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"Mr President, 60 seconds is not very long to defend consumer interests in the face of energy market abuses.
The text on which we are going to vote tomorrow is a compromise between the two legislative arms, and, as usual, the Council has been less ambitious than the European Parliament. It is often said that lobbyists have too much influence over the European Parliament, but I find that national lobbies seem to concentrate on the ministries instead.
I personally called for greater vigilance in the face of attempted market abuses and insider trading. I am none too pleased that the text on which we are going to vote agrees with, I quote, ‘accepted market practices on the wholesale energy market’. Certain dubious practices should be eliminated.
I would have also genuinely preferred tougher penalties, particularly at European level, and not just ‘effective, proportionate and dissuasive’ ones. Time will tell whether the penalties, which will remain national, are sufficient.
I shall conclude, Mr President, by stressing that the text should not read that the agency ‘should be provided with the appropriate financial and human resources’, but that it ‘will have to be provided’ with those same financial and human resources."@en1
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