Press Amendment proposed by Carvalho and Correia de Campos will provide a compulsory percentage of electricity interconnection between the Iberian Peninsula and France

Press Releases | 09-01-2014 in Informação à Imprensa

At a joint sitting of the ENVI and ITRE committees, MEPs voted today on the report responding to the Commission's Green Paper on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies.

The amendment proposed by Maria da Graça Carvalho and the Portuguese MEP Antonio Correia de Campos was also adopted.

The amendment acknowledges that despite the on-going process of implementation of projects of common interest for energy infrastructures, cross border interconnection capacity below the Barcelona European Council 2002 target is an obstacle to the integration of renewables, to the internal energy market, and a cause for energy system inefficiency and higher electricity prices.

The alteration proposed also considers that one of the key objectives of the EU energy policy is to stimulate competitive energy costs for the economy and the citizens and therefor call on the Commission to establish binding targets for minimum cross-border transmission capacity and a clear time-frame for its deployment.

The report responds to the Green Paper of 27 March 2013 by which the Commission started a debate on a 2030 framework for climate and energy policies, that is, for the period following the present policy framework up to 2020.

The debate so far has been very active with Members from both committees tabling 920 amendments, whilst the co-rapporteurs have proposed 86 compromise amendments with the support of other groups and shadow rapporteurs.

PROVISIONAL TIMETABLE Vote in plenary: 4 February 2014

Green Paper: A 2030 framework for climate and energy policies - Rapporteurs: A. Delvaux (ENVI) and K.Szymanski (ITRE)

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