13 Amendments of Ioannis A. TSOUKALAS related to 2009/0108(COD)
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) Sufficient gas infrastructure within a Member State and across the CommunityUnion is essential for tackling supply interruptions. Common minimum criteria on security of gas supply should ensure a level playing field for security of gas supply while taking into account national or regional specificities and should create significant incentives to build the necessary infrastructure and to improve the level of preparedness in case of crisis. Demand side measures such as fuel switching may have a valuable role to play in ensuring energy security where they can be applied quickly and reduce demand appreciably to react to a supply disruption.
Amendment 96 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) This Regulation aims at empowering natural gas undertakings and Competent Authorities of the Member States to ensure that the internal gas market works effectively for as long as possible in the case of a supply disruption, prior to measures being taken by Competent Authorities to address the situation in which the market can no longer deliver the required gas supplies. Such exceptional measures should be fully compliant with CommunityUnion rules and should be notified to the Commission and to the Gas Coordination Group.
Amendment 100 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of gas supply of the Community, the CommissionUnion, particularly in the event of a Union Emergency, the Commission, after consultation with the Gas Coordination Group should coordinate the actions with regard to third countries, working with producer and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and to ensure a stable gas flow to the CommunityUnion. The Commission, after consultation with the Gas Coordination Group, should be entitled to deploy a task force to monitor gas flows in crisis situations within and, in consultation with the third countries involved, outside the CommunityUnion and, where a crisis arises due to difficulties in a third country, to assume a mediation and facilitation role.
Amendment 176 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. Before adopting those Plans the Competent Authorities shall exchange information and consult each other and, the Commission and the Gas Coordination Group to ensure that their Plans and measures are mutually consistent at the appropriate regional level. These consultations shall cover, as a minimum, interconnections, cross-border supplies, storage across borders and the physical capacity to transport gas in both directions.
Amendment 245 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 3
Article 6 – paragraph 3
3. The methodology for calculating the N-1 standard as provided in Annex I shall be used. It should take into consideration the network configuration and actual gas flows as well as the presence of production and storage capacities. The calculated area as referred to in Annex I shall be extended to the appropriate regional level, where necessary, considering regional specificities.
Amendment 260 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 5
Article 6 – paragraph 5
5. The transmission system operators shall enable permanent physical capacity to transport gas in both directions on all interconnections within two years from the entry into force of this Regulation, except in cases where at the request of a Competent Authority, the Commission decides that the addition of a bi-directional flow capacity would not enhance the security of supply of any Member State. Such decision may be reviewed if circumstances change. The level of the bi- directional flow capacity shall be reached in a cost efficient way and at least take into account the capacity required to meet the supply standard set in Article 7. Regarding existing infrastructure, a cost benefit analysis should be performed by each Member State for investments enabling reverse flow that should be the base of the cost allocation mechanism. The Long Term Supply Agreements, which have already been signed and which have specific provisions concerning the operation of the Border Metering Stations, should be also taken into account. Within that two year period, the gas transmission system operator shall adapt the functioning of the transmission system as a whole so as to enable bi- directional gas flows.
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 6 – paragraph 7
Article 6 – paragraph 7
7. National Regulatory Authorities shall take into account the costs of fulfilling the N-1 standardindicator and the costs of enabling the permanent physical capacity to transport gas in both directions in their approval of tariffs in line with Article 41(8) of Directive […/…2009/73/EC]. In the case of costs incurred in more than one Member State, the national regulatory authorities of all Member States concerned shall jointly decide on cost allocation in one or more Member States. Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No …/…715/2009 shall apply.
Amendment 307 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. The Competent Authority shall allow the natural gas undertakings to meet these criteria on a regional or Community, national or Union level and shall not require that these standards are met based on infrastructure located only within its territory.
Amendment 363 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 4
Article 9 – paragraph 4
4. The Competent Authority shall immediately inform the Commission and the Gas Coordination Group and provide ithem with all the necessary information when it declares any of the crisis levels. In the event of an emergency which may result in a call for assistance from the EU and its Member States the Competent Authority of the Member State concerned shall without delay notify the Commission’s Civil Protection Monitoring and Information Centre.
Amendment 407 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 3
Article 10 – paragraph 3
3. In a CommunityUnion Emergency, the Commission shall coordinate the actions of the Competent Authorities after consultation with the Gas Coordination Group. In particular the Commission shall ensure the exchange of information, ensure the consistency and effectiveness of the actions at Member State and regional level in relation to the CommunityUnion level, and shall coordinate the actions with regard to third countries. The Commission may convene a crisis management group composed in particular of representatives of the industry and the Member States concerned by the Emergency.
Amendment 417 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
Article 10 – paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1
4. When the Commission considers that in a CommunityUnion Emergency, an action taken by a Competent Authority or natural gas undertakings is inappropriate to deal with the Emergency, or that it seriously endangers the situation in another Member State, the Commission, after consulting the Gas Coordination Group, shall require the Competent Authority or natural gas undertaking to change its action.
Amendment 431 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 7
Article 10 – paragraph 7
7. The Commission, after consultation of the Gas Coordination Group, shall establish a permanent reserve list for a monitoring task force consisting of industry experts and representatives of the Commission. This monitoring task force may be deployed when necessary and shall monitor and report on the gas flows within and outside the CommunityUnion, in cooperation with the supplying and transiting countries.
Amendment 447 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point g
Article 11 – paragraph 2 – point g
(g) implementation, review and cancellation of the Plans;