CELEX: 51990PC0306
Language: en
Date: 1990-07-06
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE REVOKING COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 75/404/EEC ( 1 ) ON THE RESTRICTION OF THE USE OF NATURAL GAS IN POWER STATIONS

14. 8. 90                                Official Journal of the European Communities                            No C 203/19
(c) The following subparagraph is added after the first                     '— the special detailed rules on the granting of
    subparagraph of paragraph 6:                                                the specific aid provided for in paragraph 3 a,
                                                                                and in particular those on the exclusion of
    'An indivudual farmer, as well as a group of farmers,
                                                                                certain uses on limits to be imposed on
    qualifying for the specific aid provided for in
                                                                                by-products, the determination of the ceiling
    paragraph 3a, withdrawing at least 40 % of arable
                                                                                and the minimum areas which may qualify
    land from production for set-aside purposes, will
                                                                                for the aid, delivery contracts, controls,
    benefit from exemption from the co-responsibility
                                                                                including where appropriate, checks on the
    levies for the entire volume of cereals supplied to the
                                                                                processing undertaking, and penalties to be
    industrial processors. This exemption does not
                                                                                laid down where obligations are not
    preclude the possible exemption referred to in
                                                                                complied with.'
    subparagraph 1.'
(d) In paragraph 7:                                                                           Article 2
    — the following words are inserted after '30 April             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
         1988':                                                     following its publication in the Official Journal of the
                                                                    European Communities.
        ' . . . and, in the case of the specific aid provided
        for in paragraph 3a, before 1 December 1990,',
                                                                   This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
    — the following indent is added:                                directly applicable in all Member States.
                 Proposal for a Council Directive revoking Council Directive 75/404/EEC on the restriction of
                                            the use of natural gas in power stations
                                                       COM(90) 306 final
                                        (Submitted by the Commission on 16 July 1990)
                                                         (90/C 203/09)
                THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
                 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in
                particular Article 103 (4) thereof,
                Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,
                Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee,
                Whereas the implementation of a Community energy policy is one of the objectives that the
                Communities have set themselves;
                Whereas the security of Community energy supplies requires the development of all its sources
                of energy;
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          Whereas natural gas is one such source which has specific advantages for the production of
           electricity in terms of limiting the emission of undesirable substances into the atmosphere;
           Whereas technological advances have enabled natural gas to be used for electricity production
           in production units having advantages of lower capital and operating costs, higher transform-
           ation efficiencies and improved operational flexibility compared with the use of other fuels;
          Whereas the existing Council Directive 75/404/EEC (') was adopted at a time when the level
           of natural gas reserves was considered to be such as to constitute a threat to the security of
           supplies of natural gas and whereas this is no longer the case;
          Whereas the Directive does not constitute an instrument for controlling or effectively moni-
           toring the use of natural gas in power stations, should this be considered necessary;
           Whereas the Directive does not serve, in present circumstances, a useful purpose either in the
           implementation of energy, environment or other Community policies or in the development of
           the internal energy market;
          Whereas the Directive may give confusing signals to Member State Governments and to
           investors in the matter of natural gas use in power stations and represents an unnecessary
           administrative burden,
           HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
                                                         Article 1
           Council Directive 75/404/EEC is hereby repealed.
                                                         Article 2
          This Directive is addressed to the Member States.
          (*) OJ No L 178, 9. 7. 1975, p. 24.