Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-03-12-Speech-2-071"
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"Mr President, Madam Commissioner, first may I express my regret at the delays in working on this portfolio last year because the Commission declined to accept our advice of splitting the proposals into two separate proposals for gas and electricity. I also regret that the timetable has now been compressed from May to March because of the Council's desire to have this proposal before it at Barcelona. I hope this will not be a case of 'legislate in haste and repent at leisure'.
We strongly support the aims of the directive and the regulation. The present situation is a flawed and inequitable market. French and German utilities are able to buy UK power companies, yet it is impossible to have reciprocal opportunities to buy into EDF or acquire whole companies. The German market is almost as difficult to enter, despite so-called full competition. This must change.
I recognise that the step-by-step approach is a realistic one: first all non-domestic consumers then domestic later, as a progressive opening, is a more orderly process. I have to regret that one rapporteur has chosen to introduce too much detail in amendments and tried to over-elaborate some of the measures, for example, the question of the detail demanded on energy bills. This is an unnecessary amount of detail.
Finally, I would like to commend the proposed amendments on establishing a committee of European energy regulators so as to improve cooperation and coordination in implementing the regulation on cross-border trading."@en1
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