1 Amendments of Maria MATSOUKA related to 2007/0195(COD)
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a directive – amending act
Recital 22 a (new)
Recital 22 a (new)
(22a) Given that consumers do not automatically benefit from market competition (as has been shown in practice on different occasions) care should be taken to promote a high level of protection, in particular for vulnerable consumers, by means of a comprehensive universal service, including access to the electricity market with genuine choices, reasonable prices, channels of legal redress and protection from unethical practices. To this end, the regulatory authorities are urged to uphold and promote the European Charter on the Rights of Energy Consumers which the Commission undertook to submit in its communication of 5 July 2007 (COM(2007)0386).