5. 7. 90 Official Journal of the European Communities NoC 164/15 
Amendment to the proposal for a Council Directive concerning a Community procedure to 
improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users (') 
COM(90) 231 final 
(Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 149 (3) of the EEC Treaty on 15 June 1990) 
(90/C 164/10) 
O OJ No C 257, 10. 10. 1989, p. 7. 
AMENDMENT ADOPTED BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 
COMMISSION PROPOSAL ACCEPTED BY THE COMMISSION 
Eighth recital 
whereas the information in question relates exclusively to 
the gas and electricity consumed by industry for energy 
end-uses; 
Once a year, the Commission shall present a summary 
report on the operation of this Directive to the European 
Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee. Amendment No 4 
whereas the information in question will relate to the gas 
and electricity consumed by industry for energy 
end-uses, and will also have to allow comparison with 
other sources of energy (oil, coal, fossil fuels and 
renewable sources of energy) and with other consumers; 
Amendment No 10 
After the thirteenth recital, insert a new recital 13c to 
read: 
whereas a knowledge of the fiscal provisions and 
parafiscal taxes existing in each Member State of the 
Community will facilitate their harmonization, which is 
required to complete the single market; 
Amendment No 12 
After the seventeenth recital add the following new 
recital: 
whereas the consistent implementation of this Directive 
can be achieved in all the Member States only when the 
market in natural gas has reached a sufficient level of 
development; 
Amendment No 19 
Once a year the Commission shall present a summary 
report on the operation of this Directive to the European 
Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the 
Council. Article 7 
NoC 164/16 Official Journal of the European Communities 5. 7. 90 
COMMISSION PROPOSAL 
16. For each marker price a range of 'special factors' which 
may be applied to reduce the price of electricity (e.g., inter-
ruptibility clauses) should be described and the amount of 
reduction (e.g., 6°/c, 8%, 10%) indicated. These factors 
should be representative of factors which are in reality used 
by industrial consumers supplied by the reporting utility in 
the MW category being surveyed. 
17. In Member States where there is more than one electricity 
utility, these utilities shall each provide marker prices and 
the associated information (on the demand characteristics of 
the national marker price industrial consumer (paragraph 
15) and on the special factors and their price reductions 
(paragraph 17) to an independent statistical body . . . AMENDMENT ADOPTED BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND 
ACCEPTED BY THE COMMISSION 
Amendment No 24 
16. For each marker price a range of 'special factors' which 
may be applied to reduce the price of electricity (e.g., inter-
ruptibility clauses) should be described and the amount of 
reduction (e.g., 6%, 8%, 10%) indicated. These factors 
should be representative of factors which are in reality used 
by the (one word deleted) consumers supplied by the 
reporting utility in the MW category being surveyed. 
Amendment No 25 
17. In Member States where there is more than one electricity 
utility, these utilities shall each provide marker prices and 
the associated information (on the demand characteristics of 
the national marker price (one word deleted) consumer 
(point 15) and on the special factors and their price 
reductions (point 17) to an independent statistical body . . .