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Liberalising the electricity sector is another of the aims set out under what is known as the Lisbon Strategy. As for the gas sector, the EP has acted as the spokesperson for the interests of the European employers’ confederation, UNICE.
Energy is a strategic sector that is crucial to the sovereignty of any state. Guarantees of its integrity will be called into question as a result of the current liberalisation. In a few years, the EU’s electricity sector – as the rapporteur states – will be dominated by between five and eight companies, obviously from the countries with the most highly developed economies.
This is an attempt to impose rules of competition and to encourage privatisations, calling into question the security of supply, investment capacity, equal access to the best prices and to a high-quality service and will lead to the deterioration of employees’ rights in the sectors in question.
This is why our parliamentary group tabled a motion rejecting the common position and various proposals for amendments seeking to mitigate the negative aspects of the recommendation, not least with regard to ensuring respect for public service obligations, for the environment, for the specific characteristics of the outermost regions, and for protection for domestic consumers and small consumers.
Significantly, the majority of EP Members, including those from the PES, the PSD and the CDS-PP, has rejected the motion to reject the common position."@en1
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