23 Amendments of Edouard MARTIN related to 2016/0030(COD)
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
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)
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 147 #
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 objectiveis should be achieved through the most cost- effective measures and in such, in a way that energy markets are not distorted, in accordance with Article 194 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and with the goals of the Energy Union to deliver secure, affordable and climate-friendly energy.
Amendment 148 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
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 162 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6 a (new)
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 182 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) In a spirit of solidarity, regional cooperation, which involvinges both public authorities and natural gas undertakings, should be is the guiding principle of this Regulation, towith the aim of identifying the relevant risks in each region and, optimiseing the benefits of coordinated measures to mitigate them and to imp, whilem ent the most cost-effective measures for Union consumersuring that the measures are cost-effective for customers and ensuring affordable energy prices for citizens. This could be facilitated by providing in-depth analysis at Union level on the relevant Emergency Supply Corridors, based on gas supply sources common for a group of Member States.
Amendment 188 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9 a (new)
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 192 #
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 partiesose parties as well as, where appropriate, with electricity undertakings in cases where they can provide an alternative source of energy or serve to decrease the gas demand. 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. -demand balance. These would be most effective if taken as an addition to longer-term energy efficiency measures to reduce gas demand for heating and cooling in buildings, as well as improved industrial processes that lead to reduced gas demand. Security of gas supply to customers using gas for electricity generation or industrial purposes may also be considered to be essential in some cases. They could be granted a certain level of protection by ensuring that during an emergency they are among the last consumers to forego supply. Member States should be able to provide for this possibility when identifying the supply restrictions orders to be applied in the case of an emergency.
Amendment 197 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11 a (new)
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 249 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 22
Recital 22
(22) To provide input to the risk assessments, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas ('ENTSO for gGas'), in consultation with the Gas Coordination Group and with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO- E), should carry out integrated Union-wide simulations similar to the stress test conducted in 2014. Such simulations should be updated at least every two years. A smarter integration of European gas and electricity systems and demand side management can significantly improve European resilience and energy security while decreasing investment in gas infrastructure. The Gas coordination group, the Union-wide simulations carried out by ENTSOG, national assessments, preventive and emergency action plans shall evolve to reflect the integration of energy systems.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 34
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 297 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 36
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, aAll Member States which have introduced a higher supply standard should reduce it to default values to make the gas market more liquid. Secondly, iIf the first step fails to provide the necessary supply, further measures by neighbouring Member States and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings, even if not in an emergency situation, should be triggeredaken 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 ofor the natural gas and, where appropriate, electricity undertakings..
Amendment 387 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 6
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 and verifiable, verifiable, sustainable and compatible with the EU's climate and energy objectives, shall consider energy efficiency and renewable energy sources as a priority solution to improve the EU's 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, regions ofr the Union as a whole.
Amendment 411 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
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
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- and non-market based demand-side measures. For that purpose, the formula provided in point 4 of Annex II shall be used.
Amendment 417 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5
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 425 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 7 a (new)
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 444 #
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 of this paragraph by reducing the demand for gas through the implementation of energy efficiency measures or by replacing the gas with a different source of energy, in particular renewable energy, to the extent that the same level of protection is achieved.
Amendment 467 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
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 516 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The competent authorities of the Member States of each region as listed in Annex I, in cooperation with the national regulatory authorities where they are not the competent authorities, 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, shall establish jointlythe relevant organisations managing the Member States' energy demand and energy dependency, the national environmental agency, shall establish jointly, after having drafted their national plans:
Amendment 581 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point c
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 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 identification of the single largest gas supplier, the necessary gas volumes per category of protected customers and per scenario as referred to in Article 5(1) and any increased supply standard under Article 5(2), including a justification ofreasons for the compliance with the conditions set in Article 5(2) and a description of a mechanism to temporarily reduce any increased supply standard or additional obligation in accordance with Article 12;
Amendment 605 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 8 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The preventive action plan shall only encourage the construction of new gas infrastructure in case of utmost necessity and after other alternatives via renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures have been duly assessed.
Amendment 659 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10 a (new)
Article 10a 1. By 1 November 2021, ENTSO for Gas and Electricity shall carry out a joint Union wide simulation of supply and infrastructure disruption scenarios. The scenarios shall be defined jointly by ENTSO for Gas and Electricity in consultation with the Energy Coordination Group. The Competent authorities – including electricity, gas, energy efficiency and environmental authorities, shall provide the ENTSOs with the necessary data for the simulations such as peak demand values, production capacity and demand side measures. It shall establish and asses Emergency Supply Corridors complementary to the regional approach, along which gas can flow from a gas source across regions in order to prevent fragmentation of the internal gas market. The results of that assessment and the proposal of the Emergency Supply Corridors shall be discussed in the Gas Coordination Group. That Union-wide simulation and those Emergency Supply Corridors shall be updated every four years unless circumstances warrant more frequent updates. 2. In the event of an emergency declared by one or more competent authorities , the Member States on the Emergency Supply Corridors shall ensure that all essential information is provided as regards the gas supply, in particular, available gas quantities, possible modalities and sources for gas channelling to the Member States having declared the emergency . Member States on the Emergency Supply Corridor shall ensure that no measures prevent the supply of gas to the Member States that have declared the emergency. 3. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to establish the Emergency Supply Corridors.