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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Mr Mombaur’s report on the state of liberalisation of the energy, electricity and gas markets has the merit of summarising the various Commission communications on the issue. It also highlights some of the key facts in this matter, two of which I shall mention here. First, the Treaties provide for the creation of an internal market in the energy sector, which must be accomplished. Second, the achievement of this aim undoubtedly involves opening up the markets to competition, the process of liberalisation and division into separate activities relating to energy transmission, production and distribution.
As the French Presidency gets underway, it must be noted – and as a French MEP this is not something I am terribly proud of – that France has taken a long time to transpose several European directives into its national law. In fact, it appears that France comes bottom of the class as far as this matter is concerned. The European directive on electricity was therefore adopted rather late by my country and only in its most basic form. More generally speaking, I, like the rapporteur, deplore the fact that there are other countries that wish to implement the directive only in its most basic form. And yet, as has already been mentioned –and I too should like to reiterate the point – full liberalisation, as carried out by other States in the area of electricity, has produced considerable benefits for the user: need we be reminded of the 25-33% price reduction in the United Kingdom or the almost 35% drop in Germany? This is why I believe that we should support the Commission in its undertakings and, as Mr Mombaur’s report suggests, set a specific binding timetable for carrying out the full liberalisation of the energy markets in the applicant countries and of course, first and foremost in the Member States.
The ambition shown by the latest presidency of the Union for the advancement of Europe cannot simply stop at the defence of acquired or past situations. The completion of the internal market cannot be restricted to the European Union alone, which is why it cannot be put off indefinitely."@en1
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