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"Mr President, Commissioner, I would like to congratulate the rapporteur from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), Mr Kariņš, for this difficult report, given the sensitive nature of bilateral negotiations in the field of energy between the Member States and third countries.
The agreement reached in trialogue will allow the rapid implementation of the Commission’s draft decision and, wishing to be pragmatic, we cannot but welcome it. Europe of energy is making progress, admittedly slow progress, but nevertheless progress. The European Union relies heavily on imported energy, and is in a position of structural dependence on certain supplier countries. In order for our thinking on our energy strategy to become more European, it therefore became necessary to make information on energy agreements more widely available in the Commission, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity.
The establishment of an information exchange mechanism with regard to intergovernmental agreements will therefore ensure greater transparency of the energy market and, thus, allow us to anticipate problems of energy supply.
I welcome the fact that this decision does not create obligations as regards agreements between commercial entities. At times of crisis and, given the issues involved in terms of competition and competitiveness, we have a duty to protect our companies’ interests and the safeguards for private contracts."@en1
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