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Activities of Benedek JÁVOR related to 2015/0239(COD)

Shadow reports (1)

2016/11/22
Committee: ITRE
Dossiers: 2015/0239(COD)
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Amendments (28)

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6

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

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7

(7) In order to guarantee the reporting of high quality price data for the household sector and for the non-household sector including SMEs, energy intensive industries and other industrial consumers, the collection of bothose four types of data should be covered by a legal act.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)

(7a) In order to enable better understanding of energy costs in energy intensive industrial sectors and better inform policy makers, statistical data collected for energy-intensive industries should be broken down by sector including for instance non-metallic minerals, iron and steel, non-ferrous metals, chemicals, pulp and paper, textiles, pharmaceuticals; the breakdown of energy-intensive industry sectors should be defined by delegated act.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9

(9) The system of consumption bands used by the Commission (Eurostat) in its price publications should ensure the transparency of the market ~~and t~~by type of customers, including households, SMEs, energy-intensive industrial sector, and other industrial consumers. The broad dissemination of non-confidential price data and should enable the calculation of European aggregates.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 13

(13) Detailed data on the breakdown of consumption bands and by consumer category (households, SMEs, energy intensive industries, and other industrial consumers) and their respective market shares are an essential part of natural gas and electricity price statistics.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16

(16) A good understanding of the taxes ~~and charge~~, charges and financial provisions in each Member State is essential for ensuring price transparency. The importance of a breakdown of the data on network costs, charges, taxes, levies, ~~and fee~~fees and financial provisions has been identified.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 17

(17) Member States in which the consumption of natural gas as a proportion of the final energy consumption of households is low should be exempted from the obligation to provide data on natural gas prices for final household customers.deleted

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19

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

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 20

(20) In order to maintain the high quality of the data provided by the Member States, 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, with a view to ~~adjusting the thresholds that may apply to the natural gas market~~defining and adjusting as necessary, the breakdown by energy- intensive industrial sectors and other industrial sectors. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level. The Commission, when preparing and drawing up delegated acts, should ensure a simultaneous, timely and appropriate transmission of relevant documents to the European Parliament and Council.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21

~~(21) The Commission should ensure that~~ delegated ~~acts do not impose a significant additional administrative burden on Member States or on respondents.~~

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2

(2) ‘customer’, ‘final customer’, ‘household customer’, ~~‘non-household customer’,~~ ‘transmission’, ‘distribution’ and ‘supply’ related to electricity shall have the same meaning as those referred to in Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council5 , when used in relation to electricity; _________________ 5 Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 2003/54/EC (OJ L 211, 14.8.2009, p. 55).

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3

(3) ‘customer’, ‘final customer’, ‘household customer’, ~~‘non-household customer’,~~ ‘transmission’, ‘distribution’ and ‘supply’ related to natural gas shall have the same meaning as those referred to in Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council6 , when used in relation to natural gas; _________________ 6 Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 2003/55/EC (OJ L 211, 14.8.2009, p. 94).

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 a (new)

(3a) "SMEs" shall be defined as an undertaking fulfilling the conditions laid down in the Commission Recommendation of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises;

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 b (new)

(3b) "energy intensive-industry" shall mean sectors of which the electricity and gas intensity are above the average of the energy intensity of the entire industry. The methodology for defining energy intensive industries shall be defined through delegated act according to Article 10.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 3 c (new)

(3c) "other industrial consumers" shall cover consumers not covered by the household consumers, the SMEs and the energy-intensive industry categories;

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point b

(b) other statistical surveys addressed to customers in the household sector and final customers in the ~~non-household~~SMEs, energy-intensive sectors and other industrial sectors;

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 3

~~(3) The Commission shall be empowered to adopt~~ delegated ~~acts in accordance with Article 10, taking account of economic and technical trends, concerning the adjustment of the threshold.~~

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Article 9

(1) Derogations may be granted by means of implementing acts in relation to those specific obligations for which the application of this Regulation to the national statistical system of a Member State requires major adaptations and is likely to lead to a significant additional burden on respondents. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 11(2) no later than [xx-xx-xxx] (2) For the purposes of paragraph 1, the Member State concerned shall present a duly justified request to the Commission no later than nine months after the entry into force of this Regulation. (3) The derogations shall remain in force for the shortest period of time possible and shall in any case not exceed three years. (4) A Member State having been granted derogation in accordance with paragraph 1 shall continue to apply the relevant provisions of Directive 2008/92/EC for the duration of the dArticle 9 deleted Derogation ~~period.~~s

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 1

Prices to be reported are prices charged to household ~~and final non-household~~customers, SMEs, energy- intensive industries and other industrial customers buying natural gas for their own use that is distributed through mains.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 1

Natural gas includes natural gas and other gaseous fuels blended with natural gas in the transmission and distribution network, such as biogas. Other gaseous fuels that are distributed through dedicated networks without being blended with natural gas (e.g. gas works gas, coke oven gas, blast furnace gas and biogas) ~~are to be ex~~that are not used for self-consumption are also to be included.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 3 – paragraph 1 – indent 2

~~- non-energy purposes (e.g. for use in the chemicals industry).~~deleted

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 4 – paragraph 1

The prices to be reported are the national average prices charged to ~~household and final non-household~~final customers (households, SMEs, energy-intensive industry sectors and other industrial customers).

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 5 – point b – introductory part

(b) For ~~final non-household custo~~SMEs, energy-intensive industries and other industrials consumers, the following bands are to be applied:

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex I – point 6 – point b – paragraph 1 a (new)

Additionally, data shall be provided by the Member States on any type of exemption and derogation for payments of fees, taxes and levies that it has granted to any category of customers.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 4 – point b – introductory part

(b) For final non-household customers, including SMEs, energy-intensive industries and other industrial consumers, the following bands are to be applied:

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 5 – point a – table – column 2 – row 11

3. Taxes, fees, levies or charges related to capacity payments, energy security and generation adequacy; t3a. Taxes on coal industry restructuring~~; t~~ and stranded costs; 3b. Taxes on electricity distribution~~. Stranded costs and~~, levies on financing energy regulatory authorities or market operators.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 5 – point a – table – column 2 – row 13

5. Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the nuclear sector, including provisions for nuclear decommissioning and waste management, inspections and fees for nuclear installations.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE

Proposal for a regulation
Annex II – point 5 – point b – paragraph 1 a (new)

Additionally, data shall be provided by the Member States on any type of exemption and derogation for payments of fees, taxes and levies that it has granted to any category of customers.

2016/04/15
Committee: ITRE