Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-02-02-Speech-3-082-000"
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"en.20110202.14.3-082-000"2
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"Mr President, the European Council is expected to approve that no EU Member State should remain an energy island after 2015.
As a rule, interconnections are absent in those Member States where the natural gas sector is dominated by an incumbent operator. Any progress on infrastructure that would allow new-party access is very slow because vertically integrated monopolies invest mainly to further consolidate their domination, while it is hard to attract new investors to a closed market.
Implementation of the EU Gas Directive – i.e. full ownership unbundling – is the only effective and reasonable way to encourage infrastructure investments (in this case in Lithuania), introduce competition and speed up integration into the EU internal energy market.
However, it is absurd that an EU Member State is being threatened, or even discriminated against, for implementing the EU legislation while the EU itself seems to stand aside.
Therefore I would ask you, colleagues, the Commission and the Council, to use every opportunity openly to express disapproval of pressure being put on a Member State to waive implementation of the EU acquis; and to consolidate support for it at the European Council meeting. I should mention, too, that the implementation of the EU Gas Directive in Lithuania is closely followed by other Member States where conditions are similar.
Without this access, the goal of achieving a fully integrated and functioning EU internal energy market by 2014 will be undermined."@en1
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