Activities of Adam GIEREK related to 2009/0106(CNS)
Plenary speeches (1)
Investment projects in energy infrastructure within the European Community (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Report on the proposal for a Council regulation concerning the notification to the Commission of investment projects in energy infrastructure within the European Community and repealing Regulation (EC) No 736/96 PDF (416 KB) DOC (557 KB)
Amendments (24)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The introduction of a common energy policy based on solidarity and aiming at securing the Community's energy supply, a transition towards a high-efficiency, low- carbon energy system and the functioning of competitive energy markets based on solidarity and fair competition within the internal market is an objective which the Community has set itself.
Amendment 32 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The energy landscape within and outside the Community has significantly changed for the worse in supply terms in recent years and makes investment in energy infrastructure a crucial issue for securing the Community's energy supply, for theproblem to be resolved with a view to securing a regular supply of energy for the Community and ensuring the uninterrupted functioning of the internal market and for the transition towards a high- efficiency, low -carbon energy system the Community has embarked on.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Given the new energy policy objectives and market developments, greater attention should be paid to priority investment in energy infrastructure in the Community, in particular with a view to anticipating problems with security of supply, promoting best practices and establishing greater transparency on the future development of theinterconnected energy systems in the Community.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) The Commission and in particular the Market Observatory for Energy should therefore, with a view to providing the necessary guarantees for investment priorities, dispose of accurate data and information on current and future investment projects, including partial decommissioning on a temporary or permanent basis, in the most significant components of the energy system of the Community.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Data and information regarding foreseeable developments in production, transport and storage capacities and projects in the various energy sectors are of interest to the Communityimportant to future Community investment. It is therefore necessary to ensure that the Commission, and in particular its Market Observatory for Energy, is notified of investment plans and projects on which work has started or is scheduled to start within five years and those which aim at taking infrastructure out of commissionwholly or partially out of commission on a temporary or permanent basis within threfive years.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) Member States should for this purpose notify to the Commission, data and information on investment projects concerning production, storage and transport of oil, natural gas, electric power, bio-fuels, coal and carbon dioxide planned or under construction in their territory. Undertakings concerned should be under an obligation to notify to the Member State the data and information in question– or, in the case of cross-border networks, the Member States – the data and information in question, so as to enable implementation of the notified projects to be monitored.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1
Article 1 – paragraph 1
1. This Regulation establishes a common framework for the notification to the Commission of data and information on the precise nature of investment projects in energy infrastructure in thefor oil, natural gas, electricity and bio-fuel sectorcoal, bio- fuel and nuclear fuel, as well as electricity generated from those energy sources, and on investment projects related to the capture and recycling of the carbon dioxide produced by these sectorsemitted per unit of energy produced.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 2
Article 1 – paragraph 2
2. This Regulation shall apply to the types of investment projects listed in the Annex on which work has started or is scheduled to start within five years or which are scheduled to be taken out of operation within threfive years.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 1
Article 2 – point 1
(1) “infrastructure” means any type of installations or part of installations related to the production, transport and storage of energy and energy sources or carbon dioxide;
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 2 – point c
Article 2 – point 2 – point c
(c) decommissioningpartial or total decommissioning, on a temporary or permanent basis, of existing infrastructure;
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 3
Article 2 – point 3
(3) “planned investment projects” mean investment projects before construction starts and capital costs are incurred or before decommissioning is effective, including investment projects of which the major features (location, contractor, undertaking, technical featurescertain basic technical and operational features that are not commercially sensitive, etc.) may, in whole or in part, be subject to further review or to final authorisation;
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 6 a (new)
Article 2 – point 6 a (new)
(6a) "energy system" means a closed system for the production, transport, distribution and consumption of energy within a single Member State or region;
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 7
Article 2 – point 7
(7) “transport” means the transmission of energy sources or productlectricity, gas, liquid fuels or carbon dioxide, through a network, in particular: (a) through pipelines, other than upstream pipeline network and other than the part of pipelines primarily used in the context of local distribution; (b) through extra high voltage and high- voltage interconnected systems and other than the systems primarily used in the context of local distribution;
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 7 - point b a (new)
Article 2 – point 7 - point b a (new)
(ba) "interconnector" means a cross- border link between electricity transmission networks or pipelines for the transport of gas or liquid hydrocarbons and products of coal degasification, gasification and liquefaction, with transport being either one-way or two- way;
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 8 – point a (new)
Article 2 – point 8 – point a (new)
(a) "storage site" means a closed system of storage tanks or a specific geological structure forming a closed storage area;
Amendment 67 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 8
Article 2 – point 8
“storage” means the stockingrage on a permanent or temporary basis of thermal and electrical energy or energy sources orand carbon dioxide in above ground and underground infrastructure or geological storage areas, i.e. storage sites;
Amendment 69 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 10 – point a
Article 2 – point 10 – point a
(a) Primary energy sources, such as oil, natural gas or coa, coal or nuclear fuel, or transformed energy sources, such as electricity;
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 2 – point 10 – point b
Article 2 – point 10 – point b
(b) Renewable energy sources including hydroelectricity, biomass, wind, solar, tidal and geothermal energy;Does not affect English version.)
Amendment 80 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) the capacities planned orgeneration, transport or storage capacities planned or under construction, with details of which are at the planning stage and which are under construction;
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point e
(e) the technologies of interest for security of supply purposes, such as inter-system reverse flows, fuel switching capacities or any other relevant equipments;
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
Article 5 – paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1
3. Any notification under Article 3 shall include the volume of installed production, transport and storage capacities at the beginning of the reporting year concerned.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
Article 6 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1
2. The Commission may, with the consent of the Member States, publish data and information forwarded pursuant to this Regulation, in particular in analyses referred to in Article 10(3), provided that data and information are published in an aggregated form and that no details concerning individual undertakings are thereby disclosed, in particular in cases where there is only one such undertaking in the Member State concerned.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8
Article 8
The Commission shall be responsible, in connection with planning, for developing, hosting, managing and maintaining the IT resources needed to receive, store and carry out any processing of the data or information on energy infrastructure notified to the Commission pursuant to this Regulation.
Amendment 108 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. The Commission shall, with a view to ensuring consistency between the various monitoring-related publications, take due account of multiannual energy infrastructure investment plans drawn up by special bodies established pursuant to other pieces of legislation, such as Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 on electricity.