9 Amendments of Jacek SARYUSZ-WOLSKI related to 2013/2005(INI)
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Stresses that solidarity between Member States called for by the EU Treaty, should apply to both the daily working of and the crisis management of internal and external energy policy; calls on the Commission to provide a clear definition of 'energy solidarity' in order to ensure that it is respected by all Member States;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Emphasises the need to tackle the anticipated growth of gas and electricity imports from third countries to the EU in the short- and medium-term with view of ensuring security of energy supply, burden-sharing and a fair functioning of the internal market; reiterates that, for some Member States, this challenge is closely linked with a dependency on gas and oil import from a single third country and that meeting it requires actions oriented at diversifying the portfolio of energy suppliers, routes and sources; acknowledges that one strategic objective in this regard is the realisation of Southern Gas Corridor, including the Nabucco pipeline and its potential lineage to countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the achievement of the supply route to the EU of roughly 10-20% of the EU gas demand by 2020 in order to enable each European region to have physical access to at least two different sources of gas;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Believes that an open and transparent internal market, where all EU and third country companies respect the acquis communautaire in the field of energy, can help strengthen the negotiating position of EU energy suppliers vis-à-vis external competitors, which is particularly important for the potential of further coordinating external energy purchasing at the EU level; calls on the EU to consider the establishment of a joint gas purchase agency and mechanisms in order to counterweight the monopolistic position of dominant external suppliers; notes that the reciprocity principle must be used to guide relations with EU energy suppliers;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Is convinced that the Commission should be granted mandates to conduct negotiations on infrastructure projects of strategic importance that affect the security of supply to the EU as a whole, and that such mandates should also be considered in the instances of other intergovernmental agreements considered to have a significant impact on the EU's long-term energy policy objectives, in particular its energy independence; welcomes in this regard progress made in the Commission-led negotiations on the treaty between EU, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to build the Trans-Caspian Pipeline System;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. In the light of the creation of an information exchange mechanism for intergovernmental agreements between the EU Member States and third countries on energy policy, calls on the Commission and the Member States to show further ambition in ensuring that agreements contrary to internal market legislation are not being put in place; considers that the Commission should be able to examine draft agreements for their compatibility with acquis communautaire and to participate in the negotiations where relevant;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Emphasises the importance of the Energy Community Treaty within EU's neighbourhood in establishing a common legal area based on acquis-related principles and norms of the internal market, stresses the importance of further extending the Energy Community, notably to candidate countries and countries in the Eastern Partnership, Central Asia and the Mediterranean, and of setting up legal control mechanisms to deal with deficient acquis implementation; calls on the European Union to show solidarity with countries which have signed the Energy Community Treaty, where these face external pressures when applying its principles;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Urges the Commission and the Member States to coordinate infrastructure projects in a better way, thereby ensuring full EU- wide system connectivity and cost- effectiveness; encourages, to that end, the Commission and the Member States to ensure rapid assessment, selection and implementation of projects of common European interest, especially with regard to electricity and gas trans-border interconnectors, liquefied natural gasLNG and storage infrastructure, which are vital for a well- integrated and well-functioning energy market, calls on EU to consider direct common EU financing of strategic external infrastructure projects like Nabucco;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Welcomes the Commission's determination to enforce anti-trust and state-aid rules vis-à-vis all energy sector undertakings and their subsidiaries operating on the territory of the European Union, oriented at ensuring that a level- playing field is established with equal conditions of access for all market players;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to use, itsn coordination with the EEAS, foreign policy instruments to promote the rules and standards of the internal energy market in relation to third countries and, especially, within the EU's neighbourhood; is convinced that the internal energy market will persist to be incomplete and its goals unattainable without full compatibility and adherence of external energy supply and transit actors to its key principles, in particular those of the Third Energy Package; urges the Commission to resolve, in bilateral dialogues with relevant third countries, the issue of clear rules of congestion management on cross-border gas connections; calls on the Commission to ensure, in its relations with external partners, that EU companies are able to compete on equal footing globally;