39 Amendments of Tiziana BEGHIN related to 2023/0077(COD)
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) On 25 February 2015 the Commission presented a Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward- Looking Climate Change Policy that proposed to put citizens at its core, where citizens take ownership of the energy transition, benefit from new technologies to reduce their bills, participate actively in the market, and where vulnerable consumers are protected. As the price crisis has demonstrated, local ownership of production of renewable energy has the potential to contribute to long-term security of supply at the local level, and to provide citizens with the ability to control the cost of the renewable energy they consume. It is thus essential to ensure that citizens are able to take ownership of local potential for production and storage of renewable energy as well as access local infrastructure and obtain a grid connection. Citizens may do so individually or collectively, particularly through municipalities and locally controlled renewable energy communities and citizen energy communities. Supporting such initiatives will help to end dependency on imported fossil fuels, lower consumers energy bills, achieve a decentralised, flexible and decarbonised power system, alleviate energy poverty and empower citizens and communities in the energy transition.
Amendment 283 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 32
Recital 32
(32) However, to the extent that the limitation to set out direct price support schemes in the form of two-way contracts for difference narrows down the types of direct price support schemes that Member States can adopt as regards renewable energy sources, it should be limited to low carbon, non-fossil fuelrenewable energy technologies, with low and stable operational costs and to technologies which typically do not provide flexibility to the electricity system, while excluding technologies that are at early stages of their market deployment. This is necessary to ensure that the economic viability of generation technologies with high marginal costs is not jeopardised and to maintain the incentives of the technologies which can offer flexibility to the electricity system to bid in the electricity market based on their opportunity costs. In addition, the limitation to set out direct price support schemes in the form of two-way contracts for difference should not apply to emerging technologies for which other types of direct price support schemes may be better placed to incentivise their uptake. The limitation should be without prejudice to the possible exemption for small-scale installations and demonstration projects pursuant to Article 4 (3) of (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council and consider the specificities of renewable energy communities in accordance with Article 22 (7) of that Directive.
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 41
Recital 41
(41) The connection of new generation and demand installations, in particular renewable energy plants, often faces delays in grid connection procedures. One of the reasons for such delays is the lack of available grid capacity at the location chosen by the investor, which implies the need for grid extensions or reinforcements to connect the installations to the system in a safe manner. A new requirement for electricity system operators, both at transmission and distribution levels, to publish and update information on the grid capacity available in their areas of operation would contribute to decision- making by investors on the basis of information of grid capacity availability within the system and thus to the required acceleration in the deployment of renewable energy. Such information requirement shall also support the decisions of local actors interested in the uptake of self-consumption from community-owned energy production as well as help Member States and Local Authorities to better allocate investments to finance necessary network reinforcements, especially in distribution network, to allow local production and supply of energy. Overall, supporting such investments will also ensure a more successful and democratic energy transition, increasing public acceptance ensuring that the EU can meet its climate and energy targets.
Amendment 324 #
(42) Furthermore, to tackle the problem of lengthy reply times on requests for connection to the grid, transmission and distribution system operators should provide clear and transparent information to system users about the status and treatment of their connection requests, including estimated grid connection costs where relevant, as well as publicly available timelines and procedures. Transmission and distribution system operators should endeavour to provide such information within a period of threewo months from the submission of the request.
Amendment 325 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 42 a (new)
Recital 42 a (new)
Amendment 326 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 43
Recital 43
(43) During the energy crisis, consumers have been exposed to extremely volatile wholesale energy prices and had limited opportunities to engage in the energy market. Consequently, many households, have been facing difficulties when paying their bills. Vulnerable consumers and the energy poor are the hardest hit28, but middle-income households have also been exposed to such difficulties. It is therefore important to update consumer rights and protections, allowing consumers to benefit from the energy transition, take ownership of renewable energy production, decouple their electricity bills from short term price movements on energy markets and rebalance the risk between suppliers and consumers. It is also important to ensure that local communities, including final households, public authorities, renewable energy communities and locally- controlled citizen energy communities, as well as SMEs that are not already active in the energy sector, are able to utilise nearby grid infrastructure and sites for production in order to meet their collective consumption needs. _________________ 28 Particular groups are more at risk of being affected by energy poverty or more susceptible to the adverse impacts of energy poverty, such as women, persons with disabilities, older persons, children, and persons with a minority racial or ethnic background.
Amendment 332 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) When suppliers’ do not ensure that their electricity portfolio is sufficiently hedged changes in wholesale electricity prices can leave them financially at risk and, result in their failure, passing on costs to consumers and other network users. Hence, it should be ensured that suppliers are appropriately hedged when offering fixed price contracts. An appropriate hedging strategy should take into account the suppliers' access to its own generation and its capitalisation as well as its exposure to changes in wholesale market prices. The specificities of SME suppliers, such as cooperatives having smaller supply volumes and aiming at serving collective or general interest rather than generating profits, should be accounted for when considering potential hedging requirements for suppliers. This shall ensure that such requirements do not constitute a disproportionate barrier to SME suppliers entering and operating in the energy market.
Amendment 336 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46
Recital 46
(46) Consumers should be able to choose the supplier and third party service provider that can facilitate energy sharing which offers them the price and service which best suits their needs. Advances in metering and sub- metering technology combined with information and communication technology mean that it is now technically possible to have multiple suppliers for a single premises. If they so wish, customers should be able to use these possibilities to choose a separate supplier notably for electricity to power appliances such as heat pumps or electric vehicles which have a particularly high consumption or which also have the capability to shift their electricity consumption automatically in response to price signals. Moreover, with fast- responding dedicated metering devices which are attached to or embedded in appliances with flexible, controllable loads, final customers can participate in other incentive-based demand response schemes that provide flexibility services on the electricity market and to transmission and distribution system operators. Overall, such arrangements should contribute to the increased uptake of demand response and to consumer empowerment allowing them to have more control over their energy use and bills, while providing to the electricity system additional flexibility in order to cope with demand and supply fluctuations.
Amendment 337 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 49
Recital 49
(49) Energy sharing can create resilience against the effects of high and volatile wholesale market prices on consumers’ energy bills, empowers a wider group of consumers that do not otherwise have the option of becoming an active customer due to financial or spatial constraints, such as energy poor and vulnerable consumers, and leads to increased uptake of renewable energy by mobilising additional private capital investments and diversifying remuneration pathways. With the integration of appropriate price signals and storage facilities, electricity sharing can help lay the foundation to help tap into the flexibility potential of smaller consumers, making sure that the ownership of the shared production from renewable installations and energy storage facilities, regardless of whether a third party owns the production installation, always stay with the local actors that participate in the energy sharing projects. Furthermore, the third party should remain subject to the instructions of the active customers participating in the energy sharing initiative. To ensure that third parties attached to integrated undertakings do not utilize energy sharing to lock consumers into using their or their other integrated enterprises’ services, active customers should be able to exercise the right to switch service providers or supplier, regardless of which party owns the production installation used for energy sharing.
Amendment 341 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 50 a (new)
Recital 50 a (new)
(50a) There is a need to make it easier for non-professional and non-commercial market actors to successfully navigate obtaining relevant licenses and approvals or authorisations. This should be facilitated by allocating local space so that energy communities can install renewable energy production, obtain a grid connection, and maintain access to the grid to share energy locally. In easing the ability of energy communities to share energy with each other, public authorities and relevant transmission and distribution system operators should streamline the administrative process for energy community sharing projects, provide a dedicated window or contact point, so that they can access information and register their projects, and receive technical assistance.
Amendment 344 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 51
Recital 51
(51) Energy sharing operationalises the collective consumption of self-generated or stored electricity injected into the grid by more than one jointly acting active customers. Member States should put in place the appropriate IT infrastructure to allow for the administrative matching within a certain timeframe of consumption with self-generated or stored renewable energy for the purpose of calculating the energy component of the energy bill and netted energy that will not be accounted for. The output of these facilities should be distributed among the aggregated consumer load profiles based on static, variable or dynamic calculation methods that can be pre-defined or agreed upon by the active customers.
Amendment 360 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Recital 4
Recital 4
(-1) Recital 4 is amended as follow: "(4) This Regulation establishes rules to ensure the functioning of the internal market for electricity and includes requirements related to the development of renewable forms of energy and environmental policy, in particular specific rules for certain types of renewable power- generating and energy storage facilities, concerning balancing responsibility, dispatch and redispatching, as well as a threshold for CO2 emissions of new generation capacity where such capacity is subject to temporary measures to ensure the necessary level of resource adequacy, namely, capacity mechanisms. " Or. en (32019R0943)
Amendment 361 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 a (new)
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point -1 a (new)
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Recital 18
Recital 18
(-1 a) Recital 18 is amended as follow: "(18) Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/631 (9) sets out the requirements for grid connection of power-generating facilities to the interconnected system, in particular with respect to synchronous power-generating modules, power park modules and offshore power park modules. Those requirements help to ensure fair conditions of competition in the internal electricity market, to ensure system security and the integration of electricity from renewable sources and energy storage, and to facilitate Union-wide trade in electricity. Articles 66 and 67 of Regulation (EU) 2016/631 set out rules for emerging technologies in electricity generation " Or. en (32019R0943)
Amendment 365 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Article 1– point b
Article 1– point b
(b) set fundamental principles for well- functioning, integrated electricity markets, which allow all resource providers and electricity customers non-discriminatory market access, enable the development of forward electricity markets to allow suppliers and consumers to hedge or protect themselves against the risk of future volatility in electricity prices, empower consumers, promoting energy sharing and local ownership of production and supply from renewable energy sources and storing facilities, ensure competitiveness on the global market, enhance flexibility through demand response, energy storage and other non- fossil flexibility solutions, ensure energy efficiency, facilitate aggregation of distributed demand and supply, and enable market and sectoral integration and market- based remuneration of electricity generated from renewable sources;
Amendment 368 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Article 1 – point e
Article 1 – point e
(e) support long-term investments in development of renewable energy generation and enablestorage capacity and of transmission and distribution networks to fulfil the future needs of electric mobility, heat pump buildings cooling and heating, local energy production, sharing and self consumption, thus facilitating electrification and decarbonisation, and enabling consumers’ to make their energy bills less dependent from fluctuations of short-term electricity market prices, in particular fossil fuel prices in the medium to long-term.
Amendment 623 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 9
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Article 19a, paragraph 1
Article 19a, paragraph 1
1. Member States shall facilitate power purchase agreements (‘PPAs’) with a view to reaching the objectives set out in their integrated national energy and climate plan with respect to the dimension decarbonisation referred to in point (a) of Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, while preserving competitive and liquid electricity markets. Member States shall make sure that PPAs are accessible to SME market actors, including citizen energy communities and renewable energy communities, in particular by implementing a framework to facilitate the access to financing.
Amendment 1014 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Article 50 – paragraph 4 a
Article 50 – paragraph 4 a
Transmission system operators and distribution system operators shall publish in a clear and transparent manner, information on the capacity available for new connections in their respective areas of operation, including in congested areas if flexible energy storage connections can be accommodated, and update that information regularly, at least quarterly.
Amendment 1018 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Article 50 – paragraph 4 a
Article 50 – paragraph 4 a
Transmission system operators and distribution system operators shall also provide clear and transparent information to system users about the status and treatment of their connection requests. They shall provide such information within a period of threewo months from the submission of the request . Member States shall ensure that penalties apply to instances where transmission system operators and distribution system operators do not comply with the obligations specified in this article;
Amendment 1021 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 11 – point a
Regulation (EU) 2019/943
Article 50 – paragraph 4 b (new)
Article 50 – paragraph 4 b (new)
4aa. Member States shall ensure that transmission system operators and distribution system operators develop procedures to guarantee that available grid connection capacity is made accessible to satisfy local interest in the uptake of community-owned generation and energy storage systems, particularly when the production is intended for self- consumption and energy sharing by, or between, the members or shareholders.
Amendment 1039 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Recital 10
Recital 10
(-1) Recital 10 is replaced by the following "(10) Consumers have an essential role to play in achieving the flexibility necessary to adapt the electricity system to variable and distributed renewable electricity generation. Technological progress in grid management and the generation of renewable electricity has unlocked many opportunities for consumers. Healthy competition in retail markets is essential to ensuring the market-driven deployment of innovative new services and products that address consumers' changing needs and abilities, while increasing system flexibility. However, the lack of real-time or near real- time information provided to consumers about their energy consumption has prevented them from being active participants in the energy market and the energy transition. By empowering consumers and providing them with the tools to participate more in the energy market, including participating in new ways, such as the information about the advantages of purchasing of ‘energy smart products’, it is intended that citizens in the Union benefit from the internal market for electricity and that the Union's renewable energy targets are attained " Or. en (32019L0944)
Amendment 1040 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 a (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Recital 10
Recital 10
(-1 a) Recital 10 is replaced by the following: "(10). Consumers have an essential role to play in achieving the flexibility necessary to adapt the electricity system to variable and distributed renewable electricity generation and storage. Technological progress in grid management and the generation and storage of renewable electricity has unlocked many opportunities for consumers. Healthy competition in retail markets is essential to ensuring the market-driven deployment of innovative new services that address consumers' changing needs and abilities, while increasing system flexibility. However, the lack of real-time or near real- time information provided to consumers about their energy consumption has prevented them from being active participants in the energy market and the energy transition. By empowering consumers and providing them with the tools to participate more in the energy market, including participating in new ways, it is intended that citizens in the Union benefit from the internal market for electricity and that the Union's renewable energy targets are attained. " Or. en (32019L0944)
Amendment 1041 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 b (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Recital 23
Recital 23
(-1b) Recital 23 is replaced by: "(23) Public service obligations in the form of price setting for the supply of electricity should be used without overriding the principle of open markets in clearly defined circumstances and beneficiaries and should be limited in duration. Such circumstances might occur for example where supply is severely constrained, causing significantly higher electricity prices than normal, or in the event of a market failure where interventions by regulatory authorities and competition authorities have proven to be ineffective. This would disproportionately affect households and, in particular, vulnerable and energy poor customers who typically expend a higher share of their disposable income on energy bills compared to high-income consumers. In order to mitigate the distortive effects of public service obligations in price setting for the supply of electricity, Member States applying such interventions should put in place additional measures, including measures to prevent distortions of price setting in the wholesale market. Member States should ensure that all beneficiaries of regulated prices are able to benefit fully from the offers available on the competitive market when they choose to do so. To that end, those beneficiaries need to be equipped with smart metering systems and have access to dynamic electricity price contracts. In addition, they should be directly and regularly informed of the offers and savings available on the competitive market, in particular relating to dynamic electricity price contracts, and should be provided with assistance to respond to and benefit from market-based offers. " Or. en (32019L0944)
Amendment 1042 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 c (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 c (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Recital 43
Recital 43
(-1c) Recital 43 is replaced by the following: "(43) Distributed energy technologies and consumer empowerment have made community energy an effective and cost- efficient way to meet citizens' needs and expectations regarding energy sources, services and local participation. Community energy offers an inclusive option for all consumers to have a direct stake in producing, consuming or sharing energy. Community energy initiatives focus primarily on providing affordable energy of a specific kind, such as renewable energy, for their members or shareholders rather than on prioritising profit-making like a traditional electricity undertaking. By directly engaging with consumers, community energy initiatives demonstrate their potential to facilitate the uptake of new technologies and consumption patterns, including smart distribution grids and demand response, in an integrated manner. Community energy can also advance energy efficiency at household level and help fight energy poverty through reduced consumption and lower supply tariffs. Community energy also enables certain groups of household customers to participate in the electricity markets, who otherwise might not have been able to do so. Where they have been successfully operated such initiatives have delivered economic, social and environmental benefits to the community that go beyond the mere benefits derived from the provision of energy services. This Directive aims to recognise certain categories of citizen energy initiatives at the Union level as ‘citizen energy communities’, in order to provide them with an enabling framework, fair treatment, a level playing field and a well-defined catalogue of rights and obligations. Household customers should be allowed to participate voluntarily in community energy initiatives as well as to leave them, without losing access to the network operated by the community energy initiative or losing their rights as consumers. Access to a citizen energy community's network should be granted on fair and cost-reflective terms. The right to implement peer to peer and to share energy through direct set off of production and consumption should be fully granted to energy communities and active customers, regardless of the self- dispatching or central dispatching model adopted by TSOs for imbalance settlement and in case of use of virtual sharing configurations." Or. en (32019L0944)
Amendment 1043 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 d (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 d (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Recital 61
Recital 61
(-1d) Recital 61 is replaced by the following: "(61)Distribution system operators have to cost-efficiently integrate new electricity generation, especially installations generating and storing electricity from renewable sources, and new loads such as loads that result from heat pumps and electric vehicles. For that purpose, distribution system operators should be enabled, and provided with incentives, to use services from distributed energy resources such as demand response and energy storage, based on market procedures, in order to efficiently operate their networks and to avoid costly network expansions. Member States should put in place appropriate measures such as national network codes and market rules, and should provide incentives to distribution system operators through network tariffs which do not create obstacles to flexibility or to the improvement of energy efficiency in the grid. Member States should also introduce network development plans for distribution systems in order to support the integration of installations generating and storing electricity from renewable energy sources, facilitate the development of energy storage facilities and the electrification of the transport sector, and provide to system users adequate information regarding the anticipated expansions or upgrades of the network, as currently such procedures do not exist in the majority of Member States. " Or. en (32019L0944)
Amendment 1044 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 e (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point -1 e (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Recital 86
Recital 86
(-1e) Recital 86 is replaced by the following: "(86) Regulatory authorities should also be granted the power to contribute to ensuring high standards of universal and public service obligations in accordance with market opening, to the protection of vulnerable and energy poor customers, and to the full effectiveness of consumer protection measures. Those provisions should be without prejudice to both the Commission's powers concerning the application of competition rules, including the examination of mergers with a Union dimension, and the rules on the internal market, such as the rules on the free movement of capital. The independent body to which a party affected by the decision of a regulatory authority has a right to appeal could be a court or another tribunal that is empowered to conduct a judicial review. " Or. en (32019L0944)
Amendment 1046 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point a
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8
(8) ‘active customer’ means a final customer, or a group of jointly acting final customers, who participates in flexibility or energy efficiency schemes or sells self- generated electricity or who consumes or stores electricity generated within its premises located within confined boundaries or self- generated or shared electricity within other premises located within the same bidding zone, or who sells self-generated electricity or participates in flexibility or energy efficiency schemes, provided that those activities do not constitute its primary commercial or professional activity provided that those activities do not constitute its primary commercial or professional activity. The household customers living in the same housing unit should be necessarily considered as jointly acting final customers.”;
Amendment 1055 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a
(10a) ‘energy sharing’ means the self- consumption by active customers, including members of energy communities, of renewable energy either:
Amendment 1057 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a – point a
(a) generated or stored offsite or on sites between them by aone or more facilityies they own, lease, rent in whole or in part; ordirectly or through energy communities
Amendment 1058 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a – point b (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a – point b (new)
(aa) own, lease, rent in whole or in part, or have requested a third party to build, or maintain, and directly manage on their behalf, to the purpose of enabling and facilitating the energy sharing within the same distribution network area or, where permitted by a Member State, within a neighbouring distribution network area; or
Amendment 1059 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 a – point b
(b) the right to which has been transferred to them by anotherone or more active customer whether free of charge or for a prices located within the same bidding zone, whether free of charge or for a price, informally through an over the counter arrangement, or through peer- to-peer trading of renewable energy.
Amendment 1061 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 10 b
(10b) ‘peer-to-peer trading’ of renewable energy means peer-to-peer trading as defined in point (18) of Article 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001. Rights to renewable energy peer-to-peer trading should always be fully granted regardless of the self-dispatching or central dispatching model adopted by TSOs for imbalance settlement.
Amendment 1063 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – 58 a (new)
Article 2 – 58 a (new)
(24aa) ‘energy smart products’ means all products and appliances, including those subject to the article 16 point (3) paragraph ‘d’ of EU regulation 2017/1369, which can be activated by users to interact with other products, appliances and systems, including the energy grid itself and electricity market price signals. Energy smart products are able to self-regulate or switch their power consumption patterns, in order to maximize the uptake and self- consumption of renewable energy, lowering the consumers bills and further enabling the active customers to participate to flexibility mechanisms and services.
Amendment 1066 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – 60 a (new)
Article 2 – 60 a (new)
Amendment 1067 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point b
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 2 – 60 b (new)
Article 2 – 60 b (new)
(24ac) 'energy poor customers’ means final customer of electricity who is in energy poverty, including energy poor households.
Amendment 1070 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 a (new)
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Recital 86
Recital 86
(1a) Recital 86 is replaced by "(86)Regulatory authorities should also be granted the power to contribute to ensuring high standards of universal and public service obligations in accordance with market opening, to the protection of vulnerable customers, and to the full effectiveness of consumer protection measures. Those provisions should be without prejudice to both the Commission's powers concerning the application of competition rules, including the examination of mergers with a Union dimension, and the rules on the internal market, such as the rules on the free movement of capital. The independent body to which a party affected by the decision of a regulatory authority has a right to appeal could be a court or another tribunal that is empowered to conduct a judicial review. " Or. en (32019L0944)
Amendment 1074 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 2
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Member States shall ensure that all customers are free to purchase electricity from the supplier of their choice. Member States shall ensure that all customers are free to have more than one electricity supply contract at the same time, and that for this purpose customers are entitled to have more than one metering and billing point covered by the single connection point for their premises and may have more than one energy dispatcher. These requirements shall also apply to energy sharing. To this effect, Member States shall ensure that all the subjects entitled to energy sharing are free to choose their own supplier regardless of the market actor that is facilitating the activity on their behalf. Vice versa, Member States shall ensure that the subjects entitled to energy sharing are free to choose a third party facilitator, regardless of their supply contract and of the ownership of the renewable energy production and storage installations. The requirements established by the Member States for retail energy suppliers do not apply to energy communities, which are always allowed to sell energy to their members without disproportionate obligations and in any case without any requirement concerning corporate capital and financial and economic capacity.
Amendment 1118 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 15 a – paragraph 1
Article 15 a – paragraph 1
1. All households, small and medium sized enterprises and public bodies have the right to participate in energy sharing as active customers or through energy communities.
Amendment 1123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 4
Directive (EU) 2019/944
Article 15 a – paragraph 1– point a (new)
Article 15 a – paragraph 1– point a (new)
(-a) This right shall not apply to large enterprises or private undertakings if energy production constitutes part of their primary or professional activity.
Amendment 1124 #
(a) Active customers and self- consumers, acting individually or jointly, as well as energy communities members, shall be entitled to share renewable energy between themselves based on private agreements or through a legal entity.