P8_TA(2019)0228 European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators ***I European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 March 2019 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (recast) (COM(2016)0863 — C8-0494/2016 — 2016/0378(COD)) P8_TC1-COD(2016)0378 Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 26 March 2019 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2019/… of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (recast)
Date: 2019-03-26
Institutions: Committee on Budgets, Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, Committee on Legal Affairs, Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, European Parliament
Subjects: European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, energy cooperation, operation of the Institutions








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26.3.2021   


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Official Journal of the European Union


C 108/193






P8_TA(2019)0228
European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators ***I
European Parliament legislative resolution of 26 March 2019 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (recast) (COM(2016)0863 — C8-0494/2016 — 2016/0378(COD))
(Ordinary legislative procedure — recast)
(2021/C 108/21)

The European Parliament,






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having regard to the Commission proposal to Parliament and the Council (COM(2016)0863),










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having regard to Article 294(2) and Article 194(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, pursuant to which the Commission submitted the proposal to Parliament (C8-0494/2016),










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having regard to Article 294(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to the reasoned opinions submitted, within the framework of Protocol No 2 on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, by the German Bundestag, the French Senate and the Romanian Senate, asserting that the draft legislative act does not comply with the principle of subsidiarity,










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having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee of 31 May 2017 (1),










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having regard to the opinion of the Committee of Regions of 13 July 2017 (2),










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having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement of 28 November 2001 on a more structured use of the recasting technique for legal acts (3),










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having regard to the letter of 13 July 2017 from the Committee on Legal Affairs to the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy in accordance with Rule 104(3) of its Rules of Procedure,










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having regard to the provisional agreement approved by the committee responsible under Rule 69f(4) of its Rules of Procedure and the undertaking given by the Council representative by letter of 19 December 2018 to approve Parliament’s position, in accordance with Article 294(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,










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having regard to Rules 104 and 59 of its Rules of Procedure,










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having regard to the report of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the opinion of the Committee on Budgets (A8-0040/2018),










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whereas, according to the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission, the Commission proposal does not include any substantive amendments other than those identified as such in the proposal and whereas, as regards the codification of the unchanged provisions of the earlier acts together with those amendments, the proposal contains a straightforward codification of the existing texts, without any change in their substance;












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Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set out, taking into account the recommendations of the Consultative Working Party of the legal services of the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission;












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Calls on the Commission to refer the matter to Parliament again if replaces, substantially amends or intends to substantially amend its proposal;












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Instructs its President to forward its position to the Council, the Commission and the national parliaments.






(1)  OJ C 288, 31.8.2017, p. 91.

(2)  OJ C 342, 12.10.2017, p. 79.

(3)  OJ C 77, 28.3.2002, p. 1.




P8_TC1-COD(2016)0378
Position of the European Parliament adopted at first reading on 26 March 2019 with a view to the adoption of Regulation (EU) 2019/… of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (recast)

(As an agreement was reached between Parliament and Council, Parliament's position corresponds to the final legislative act, Regulation (EU) 2019/942.)