CELEX: 51988PC0225
Language: en
Date: 1988-05-04
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION TO THE MEMBER STATES TO PROMOTE COOPERATION BETWEEN PUBLIC ELECTRICITY SUPPLY COMPANIES AND AUTO-PRODUCERS OF ELECTRICITY ( SUBMITTED BY THE COMMISSION )

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2.    The achievement of these objectives demands an               — undertake specific action to provide teachers and
awareness of the following:                                            pupils with appropriate teaching materials.
— the environment as the common heritage of mankind,               2.    The Member States shall promote the training of
                                                                   specialists in the various disciplines relating to the
— the ecological balance and the need to safeguard it,             environment by introducing ecological subjects into
                                                                   further training programmes. This shall also be
— the right to enjoyment of an unpolluted environment,             encouraged in the field of vocational training, including
                                                                   university education, with a view to steering the
— the need for the rational use of natural resources,              behaviour of those with future responsibilities in a
                                                                   direction which is most favourable to the conservation of
— the effects of human activities on the local, national
                                                                   the environment and natural resources.
    and world environment,
— the way in which each individual can by his own                  3.    In order to ensure that the actions set out in the
    behaviour, particularly as a consumer, contribute to           two preceding paragraphs are incorporated more effec-
    the protection of the environment.                             tively into the teaching structures and strategies of the
                                                                   respective education and training systems, the competent
                                                                   authorities of each Member State shall draw up a
                          Article 2                                programme setting out the practical arrangements for the
                                                                   implementation of the objective referred to in Article 1
1.    The competent authorities of the Member States
shall introduce the points set out in Article 1 (2) at all
levels of teaching, general education and vocational
training (including adult training), in cooperation with           4.    These programmes shall take account of the fact
local bodies and, where appropriate, parents.                      that environmental education and vocational training is a
                                                                   principle of interdisciplinary teaching of relevance both
To this end, the competent authorities of the Member               to the field of natural sciences and that of social sciences.
States shall:
                                                                                             Article 3
— give consideration to these aspects when drawing up
    curricula and the disciplines in question and organ-           Member States shall take the necessary measures to
    izing interdisciplinary courses,                               comply with this Decision by 1 April 1990 at the latest
                                                                   and shall forthwith notify the Commission thereof.
— make provision for extra-curricular school activities
    by means of which theoretical knowledge of the                                           Article 4
    environment acquired in school can be tried out in
    practice,                                                      The Commission shall present a report on the implemen-
                                                                   tation of this Decision to the Council and the European
— take appropriate measures to develop teachers'                   Parliament by 1 July 1992.
    knowledge of the environmental matters in the
    context of their initial and in-service training, and                                     Article                  ")
    encourage their further training by means of pilot
     schemes and research projects,                                This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
              Proposal for a Council recommendation to the Member States to promote cooperation between
                            public electricity supply companies and auto-producers of electricity
                                                       COM(88) 225 final
                                (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 19 May 1988)
                                                         (88/C 172/10)
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           Having regard      to   the    opinion of   the   European
                                                                    Parliament,
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
 Economic Community, and in particular Article 235
 thereof,
                                                                    Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                 Social Committee,
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Whereas:                                                          HEREBY RECOMMENDS TO THE MEMBER STATES:
                                                                  HI
In its resolution of 16 September 1986 concerning new             j That, in order to promote auto-production of elec-
                                                                  1.
Community energy policy objectives for 1995 (*) the                  tricity, based on renewable energy sources, waste
Council adopted as sectoral objectives improved energy               energy and combined heat and power (RWC), they
efficiency in all sectors and a greater contribution from            should provide a framework for cooperation between
new and renewable sources of energy.                                 public supply companies and all RWC auto-
                                                                     producers, under which the conditions concerning the
In accordance with the Council resolution of 26                      quantity and price of electricity exchanges are agreed
November 1986 on a Community orientation to develop                  in accordance with common principles;
new and renewable energy sources (2) the Commission
has already submitted to the Council a recommendation
to the Member States on developing the exploitation of            2. That they should facilitate the creation of this
renewable energy sources in the Community (3).                       framework by the introduction of standard contract
                                                                     criteria:
Combined heat and power generation (CHP) and waste
energy (combustion of waste and use of residual heat in              — either by voluntary arrangements between the
industry) with their potential for oil substitution and                   parties concerned,
savings of exhaustible primary energy sources, could
make an important contribution to the achievement of                      or
the Community's 1995 energy policy objectives.
                                                                     — if necessary, through specific legal or adminis-
The generation of electricity is a common field of appli-                 trative provisions,
cation not only for renewable sources of energy but also
for waste energy and for C H P (in total hereinafter called
RWC) and is therefore of central importance to the                   and that existing legal or administrative provisions at
development of this energy supply potential.                         variance with such criteria should be adapted
                                                                     accordingly. The need for defining                 specific
                                                                     procedures for resolving disputes about contract
These power generation processes are mainly, suited,                 conditions should also be examined.
because of factors inherent to the public supply system,
to auto-production outside this system.
                                                                  3. To ensure within such arrangements or provisions:
The profitability of RWC auto-production will also
depend on the conditions of cooperation with the public
                                                                      3.1. that with regard to quantities:
electricity supply companies as regards sales of surplus
electricity, purchases of additional electricity, and the
provision of reserve capacity.                                              — auto-production of electricity based on RWC
                                                                                is authorized in principle as long as a public
                                                                                interest is not thereby infringed, and that it is
Certain existing laws and administrative provisions can
                                                                                not impeded either by legal and adminis-
constitute an obstacle to the development of auto-
                                                                                trative provisions or by conditions imposed by
 production based on RWC.                                                       the public suply companies,
The price for the auto-producer's electricity sales to the
                                                                            — the public supply companies should be
public network should be orientated as closely as possible
                                                                                obliged to offer to purchase those quantities
 to avoidable costs in the public supply system in order to
                                                                                of electricity which arise out of auto-
 guarantee appropriate revenues for the auto-producer.
                                                                                production based on RWC, always provided
                                                                                that the economic operation of existing public
 A framework of appropriate measures should govern                              generating plants is not thereby jeopardized;
 cooperation on electricity between auto-producers and
 public supply companies by establishing common prin-
 ciples and hence creating better conditions for the                  3.2. that with regard to prices:
 further development of RWC auto-production of elec-
 tricity in the Community,
                                                                            — reimbursement for electricity sales to the
                                                                                 public supply network from auto-production
                                                                                 based on RWC should:
 0) OJ No C 241, 25. 9. 1986.
 O OJ No C 316, 9. 12. 1986.                                                     — be determined regardless of the type of
 (') COM(87) 432 final, 28. 9. 1987.                                                 energy used for such auto-production,
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         be based primarily on the long-term                             the auto-producer's electricity production
         average costs avoided in the public elec-                       capacity is available, especially at peak
         tricity supply system for the area in                           periods,
         question,                                               — reimbursement for the purchase of electricity
         correspond at least to the variable costs                   from the public supply network is determined
         avoidable in public supply, i. e. mainly the                in such a way that auto-producers are treated
         avoidable fuel costs,                                       in the same way as comparable purchasers
                                                                     without auto-production,
         guarantee an additional reward to the
                                                                 — the rules regarding these reimbursements are
         extent that the auto-producer contributes,
                                                                     as transparent as possible.
         in the public supply, to the avoidance of
         capacity costs in the generation or              4. To report to the Commission after three years on the
         purchase of electricity. The size of this           progress on cooperation between public electricity
         reward should depend on how regularly               supply companies and auto-producers.