61 Amendments of Herbert REUL related to 2016/0030(COD)
Amendment 292 #
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, 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 and equitable compensation of the natural gas undertakingsppropriate level of compensation for natural gas undertakings that fully reflects the market value of the costs related to the interruption of supplies - including its effect on the electricity sector - resulting from implementation of Article 12, and should disincentive recourse to the solidarity mechanism as anything but a measure of last-resort.
Amendment 393 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 7
Article 3 – paragraph 7
Amendment 469 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. TheEach competent authorities of each region as listed in Annex I shall jointly make an assessment at regional levely shall make an assessment 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 477 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 1 – point a
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 calculation of the N-1 formula at regional level. The risk assessment shall also include the assumptions used, including those for the calculation of the N – 1 formula at regional level. The risk assessment shall also include the assumptions used, and the data necessary for such calculation. The calculation of the N-1 formula at national level shallcould be accompanied by a simulation of the disruption of the single largest infrastructure using a hydraulic model as well as a calculation of the N-1 formula considering the level of gas in storages at 30% and 100% of the total capacity;
Amendment 494 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Amendment 498 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Amendment 499 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. The risk assessment shall be prepared in accordance withbased on the template in Annex IV. The Commission shall be empowerIf warranted, to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to amend those templathe templates can be adapted to particular circumstances.
Amendment 506 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5
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. It shall also build on the experience acquired through the simulation of the emergency plans contained in Article 9 (2).
Amendment 513 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 6
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 scenariosENTSO for Gas shall lay out the methodology to be used for the simulation in a transparent manner and discuss it with the gas coordination group. The scenarios and the methodology shall be defined by ENTSO for Gas in consultoperation 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 plans and emergency plans. The Union-wide simulation of supply and infrastructure disruption scenarios shall be updated every four years unless circumstances warrant more frequent updates.
Amendment 522 #
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 Iy, 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 authoritiesy, where they areit is not the competent authoritiesy, shall establish jointlywithout prejudice of paragraph 2 establish at national level:
Amendment 527 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) a preventive action plan containing the measures to be adoptneeded to remove or mitigate the risks identified in the region, including risks of purely national dimensionat national or broader level, in accordance with the risk assessment undertaken pursuant to Article 6 and in accordance with Article 8; and
Amendment 533 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – point b
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 in the region, including events of purely national dimension, in accordance with Article 9.
Amendment 544 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. The preventive action plan and the emergency plan shall be developed in accordance withbased on the templates contained in Annex V. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 18 to amend those templates. Before adopting a preventive action plan and emergency plan at national level, the Competent authorities which have carried out a joint risk analysis and Competent authorities of neighbouring countries shall consult each other with a view to ensuring that their plans are consistent.
Amendment 547 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
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 inform the Gas Coordination Group about the notification of the plans and publish them on the Commission website. If requested by a Member state, the Commission should made available a courtesy translation in a European working language.
Amendment 571 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
Article 7 – paragraph 6 – subparagraph 2
In the event of disagreement, the Commission may, within three2 months of the reply of the cCompetent aAuthorities, take a decy, decide to amend or withdraw its request. If the Commission requiring the amendment of the relevant plan. The competent authorities shall adopt and publish the planmaintains its request, the Competent Authority concerned shall amend the plan within 2 months of the notification of the Commission's decision, taking utmost account of the Commission's recommendations, and shall notify it to the Commission. The Commission shall inform the Gas Coordination Group and duly take into account their recommendations when drafting its opinion on the amended plan, which shall be delivered within three2 months of the notification of Commission decisiothe Competent Authority. The Competent Authority concerned shall take utmost account of the Commission's opinion and within 2 months of receipt of the Commission's opinion shall adopt and make public the resulting amended plan.
Amendment 575 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point b
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);
Amendment 583 #
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 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 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 of 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 589 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point f
Amendment 592 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point g
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point g
Amendment 595 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point h
Article 8 – paragraph 1 – point h
Amendment 606 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 4
Article 8 – paragraph 4
Amendment 621 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Article 8 – paragraph 5
Amendment 685 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 12 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
As long as the supply to households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member State having declared the emergency is not satisfied, despite the application of the measure in paragraph 1 and where the market is unable to provide gas, the gas supply to customers other than households, essential social services and district heating installations in any other Member State, directly connected to the Member State which declared the emergency, shall not continue to the extent necessary to supply the households, essential social services and district heating installations in the Member States having declared the emergency.
Amendment 703 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Article 12 – paragraph 4
4. The technical, legal and finanPrior to the application of paragraph 3, the technical, legal, financial and commercial 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 maywill cover, among others, gas prices to be applied at a level that fully reflect the losses to gas undertakings in the functioning market, 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 and commercial arrangements necessary to apply paragraph 3 are amended, the relevant emergency plan shall be updated accordingly.
Amendment 722 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 4
Article 13 – paragraph 4
4. In duly justified circumstances irrespective of a declaration of emergency, the competent authority may require gas undertakings to provide the information referred to in paragraph 1 or additional information necessary to assess the overall situation of the gas supply in the Member State or other Member States, including contractual information subject to such a request not duplicating information provisions obligations that natural gas undertakings may already have at a Member State or EU level. The Commission may request from the competent authorities the information provided by natural gas undertakings.
Amendment 751 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 7
Article 13 – paragraph 7
Amendment 800 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex I
Annex I
Amendment 830 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – introductory part
Annex IV – introductory part
Amendment 831 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – indent 1
Annex IV – indent 1
Amendment 832 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point 1.1
Annex IV – point 1 – point 1.1
Amendment 840 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 1 – point 1.2 a (new)
Annex IV – point 1 – point 1.2 a (new)
1.2a. Findings of the different risk analyse in which the Member State has been involved.
Amendment 841 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 2 – point 2.1
Annex IV – point 2 – point 2.1
Amendment 842 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 2 – point 2.2 – title
Annex IV – point 2 – point 2.2 – title
2.2. National level (to be described per Member State in the region)
Amendment 843 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 2 – point 2.2 – point b – point 3
Annex IV – point 2 – point 2.2 – point b – point 3
(3) Indicate interconnection points where an exemption has been granted in accordance with Article 4(4), the duration of the exemption and the grounds on which it was granted
Amendment 845 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 3 – point 3.1
Annex IV – point 3 – point 3.1
Amendment 846 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 3 – point 3.2 – title
Annex IV – point 3 – point 3.2 – title
3.2. National level (to the extent relevant)
Amendment 847 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex IV – point 3 – point 3.2 a (new)
Annex IV – point 3 – point 3.2 a (new)
3.2a. Findings of joint risk analysis.
Amendment 848 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – introductory part
Annex V – introductory part
Amendment 849 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – indent 1
Annex V – indent 1
Amendment 850 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 1 – point 1.1
Annex V – point 1 – point 1.1
Amendment 857 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 3 – point 3.1
Annex V – point 3 – point 3.1
Amendment 858 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 4 – introductory part
Annex V – point 4 – introductory part
Please describe here, per Member State, the measures adopted in order to comply with the supply standard as well as with any increased supply standard or additional obligation imposed for reasons of security of gas supply:
Amendment 859 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 4 – point d – point 5
Annex V – point 4 – point d – point 5
Amendment 860 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 4 – point d – point 6
Annex V – point 4 – point d – point 6
Amendment 861 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 4 – point d – point 7
Annex V – point 4 – point d – point 7
Amendment 862 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 4 – point e – point 2
Annex V – point 4 – point e – point 2
Amendment 863 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 4 – point e – point 3
Annex V – point 4 – point e – point 3
Amendment 866 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 5 – point a – point 1
Annex V – point 5 – point a – point 1
Amendment 873 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 5 –point c
Annex V – point 5 –point c
Amendment 874 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 9 – point a
Annex V – point 9 – point a
(a) Describe the mechanisms used for the cooperation among the Member States in the region, including for preparing and implementing this preventive action plan and the emergency plan and Article 12
Amendment 875 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 9 – point b
Annex V – point 9 – point b
Amendment 876 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – point 11
Annex V – point 11
Amendment 877 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – template – indent 1
Annex V – template – indent 1
Amendment 878 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – template– point 1 – point a
Annex V – template– point 1 – point a
(a) Per Member State, iIndicate the body responsible for the declaration of each crisis level and the procedures to follow in each case for such declarations.
Amendment 879 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – template – point 2 – title
Annex V – template – point 2 – title
2. Measures to be adopted per crisis level 33 __________________ 33Include regional and national measures
Amendment 880 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – template – point 6 – point a
Annex V – template – point 6 – point a
Amendment 881 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – template – point 6 – point b
Annex V – template – point 6 – point b
(b) Describe the mechanisms in place to cooperate with other Member States out of the region and to coordinate actions for each crisis level
Amendment 882 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – template – point 7 – point a
Annex V – template – point 7 – point a
(a) Describe the agreed arrangements among Member States within the region to ensure the application of the solidarity principle referred to in Article 12
Amendment 883 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex V – template – point 7 – point b
Annex V – template – point 7 – point b
Amendment 886 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex VI – point 2
Annex VI – point 2
2. One pPeer review team per regions shall be established. Each peer review team shall be composed of maximum five competent authorities and ENTSO for Gas, each represented by one person, and, as an observer, the Commission. The Commission shall select the representatives of competent authorities and ENTSO for Gas in the peer review teams, taking into account geographical balance and including at least one. All competent authorityies from a neighbouring Member States have the possibility to be presented by one person in the peer review team. Members of the peer review team shall not belong to any competent authority or other bodies or associations having participated in the preparation of the plans subject to the peer review.
Amendment 888 #
Proposal for a regulation
Annex VI – point 4
Annex VI – point 4
4. Taking into account the peer review report, the Gas Coordination Group shall discuss the preventive action plans and emergency plans with a view to ensure the coherence among the different regions andin the Union as a whole.