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I welcome the Council’s adoption of the ‘general orientation’ proposed by Parliament at first reading, taking on board the objections raised at that time, in particular concerning respect for the principle of subsidiarity.
The ‘common orientation’ is thus entirely consistent with the basic idea that security of natural gas supply should be guaranteed in the first place by the companies involved, whereas Member States and, finally, the Commission should intervene only at the second and third stages.
Of course, I welcome the fact that a ‘Gas Coordination Group’, consisting of representatives of the Member States and interest groups, is to be set up along the lines of the body that already deals with oil. This is precisely the measure to provide the much-needed ‘sharing of best practice’, to implement the best solution and to ensure that subsidiarity is respected.
Lastly, the choice of Article 95 TEC, as the legal basis for the original proposal for a directive was justified by the fact that the Commission had proposed a range of measures for harmonisation. It is precisely these measures, however, that Parliament and then the Council removed from the initial proposal, because they considered them to be fundamentally unsuitable. In line with the terms agreed by the Council and the European Parliament and because I agree with changing the legal basis to Article 100 TEC, I voted in favour."@en1
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