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Once again, the majority of EP Members are choosing to call for the total liberalisation of the natural gas sector and also accepting the positions put forward by the UNICE in relation to this aim of the so-called ‘Lisbon Strategy’.
One example is the EP’s proposal for the role of national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and of a ‘European’ regulatory authority, which shall have the task of completing the internal market and of ensuring effective competition. This proves that the intention is to transfer to supposedly ‘independent’ authorities an entire set of competences that should fall to national democratically elected institutions. In other words, the EP feels that not even national States would have a regulatory role, with this being given to these so-called regulatory authorities and the European Commission. This intention is so outrageous that it has met with the Council’s resistance.
In general terms, this is an attempt to impose competition rules on all sectors that involve public service, providing incentives for privatisation, calling into question the guarantee of security of supply, investment capacity, equal access to the best prices and to a high-quality service and will lead to the deterioration of employees’ rights in the sectors in question.
Hence our group’s motion to reject the common position. It is significant that our motion was rejected by the majority of EP Members, including those from the PS, the PSD and the CDS-PP."@en1
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