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Mr President, I would like to thank the three main rapporteurs, Mr Turmes, Mr Mombaur and Mr Rapkay, most sincerely once again for their superb work and their speeches. I would also like to thank the shadow rapporteurs for their speeches and say that perhaps Mr van Velzen – one of the shadow rapporteurs along with Mr Linkohr and Mr Clegg – summed up best what most speakers have said here, in other words, that we would like more. I agree. The work that has been carried out here, however, has been superb and has led to the result we have now achieved.
I would also welcome the compromise achieved in this area by Parliament and the Council, which will enable us definitively to adopt trans-European networks in the energy sector, completing the entire framework.
Mr President, I would like to thank the Greek Presidency for the superb work that has been carried out and express my sincere congratulations. In particular, I would also like to thank and congratulate Parliament, the three main rapporteurs, plus Mr Clegg and all the shadow rapporteurs who have carried out this work that has led, even if we might perhaps have wished for more, to this superb result.
Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is sufficient to represent a spectacular change or step forward in the electricity and gas sectors, and will boost these sectors and contribute to the internal market. It will also address an extremely important issue, and here I am referring to what Mr Linkohr, amongst others, has pointed out, as has Mrs McNally, namely the problem of symmetry created by the current situation of partial liberalisation.
What we are trying to do here is establish a European market rather than 15 markets – 25 as of May 1 – that is more or less open to competition. What we are trying to do is create an internal market and, in this regard, I would like to say, as has already been pointed out, that we do not want uncontrolled liberalisation, but regulated liberalisation, as I said at the start. Furthermore, Mr Herzog spoke of the problem of networks. I am going to discuss these by referring to Mr Clegg’s report.
I would like to thank the Greek Presidency once again, in particular, for the work carried out with regard to the liberalisation of gas and electricity in these two Directives and this Regulation.
I shall now address the matter of networks, which Mr Herzog quite rightly raised. The Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy has just voted on the amendments concerning subjects relating to the financial regulation and in this regard, in this context, I would like to state on behalf of the Commission that in our report to the other institutions we too shall present the reasons justifying increased support for any individual project.
As the Commission proposed in revising the financial regulation, the possibility of such increased support should be clearly justified and should be an exception.
Why do we need to establish trans-European networks? Mr Herzog said that there is no Community logic in the networks, which is clear in some cases, and that in order to establish this internal market in the gas and electricity sectors we do not just need regulatory standards, but also infrastructures that support this idea of an internal market, and security within this internal market that allows sufficient capacity for peak demand points; extraordinary increases or extraordinary situations.
I believe that in this regard the regulation we are adopting today represents a model for something we have been discussing for some time, which is the public service aspect of certain issues. This is the regulation that most takes account of the public service concept in addressing the issues of protection and support for the most vulnerable customers, security with regard to the service itself – in this case security of supply – and also quality of service, by drawing up minimum basic requirements for all the Member States in order to guarantee security in practical terms, not only in terms of production, but also in terms of transport, which are essential when we are discussing energy.
With regard to these networks – Mr Clegg’s report – I would like to raise two further matters. As regards the amendment on presenting regular reports, the Commission can accept a reporting period of two years. With regard to updating projects, all important updates will continue to be the responsibility of Parliament, and I would stress this, while the Commission will simply retain the capacity to introduce technical changes into the projects."@en1
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