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Mr President, thank you for providing what I consider to be comprehensive answers, but we now have to analyse them in order to be completely aware of the current situation. An exchange of information is obviously vital. I would like to thank Commissioner Piebalgs for his particularly active cooperation with Parliament. Today, after the conflict in January, we know that energy security is not simply a problem affecting individual Member States, and not simply a challenge for the European Union as a whole. We need a pan-European approach to this issue.
The Energy Community Treaty is a step in the right direction. It foresees an integrated gas and energy market in part of Europe, facilitates investment and increases the security of gas supplies to the European Union. However, the Treaty also stipulates that investment decisions will be transferred from a national to a centralised level, as this method is more productive, both in terms of costs and administration.
Thus the Treaty is a good solution. It demonstrates that energy security requires a new approach, also in terms of European Union foreign policy. It is also a good legal instrument with which to manage energy relations with Ukraine, which intends to sign the Treaty. The European Parliament has, on numerous occasions, emphasised the importance of securing energy supplies on the basis of harmonious cooperation between the European Union Member States, which requires the legislative solutions announced by the Commission at the start of this year. It is vital for this cooperation to exist within as well as outside the European Union, namely with third countries, in such a way as to avoid interfering with the interests of individual countries and not to exclude any Member State from the proposed solutions."@en1
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