CELEX: 51990PC0231
Language: en
Date: 1990-06-07
Title: 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

5. 7. 90                             Official Journal of the European Communities                              N o C 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
                                                                                      Amendment No 4
 whereas the information in question relates exclusively to        whereas the information in question will relate to the gas
 the gas and electricity consumed by industry for energy           and electricity consumed by industry for energy
 end-uses;                                                         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;
                                                          Article 7
                                                                                     Amendment No 19
Once a year, the Commission shall present a summary               Once a year the Commission shall present a summary
report on the operation of this Directive to the European         report on the operation of this Directive to the European
Parliament and the Economic and Social Committee.                 Parliament, the Economic and Social Committee and the
                                                                  Council.
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                                                                      AMENDMENT ADOPTED BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND
                       COMMISSION PROPOSAL                                               ACCEPTED BY THE COMMISSION
                                                                                                Amendment No 24
16. For each marker price a range of 'special factors' which           16. For each marker price a range of 'special factors' which
    may be applied to reduce the price of electricity (e.g., inter-        may be applied to reduce the price of electricity (e.g., inter-
    ruptibility clauses) should be described and the amount of             ruptibility clauses) should be described and the amount of
    reduction (e.g., 6°/c, 8%, 10%) indicated. These factors               reduction (e.g., 6%, 8%, 10%) indicated. These factors
    should be representative of factors which are in reality used          should be representative of factors which are in reality used
    by industrial consumers supplied by the reporting utility in           by the (one word deleted) consumers supplied by the
    the MW category being surveyed.                                        reporting utility in the MW category being surveyed.
                                                                                                Amendment No 25
17. In Member States where there is more than one electricity          17. In Member States where there is more than one electricity
    utility, these utilities shall each provide marker prices and          utility, these utilities shall each provide marker prices and
    the associated information (on the demand characteristics of           the associated information (on the demand characteristics of
    the national marker price industrial consumer (paragraph               the national marker price (one word deleted) consumer
    15) and on the special factors and their price reductions              (point 15) and on the special factors and their price
    (paragraph 17) to an independent statistical body . . .                reductions (point 17) to an independent statistical body . . .