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"Mr President, Commissioner, Europe will soon be alone in continuing to advocate total liberalisation of the electricity market. Even the United States is recovering from the California and Enron affairs. In Latin America, liberalisation has been marked by failure. In the United Kingdom, the state is facing the bankruptcy of British Energy. In Sweden, prices rose this winter by over 50% because of tensions between supply and demand.
Electricity is a sector which requires long-term investment. It is concerned with security of supply, environmental protection and providing a public service. It cannot be governed by market forces and competition alone. In a number of our countries – my own, for example – the public electricity service means, in particular, equal pricing, access for all households, whatever their rate of consumption or geographical location, to low-cost electricity at the same prices. The mandatory total liberalisation planned for 2007, which you are proposing to us, will not allow preservation of the social and pricing adjustment mechanisms which safeguard this equal pricing.
That is why we are going to vote for an amendment rejecting the motion which we, the French Socialist delegation, have tabled together with the Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left and the Belgian Socialist delegation. We believe that the plan to open up the market in two stages, without even an assessment of the first stage – the 2004 stage applying to all non-residential customers – being carried out before the sector is then opened up to competition for all residential customers in 2007, is an approach to liberalisation that is more dogmatic than pragmatic.
Moreover, as regards competition, what we are witnessing is more a powerful trend towards concentrations of companies and the establishment of a market of oligopolies and cartels rather than of a genuinely competitive market. We consider it to be absurd that total liberalisation is being forced on us when the debate on the Green Paper has just been opened and we have not even had time to examine the possibilities of creating a framework directive to safeguard public services."@en1
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