTENT: this draft Regulation seeks to replace Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 and ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to safeguard an uninterrupted supply of gas throughout the Union , in particular to protected customers in the event of difficult climatic conditions or disruptions of the gas supply.
This Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding the security of gas supply by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas ("gas"), by:
allowing for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the required gas supplies; providing for a clear definition and attribution of responsibilities among natural gas undertakings, the Member States and the Union regarding both preventive action and the reaction to concrete disruptions of supply.
To meet this objective, the draft regulation proposes stronger regional coordination, with certain principles and standards being set at EU level . The approach proposed is that:
Member States should cooperate closely within their regions when conducting regional risk assessments ; in order to ensure EU-wide consistency, regional risk assessments will be conducted on the basis of an EU-wide simulation , with common standards and a specific scenario; risks identified through regional risk assessments will be addressed in regional preventive action plans and emergency plans , to be peer-reviewed and approved by the Commission.
To ensure that risk assessments and plans are comprehensive and consistent with one another, the Regulation sets out mandatory templates listing aspects that must be taken into account when conducting the risk assessment and drawing up the plans.
The Regulation also:
improves the application of the supply standard to protected customers (mainly households) and the infrastructure standard (the possibility of supplying gas even if the largest infrastructure is not available); enables permanent bi-directional capacity ; proposes the introduction of additional transparency measures concerning gas supply contracts ; as such contracts may affect security of supply in the EU.
DELEGATED ACTS: this 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.
Documents
- Final act published in Official Journal: Regulation 2017/1938
- Final act published in Official Journal: OJ L 280 28.10.2017, p. 0001
- Draft final act: 00022/2017/LEX
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament, 1st reading: T8-0327/2017
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2017)633
- Specific opinion: PE606.115
- Approval in committee of the text agreed at 1st reading interinstitutional negotiations: PE604.755
- Approval in committee of the text agreed at 1st reading interinstitutional negotiations: GEDA/A/(2017)005039
- Coreper letter confirming interinstitutional agreement: GEDA/A/(2017)005039
- Debate in Council: 3505
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading: A8-0310/2016
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES2264/2016
- Committee opinion: PE582.062
- Committee opinion: PE582.277
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE584.139
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE585.421
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE585.455
- Reasoned opinion: PE584.203
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Debate in Council: 3472
- Committee draft report: PE580.796
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Reasoned opinion: PE580.749
- Legislative proposal: COM(2016)0052
- Legislative proposal: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: SWD(2016)0025
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: SWD(2016)0026
- Legislative proposal: COM(2016)0052 EUR-Lex
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex SWD(2016)0025
- Document attached to the procedure: EUR-Lex SWD(2016)0026
- Reasoned opinion: PE580.749
- Committee draft report: PE580.796
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE584.139
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE585.421
- Amendments tabled in committee: PE585.455
- Reasoned opinion: PE584.203
- Committee opinion: PE582.062
- Committee opinion: PE582.277
- Economic and Social Committee: opinion, report: CES2264/2016
- Coreper letter confirming interinstitutional agreement: GEDA/A/(2017)005039
- Specific opinion: PE606.115
- Commission response to text adopted in plenary: SP(2017)633
- Draft final act: 00022/2017/LEX
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
- Contribution: COM(2016)0052
Activities
- Tim AKER
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Miguel ARIAS CAÑETE
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Zoltán BALCZÓ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Xabier BENITO ZILUAGA
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- Nicola CAPUTO
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- Edward CZESAK
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- Bill ETHERIDGE
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- Georgios EPITIDEIOS
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- Eleonora FORENZA
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- Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ
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- Krišjānis KARIŅŠ
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- Tunne KELAM
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- Jaromír KOHLÍČEK
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- Christelle LETARD-LECHEVALIER
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- Gesine MEISSNER
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- Dariusz ROSATI
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- Paul RÜBIG
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- Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER
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- Davor ŠKRLEC
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- Theodor Dumitru STOLOJAN
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- Adam SZEJNFELD
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- Michael THEURER
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- Pavel TELIČKA
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- Claude TURMES
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- Martina WERNER
Plenary Speeches (1)
Votes
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Amendments | Dossier |
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2016/0030(COD)
2016/06/15
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154 amendments...
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 3 3. Each Member State shall, without delay, notify to the Commission
Amendment 101 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 5 5. The Commission shall, where appropriate and with the agreement of all Member States without exception, coordinate the action of the competent authorities at regional and Union levels, as set out in this Regulation, inter alia, through the Gas Coordination Group referred to in Article 14 or the crisis management group referred to in Article
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 6. The measures to ensure the security of supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined, market based to the extent possible, transparent, proportionate, non-discriminatory and verifiable, shall not unduly distort competition and the effective functioning of the internal market in gas and shall not endanger the security of gas supply of other Member States or of the Union as a whole.
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 1 1. Each Member State or, where a Member State so provides, the competent authority shall strive to ensure that the necessary measures at the Member State’s disposal are taken so that in the event of a disruption of the single largest gas infrastructure, the technical capacity of the
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 1 1. Each Member State or
Amendment 105 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 3 3. Where appropriate, according to the risk assessment referred to in Article 6, the competent authorities of neighbouring Member States may, within their scope of competence, agree to jointly fulfil the obligation set out in paragraph 1 of this Article. In such case the competent authorities shall provide in the preventive action plan the calculation of the N-1 formula together with an explanation how the agreed arrangements fulfil this obligation. Point 5 of Annex II shall apply.
Amendment 106 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 6 6. In so far as an investment for enabling or enhancing permanent bi- directional capacity is not required by the market and where that investment incurs costs in more than one Member State or in one Member State for the benefit of another Member State, the national regulatory authorities of all Member States concerned shall jointly decide on cost allocation before any investment decision
Amendment 107 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 6 6. In so far as an investment for enabling or enhancing permanent bi- directional capacity is not required by the market and where that investment incurs costs in more than one Member State or in one Member State for the benefit of another Member State, the national regulatory authorities of all Member States concerned shall jointly decide on cost allocation before any investment decision is taken. The cost allocation shall in particular take into account the proportion of the benefits of the infrastructure investments for the increase of security of supply of the Member States concerned as well as investments already made in the infrastructure in question. Sufficient Union funding should be available to the Member States to facilitate those investments.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 7 7. The competent authority shall ensure that any new transmission infrastructure contributes to the security of supply through the development of a well- connected network, including, where appropriate, by means of a sufficient number of cross-border entry and exit points according to market demand and the risks identified. The competent authorities shall assess in the risk assessment whether internal bottlenecks exist and whether national entry capacity and infrastructures, in particular transmission networks, are capable of adapting
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 8 – introductory part 8. Luxembourg, Slovenia and Sweden shall, by way of exception, not be bound by, but shall endeavour to meet, the obligation set out in paragraph 1 of this Article, while ensuring
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2 Luxembourg, Slovenia and Sweden shall ensure, in a transparent, detailed and non- discriminatory manner, regular market testing for investments in infrastructure and make public the results of those tests. They shall inform the Commission, which shall in turn inform the Member States, of any change in respect of the conditions set out in that subparagraph. The exception laid down in the first subparagraph shall cease to apply where at least one of those conditions is no longer fulfilled.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 No later than 31 March 2017
Amendment 112 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 No later than 31 March 2017 Member States shall notify the Commission of their definition of protected customers, the annual gas consumption volumes of the protected customers and the percentage they represent of the total annual final gas consumption in that Member State. Where a Member State includes in its definition of protected customers the categories referred to in point (a) or (b) of Article 2 (1) it shall specify in the notification to the Commission the gas consumption volumes corresponding to consumers belonging to those categories and the percentage that each of those groups of consumers represents in terms of the annual final use of gas.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 Member States may comply with the obligation laid down in the first subparagraph by replacing the gas with different sources of energy to the extent that the same level of protection is achieved.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, commercial, social, political and other risks, in the context of a strategy which should call upon all the parties involved to refrain from any policy and actions which might lead to a problematic energy supply causing dysfunctionality in the states and the European market. The risk assessment shall be carried out by:
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly and in consultation with relevant stakeholders make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, commercial, social, political and other risks. The risk assessment shall be carried out by:
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make a
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii (ii) disruption of supplies from third country suppliers, as well as, where appropriate, geopolitical risks and a strategy shall be established to follow and evaluate relevant developments in order to prevent and take effective measures as soon as possible accordingly;
Amendment 118 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii (ii) disruption of supplies from third country suppliers
Amendment 119 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 The competent authorities within each region shall agree on a cooperation mechanism to conduct the risk assessment within the deadline provided for in paragraph 5 of this Article. Competent authorities shall report to the Gas Coordination Group on the agreed cooperation mechanism for conducting the risk assessment 18 months before the
Amendment 120 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 5 5. The risk assessment once agreed by all Member States in the region shall be
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 5 5. The risk assessment once agreed by all Member States in the region shall be
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 6. By 1 November 2017 ENTSO for Gas shall carry out a Union wide simulation of supply and infrastructure disruption scenarios. The scenarios shall be defined by ENTSO for Gas in consultation with the Gas Coordination Group. The competent authorities shall provide ENTSO for Gas with the necessary data for the simulations such as peak demand values, production capacity and demand side measures. The competent authorities shall take into account the results of the simulations for the preparation of the risk assessments, preventive action
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of the Member States of each region as listed in Annex I, after consulting the natural gas undertakings, the relevant organisations representing the interests of household and industrial gas customers, including electricity producers, and the national regulatory authorities, where they are not the competent authorities and after taking into account the content and structure of national plans and mechanisms, shall establish jointly:
Amendment 125 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 3 3. The preventive action plan and the emergency plan shall be developed in accordance with the templates contained in Annex V.
Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 3 3. The preventive action
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 4 4. The preventive action
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 Within four months of the notification by the competent authorities, the Commission shall duly assess those plans
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part The Commission shall issue an opinion to
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part The Commission shall issue an opinion to the competent authorities of the regions with the recommendation to review the relevant preventive action
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point c Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 1 Within three months of notification of the Commission
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 In the event of disagreement, the Commission may, within three months of the reply of the competent authorities,
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 8 8. The preventive action
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) the definition of protected customers in each Member State of the region and the information described in the second subparagraph of Article 5(1); the definition of protected customers should be harmonised at Union level;
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 3 3. The preventive action plan shall be based primarily on market measures and shall not put an undue burden on natural gas undertakings, or negatively impact
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 The impact assessment and
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point a (a) likely to distort the Union internal market negatively;
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 3 The adopted measure shall only enter into force when it is approved by the Commission or has been amended in accordance with the Commission decision and in consultation with the Member States.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) clearly define the role and responsibilities of natural gas undertakings and of industrial gas customers including relevant electricity producers, taking account of the different extent to which they are affected in the event of gas supply disruptions, and their interaction with the competent authorities and where appropriate with the national regulatory authorities at each of the crisis levels defined in Article 10(1);
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point e (e) identify, if appropriate, the measures and actions to be taken to mitigate the potential impact of a gas supply disruption on district heating and the supply of electricity generated from gas, taking into account regional specificities;
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point k Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point n Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point n (n) establish a list of possible predefined actions to make gas made available in the event of an emergency, including commercial agreements between the parties involved in such actions and the compensation mechanisms for natural gas undertakings where appropriate, taking due account of the confidentiality of sensitive data. Such actions may involve cross- border agreements between Member States and/or natural gas undertakings.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 9 – paragraph 3 3. The emergency plan shall be updated every four years after 1 March 2019, unless circumstances warrant more frequent updates
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) alert level (alert): when a supply disruption or exceptionally high gas demand occurs
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 3 3. When the competent authority declares an emergency, it shall follow the pre-defined action as set out in its emergency plan and shall immediately inform the Commission, the Member States and the competent authorities in the region in particular of the action it intends to take. In duly justified exceptional circumstances, the competent authority may take action deviating from the emergency plan. The competent authority shall immediately inform the Commission and the competent authorities in the region of any such action and shall provide a justification therefore.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 3 3. When the competent authority declares an emergency, it shall follow the pre-defined action as set out in its emergency plan and shall immediately inform the Commission and the competent authorities in the region in particular of the action it intends to take. In duly justified exceptional circumstances, the competent authority may take action deviating from the emergency plan. The competent authority shall immediately inform the Commission and the competent authorities in the region of any such action and shall provide a substantive justification therefor
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 4 – point b (b) no measures are introduced that are likely to endanger
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 The Commission shall verify, as soon as possible, but in any case within five days of receiving the information of the competent authority referred to in paragraph 2, whether the declaration of an emergency is justified in accordance with point (c) of paragraph 1 and whether the measures taken follow as closely as possible the actions listed in the emergency plan and are not imposing an undue burden on natural gas undertakings and are in accordance with paragraph 4. The Commission may, at the request of a competent authority
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 10 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 Within three days of the notification of the Commission request, the competent authority shall modify the measures and notify the Commission thereof, or shall inform the Commission of the reasons for which it does not agree with the request. In that case, the Commission may within three days amend or withdraw its request or, in order to consider the issue, convene the competent authority or, where appropriate, the competent authorities concerned, and, where the Commission deems it necessary, the Gas Coordination Group. The Commission shall set out its detailed reasoning for requesting any changes to the action. The competent authority shall take
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 11 – paragraph 1 1. At the request of a competent authority that has declared an emergency and following the verification in accordance with Article 10(5), the Commission may declare a regional or Union-wide emergency. At the request of at least two competent authorities that have declared a
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 11 – paragraph 1 1. At the request of a competent authority that has declared an emergency and following the verification in accordance with Article 10(5), the Commission may declare a regional or Union emergency. At the request of at least
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 11 – paragraph 5 – point b (b) no measures are introduced that are likely to endanger
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 11 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 Within three days of notification of the Commission request, the Member State or the competent authority shall change its action and notify the Commission or
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 11 – paragraph 7 7. The Commission, after consulting the Gas Coordination Group, shall support the establishment of a permanent reserve list for a monitoring task force consisting of industry experts and representatives of the Commission. This monitoring task force may be deployed outside the Union when necessary and shall monitor and report on the gas flows into the Union, in cooperation with the supplying and
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 The first subparagraph shall apply to essential social services and district heating installations to the extent they are covered by the definition of protected customers applied by the competent authorities in the respective Member State.
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 4 4. The technical, legal and financial arrangements for the application of paragraph 3 shall be agreed among the Member States which are directly connected to each other and described in the emergency plans of their respective regions. Such arrangements may cover, among others, gas prices to be applied, use of interconnectors, including bi-directional capacity, gas volumes and the coverage of compensation costs. Market-based measures such as auctions shall be preferred for the implementation of the obligation laid down in paragraph 3. Those gas prices and compensation costs and mechanisms shall be reviewed regularly. In case the technical, legal and financial
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 4 4. The technical, legal and financial arrangements for the application of paragraph 3 shall be agreed a
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 4 4. The technical, legal and financial arrangements for the application of paragraph 3 shall be agreed among the Member States, which are directly connected to each other and described in the emergency plans of their respective regions and a supporting role of the Commission. Such arrangements may cover, among others, gas prices to be applied, use of interconnectors, including bi-directional capacity, gas volumes and the coverage of compensation costs. Market-based measures such as auctions shall be preferred for the implementation of the obligation laid down in paragraph 3. In case the technical, legal and financial arrangements necessary to apply paragraph 3 are amended, the relevant emergency plan shall be updated accordingly.
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 12 – paragraph 6 6. If the Member States do not agree on the necessary technical, legal and financial arrangements, the Commission may propose a framework for such measures in its opinion and decision on the plans with a view to strengthening the solidarity clause.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 2 – introductory part 2. In the event of a regional or Union emergency, the Commission is entitled to request that the competent authority provide it without delay with
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 5 5. Where the Commission considers that the gas supply in a region or the Union as whole is affected or is likely to be affected it may require the competent authorities to collect and submit to the Commission information necessary to assess the situation of the gas supply in the Union. The Commission
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 6 – point b Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 6 – point b (b) to the competent authority and to the Commission immediately after their conclusion or modification the gas supply contracts with a duration of more than 1 year concluded or modified after [OP: Please insert the date of entry in force of this Regulation] that
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 13 – paragraph 7 Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 14 – paragraph 1 1. A Gas Coordination Group is established to
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 14 – paragraph 2 – point b Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 15 – paragraph 1 Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 15 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The second sentence of Article 3(2), Article 3(6), Article 4(3), (4) and (6), Article 5(2), point (d) of Article 6(1), points (b) and (e) of Article 7(5), points (e), (g), (i), of Article 8(1), point (b) and (c) of Article 8(4), points (j) and (m) of
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 16 – paragraph 2 The Commission, on the basis of the assessments referred to in Article 7(5) shall
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 17 – paragraph 1 The risk assessment,
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 19 – paragraph 1 – introductory part This Regulation shall not apply to Malta and Cyprus
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) Natural gas (gas) remains an essential component of the energy supply of the Union. A large proportion of such gas is imported into the Union from third countries, and some Member States therefore depend largely or wholly on gas supplied by third country monopolies.
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) Natural gas (gas) remains an essential component of the energy supply of the Union.
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) A major disruption of the gas
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) A major disruption of the gas supply can affect all Member States, the Union as a whole and Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the Energy Community, signed in Athens on 25 October 2005. It can also
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) A major disruption of the gas supply even in one Member State can affect all Member States, the Union as a whole and Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the Energy Community, signed in Athens on
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) A major disruption of the gas supply can affect all Member States, the Union as a whole and Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the Energy Community, signed in Athens on 25 October 2005. It can also severely damage the Union economy and can have a major societal impact, particularly on vulnerable groups of customers.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 3 (3) This Regulation aims to ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to safeguard an uninterrupted supply of gas throughout the Union, in particular to protected customers in the event of difficult climatic conditions or disruptions of the gas supply. These objectives should be achieved through the most cost-effective measures and in such a way that energy
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 3 (3) This Regulation aims to ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to safeguard an uninterrupted supply of gas throughout the Union, in particular to protected customers in the event of difficult climatic conditions or disruptions of the gas supply. These objectives should be achieved through the most cost-effective measures, through proportional and non- discriminatory mechanisms, and in such a way that energy markets are not distorted.
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 3 (3) This Regulation aims to ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to safeguard an uninterrupted supply of gas throughout the Union, in particular to protected customers in the event of difficult climatic conditions or disruptions of the gas supply. These objectives should
Amendment 30 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 3 a (new) (3a) This Regulation is to be implemented in challenging times, with global energy markets adversely affected by Russian invasion of Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea in 2014, further tensions in the area of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, the Isis control over petrol and gas supplies in the occupied territories, as well as tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 4 (4) Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 concerning measures to safeguard security of gas supply has already had a significant positive impact on the Union situation as regards the security of the gas supply, both in terms of preparation and mitigation. Some Member States are better prepared to face a
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 5 (5) The Commission’s Communication on the short-term resilience of the European gas system from October 201413 analysed the effects of a partial or complete disruption of gas supplies from Russia and concluded that purely national approaches are not very effective in the event of severe disruption, given their scope, which is by definition limited, and the inadequate coordination, especially at regional level. This stress test showed how a more cooperative approach among Member States could significantly reduce the impact of very severe disruption scenarios in the most vulnerable Member States. __________________ 13 COM(2014) 654 final. COM(2014) 654 final.
Amendment 33 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 5 (5) The Commission’s Communication on the short-term resilience of the European gas system from October 201413 analysed the effects of a partial or complete disruption of gas supplies from Russia and concluded that purely national approaches are not very effective in the event of severe disruption, given their scope, which is by definition limited. This stress test showed how a more cooperative approach among Member States could
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 5 a (new) (5a) In order to safeguard the European Union’s energy supply, it is necessary to diversify energy sources and build new energy interconnections between Member States. At the same time, it is essential to increase energy-security cooperation with the European Union’s neighbouring countries, with strategic partners and also among the European institutions.
Amendment 35 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication ‘Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy’14 from February 2015, highlights the fact that the Energy Union rests on solidarity and trust, which are necessary features of energy security. This regulation should aim to boost solidarity and trust between the Member States and should put in place the measures needed to achieve these aims, thus paving the way for implementing the Energy Union. The Union should therefore support only those diversification-oriented projects that are fully in line with Union law and Union principles as well as with the Union’s long-term policy objectives and priorities. __________________ 14 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank, COM(2015) 80 final.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication ‘Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy’14 from February 2015, highlights the fact that the Energy Union rests on solidarity and trust, which are necessary features of energy security. This regulation should aim to boost solidarity and trust between the Member States and should put in place the measures needed to achieve these aims
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 a (new) (6a) In order to create a stable, flexible internal energy market, greater interaction should be ensured between the electricity and gas systems so that, should the gas supply be disrupted, electricity or other alternative energy sources could be used instead.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly is the best guarantee of security of energy supply across the Union and to reduce the exposure of individual Member States to the harmful effects of supply disruptions. Where a Member State’s security of supply is threatened, there is a risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and damage the gas supply to customers in other Member States. To
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly is the best guarantee of security of energy supply across the Union and to reduce the exposure of individual Member States to the harmful effects of supply disruptions. Where a Member State’s security of supply is threatened, there is a risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and damage the gas supply to customers in other Member States. To allow the internal gas market to function even in the face of a shortage of supply, provision
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly is the best guarantee of security of energy supply across the Union and to reduce the exposure of individual Member States to the harmful effects of supply disruptions. Where a Member State’s security of supply is threatened, there is a risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and damage the gas supply to customers in other Member States. To allow the internal gas market to function even in the face of a shortage of supply, provision must be made for solidarity and coordination in the response to
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly is the best guarantee of security of energy supply across the Union and to reduce the exposure of individual Member States to the harmful effects of supply disruptions. Where a Member State’s security of supply is threatened, there is a risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and damage the gas supply to customers in other Member States. To
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity, regional cooperation, involving both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be the guiding principle of this Regulation, to identify the relevant risks in each region and optimise the benefits of coordinated measures to mitigate them and to implement the most cost-effective measures for Union consumers. Solidarity should take shape at three levels: regional, inter-regional and Union.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of respect to market economy principles, solidarity, regional cooperation, involving both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be the guiding principle of this Regulation, to identify the relevant risks in
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity, regional cooperation, involving both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be the guiding principle of this Regulation, to identify the relevant risks in each region and optimise the benefits of coordinated measures to mitigate
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity,
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 (10) Certain customers, including households and customers providing essential social services, are particularly vulnerable and may need greater social protection
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 (10) Certain customers, including households and customers providing essential social services, are particularly vulnerable and may need social protection. A definition of such protected customers should not conflict with the Union solidarity mechanisms and should be harmonised at Union level.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 (10) Certain customers, including households and customers providing essential social services, are particularly vulnerable and
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 (11) Responsibility for security of gas supply should be shared by natural gas undertakings
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 13 (13) The infrastructure standard should
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 13 (13) The infrastructure standard should
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 14 (14) Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 requires transmission system operators to enable permanent bi-directional capacity on all cross-border interconnections unless an exemption has been granted from this obligation. It aims to ensure that the possible benefits of permanent bi- directional capacity are always taken into account when a new interconnector is planned. However, bi-directional capacity can be used to supply gas both to the neighbouring Member State and to others along the gas supply corridor. The benefits for security of supply of enabling permanent bi-directional capacity thus need to be seen in a broader perspective, in a spirit of solidarity and enhanced cooperation.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 15 (15) Council Directive 2008/114/EC16
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 17 (17) A regional approach to assessing risks and defining and adopting preventive and mitigating measures enables efforts to be coordinated, bringing significant benefits in terms of the effectiveness of measures and optimisation of resources. This applies particularly to measures designed to guarantee a continued supply, under very demanding conditions, to protected customers, and to measures to mitigate the impact of an emergency. Assessing correlated risks at regional level, which is both more comprehensive and more precise, will ensure that Member States are better prepared for any crises. Moreover, in an emergency, a coordinated and pre-agreed approach to security of supply ensures a consistent response and reduces the risk of negative spill-over effects that purely national measures could have in neighbouring Member States. The responsibility of the Member States for their national security of supply standards should not however be hampered by taking the regional approach.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) The regions are to be defined, as far as possible, on the basis of existing regional cooperation structures set up by the Member States and the Commission, in particular the regional groups set up under Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure17 (the TEN-E Regulation). However, since this Regulation and the TEN-E Regulation have different aims, the respective regional groups may differ in size and design. The regional cooperation structures should be flexible and able to adapt to changes in energy dynamic, including through reconfiguration. __________________ 17 Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2013 on guidelines for trans- European energy infrastructure and repealing Decision No 1364/2006/EC and amending Regulation (EC) No 713/2009, (EC) 714/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 (OJ EU L 115 of 25.4.2013, p. 39).
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when defining the regional groups: supply patterns, existing and planned corridors, interconnections and interconnection capacity between Member States, market development and maturity, existing regional cooperation structures, and the number of Member States in a region, which should be limited to ensure that the group remains of a manageable size.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional cooperation feasible, Member States should establish a cooperation mechanism within each region. Such mechanism or mechanisms should be developed sufficiently in time to allow for conducting the risk assessment and drawing up meaningful plans at regional level. Member States are free to agree on a cooperation mechanism best suited for a given region.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional cooperation feasible, Member States should establish a cooperation mechanism within each region. Such mechanism or mechanisms should be developed sufficiently in time to allow for conducting the risk assessment and drawing up meaningful plans at regional level. Member States are free to agree on a cooperation mechanism best suited for a given region. The Commission should have a facilitating role in the overall process and
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, infrastructural, commercial, financial, social, political
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, infrastructural, commercial, financial, social, political and market-
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, commercial, financial, social, geo-strategic, political and market-
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 (23) To ensure maximum preparedness, so as to avoid a supply disruption and mitigate its effects should it nevertheless occur, the competent authorities of a given region must draw up preventive action plans and emergency, after consulting stakeholders. Regional plans should take account of the specific characteristics of each Member State. Alternative routes and energy suppliers need to be identified and developed especially for those Member States that depend on a single supplier. They should also clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the natural gas undertakings and the competent authorities. National measures to be designed should take fully account of the regional measures set out in the preventive action plan and emergency plan. They should be so designed as to address national risks in a way that takes full advantage of the opportunities provided by regional cooperation. The plans should be technical and operational in nature, their function being to help prevent the occurrence or escalation of an emergency and to mitigate its effects. The plans should take the security of electricity systems into account and be consistent with the Energy Union’s strategic planning and reporting tools.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 (23) To ensure maximum preparedness, so as to avoid a supply disruption and mitigate its effects should it nevertheless occur, the competent authorities of a given region must draw up preventive action plans and emergency, after consulting stakeholders. Regional plans should take account of the specific characteristics of each Member State. They should also clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the natural gas undertakings and the competent authorities. National measures to be designed should take fully account of the regional measures set out in the preventive action
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 24 (24) The roles and responsibilities of all
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 24 (24) The roles and responsibilities of all natural gas undertakings and the roles of the competent authorities should therefore be
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 25 (25) In the event of a supply crisis, market players should be given
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 26 (26) Whenever Member States plan to introduce non-market-based measures, such measures should be accompanied by a description of their economic impact. This ensures
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 (28) Demand-side measures, such as fuel switching or a reduction in
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 (28) Demand-side measures, such as fuel switching or reducing the gas supply to large industrial consumers in an economically efficient order, may have a valuable role to play in ensuring energy security, if they can be applied quickly and
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 29 (29) When drawing up and implementing the preventive action plan and the emergency plan, the competent authorities should, at all times, take account of the safe operation of the gas system at regional and national levels. They must address and set out in those plans the technical constraints affecting the operation of the network, including any technical and safety reasons for reduc
Amendment 72 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 31 (31) It is necessary to
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 32 (32) The preventive action
Amendment 74 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 33 (33) To ensure that the emergency plans are always up-to-date and effective, Member States should be given the opportunity to carry out tests between the update-phases of the plans
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 34 (34)
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36)
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, if the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States, even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggered to ensure the supply to households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member State experiencing the emergency. Member States should identify and describe the details of these solidarity measures in their emergency plans, ensuring fair and equitable compensation of the natural gas undertakings. The Commission should also ensure that dominant gas suppliers in a region do not abuse their position in breach of Union competition law, with particular reference to unfair prices charged in Member States.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test,
Amendment 79 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 37 (37) European solidarity should also, where needed, take the form of civil protection assistance provided by the Union and its Member States. Such assistance should be facilitated and coordinated by the Union Civil Protection Mechanism established by Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council20 aiming to strengthen the cooperation between the Union and the Member States and to facilitate coordination in the field of civil protection in order to improve the effectiveness of systems for preventing, preparing for, and
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 38 (38) To assess the security of supply situation of a given Member State
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 38 (38) To assess the security of supply situation of a given Member State or region or of the Union, access to the relevant information is essential. In particular, Member States and the Commission need regular access to information from natural gas undertakings regarding the main parameters of the gas supply as a fundamental input in the design of the security of supply policies. Under duly justified circumstances, irrespective of a declaration of emergency, access should also be possible to additional information needed to assess the overall gas supply situation. That additional information would typically be non-price-related gas delivery information, e.g. minimum and maximum gas volumes, delivery points or supply margins. It could, for example, be requested in the event of changes in the pattern of the gas supply to a given buyer or buyers in a Member State which would not be expected if the markets were functioning normally and which could affect the gas supply of the Union or parts of it. If the information provided is considered by the provider to be one containing commercial secrets, the information will be treated as such.
Amendment 82 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries should be made more transparent and compatible with the Union energy security provisions.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries
Amendment 84 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 (41) One of the Union goals is to strengthen the Energy Community
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 (41) One of the Union goals is to
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 (42) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 (42) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to the Union. This can be achieved when energy and external policies are coordinated in a consistent manner. The Commission should be entitled to deploy a task force to monitor gas flows into the Union in crisis situations, in consultation with the third countries involved, and, where a crisis arises from difficulties in a third country, to act as mediator and facilitator.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 (42) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to the Union. The Commission should
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 44 (44) The Member States acting on their own cannot satisfactorily achieve the objective of this Regulation, namely to guarantee a secure gas supply within the Union. National risk assessments and strategies are not sufficient. Given the scale or effects of the action, it is better achieved at Union level. The Union may therefore adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 44 (44) The Member States acting on their own cannot satisfactorily achieve the objective of this Regulation regarding Union-wide efforts, namely to guarantee a secure gas supply
Amendment 91 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 45 (45) To allow for a swift Union response to changing circumstances as regards threats to the security of gas supply, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 – paragraph 1 This Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding the security of gas supply by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas (“gas”), by allowing for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the required gas supplies and by providing for a clear definition and attribution of responsibilities among natural gas undertakings, the Member States and the Union regarding both preventive action and the reaction to concrete disruptions of supply. This Regulation also provides transparent mechanisms, in a spirit of solidarity, for the coordination of planning for, and response to, an emergency at Member State, regional and Union levels in order to strengthen the Energy Union and energy security.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 – paragraph 1 This Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding the security of gas supply by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas ("gas"), by allowing for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the required gas supplies and by providing for a clear definition and attribution of responsibilities among natural gas undertakings, the Member States and the Union regarding both preventive action and the reaction to concrete disruptions of supply. This Regulation also provides for transparent mechanisms, in a spirit of solidarity, for the coordination of planning for, and response to, an emergency at Member State, regional and Union levels.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point 1 – introductory part (1) ‘protected customer’ means a household customer connected to a gas distribution network and, in addition,
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – paragraph 2 – point 1 – point a (a) a small or medium-sized enterprise, provided that it is connected to a gas distribution network where there are strong grounds, or an essential social service, provided that it is connected to a gas distribution or transmission network, and provided that such enterprises or services do not represent jointly more than 20 % of the total annual final gas consumption in that Member State;
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 1. Security of gas supply shall be a shared responsibility of natural gas undertakings, Member States, notably through their competent authorities
Amendment 97 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Security of gas supply shall also ensure affordable prices of energy for citizens across the Union, to combat energetic poverty.
Amendment 98 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 2 2. Each Member State shall designate a national governmental authority or a national regulatory authority delegate as its competent authority that ensures the proper and efficient implementation of the measures provided for in this Regulation. Competent authorities shall cooperate with each other
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 3 3.
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Amendment 126 #
Proposal for a regulation Title 1 Proposal for a
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a regulation Citation 3 a (new) Having regard to the reasoned opinion of 30 March 2016 of the Austrian Federal Council on the Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning measures to safeguard the security of gas supply and repealing Regulation (EU) No 994/2010,
Amendment 128 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) Natural gas (gas)
Amendment 129 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) Natural gas (gas)
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) Natural gas (gas) remains an essential component of the energy supply of the Union. A large proportion of such gas is imported into the Union from third countries, and some Member States therefore depend largely or wholly on gas supplied by third country monopolies.
Amendment 131 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) Natural gas (gas) remains an essential component of the energy supply of the Union. A large proportion of such gas is imported into the Union from third countries, of which one is notable for being the single largest supplier.
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) Natural gas (gas) remains an essential component of the energy supply of the Union.
Amendment 133 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 (1) Natural gas (gas) remains an essential component of the energy supply
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 a (new) (1a) In signing on 26 April 2016 the Paris Agreement on climate change (COP 21), the EU is committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in order to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C. Gas is a fossil fuel with an important contribution to climate change due to the significant amount of methane – a powerful greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 86 times higher than CO2 on a 20-year timescale – leaked all along its lifecycle (production, transport, consumption).
Amendment 135 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 a (new) (1a) The European Union is committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80- 95% below 1990 levels by 2050 and to holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 ºC above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 ºC. To reach this objectives, 80% of the world's known fossil fuels reserves need to stay in the ground. Therefore this objectives will require to organise an important phase-out of oil, coal and gas during the next 35 years.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 a (new) (1a) The Union is committed to lessening its dependency on fossil fuels and to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions consistently with the commitment to holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above preindustrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.
Amendment 137 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 b (new) (1b) Since the year 2000, the EU gas demand has declined by 14%, partly due to the economic crisis, but also due to the implementation of energy efficiency policies. The Union's climate and energy objectives and the transition towards a low-carbon economy will continue to have a significant impact on the demand for gas. Any future analysis of gas demand should therefore take these trends and targets into account.
Amendment 138 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 b (new) (1b) The European gas demand has declined by 14% since 2000 and by 23% since 2010. Higher targets and additional efforts on energy efficiency -following the 'energy efficiency first' principle- will reduce Europe's reliance on gas imports, increase Europe's energy security and achieve Europe's climate objectives. Hence energy efficiency measures should be considered as the first fuel and be given primary consideration in security of gas supply plans.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 b (new) (1b) Gas highly contributes to climate change due to the significant amount of methane leaked all along its lifecycle. Therefore, it does not represent a low- carbon energy sources.
Amendment 140 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 c (new) (1c) Access to affordable energy is a basic social right and energy poverty must be tackled.
Amendment 141 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 1 d (new) (1d) As the gas accounts for almost 50% of the EU´s primary energy consumption for heating and cooling, of which 80% is used in buildings, Member States should primarily focus on energy efficiency measures, particularly in the buildings, in order to reduce gas demand and thus EU dependence on foreign suppliers.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) A major disruption of the gas supply can affect all Member States
Amendment 143 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) A major disruption of the gas supply can affect a
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) A major disruption of the gas supply can affect all Member States, the Union as a whole and Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the Energy Community, signed in Athens on 25 October 2005. It can also
Amendment 145 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 2 (2) A major disruption of the gas supply even in one Member State can affect all Member States, the Union as a whole and Contracting Parties to the Treaty establishing the Energy Community, signed in Athens on 25 October 2005. It can also severely damage the Union economy and can have a major social impact, particularly on vulnerable groups of customers.
Amendment 146 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 3 (3) This Regulation aims to ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to safeguard a
Amendment 147 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 3 (3) This Regulation aims to ensure that all the necessary measures are taken to safeguard an uninterrupted supply of gas throughout the Union, in particular to protected customers in the event of difficult climatic conditions or disruptions of
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 3 a (new) (3a) The Commission's Communication on Energy Efficiency (COM(2014)520), highlighted that energy efficiency has a fundamental role to play in the transition towards a more competitive, secure and sustainable energy system with an internal energy market at its core. Saving energy and reducing gas consumption should therefore be a priority to secure gas supply and improve Europe's energy independence. Member States should give energy efficiency primary consideration to decrease the use of gas, particularly in the construction and renovation of buildings as gas accounts for around half of the EU principal energy consumption for heating and cooling.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 4 (4) Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 October 2010 concerning measures to safeguard security of gas supply has already had a significant positive impact on the Union situation as regards the security of the gas supply, both in terms of preparation and mitigation. Member States are better prepared to face a supply crisis now that they are required to draw up plans including preventive and emergency measures, and they are better protected now that they have to meet a number of obligations regarding infrastructure capacity and gas supply.
Amendment 150 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 5 (5) The Commission's Communication on the short-term resilience of the European gas system from October 201413 analysed the effects of a partial or complete disruption of gas supplies from Russia and concluded that
Amendment 151 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 5 (5) The Commission's Communication on the short-term resilience of the European gas system from October 201413 analysed the effects of a partial or complete disruption of
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 5 (5) The Commission’s Communication on the short-term resilience of the European gas system from October 201413 analysed the effects of a partial or complete disruption of gas supplies from Russia and concluded that purely national approaches are not very effective in the event of severe disruption, given their scope, which is by definition limited, and the inadequate coordination, especially at regional level. This stress test showed how a more cooperative approach among Member States could significantly reduce the impact of very severe disruption scenarios in the most vulnerable Member States. __________________ 13 COM(2014) 654 final. COM(2014) 654 final.
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 5 a (new) (5a) The Commission's Communication of the 2050 Energy Roadmap highlights that fossil fuels such as gas will need to be phased out by 2050. New gas infrastructure should therefore only be prioritised in case of utmost necessity and should always respond to a real gas demand, in order to avoid the creation of a new carbon lock-in and of possible stranded assets.
Amendment 154 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 5 a (new) (5a) Stress tests showed that Europe's current gas infrastructure is largely resilient to a wide range of demand futures and extreme supply disruption cases. Hence better security of gas supply can be achieved thanks to a more liquid internal market and greater regional cooperation without the need to build additional infrastructure in order to avoid the creation of a new carbon lock-in and of possible stranded assets.
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6)
Amendment 156 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication 'Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy
Amendment 157 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication 'Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy'14 from February 2015, highlights the fact that the Energy Union rests on solidarity and trust, which are necessary features of energy security. This
Amendment 158 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication 'Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy'14 from February 2015, highlights the fact that the Energy Union rests on solidarity and trust, which are necessary features of all aspects of common life and accordingly also of energy security. This regulation should aim to boost solidarity and trust between the Member States and should put in place the measures needed to achieve these aims, thus paving the way for implementing the Energy Union. __________________ 14 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank, COM(2015) 80 final.
Amendment 159 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication 'Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy'
Amendment 160 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication ‘Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy’14 from February 2015, highlights the fact that the Energy Union rests on solidarity and trust, which are necessary features of energy security and sustainability. This
Amendment 161 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 (6) The Commission Communication 'Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy'14 from February 2015, highlights the fact that the Energy Union rests on solidarity and trust, which are necessary features of energy security. This regulation should aim to boost solidarity and trust between the Member States and should put in place the measures needed to achieve these aims, thus
Amendment 162 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 a (new) (6a) Energy efficiency first is a central principle of the Energy Union strategy. It is the most effective way to cut emissions, bring savings to consumers, protect the most vulnerable, and reduce the EU's fossil fuel import dependency. First and foremost, security of supply means minimising the Union's gas dependency by becoming more energy efficient. For every 1% improvement in energy efficiency, EU gas imports fall by 2.6%. Policies and measures to reduce gas consumption by improving energy efficiency, particularly in buildings, should therefore be included in preventive action plans.
Amendment 163 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 6 a (new) (6a) Energy efficiency measures has a fundamental role to play towards a secure energy system. Reduced gas consumption should be a priority to insure Europe's energy sovereignty and secure gas supply.
Amendment 164 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market
Amendment 165 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) A
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly and in accordance with market principles, competition rules and the legislation and principles laid down in the Third Energy Package, as well as the aims and visions of the Energy Union, is the best guarantee of security of energy supply across the Union and to reduce the exposure of individual Member States to the harmful effects of supply disruptions. Where a Member State's security of supply is threatened, there is a risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and damage the gas supply to customers in other Member States. To allow the internal gas market to function even in the face of a shortage of supply, provision must be made for solidarity and coordination in the response to supply crises, as regards both preventive action and the reaction to actual disruptions of supply.
Amendment 167 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly
Amendment 168 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly is the best guarantee of security of energy supply across the Union and to reduce the exposure of individual Member States to the harmful effects of supply disruptions. Where a Member State's security of supply is threatened, there is a risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and damage the gas supply to customers in other Member States. To allow the internal gas market to function even in the face of a shortage of supply, provision must be made for solidarity and coordination in the response to
Amendment 169 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7)
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly is the best guarantee of security of energy supply across the Union and to reduce the exposure of individual Member States to the harmful effects of supply disruptions. Where a Member State's security of supply is threatened, there is a risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and damage the gas supply to customers in other Member States. To allow the internal gas market to function even in the face of a shortage of supply, provision must be made for solidarity and coordination in the response to supply crises, as regards
Amendment 171 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An inter
Amendment 172 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 (7) An internal gas market that operates smoothly is the best guarantee of security of energy supply across the Union, a
Amendment 174 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 a (new) (7a) A truly interconnected internal energy market with multiple entry points and reverse flows can only be created by fully interconnecting its gas grids, by building up LNG hubs in Southern and Eastern Europe, by completing the North- South and Southern Gas corridors and by further developing indigenous production; therefore an accelerated development of interconnectors and projects aimed at diversifying supply sources as already shortlisted in the Energy Security Strategy is necessary.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 7 a (new) (7a) The Union and the Member States should aim at diversification of energy sources, supply routes and suppliers fully in line with the EU law and policies and thus avoid projects which, while maybe addressing the interests of some Member States, have negative implications on energy security of other Member States, the Union and its partners. Projects not meeting these objectives should not be financed by the EU.
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 8 (8) So far, the potential
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 8 (8) So far, the potential for more efficient and
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 8 (8) So far, the potential
Amendment 179 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 8 (8) So far, the potential
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 8 a (new) (8a) Regional approaches both among Member States and with the Energy Community Contracting Parties will speed up market integration, including through the creation of regional hubs to enhance market liquidity; such cooperation mechanisms could streamline political and energy market co-operation and facilitate joint decisions on essential gas infrastructure investment in the regions; knowledge and information could be developed jointly on issues such as energy storage facilities, and tendering processes for LNG and interconnectors.
Amendment 181 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of respect to market economy principles, solidarity, regional cooperation
Amendment 182 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity, regional cooperation, which involv
Amendment 183 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity, regional cooperation, involving both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be the guiding principle of this
Amendment 184 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity, enhanced regional cooperation, involving both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be the guiding principle of this Regulation, to identify the relevant risks in each region and optimise the benefits of coordinated measures to mitigate them and to implement the most
Amendment 185 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity, regional cooperation, involving both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be the guiding principle of this Regulation, to identify the relevant r
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity, regional cooperation, involving both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be the guiding principle of this Regulation, to identify the relevant r
Amendment 187 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 (9) In a spirit of solidarity,
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 a (new) (9a) In a spirit of system integration, cooperation between electricity and gas authorities and undertakings should be another guiding principle of this regulation, to identify the relevant synergies between gas and electricity system development and operation, and optimise the benefits of coordinated approaches to implementing the most cost-effective measures for EU consumers.
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 9 a (new) (9a) The added value of Iberian gas must be taken into account given its unleashed potential to enhance the security of gas supply.
Amendment 190 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 (10) Certain customers, including households and
Amendment 191 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 10 (10) Certain customers, including
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 (11) Responsibility for security of gas supply should be shared by natural gas undertakings, Member States, acting through their competent authorities; and the Commission, within their respective remits. Such shared responsibility requires very close cooperation between th
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 (11) Responsibility for security of gas supply should be shared by natural gas undertakings, Member States, acting through their competent authorities; and the Commission, within their respective remits. Such shared responsibility requires very close cooperation between these parties. However, customers using gas for electricity generation or industrial purposes may also have an important role to play in security of gas supply, as they can respond to a crisis by taking demand-side measures such as interruptible contracts and fuel switching, which have an immediate impact on the supply/demand balance. In the case of certain gas-fired power plants of critical importance, the potential impact of their loss to the electricity system should be thoroughly assessed.
Amendment 194 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 (11) Responsibility for security of gas supply should be shared by natural gas undertakings
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 (11) Responsibility for security of gas supply should be shared by natural gas undertakings, Member States, acting through their competent authorities; and the Commission, within their respective remits. Such shared responsibility requires very close cooperation between these parties. However, customers using gas for electricity generation or industrial purposes may also have an important role to play in security of
Amendment 196 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 (11) Responsibility for security of gas supply should be shared by natural gas undertakings, Member States, acting through their competent authorities; and the Commission, within their respective remits. Such shared responsibility requires very close cooperation between these parties. However, customers using gas for electricity generation or industrial purposes may also have an important role to play in security of gas supply, as they can respond to a crisis by taking demand-side measures such as interruptible contracts and fuel switching, which have an immediate impact on the supply
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 11 a (new) (11a) Responsibility for the development of sustainable, affordable and secure energy and in particular for the delivery of the EU's climate and energy objectives is shared by Member States and the Commission.
Amendment 198 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 13 (13) The infrastructure standard should
Amendment 199 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 13 (13) The infrastructure standard should
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 13 a (new) (13a) Security of supply at Member State level will be enhanced through improved diversification of supplies and cross- border flows. Member States should seek to diversify supply as a matter of priority where dependency on single supply points occur.
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 14 (14) Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 requires transmission system operators to enable permanent bi-directional capacity on all cross-border interconnections unless an exemption has been granted from this obligation. It aims to ensure that the possible benefits of permanent bi- directional capacity are always taken into account when a new interconnector is planned. However, bi-directional capacity can be used to supply gas both to the neighbouring Member State and to others along the gas supply corridor. The benefits for security of supply of enabling permanent bi-directional capacity thus need to be seen in a broader perspective, in a spirit of solidarity and enhanced cooperation. A cost-benefit analysis that takes account of the whole transportation
Amendment 202 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 14 (14) Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 requires transmission system operators to enable permanent bi-directional capacity on all cross-border interconnections unless an exemption has been granted from this obligation. It aims to ensure that the possible benefits of permanent bi- directional capacity are always taken into account when a new interconnector is planned. However, bi-directional capacity can be used to supply gas both to the neighbouring Member State and to others along the gas supply corridor. The benefits for security of supply of enabling permanent bi-directional capacity thus need to be seen in a broader perspective, in a spirit of solidarity and enhanced cooperation.
Amendment 203 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 14 (14) Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 requires transmission system operators to enable permanent bi-directional capacity on all cross-border interconnections unless an exemption has been granted from this obligation. It aims to ensure that the possible benefits of permanent bi- directional capacity are always taken into account when a new interconnector is planned. However, bi-directional capacity can be used to supply gas both to the neighbouring Member State and to others along the gas supply corridor. The benefits for security of supply of enabling permanent bi-directional capacity thus need to be seen in a broader perspective, in a spirit of solidarity and enhanced cooperation. A cost-benefit analysis that takes account of the whole transportation corridor should
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 14 (14) Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 requires transmission system operators to enable permanent bi-directional capacity on all cross-border interconnections unless an exemption has been granted from this obligation. It aims to ensure that the possible benefits of permanent bi- directional capacity are always taken into account when a new interconnector is planned. However, bi-directional capacity can be used to supply gas both to the neighbouring Member State and to others along the gas supply corridor. The benefits for security of supply of enabling permanent bi-directional capacity thus need to be seen in a broader perspective, in a spirit of solidarity and enhanced cooperation. A comprehensive cost-benefit analysis, duly encompassing major externalities, that takes account of the whole transportation corridor should therefore be conducted when considering whether to implement bi-
Amendment 205 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 15 (15) Council Directive 2008/114/EC16 lays down a process with a view to enhancing the security of designated European critical infrastructure, including certain gas infrastructure, in the Union.
Amendment 206 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 15 (15) Council Directive 2008/114/EC16 lays down a process with a view to enhancing the security of designated European critical infrastructure, including certain gas infrastructure, in the Union. Directive 2008/114/EC together with this
Amendment 207 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 16 (16) The Regulation lays down security of supply standards that are sufficiently harmonised and cover at least the situation that occurred in January 2009 when,
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 16 (16) The Regulation lays down security of supply standards that are sufficiently harmonised and cover at least the situation that occurred in January 2009 when gas supply from Russia was disrupted. These standards take account of the difference between Member States, public service obligations and customer protection measures, as referred to in Article 3 of Directive 2009/73/EC. Security of supply standards should be stable, so as to provide the necessary legal certainty
Amendment 209 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 16 (16) The
Amendment 210 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 17 (17) A regional approach to assessing risks and defining and adopting preventive and mitigating measures enables efforts to be coordinated, bringing significant benefits in terms of the effectiveness of measures and optimisation of resources. This applies particularly to measures designed to guarantee a continued supply, under very demanding conditions, to protected customers, and to measures to mitigate the impact of an emergency. Assessing correlated risks at regional level, taking both gas and electricity systems into account, which is both more comprehensive and more precise, will ensure that Member States are better prepared for any crises. Moreover, in an emergency, a coordinated and pre-agreed approach to security of supply ensures a consistent response and reduces the risk of negative spill-over effects that purely national measures could have in neighbouring Member States. As preparation for a coordinated and pre- agreed approach, it is important that Member States, have also assessed and implemented the cost-effective demand reduction measures available in their areas, especially for the reduction of heating and cooling demand in buildings, but also by improving industrial processes using gas. The regional approach should not lift the responsibility from individual Member States to comply with their national security of supply standards, and should not prevent inter-regional cooperation outside the regions established in Annex I of this Regulation.
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 17 (17) A regional approach to assessing risks and defining and adopting preventive and mitigating measures enables efforts to be coordinated, bringing significant benefits in terms of the effectiveness of measures and optimisation of resources. This applies particularly to measures designed to guarantee a continued supply, under very demanding conditions, to protected customers, and to measures to mitigate the impact of an emergency. Assessing correlated risks at regional level, which is both more comprehensive and more precise, will ensure that Member States are better prepared for any crises. Moreover, in an emergency, a coordinated and pre-agreed approach to security of supply ensures a consistent response and reduces the risk of negative spill-over effects that purely national measures could have in neighbouring Member States. As preparation for a coordinated and pre- agreed approach, it is important that Member States, have also assessed and implemented the cost-effective demand reduction measures available in their areas, especially for the reduction of heating and cooling demand in buildings, but also by improving industrial processes using gas.
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 17 (17) A regional approach to assessing risks and defining and adopting preventive and mitigating measures enables efforts to be coordinated, bringing significant benefits in terms of the effectiveness of measures and optimisation of resources. This applies particularly to measures designed to guarantee a continued supply, under very demanding conditions, to protected customers, and to measures to mitigate the impact of an emergency. Assessing correlated risks at regional level, which is both more comprehensive and more precise, will ensure that Member States are better prepared for any crises. For each Member State, its regional grouping membership should not preclude it from addressing specific security of supply risks more relevant to its direct or indirect connection with an adjacent other Member State in a different regional grouping via the arrangements agreed by that grouping. Moreover, in an emergency, a coordinated and pre-agreed approach to security of supply ensures a consistent response and reduces the risk of negative spill-over effects that purely national measures could have in neighbouring Member States.
Amendment 213 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 17 (17) A flexible regional approach to assessing risks and defining and adopting preventive and mitigating measures enables efforts to be coordinated, bringing significant benefits in terms of the effectiveness of measures and optimisation of resources. This applies particularly to measures designed to guarantee a continued supply, under very demanding conditions, to protected customers, and to measures to mitigate the impact of an emergency. Assessing correlated risks at regional level, which is both more comprehensive and more precise, will ensure that Member States are better prepared for any crises, including where appropriate through membership of more than one region, where such regions are to be established in accordance with specific risks identified in national risks assessments. Moreover, in an emergency, a coordinated and pre-agreed approach to security of supply ensures a consistent response and reduces the risk of negative spill-over effects that purely national measures could have in neighbouring Member States.
Amendment 214 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 17 (17) A regional approach to assessing
Amendment 215 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 Amendment 216 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) The regions
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) The regions are to be defined, as far as possible, on the basis of existing regional cooperation structures set up by the Member States and the Commission, in particular the regional groups set up under Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure17 (the TEN-E Regulation). However, since this Regulation and the TEN-E Regulation have different aims, the respective regional groups may differ in size and design, also depending on the entity and the nature of the supply disruption. __________________ 17 Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2013 on guidelines for trans- European energy infrastructure and repealing Decision No 1364/2006/EC and amending Regulation (EC) No 713/2009, (EC) 714/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 (OJ EU L 115 of 25.4.2013, p. 39).
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) The regions
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) The regions are to be defined on voluntary basis, as far as possible, on the basis of existing regional cooperation structures set up by the Member States and the Commission, in particular the regional groups set up under Regulation (EU) 347/2013 on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure17 (the TEN-E Regulation). However, since this Regulation and the TEN-E Regulation have different aims, the respective regional groups may differ in size and design. __________________ 17 Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2013 on guidelines for trans- European energy infrastructure and repealing Decision No 1364/2006/EC and amending Regulation (EC) No 713/2009, (EC) 714/2009 and (EC) No 715/2009 (OJ EU L 115 of 25.4.2013, p. 39).
Amendment 221 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 18 (18) The regions are to be defined
Amendment 222 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 Amendment 223 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when
Amendment 225 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when
Amendment 226 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when defining the regional groups: supply
Amendment 227 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when defining the regional groups: supply patterns, existing direct and indirect interconnections across a third country, existing and planned interconnections and interconnection capacity between Member States, market development and maturity, existing regional cooperation structures, and the number of Member States in a region, which should be limited to ensure that the group remains of a manageable size.
Amendment 228 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when defining the regional groups: supply patterns, existing and planned interconnections
Amendment 229 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when defining the regional groups: supply patterns, existing and planned interconnections and interconnection capacity between Member States in the same interconnected system, market development and maturity, existing regional cooperation structures, and the number of Member States in a region, which should be limited to ensure that the group remains of a manageable size.
Amendment 230 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when defining the regional groups: supply patterns, existing and planned interconnections and interconnection capacity between Member
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when defining the regional groups: supply patterns, existing and planned corridors, interconnections and interconnection capacity between Member States, market development and maturity, existing regional cooperation structures, and the number of Member States in a region, which should be limited to ensure that the group remains of a manageable size.
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 (19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when
Amendment 233 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 19 a (new) (19a) In order to create a sustainable, flexible internal energy market, greater interaction should be ensured between the electricity and gas systems so that, should the gas supply be disrupted, electricity or other alternative energy sources could be used instead.
Amendment 234 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional cooperation feasible, Member States
Amendment 235 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional cooperation feasible, Member States connected directly or in certain circumstances indirectly through a non- EU Member State should establish a cooperation mechanism
Amendment 236 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional cooperation feasible, Member States directly connected, or in certain cases indirectly via a non-EU Member State, should establish a cooperation mechanism
Amendment 237 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional
Amendment 238 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional cooperation feasible, Member States, together with the Commission, should establish a cooperation mechanism within each region. Such a mechanism or mechanisms should be developed sufficiently in time to allow for conducting the risk assessment and drawing up meaningful plans at regional level. Member States are free to agree on a cooperation mechanism best suited for a given region. The Commission should have a facilitating role in the overall process and share best practi
Amendment 239 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional cooperation feasible, Member States should establish a cooperation mechanism within each region. Such mechanism or mechanisms should be developed sufficiently
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 20 (20) In order to make the regional cooperation feasible, Member States should establish a cooperation mechanism within each region. Such mechanism or mechanisms should be developed sufficiently in time to allow for conducting the risk assessment and drawing up meaningful plans at regional level. Member States are free to agree on a cooperation mechanism best suited for a given region. The Commission should have a facilitating role in the overall process and share best practises
Amendment 241 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, infrastructural, commercial, financial, social, political
Amendment 242 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, commercial, financial, social, political, geopolitical, environmental, climate and market-
Amendment 243 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, infrastructural, commercial, financial, social, political and market-
Amendment 244 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess under a coordinated analysis model all main natural, technological, commercial, financial, social,
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, commercial, financial, social, political and market- related risks, and any other relevant ones
Amendment 246 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive
Amendment 247 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, commercial, financial, social, political and market- related risks, and any other relevant ones, including, where appropriate, the disruption of the supplies from the single largest supplier. All risks should be addressed by effective
Amendment 248 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 21 (21) When conducting a comprehensive risk assessment to be prepared at regional level, competent authorities should assess natural, technological, commercial, financial, social,
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 22 (22) To provide input to the risk assessments, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas ('ENTSO for
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 22 (22) To provide input to the risk assessments, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas ('ENTSO for gas'), in consultation with the Gas Coordination Group and with the
Amendment 251 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 22 a (new) (22a) The complementarity of European gas and electricity systems and demand side management can significantly improve European resilience and energy security and at the same time support the development of renewable energies.
Amendment 252 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 (23) To ensure maximum preparedness, so as to avoid a supply disruption and mitigate
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 (23) To ensure maximum preparedness, so as to avoid a supply disruption and mitigate its effects should it nevertheless occur, the competent authorities
Amendment 254 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 (23) To ensure maximum preparedness, so as to avoid a supply disruption and mitigate its effects should it nevertheless occur, the competent authorities of a given region must draw up preventive action plans and emergency, after consulting stakeholders. Regional plans should take
Amendment 255 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 (23) To ensure maximum preparedness, so as to avoid a supply disruption and mitigate its effects should it nevertheless occur, the competent authorities of a given region must draw up preventive action plans and emergency, after consulting stakeholders. Regional plans should
Amendment 256 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 23 (23) To ensure maximum preparedness, so as to avoid a supply disruption and mitigate its effects should it nevertheless occur, the competent authorities of a given region must draw up preventive action plans and emergency, after consulting stakeholders. Regional plans should take account of the specific characteristics of each Member State. They should also clearly define the roles and responsibilities of the natural gas undertakings and the competent authorities. National measures to be designed
Amendment 257 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 24 (24) The roles and responsibilities of all natural gas undertakings and competent authorities should therefore be defined precisely in order to keep the
Amendment 258 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 24 (24) The roles and responsibilities of all natural gas undertakings and competent authorities should therefore be defined precisely in order to keep the internal gas market functioning properly, particularly in the event of supply disruptions and crises. Such roles and responsibilities should be established in such a way as to ensure that a three-level approach is respected which would involve first the relevant natural gas undertakings and industry, then Member States at national or regional level, and then the Union.
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 24 (24) The roles and responsibilities of all natural gas undertakings and competent authorities should therefore be defined precisely in order to keep the internal gas market functioning
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 24 (24) The roles and responsibilities of all natural gas undertakings and competent authorities, as well as, where appropriate electricity undertakings, should therefore be defined precisely in order to keep the internal gas market functioning properly, particularly in the event of supply disruptions and crises. Such roles and responsibilities should be established in such a way as to ensure that a three-level approach is respected which would involve first the relevant natural gas and electricity undertakings and industry, then Member States at national or regional level,
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 24 (24) The roles and responsibilities of all natural gas undertakings and competent authorities should therefore be defined precisely in order to keep the internal gas market functioning properly, particularly in the event of supply or transit disruptions and crises. Such roles and responsibilities should be established in such a way as to ensure that a three-level approach is respected which would involve first the relevant natural gas undertakings and industry, then Member States at national or regional level, and then the Union. This Regulation should enable natural gas undertakings and customers to rely on market mechanisms for as long as possible when coping with the less severe disruptions. However, it should also provide for emergency security mechanisms that can be deployed when markets alone are no longer able to deal adequately with a severe gas supply disruption.
Amendment 262 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 25 (25) In the event of a supply crisis, market players sh
Amendment 263 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 25 (25) In the event of a supply crisis,
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 25 (25) In the event of a supply or transit crisis, market players should be given sufficient opportunity to respond to the situation with market-based measures. Where
Amendment 265 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 25 (25) In the event of a supply crisis, market players sh
Amendment 266 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 25 (25) In the event of a supply crisis, market players should be given sufficient opportunity to respond to the situation with market-based measures. Where market measures have been exhausted and they are still insufficient, Member States and their competent authorities should take measures to remove or mitigate the effects of the supply crisis. Energy efficiency measures should be prioritized to reduce gas and electricity demand and provide a long- term and sustainable improvement of Member States' resilience against supply crisis.
Amendment 267 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 26 (26) Whenever Member States plan to introduce non-market-based measures, such measures should be accompanied by a complete description of their impact, including but not limited to the economic
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 26 (26) Whenever Member States as a last resort plan to introduce non-market-based measures, such measures should be accompanied by a description of their economic impact and a mechanism of compensation to the operators. This ensures customers have the information they need about the costs of such measures and ensures that the measures are transparent, especially as regards their share in the gas price.
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 27 (27) In March 2015, the European Council called for options for voluntary demand aggregation mechanisms to be assessed in full compliance with World Trade Organisation ('WTO') law and Union competition rules. This would enable Member States and natural gas undertakings to explore the potential benefits of collective purchasing of natural gas as a way of addressing supply shortage situations in line with those rules. This said, it must be considered that a severe disruption crisis, qualified by a Member State as an emergency in accordance with the plans developed in accordance with this Regulation, should override Union competition rules and WTO rules.
Amendment 270 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 (28) Demand-side measures, such as reducing heating and cooling demand in buildings by coordinated energy efficiency and demand response measures, fuel switching or reducing the gas supply to large industrial consumers in an economically efficient order,
Amendment 271 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 (28) Demand-side measures, such as reducing heating and cooling demand in buildings by coordinated energy efficiency measures, fuel switching or reducing the gas supply to large industrial consumers in an economically efficient order,
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 (28) Demand-side measures, such as fuel switching or reducing the gas supply to large industrial consumers
Amendment 273 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 (28) Demand-side measures, such as encouraging the use of renewable energy sources, reducing heating and cooling demand in buildings by coordinated energy efficiency and demand response measures, fuel switching or reducing the gas supply to large industrial consumers in an economically efficient
Amendment 274 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 28 (28) Demand-side measures, such as fuel switching or reducing the gas supply to large industrial consumers in an economically efficient order, may have a valuable role to play in ensuring energy security, if they can be applied quickly and significantly reduce demand in response to a supply disruption. More should be done to promote efficient energy use, particularly where demand-side measures are needed. The environmental impact of any demand and supply-side measures proposed must be taken into account, with preference being given, as far as possible, to measures that have least impact on the environment. At the same time, security of supply
Amendment 275 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 30 (30) Low calorific gas, which is supplied in certain regions in the Union
Amendment 276 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 31 (31) It is necessary to
Amendment 277 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 31 (31) It is necessary to ensure the predictability of the action to take in the event of an emergency, allowing all market participants sufficient opportunity to react and also prepare for such circumstances. As a rule, the competent authorities should therefore abide by their emergency plan. In
Amendment 278 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 32 (32) The preventive action plans and emergency plans should be updated on a regular
Amendment 279 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 32 (32) The preventive action plans and emergency plans should be updated regularly and published. They should be subject to peer review. The peer review process allows for early identification of inconsistencies and measures that could endanger other Member States' security of supply, thereby ensuring that plans from different regions are consistent with one
Amendment 280 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 32 (32) The preventive action plans and emergency plans should be updated regularly and published. They should be subject to peer review. The peer review process allows for early identification of inconsistencies and measures that could endanger other Member States' security of supply, thereby ensuring that plans from different regions are consistent with one another. It also enables Member States to share best practice. The plans should be coherent with the EU energy and climate targets on greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency and renewable energy. The plans should be regularly updated in order to ensure their coherence with those objectives.
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 32 (32) The preventive action plans and emergency plans should be updated regularly and published. They should be subject to peer review, under rules established and monitored by the Commission. The peer review process allows for early identification of inconsistencies and measures that could endanger other Member States' security of supply, thereby ensuring that plans from different regions are consistent with one another. It also enables Member States to share best practice.
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 32 (32) The preventive action plans and emergency plans should be updated regularly and published. They should be subject to peer review. The peer review process allows for early identification of inconsistencies and measures that could, regardless of their regional grouping, endanger other Member States' security of supply, thereby ensuring that plans from different regions are consistent with one another. It also enables Member States to share best practice.
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 33 (33) To ensure that the emergency plans are always up-to-date and effective, Member States should carry out tests between the updates of the plans by simulating high and medium-impact scenarios and responses in real time. Observers of other Member States of the Group and of other regions should be invited to these exercises. The competent authorities should present the test results at the Gas Coordination Group.
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 33 (33) To ensure that the emergency plans are always up-to-date and effective,
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 34 (34) Mandatory comprehensive templates including all the risks to be covered by the risk assessment and all the components of the preventive action plans and the emergency plans are needed to facilitate the risk assessment and preparation of the plans, their peer review and their assessment by the Commission. These templates should also include demand-side measures that could cost- effectively reduce security of supply risks by reducing the gas demand.
Amendment 286 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 34 (34) Mandatory comprehensive templates including all the risks to be covered by the risk assessment and all the components of the preventive action plans and emergency plans are needed to facilitate the risk assessment and preparation of the plans, their peer review and their assessment by the Commission. These templates should also include demand-side measures that can cost- effectively reduce security of supply risks by reducing demand for gas.
Amendment 287 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 34 (34) Mandatory comprehensive templates including all the risks to be covered by the risk assessment and all the components of the preventive action plans and emergency plans are needed to facilitate the risk assessment and preparation of the plans, their peer review and their assessment by the Commission. Where appropriate, templates should be updated taking into account the results of the ex-post reviews.
Amendment 288 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 35 Amendment 289 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 35 (35) To facilitate communication between Member States and the Commission, the risk assessments, the preventive action plans, the emergency plans and all other documents and information exchanges covered by this Regulation must be notified using a secure and standardised electronic notification system.
Amendment 290 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States are directly or indirectly interconnected, and which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, if the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States, even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggered to ensure the supply to households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member State experiencing the emergency, provided that such Member States can prove that all the measures described in its emergency plan have been used, and that all the technical and commercial terms defined in the solidarity agreement in the emergency plan have been met. Member States should identify and describe the
Amendment 291 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, if the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States, even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggered to ensure the supply to households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member State experiencing the emergency. Fulfilling security of supply standards on the level of Member States is a condition to make solidarity mechanisms work. Transparency on the level of Member States about the fulfilment shall serve the spirit of solidarity. For the creation of these mechanisms, Member States should identify and describe the corresponding details of these solidarity measures in their emergency plans, ensuring fair and equitable compensation of the natural gas undertakings. The Commission shall submit a framework for necessary technical, legal and financial arrangements to be agreed between neighbouring Member States.
Amendment 292 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, if the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States, even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggered to ensure the supply to households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member State experiencing the emergency. Member States should identify and describe the details of these solidarity measures in their emergency plans, ensuring a fair a
Amendment 293 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union
Amendment 294 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, if the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further
Amendment 295 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, if the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States that are interconnected directly, or indirectly through a third country, even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggered to ensure the supply to households, essential social services and
Amendment 296 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States in the same interconnected system and which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, if the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States in the same interconnected system, even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggered to ensure the supply to households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member State experiencing the emergency. Member States should identify and describe the details of these solidarity measures in their emergency plans, ensuring
Amendment 297 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity.
Amendment 298 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, if the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States, even those indirectly interconnected through a non EU country and even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggered to ensure the supply to households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member State experiencing the emergency. Member States should identify and describe the details of these solidarity measures in their emergency plans, ensuring fair and equitable compensation of the natural gas undertakings.
Amendment 299 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 (36) As demonstrated by the October 2014 stress test, solidarity is needed to ensure security of supply across the Union and to keep overall costs to a minimum. If an emergency is declared in any Member State, a two-step approach should be applied to strengthen solidarity. Firstly, all Member States which have introduced a
Amendment 300 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 36 a (new) (36a) The implementation of the solidarity measures with the Energy Community Contracting Parties should be based on an EU approach in order to avoid that the neighbouring Members States with the Energy Community States carry out exclusively the necessary emergency plans.
Amendment 301 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 37 (37) European solidarity should also, where and as promptly as needed, take the form of urgent and thorough civil protection assistance provided by the Union and its Member States. Such assistance should be facilitated and coordinated by the Union Civil Protection Mechanism established by Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council20 aiming to strengthen the cooperation between the Union and the Member States and to facilitate coordination in the field of civil protection in order to improve the effectiveness of systems for preventing, preparing for, and responding to natural and man-made disasters. __________________ 20 Decision No 1313/2013/EU of the European parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on a Union Civil protection Mechanism (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 24).
Amendment 302 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 38 (38) To assess the security of gas supply situation of a given Member State
Amendment 303 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 38 (38) To assess the security of supply situation of a given Member State or region or of the Union, access to the relevant information is essential. In particular, Member States and the Commission need regular access to information from natural gas undertakings regarding the main parameters of the gas supply, including accurate measures of the available stored reserves, as a fundamental input in the design of the security of supply policies. Under duly justified circumstances, irrespective of a declaration of emergency, access should also be possible to additional information needed to assess the overall gas supply situation. That additional information would typically be non-price- related gas delivery information, e.g. minimum and maximum gas volumes, delivery points or supply margins. It could, for example, be
Amendment 304 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 38 (38) To assess the security of supply situation of a given Member State or region or of the Union, access to the relevant information is essential. In particular, Member States and the Commission need regular access to information from natural gas undertakings regarding the main parameters of the gas supply as a fundamental input in the design of the security of supply policies. Under duly justified circumstances, irrespective of a declaration of emergency, access should also be possible to additional information needed to assess the overall gas supply situation. That additional information would typically be non-price-related gas delivery information, e.g. minimum and maximum gas volumes, delivery points or supply margins. It could, for example, be requested in the event of changes in the pattern of the gas supply to a given buyer or buyers in a Member State which would not be expected if the markets were functioning normally and which could affect the gas supply of the Union or parts
Amendment 305 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 38 (38) To assess the security of supply situation of a given Member State or region or of the Union, access to the relevant information is essential. In particular, Member States and the Commission need
Amendment 306 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 38 (38) To assess the security of supply situation of a given Member State or region or of the Union, access to the relevant information is essential. In particular, Member States
Amendment 307 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply
Amendment 308 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries should be made more transparent and compatible with the Union energy security provisions. In this context an efficient and targeted mechanism for Member States' access to
Amendment 309 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries should be made more transparent and compatible with the Union energy security provisions. In this context an efficient and targeted mechanism for Member States' access to key gas supply contracts should ensure a comprehensive
Amendment 310 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries should be made more transparent and compatible with the Union energy security provisions. In this context an efficient and targeted mechanism for Member States' access to key gas supply contracts should ensure a comprehensive assessment of relevant risks that can lead to a supply disruption or interfere with the necessary mitigating measures should a crisis nevertheless occur. Under that mechanism certain key gas supply contracts should be automatically notified, immediately after their conclusion, to the Member States. However, any obligation to notify a contract automatically needs to be proportionate. Applying this obligation to contracts between a supplier and a buyer covering
Amendment 311 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) Completing the internal energy market will create a level playing field, ensuring that all energy supply contracts throughout the Union are based on market prices and competition rules. In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries should be made more transparent and compatible with the Union energy security provisions. In this context an efficient and targeted mechanism for Member States' access to key gas supply contracts should ensure a comprehensive assessment of relevant risks that can lead to a supply disruption or interfere with the necessary mitigating measures should a crisis nevertheless occur. Under that mechanism certain key gas supply contracts should be automatically notified, immediately after their conclusion, to the Member States. However, any obligation to notify a contract automatically needs to be
Amendment 312 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) Completing the internal energy market will create a level playing field, ensuring that all energy supply contracts throughout the Union are based on market prices and competition rules. In March 2015, the European Council concluded that
Amendment 313 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries should be made more transparent and compatible with the Union energy security provisions, by guaranteeing at the same time the confidentiality of commercially sensitive information of commercial gas supply contracts. In this context an efficient and targeted mechanism for
Amendment 314 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) Completing the internal energy market will create a level playing field, ensuring that all energy supply contracts throughout the Union are based on market prices and competition rules. In March 2015, the European Council concluded that gas supply contracts with suppliers from third countries should be made more transparent and compatible with the Union energy security provisions. In this context an efficient and targeted mechanism for
Amendment 315 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 39 (39) Completing the internal energy market will create a level playing field, ensuring that all energy supply contracts throughout the Union are based on market prices and competition rules. In March 2015, the European Council concluded that
Amendment 316 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 40 (40) The Gas Coordination Group should act as an adviser to the Commission to help coordinate security of supply measures in the event of a Union emergency. It should also monitor the adequacy and appropriateness of measures to be taken under this Regulation, including the consistency of preventive action plans and emergency plans drawn up by different regions and reviewed by teams of peers. In this respect, security of supply measures should be taken with strong consideration given to 2050 EU decarbonisation objectives and to risks of costly stranded assets.
Amendment 317 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 40 (40) The Gas Coordination Group should act as an adviser to the Commission to help coordinate and monitor security of supply measures in the event of a Union emergency.
Amendment 318 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 40 (40) The Gas Coordination Group should act as an adviser to the
Amendment 319 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 (41) One of the Union goals is to strengthen the Energy Community
Amendment 320 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 (41) One of the Union goals is to strengthen
Amendment 321 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 (41) One of the Union goals is to strengthen the Energy Community that would ensure effective implementation of the Union energy acquis, energy market reforms, enforceable agreements which enhance the security of supply and transit through these countries, and incentivising investments in the energy sector by
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 (41) One of the Union goals is to strengthen the Energy Community that would ensure effective implementation of the Union energy acquis, energy market reforms and incentivising investments in the energy sector by closer integration of the Union and Energy Community energy markets. This entails also introducing common crisis management by proposing preventive and emergency plans at the regional level including the Energy Community Contracting Parties. Furthermore, the Commission Communication on the short term resilience of the European gas system from October 2014 refers to the need to apply internal energy market rules on the flow of energy between the Union Member States and the Energy Community Contracting Parties. In this regard, in order to ensure an efficient crisis management on borders between the Union Member States and the Contracting Parties and to ensure that the eventual burden is equally shared by all Union Member State, the necessary arrangements following the adoption of a Joint Act should be set so that specific cooperation with any individual Energy Community Contracting Party can take
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 (41) One of the Union goals is to strengthen the Energy Community
Amendment 324 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 41 (41)
Amendment 325 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 (42) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas supply, while at the same dependency on one major supplier constitutes a notable security risk, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to the Union. The Commission should be entitled to deploy a task force to monitor gas flows into the Union in crisis situations, in consultation with the third countries involved, and, where a crisis arises from difficulties in a third country, to act as mediator and facilitator.
Amendment 326 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 (42) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, assess their sustainability, carbon footprint and long-term viability, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to the Union. The Commission should be entitled to deploy a task force to monitor gas flows into the Union in crisis situations, in consultation with the third countries involved, and, where a crisis arises from difficulties in a third country, to act as mediator and facilitator.
Amendment 327 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 (42) Since gas supplies from third countries or gas transit through them are central to the security of the Union gas supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to the Union. The Commission should
Amendment 328 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 (42) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, work with supplying and transit
Amendment 329 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 a (new) (42a) The Commission should take into account the political situations of the third countries suppliers of gas. The respect of democratic and environmental standards and human rights should guide the external energy policy of the European Union and Member States.
Amendment 330 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 42 a (new) (42a) Underlines that giving one supplier a dominant position on the European gas market would change its architecture;
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 44 (44)
Amendment 332 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 44 (44) The Member States acting on their own cannot satisfactorily achieve the objective of this Regulation, namely to guarantee a secure gas supply within the Union. Given the scale or effects of the action, it is better achieved at Union level. The Union may therefore adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go
Amendment 333 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 44 (44) The Member States acting on their own cannot satisfactorily achieve the objective of this Regulation, namely to guarantee a secure gas supply within the Union. Given the scale or effects of the action, it is better achieved at Union level. The Union may therefore adopt measures, with respect to national requirements in terms of security of supply and in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve that objective.
Amendment 334 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 44 (44) The Member States acting on their own cannot satisfactorily achieve the objective of this
Amendment 335 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 45 Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 45 (45) To allow for a swift Union response to changing circumstances as regards security of gas supply, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of amendment of regions and templates for risk assessment and plans. It is particularly important that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, involving the competent authorities and the National Regulatory Authorities. When preparing and drawing up delegated acts, it should ensure that relevant documents are simultaneously sent to the European Parliament and the Council, in good time and in the appropriate manner.
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 45 (45) To allow for a swift Union response to changing circumstances as regards security of gas supply, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of amendment of
Amendment 338 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 45 (45) To allow for a swift Union response to changing circumstances as regards security of gas supply, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of amendment of regions and templates for risk assessment and plans. It is particularly important that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level. When preparing and drawing up delegated acts, it should ensure that relevant documents are
Amendment 339 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 45 (45) To allow for a swift Union response to changing circumstances as regards security of gas supply, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect of amendment of regions and templates for risk assessment and plans. It is particularly important that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level. When preparing and drawing up delegated acts, it should ensure that
Amendment 340 #
Proposal for a regulation Recital 46 (46) Regulation (EU) No 994/2010 should be repealed. To avoid a gap, the
Amendment 341 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 This Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding the security of gas supply by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas ("gas"), based on credible gas demand's trends, by allowing for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the required gas supplies to the protected customers and by providing for a clear definition and attribution of responsibilities among natural gas undertakings, the Member States and the Union regarding both short term preventive action and the immediate reaction to concrete disruptions of supply. This Regulation also provides transparent mechanisms, in a spirit of solidarity, for the coordination of planning for, and response to, an emergency at Member State, regional and Union levels.
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 This Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding the security of gas supply by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas ("gas"), by allowing for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the required gas supplies and by providing for a clear definition and attribution of responsibilities among natural gas undertakings, the Member States and the Union regarding both preventive action and the reaction to concrete disruptions of supply. This Regulation also provides transparent mechanisms, in a spirit of solidarity, for the coordination of planning for, and response to, an emergency at Member State, regional and Union levels. Whenever possible, sustainable measures will be preferred over the construction of new gas infrastructures.
Amendment 343 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 This Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding the security of gas supply by ensuring the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas ("gas"), by allowing for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the required gas supplies and by providing for a clear definition and
Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 This
Amendment 345 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new) This Regulation supports the development of some limited new gas infrastructure only in case of upmost necessity, once it has been assessed against sustainable alternatives of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures. Whenever possible, renewable sources of energy and energy efficiency will be preferred over the construction of new gas infrastructure.
Amendment 346 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new) This Regulation also encourages preventive measures reducing gas demand, for example through measures enhancing energy efficiency and increasing the share of renewable energy, in order to decrease the Union's dependency on gas imports.
Amendment 347 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – introductory part (1) 'protected customer’ means a household customer connected to a gas distribution network, an
Amendment 348 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – introductory part (1) 'protected customer
Amendment 349 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – introductory part (1) 'protected customer
Amendment 350 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – introductory part (1) 'protected customer’ means a household customer connected to a gas distribution network
Amendment 351 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – introductory part (1) 'protected customer’ means a household customer connected to a gas distribution network
Amendment 352 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – introductory part (1) 'protected customer’ means a household customer connected to a gas distribution network, including household in situation of energy exclusion, and, in addition, where the Member State concerned so decides, may also mean one or more of the following:
Amendment 353 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – introductory part (1) 'protected customer’ means a household customer connected to a gas
Amendment 354 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point a Amendment 355 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point a Amendment 356 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point a Amendment 357 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point a (a)
Amendment 358 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point a (a) a small or medium-sized enterprise, provided that it is connected to a gas distribution
Amendment 359 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point a (a) a small or medium-sized enterprise,
Amendment 360 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point b Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point b Amendment 362 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point b Amendment 363 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point b Amendment 364 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point b Amendment 365 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point b (b)
Amendment 366 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point b (b) a district heating installation to the extent that it delivers heating to household customers or to the enterprises or services referred to in point (a) and provided that such installation is not able to switch to other fuels and is connected to a gas distribution or transmission network;
Amendment 367 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 – point b a (new) (ba) a small or medium-sized enterprise, provided that it is connected to a gas distribution network, and provided that such enterprises do not represent jointly more than 20 % of the total annual final gas consumption in that Member State;
Amendment 368 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 1 a (new) (1a) "Energy security" means a way to make the EU less reliant on external energy supplies, specially reducing the internal demand through energy efficiency measures and increasing internal production via the development of renewable energy.
Amendment 369 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 Amendment 370 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 Amendment 371 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 (2) ‘essential
Amendment 372 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 (2) ‘essential social service' means a healthcare, emergency or security
Amendment 373 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 (2) ‘essential social service' means a healthcare, emergency or security service, power plants which are essential to national electricity security of supply;
Amendment 374 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 (2)
Amendment 375 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 (2) ‘absolutely essential social service' means a healthcare, emergency, important social or security service;
Amendment 376 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 (2) ‘essential social service' means a healthcare, emergency
Amendment 377 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 2 (2) ‘essential social service' means a healthcare
Amendment 378 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 3 a (new) (3a) 'biogas' means a renewable domestic source of methane obtained by biodegradable residues and ultimate wastes and that can be injected into existing gas transmission or distribution grids
Amendment 379 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 3 a (new) (3a) 'competent authority' means a national governmental authority or a national regulatory authority designated by a Member State in accordance with Article 3(2);
Amendment 380 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 2 – subparagraph 2 – point 3 a (new) (3a) "Emergency Supply Corridors" means EU gas supply routes identified to help Member States to better mitigate the effects of potential supply and/or infrastructure disruption, thereby complementing and reinforcing the regional approach as referred to in Annex I.
Amendment 381 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 1. Long-term and sustainable energy security shall be under the responsibility of Member States and the Commission. They shall ensure that any new measure is coherent with the EU's energy and climate objectives and strategies. Security of gas supply shall be a shared responsibility of natural gas undertakings, Member States, notably through their competent authorities, and the Commission, within their respective areas of activities and competence.
Amendment 382 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 1 1. Security of gas supply shall be a shared responsibility of natural gas undertakings, Member States, notably through their competent authorities, and the Commission, within their respective areas of activities and competence. Infrastructure operators shall be responsible for infrastructure, while supply undertakings shall be responsible for the function of supply.
Amendment 383 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 4 4. When implementing the measures provided for in this Regulation, the competent authority shall establish the roles and responsibilities of the different actors involved in such a way as to ensure
Amendment 384 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 6. The measures to ensure the security of supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined
Amendment 385 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 6. The measures to ensure the security of supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined, transparent, proportionate, non-discriminatory
Amendment 386 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 6. The measures to ensure the security of energy supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined, transparent, proportionate, non- discriminatory
Amendment 387 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 6. The measures to ensure the security of gas supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined, transparent, proportionate, non-discriminatory
Amendment 388 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 6. The measures to ensure the security of supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans the Member States are primarily responsible for shall be clearly defined, transparent, proportionate, non- discriminatory and verifiable and better coordinated within the region, shall not unduly distort competition and the effective functioning of the internal market in gas and shall not endanger the security of gas supply of other Member States or of the Union as a whole.
Amendment 389 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 6. The measures to ensure the security of supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined, transparent, proportionate, non-discriminatory and verifiable, shall be designed with the highest consideration of the principle of solidarity, shall not unduly distort competition and the effective functioning of the internal market in gas and shall not endanger the security of gas supply of other Member States or of the Union as a whole.
Amendment 390 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 6 6. The measures to ensure the security of supply contained in the preventive action plans and in the emergency plans shall be clearly defined, to the highest degree possible market based, transparent, proportionate, non-discriminatory and verifiable, shall not, un
Amendment 391 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 Amendment 392 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 Amendment 393 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 Amendment 394 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – introductory part 7. The voluntary composition of regions for the purposes of the regional cooperation as provided for in this Regulation shall be based on following criteria:
Amendment 395 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – point b (b) existing
Amendment 396 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – point b (b) existing and planned interconnections
Amendment 397 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – point b (b) existing and planned interconnections and interconnection capacity between Member States in the same interconnected system as well as the supply patterns;
Amendment 398 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – point d Amendment 399 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – point f a (new) (fa) natural gas sources and transit routes currently used to cover a major share of their demand;
Amendment 400 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2 Amendment 401 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2 Amendment 402 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 2 a (new) The regional approach should be without prejudice to the responsibility of individual Member States to comply with their national security of supply standards, and should not prevent inter- regional cooperation outside the regions established in Annex I of this Regulation.
Amendment 403 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 3 Amendment 404 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 3 Amendment 405 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 3 Amendment 406 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 3 The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 and strictly in line with the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making of 13 April 2016 to amend Annex I based on the criteria set out in the first subparagraph of this paragraph if the circumstances warrant a need for a change of a region.
Amendment 407 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. A regional collaboration of Member States shall be based on an assessment of correlated supply risks and probability of shortfalls. The Commission shall identify and assess potential supply risks together with National Regulatory Authorities of the Member States and natural gas suppliers. The principles for this assessment are set out in Annex 1.
Amendment 408 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. The composition of regions shall be assessed by the Commission when the evaluation of the regulation is conducted, after 6 years, taking into account the effective results reached in the enhancement of its solidarity and security goals, their overall impact, and the efficiency in the use of resources.
Amendment 409 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 3 – paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. The regional cooperation shall provide for the development of an inter- regional cooperation mechanism as set out in the Preventive Action Plans and Emergency Plans (Article 7).
Amendment 410 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 1 1. Each Member State or, where a Member State so provides, the competent authority shall ensure that the necessary measures are taken so that in the event of a disruption of the single largest gas infrastructure, the technical capacity of the remaining infrastructure, determined according to the N – 1 formula as provided in point 2 of Annex II, is able, without prejudice to paragraph 2 of this Article, to satisfy, based on reliable gas consumption's trends, long-term impacts of energy efficiency measures on this demand, and utilisation rates of existing capacities, total gas demand of the
Amendment 411 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 1 1. Each Member State or, where a Member State so provides, the competent authority shall ensure that the necessary measures are taken so that in the event of a disruption of the single largest gas infrastructure, the technical capacity of the remaining infrastructure, determined according to the N – 1 formula as provided in point 2 of Annex II, is able, without prejudice to paragraph 2 of this Article, to satisfy total gas demand of the calculated area during a day of exceptionally high gas demand occurring with a statistical probability of once in 20 years. This should be done having regard to gas consumption trends, taking the long-term impacts of energy efficiency measures and the utilisation rates of existing capacities into account. This is without prejudice to the responsibility of system operators to make the corresponding investments and to the obligations of transmission system operators as laid down in Directive 2009/73/EC and Regulation (EC) No 715/2009.
Amendment 412 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 2 2. The obligation to ensure that the remaining infrastructure has the technical capacity to satisfy total gas demand, as referred to in paragraph 1, shall also be considered to be fulfilled where the competent authority demonstrates in the preventive action plan that a supply disruption may be sufficiently compensated for, in a timely manner, by appropriate market
Amendment 413 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 2 2. The obligation to ensure that the remaining infrastructure has the technical capacity to satisfy total gas demand, as referred to in paragraph 1, shall also be considered to be fulfilled where the competent authority demonstrates in the preventive action plan that a supply disruption may be sufficiently compensated for, in a timely manner, by appropriate
Amendment 414 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 4 – point b where an exemption from that obligation has been granted, after detailed assessment and consultation with other Member States of the region and with the Commission.
Amendment 415 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 4 a (new) (4a) Member States shall ensure that, as a first step, the market is always tested in a transparent, detailed and non- discriminatory manner, to assess whether the investment needed to fulfil the obligations set out in paragraph 4 is required.
Amendment 416 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 5 5. National regulatory authorities shall take into account the efficiently incurred costs
Amendment 417 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 5 5. National regulatory authorities shall take into account the efficiently incurred costs of fulfilling the obligation set out in paragraph 1, including how energy efficiency measures to reduce gas demand may contribute to the most cost-effective approach to fulfilling the N-1 formula, and the costs of enabling permanent bi- directional capacity so as to grant appropriate incentives when fixing or approving, in a transparent and detailed manner, the tariffs or methodologies in accordance with Article 41(8) of Directive 2009/73/EC and Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009.
Amendment 418 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 5 5. National regulatory authorities shall take into account the efficiently incurred costs of fulfilling the obligation set out in paragraph 1, including how energy efficiency measures to reduce gas demand may contribute to the more sustainable approach to fulfilling the N-1 formula, and the costs of enabling permanent bi- directional capacity so as to grant appropriate incentives when fixing or approving, in a transparent and detailed manner, the tariffs or methodologies in accordance with Article 41(8) of Directive 2009/73/EC and Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009.
Amendment 419 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 6 6. In so far as an investment for enabling or enhancing permanent bi- directional capacity is not required by the market and where that investment incurs costs in more than one Member State or in one Member State for the benefit of another Member State, the national regulatory authorities of all Member States concerned shall jointly decide on cost
Amendment 420 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 6 6. In so far as an investment for enabling or enhancing permanent bi- directional capacity is not required by the market and where that investment incurs costs in more than one Member State or in one Member State for the benefit of another Member State, the national regulatory authorities of all Member States concerned shall jointly decide on cost allocation as laid down in Article 12 of Regulation 347/2013 before any investment decision is taken. The cost allocation shall in particular take into account the proportion of the benefits of the infrastructure investments for the increase of security of supply of the Member States concerned as well as investments already made in the infrastructure in question.
Amendment 421 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 6 6. In so far as an investment for enabling or enhancing permanent bi- directional capacity is not required by the market and where that investment incurs costs in more than one Member State or in one Member State for the benefit of another Member State, the national regulatory authorities of all Member States concerned shall jointly decide on cost allocation as laid down in Article 12 of Regulation 347/2013 before any investment decision is taken. The cost allocation shall in particular take into account the proportion of the benefits of the infrastructure investments for the increase of security of supply of the Member States concerned as well as investments already made in the infrastructure in question.
Amendment 422 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 7 7. The competent authority shall ensure that any new transmission infrastructure contributes to the security of supply through the development of a well- connected network, including, where appropriate, by means of a sufficient number of cross-border entry and exit points according to market demand and the risks identified. The competent authorities shall assess in the risk assessment whether, with an integrated perspective on gas and electricity systems, internal bottlenecks exist and whether national entry capacity and infrastructures, in particular transmission networks, are capable of adapting the national and cross border gas flows to the scenario of the disruption of the single largest gas infrastructure at national level and the single largest gas infrastructure of common interest to the region identified in the risk assessment.
Amendment 423 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 7 – subparagraph 1 a (new) During an emergency, gas flow through bi-directional permanent capacity constructed to enhance the security of gas supply of a Member State shall have priority over gas flow through other points in the system.
Amendment 424 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. During an emergency, defined in Article 10 (1) (c) and 11(1), gas flow through bi-directional permanent capacity constructed to enhance the security of gas supply in of a Member State shall have priority over gas flow through other points in the system.
Amendment 425 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 7 a (new) 7a. The competent authority, using the same criteria, shall ensure that demand- side measures meet the same conditions and can contribute on an equal and cost- effective basis to the security of supply.
Amendment 426 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 2 Luxembourg, Slovenia and Sweden shall ensure, in a transparent, detailed and non- discriminatory manner, regular
Amendment 427 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 4 – paragraph 8 – subparagraph 3 By 3 December 2018, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Sweden shall transmit a report to the Commission describing the situation with respect to the respective conditions set out in that subparagraph and the prospects for the compliance with the obligation in paragraph 1, taking into account the overall environmental, social and economic impact of meeting the infrastructure standard, the results of the
Amendment 428 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The
Amendment 429 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authority shall require the natural gas undertakings, that it identifies, to take measures, in close collaboration with electricity undertakings to ensure the supply of
Amendment 430 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authority shall require the natural gas undertakings, that it identifies, to take measures to ensure that the supply of
Amendment 431 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authority shall require
Amendment 432 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authority shall
Amendment 433 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new) In Member States where only one source of gas is available, this duty should be fulfilled by the importing supplier.
Amendment 434 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 a (new) These cases should be assessed with a serious consideration for gas demand, its long-term consumption trend and long- term impacts of energy efficiency measures and deployment of renewable energy sources.
Amendment 435 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 No later than 31 March 2017 Member States shall notify the Commission
Amendment 436 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 No later than 31 March 2017 Member States shall notify the Commission
Amendment 437 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 No later than 31 March 2017 Member States shall notify the Commission
Amendment 438 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 No later than 31 March 2017 Member States shall notify the Commission the
Amendment 439 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 No later than 31 March 2017 Member States shall notify the Commission their
Amendment 440 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 Amendment 441 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 Amendment 442 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 The competent authority shall identify the natural gas and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings referred to in the first subparagraph and specify them in the preventive action plan. Any new measures envisaged to ensure the supply standard, such as enhanced energy efficiency measures, notably in buildings, shall comply with the procedure established in Article 8(4).
Amendment 443 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 3 The competent authority shall identify the natural gas and electricity undertakings referred to in the first subparagraph and specify them in the preventive action plan. Any new measures envisaged to ensure the supply standard shall comply with the procedure established in Article 8(4).
Amendment 444 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 Member States may comply with the obligation laid down in the first
Amendment 445 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4 Member States may comply with the obligation laid down in the first subparagraph by
Amendment 446 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 2 Amendment 447 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 2 – introductory part 2.
Amendment 448 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point a Amendment 449 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point b Amendment 450 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 2 – point c Amendment 451 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 2 a (new) 2a. Based on an assessment consistent with the Cost-Benefit Analysis methodology as defined in the Regulation (EC) No 347/2013, competent authorities shall consider increasing the supply standards in order to improve the physical availability of gas in case of an emergency, taking into account the availability of existing gas infrastructure at a regional level.
Amendment 452 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 3 3. After the periods defined by the competent authority in accordance with paragraphs
Amendment 453 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 3 3. After the periods defined by the competent authority in accordance with paragraphs
Amendment 454 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 4 4. The obligations imposed on
Amendment 455 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 5 5. Natural gas undertakings shall be allowed to meet their obligations under this Article at a regional or Union level, where appropriate. The competent authorities shall not require the standards laid down in this Article to be met based on infrastructure or demand-side measures located only within its territory.
Amendment 456 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 5 5. Natural gas undertakings shall be allowed to meet their obligations under this Article at a regional or Union level, where appropriate. The competent authorities
Amendment 457 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 458 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. When meeting the obligations under this Article, natural gas undertakings shall subscribe the capacity necessary to the physical delivery of gas.
Amendment 459 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. When meeting the obligations under this Article, natural gas undertakings shall subscribe the firm capacity necessary to the physical delivery of gas.
Amendment 460 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 6 6. The competent authorities shall ensure that conditions for supplies to protected customers are established without prejudice to the proper functioning of the internal energy market and at a price respecting the market value of the supplies. Suppliers shall ensure that supply interruptions due to well-known risks concerning particular gas transport routes are not subject to contractual force majeure clauses.
Amendment 461 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. By [6 months after the date of entry into force of this regulation], the Member States shall establish measures to impose fines on suppliers if they fail to comply with the supply standards described in paragraph 1. Such fines shall be effective, proportionate and persuasive.
Amendment 462 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 5 – paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Member States shall establish measures to impose effective, proportionate and persuasive fines on gas undertakings failing to comply with supply standards defined in paragraph (1).
Amendment 464 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1.
Amendment 465 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities, in cooperation with the national regulatory authorities where they are not the competent authorities, of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all possible risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant and possible risks such as natural disasters, technological, climate, commercial, social, political and other risks, while taking in consideration gas demand in Europe, its long-term consumption trend, the impacts of efficiency measures and deployment of renewable energy sources on that demand and the utilisation rates of existing infrastructure. The risk assessment shall be carried out by:
Amendment 466 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, commercial, social, political and other risks, including those with neighbouring Member States in a different regional grouping. The risk assessment shall be carried out by:
Amendment 467 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply ("risk assessment"). The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, geopolitical, environmental, climate, commercial, social, political and other risks. The risk assessment shall be carried out by:
Amendment 468 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly and in consultation with relevant stakeholders make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, commercial, social, political and other risks. The risk assessment shall be carried out by:
Amendment 469 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1.
Amendment 470 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply ("risk assessment"). The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, commercial, social, political and other risks. The risk assessment shall, inter alia, be carried out by:
Amendment 471 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, environmental, technological, commercial, social, political and other risks. The risk assessment shall be carried out by:
Amendment 472 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, commercial, social, political and other risks. The risk assessment shall be carried out, inter alia, by:
Amendment 473 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities
Amendment 474 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region
Amendment 475 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region
Amendment 476 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional level of all risks affecting the security of gas supply. The assessment shall take into account all relevant risks such as natural disasters, technological, commercial, social
Amendment 477 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) using the standards specified in Articles 4 and 5. The risk assessment shall describe the calculation of the N – 1 formula at national level
Amendment 478 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) using the standards specified in Articles 4 and 5. The risk assessment shall describe the calculation of the N – 1 formula at national level and include a
Amendment 479 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) taking into account all relevant national and regional circumstances, in particular market size, the potential for gas demand reduction through energy efficiency measures, network configuration, demand's trends, actual flows, including outflows from the Member States concerned, the possibility of physical gas flows in both directions including the potential need for consequent reinforcement of the transmission system, the presence of production and storage, in particular the penetration of biogas into the gas grid, and the role of gas in the energy mixes, in particular with respect to heating and cooling demand in the national or regional building stock, and the district heating serving it and electricity generation and for the operation of industries, and safety and gas quality considerations;
Amendment 480 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) taking into account all relevant national and regional circumstances, in particular market size,
Amendment 481 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) taking into account all relevant
Amendment 482 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – introductory part (c) running various scenarios of demand reduction resulting from energy efficiency measures, as well as exceptionally high gas demand and supply disruption, taking into account the history, probability, season, frequency and duration of their occurrence and assessing their likely consequences, such as:
Amendment 483 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii (ii) disruption of supplies from third country suppliers, as well as
Amendment 484 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii (ii) disruption of supplies from third country s
Amendment 485 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii (ii) disruption of supplies from third country suppliers
Amendment 486 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii (ii) disruption of gas supplies, inter alia from third country suppliers, as well as, where appropriate, geopolitical risks;
Amendment 487 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii (ii) disruption of supplies, inter alia from third country suppliers, as well as, where appropriate, geopolitical risks;
Amendment 488 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii a (new) (iia) ability to satisfy the demand of protected customers in the region during supply disruption at national, regional and union-wide level, from the single largest supplier from a third country;
Amendment 489 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point c – point ii a (new) (iia) including electricity systems which can be also used as a complementarity solution to transport electricity powered by gas;
Amendment 490 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d (d) identifying the interaction and correlation of risks among
Amendment 491 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new) (da) taking into account risks related to the control of infrastructure relevant for the security of gas supply by natural gas undertakings from a third country, which may also be located outside the European Union, whereas the control, may imply, inter alia, risks of under-investment, undermining diversification, misuse of existing infrastructure or a breach of Union law;
Amendment 492 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. The Commission may share experience gained in conducting a risk assessment in one region with other regions, wherever appropriate, and thereby contribute to ensuring also a cross regional focus.
Amendment 493 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 Amendment 494 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 Amendment 495 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 Amendment 496 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 The competent authorities
Amendment 497 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 The competent authorities within each region shall agree on a cooperation mechanism to conduct the risk assessment within the deadline provided for in paragraph 5 of this Article. Competent authorities shall
Amendment 498 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 Amendment 499 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 3. The risk assessment shall be prepared
Amendment 500 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 3. The risk assessment shall be
Amendment 501 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 3 3. The risk assessment shall be prepared in accordance with the template in Annex IV. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to amend those templates taking into account Member State implementation timeframes.
Amendment 502 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 4 4. Natural gas undertakings, industrial gas customers, the relevant organisations representing the interests of household and industrial gas customers, the national regulatory authority for buildings, as well as Member States and the national regulatory authority, where it is not the competent authority, shall cooperate with the competent authorities and provide it upon request with all necessary information for the risk assessment.
Amendment 503 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 5 5. The regional chapter on risk assessment once agreed by all connected Member States
Amendment 504 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 5 5. The risk assessment once agreed by all Member States in the region shall be notified to the Commission for the first time no later than on 1 September 2018. The risk assessment shall be updated every four years unless circumstances warrant more frequent updates. The risk assessment shall take account of progress made in investments, including energy efficiency investments, needed to cope with the infrastructure standard defined in Article 4 and of country-specific difficulties encountered in the implementation of new alternative solutions. It shall also build on the experience acquired through the simulation of the emergency plans contained in Article 9 (2).
Amendment 505 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 5 5. The risk assessment once agreed by all Member States in the region shall be notified to the Commission for the first time no later than on 1 September 2018. The risk assessment shall be updated every four years unless circumstances warrant more frequent updates. The risk assessment shall take account of progress made in investments needed to cope with the infrastructure standard defined in Article 4 and of country-specific difficulties encountered in the implementation of new alternative solutions including inter- regional interconnections. It shall also build on the experience acquired through the simulation of the emergency plans contained in Article 9 (2).
Amendment 506 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 5 5. The risk assessment
Amendment 507 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 5 5. The r
Amendment 508 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 509 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 510 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 511 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 6. By 1 November 2017 ENTSO for
Amendment 512 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 6.
Amendment 513 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 6. By 1 November 2017 ENTSO for Gas shall carry out a Union wide simulation of supply and infrastructure disruption scenarios.
Amendment 514 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 6. By 1 November 2017 ENTSO for Gas shall carry out a Union wide simulation of supply and infrastructure disruption scenarios. The scenarios shall be defined by ENTSO for Gas in consultation with the Gas Coordination Group. The competent authorities shall provide ENTSO for Gas with the necessary data for the simulations such as
Amendment 515 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 6 – paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. ENTSO for Gas shall take into account the results of the Union wide simulations carried out by ENTSO for Gas for determining the necessary investments to be made on the EU energy market at regional at inter-regional level. It shall propose and establish European networks that can be developed complementary to the regional and inter- regional approach.
Amendment 516 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of the Member States of each region
Amendment 517 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of the Member States of each region as listed in Annex I, after consulting the natural gas and electricity undertakings, the relevant organisations representing the interests of household and industrial gas customers, including electricity producers, the national environmental agency, and the national regulatory authorities, where they are not the competent authorities, shall establish jointly:
Amendment 518 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of the Member States of each region as listed in Annex I, after consulting the natural gas undertakings, transmission system operators for electricity, the relevant organisations representing the interests of household and industrial gas customers, including electricity producers, and the national regulatory authorities, where they are not the competent authorities, shall establish jointly:
Amendment 519 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of the Member States of each region
Amendment 520 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of the Member States
Amendment 521 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of the Member States
Amendment 522 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorit
Amendment 523 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part 1. The competent authorities of the Member States of each region
Amendment 524 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) a preventive action plan containing the measures, including energy efficiency and demand side measures, for example reduction of gas demand through the renovation and construction of buildings, to be adopted to remove or mitigate the risks identified in the region, including risks of purely national dimension, in accordance with the risk
Amendment 525 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) a sustainable preventive action plan containing the measures, including energy efficiency measures, to be adopted to remove or mitigate the risks identified in the region, including risks of purely national dimension, in accordance with the risk assessment undertaken pursuant to Article 6 and in accordance with Article 8; and
Amendment 526 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) a preventive action plan containing the measures to be adopted to remove or mitigate the risks identified
Amendment 527 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) a preventive action plan containing the measures
Amendment 528 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a (a) a preventive action plan containing the measures to be adopted to remove or mitigate the risks identified
Amendment 529 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) an emergency plan containing the measures, including demand-side measures, for example through closer coordination with the electricity sector, to be taken to remove or mitigate the impact of a gas supply disruption in the region, including events of purely national dimension, in accordance with Article 9.
Amendment 530 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) an emergency plan containing the
Amendment 531 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) an emergency plan containing the measures to be taken to remove or mitigate the impact of a source-caused or transit- caused gas supply disruption in the region, including events of purely national dimension, in accordance with Article 9.
Amendment 532 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) an emergency plan containing the measures to be taken to remove or mitigate the impact of a gas supply disruption
Amendment 533 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) an emergency plan containing the measures to be taken to remove or mitigate the impact of a gas supply disruption
Amendment 534 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) an emergency plan containing the measures to be taken to remove or mitigate the impact of a gas supply disruption
Amendment 535 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 The competent authorities
Amendment 536 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 The competent authorities
Amendment 537 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new) Before adopting a Preventive Action Plan and an Emergency Plan, the competent authorities, in cooperation with national regulatory authorities where they are not the competent authorities of connected Member States, cooperating pursuant to Article 3(7) shall exchange their draft Plans and exchange views with each other and the Commission, so as to verify that the measures envisaged are consistent within the different Plans and that they comply with this Regulation and other provisions of the Union law. These consultations shall be carried out in particular among neighbour states, notably in groups of states forming gas islands and their neighbours. On the basis of these consultations and recommendations, the competent authorities, in cooperation with the national regulatory authorities where they are not the competent authorities, cooperating according to Article 3(7) can decide to draft joint Preventive Action Plans and joint Emergency Plans in addition to Plans established at national level. Where joint Plans are to be established, the authorities concerned shall conclude agreements to implement regional cooperation, which can be formally endorsed by Member States if necessary.
Amendment 538 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 The measures necessary to remove and
Amendment 539 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 The measures necessary to remove and mitigate risks of
Amendment 540 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 Competent authorities shall regularly report to the Gas Coordination Group on the progress achieved on the preparation and adoption of the preventive action plans and the emergency plans. In particular competent authorities shall report to the Gas Coordination Group on the agreed cooperation mechanism 18 months before the deadline for the adoption of the plans and the updates of the plans. The Commission may
Amendment 541 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 Competent authorities shall regularly report to the Gas Coordination Group on the progress achieved on the preparation and adoption of the preventive action plans and the emergency plans. In particular competent authorities shall report to the Gas Coordination Group on the agreed cooperation mechanism 18 months before the deadline for the adoption of the plans and the updates of the plans. The Commission may have a facilitating role overall in the preparation of the plans, in particular for the establishment of the cooperation mechanism. If competent authorities
Amendment 542 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 Competent authorities shall regularly report to the Gas Coordination Group on the progress achieved on the preparation and adoption of the preventive action plans and the emergency plans. In particular competent authorities shall report to the Gas Coordination Group on the agreed cooperation mechanism 18 months before the deadline for the adoption of the plans and the updates of the plans. The Commission may have a facilitating role overall in the preparation of the plans, in particular for the establishment of the cooperation mechanism. If
Amendment 543 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 3 Competent authorities shall regularly report to the
Amendment 544 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 3 3. The preventive action plan and the emergency plan shall be developed
Amendment 545 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 3 3. The preventive action plan and the emergency plan shall be developed in accordance with the templates contained in Annex V. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to amend those templates taking into account Member State implementation timeframes.
Amendment 546 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 3 3. The preventive action plan and the emergency plan shall be developed in accordance with the templates contained in Annex V. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in
Amendment 547 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 4 4. The preventive action plans and emergency plans shall be adopted
Amendment 548 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 4 4. The preventive action plans and emergency plans shall be adopted by all Member States
Amendment 549 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 4 4. The preventive action plans and emergency plans shall be adopted by all Member States in the region, made public and notified to the Commission no later than on 1 March 2019. Such notification shall take place once the plans have been adopted by all Member States in the region. The Commission shall
Amendment 550 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 4 4. The preventive action plans and emergency plans shall be adopted by all connected Member States
Amendment 551 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 Within four months of the notification by the competent authorities, the Commission shall assess those plans duly taking into account the peer review and the views expressed
Amendment 552 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 Amendment 553 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part The Commission shall issue a
Amendment 554 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point a Amendment 555 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point b Amendment 556 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point b (b) is inconsistent with the risk scenarios assessed or with the plans
Amendment 557 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point c Amendment 558 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point c Amendment 559 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point c Amendment 560 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point c (c) may
Amendment 561 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point d Amendment 562 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e Amendment 563 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e (e) endangers the security of gas supply of other Member States or of the Union as a whole, notably through poor energy efficiency.
Amendment 564 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e (e) endangers the security of gas supply of other Member States or of the Union as a whole
Amendment 565 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e a (new) (ea) is based on an assessment using a methodology and datasets inconsistent with that used by other Member States in the region and the Commission;
Amendment 566 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e a (new) (ea) is not in line with the EU climate and energy targets.
Amendment 567 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e b (new) (eb) is not in line with the actual gas demand of the country or the region, and is likely to lead to stranded assets;
Amendment 568 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e c (new) (ec) is contradictory to the EU energy and climate objectives and strategies for 2020, 2030 and beyond, in particular to the COP 21 Paris Agreement on climate change.
Amendment 569 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 Amendment 570 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 Amendment 571 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 In the event of disagreement, the Commission may, within
Amendment 572 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 In the event of disagreement, the Commission may, within three months of the reply of the competent authorities,
Amendment 573 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 In the event of disagreement, the Commission may, within three months of the reply of the competent authorities, take a decision requiring the amendment of the relevant plan. The competent authorities shall adopt and publish the plan, taking into account Member State consultation requirements, no later than within three months of the notification of Commission decision.
Amendment 574 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2 In the event of disagreement, the Commission may, within three months of the reply of the competent authorities, take a decision requiring the amendment of the relevant plan. The competent authorities shall adopt and publish the plan
Amendment 575 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) the definition of protected customers
Amendment 576 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) the definition of protected customers in each connected Member State
Amendment 577 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b (b) the definition of protected customers in each Member State
Amendment 578 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c (c) the measures, volumes and capacities needed to fulfil the infrastructure and supply standards in each Member State of the region, as laid down in Articles 4 and 5, including the assessment of the potential for gas demand reduction through refurbishing of the building stock and economy wide energy efficiency measures and an action plan for its deployment in a timely manner; and where applicable, the extent to which demand-side measures can sufficiently compensate, in a timely manner, for a supply disruption as referred to in Article 4(2), the identification of the single largest gas infrastructure of common interest in the case of application of Article 4(3), the necessary gas volumes
Amendment 579 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c (c) the measures, volumes and capacities needed to fulfil the infrastructure and supply standards in
Amendment 580 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c (c) the measures, volumes and capacities needed to fulfil the infrastructure and supply standards in each Member State
Amendment 581 #
Proposal for a regulation Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c (c) the measures, volumes and capacities needed to fulfil the infrastructure and supply standards in each Member State of the region, as laid down in Articles 4 and 5, including the assessment of the potential for gas demand reduction through refurbishing of the building stock and economy wide energy efficiency measures, where applicable, the extent to which demand-side measures can sufficiently compensate, in a timely manner, for a supply disruption as referred
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