4 Amendments of Ioannis KASOULIDES related to 2008/2212(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the Commission's communications entitled “Facing the challenge of higher oil prices” and “Second Strategic Energy Review – an EU Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan”; points out that, despite the drop in oil prices in the second half of 2008 as a result of the global financial crisis, the slow progress in switching to more sustainable fuels, declining output from the world's oilfields and the continuing growth in demand, primarily driven by the emerging economies, inevitably mean a continuation inreturn, once the international crisis is over, to the tightening of the fossil fuel markets and increasing import dependency for the consuming countries;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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2. Believes that the EU's nascent energy policy will remain weak as long as there is no suitable Treaty basiscommon EU policy for energy and energy security and it lacks a coherent strategy vis-à-vis its main external suppliers; supports the Lisbon Treaty, which contains an energy solidarity clause and makes energy policy a shared responsibility between the EU and the Member States, as a step in the right direction;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
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4. RDespite the welcome fall in oil prices, and in view of the cyclic behaviour of prices, expects that that prices will rise again once the present economic crisis is over; therefore reiterates the importance of greater diversification of the EU's energy sources and supply routes, in order to mitigate the effects of a possible future oil crunch, while recognising the diversity of situations in which various Member States find themselves when it comes to energy mix, import dependency and infrastructure availability, particularly for 'energy islands' in the EU; supports a greater use of sustainable biofuels and acknowledgonly those biofuels which meet sustainability criteria in their procurement and manufacture and regards strategies theo importance of nuclear energy in order to improve energy securitrove energy efficiency as far more promising than the revival of nuclear energy; notes that non- conventional oil is expected to play an important role in counterbalancing the decline in production from existing fields; underlines that new oil infrastructure projects such as the Odessa-Gdansk and Constan a-Trieste pipelines should continue to be high-priority projects of European interest;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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6. Emphasises the role of the Arctic in the formulation of the Energy Policy for Europe, as proposed by the March 2007 European Council; notes with particular concern the ongoing race for hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic, which may lead to security threats for the EU as well asthe importance of an equitable distribution of hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic in accordance with international law, for the sake of overall international instability; calls on the Commission to pay specific attention to hydrocarbons in its Communication on strategic issues related to the Arctic.