Activities of Davor ŠKRLEC related to 2016/0030(COD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Measures to safeguard the security of gas supply (debate) HR
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION 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
Amendments (16)
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) Natural gas (gas) remains an essential component of the energy supply of the Union in the transition phase towards an ever increasing share of energy generated by renewable sources. A large proportion of such gas is imported into the Union from third countries.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The European gas demand has declined by 14% since 2000 and by 23% since 2010. Higher targets and additional efforts on energy efficiency - in line with 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 prioritised and be given primary consideration in security of gas supply plans.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
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 markets are not distorted. It complements Union action including financial support aimed at increasing energy efficiency.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Certain customers, including households and customers providing essential social services, are particularly vulnerable and may need socialshould be protectioned. A definition of such protected customers should not conflict with the Union solidarity mechanisms.
Amendment 76 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
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 energy efficiency, interruptible contracts and fuel switching, which have an immediate impact on the supply/demand balance.
Amendment 87 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) For the purpose of this Regulation, the following criteria should therefore be taken into account when defining the regional groups: supply patternsand demand patterns, potentials for reducing this demand regionally through energy efficiency measures, in particular in buildings and industry, 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 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
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 and identify the potential for alleviating pressure on gas supply through energy efficiency measures and for increasing the share of energy generated by renewable sources. 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 99 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 25
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 priorities in order to reduce gas and electricity demand and provide a long-term and sustainable improvement of Member States’ resilience against supply crises.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 28
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 and competitiveness aspects must be taken into account.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) One of the Union goals is to strengthen thea climate-friendly Energy Community that would ensure effective implementation of the Union energy acquis, energy market reforms and incentivising investments in the renewable energy sector, including investments on the energy demand-side in the form of energy efficiency improvements, 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, 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 place once the required mutual provisions have been duly put into place..
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
This Regulation establishes provisions aimed at safeguarding the security of gas supply in the transition phase towards an ever increasing share of energy generated by renewable sources 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.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 6
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, verifiable, sustainable and consistent with the Union’s climate and energy objectives, shall be demand-based on not exclusively supply-based, shall consider renewable energy sources and energy efficiency as priority solution to improve energy security, 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 131 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 4
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 source of energy, in particular from renewable sources, to the extent that the same level of protection is achieved.
Amendment 149 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 5 – subparagraph 2 – point e a (new)
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) information on demand-side investments to reduce energy demand through energy efficiency measures and on increasing the share of energy generated by renewable sources;
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point h
(h) description of the impact of the measures on the environment, on climate and on consumers;