MEPs from the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) validated, on Monday 15 January in Strasbourg, the agreements reached at the end of 2023 on the texts constituting the reform of the European electricity market.
They approved by 46 votes to 17, with one abstention, the agreement reached on 14 December between the European Parliament and the EU Council in Strasbourg on the design of the electricity market, which was the subject of the report by Nicolás González Casares (S&D, Spanish).
He welcomed the fact that this legislation would give the EU “a market with more rights and more protection”, thanks to measures such as “the ban on unilateral changes to contracts by suppliers and the fact that vulnerable consumers or those in energy poverty are fully protected (...) from disconnections”.
MEPs also voted in favour of the REMIT regulation, with 59 votes in favour, 2 against and 3 abstentions. This text, on which Maria da Graça Carvalho (EPP, Portuguese) was European Parliament rapporteur and which was the subject of an interinstitutional agreement on 16 November, aims to ensure the integrity and transparency of wholesale energy markets.
To see the agreements: https://aeur.eu/f/ae6 ; https://aeur.eu/f/ae7 (Original version in French by Pauline Denys)