Brussels, 03/09/2009 (Agence Europe) - The Director General for the European Commission's DG External Relations called for the EU to develop an “energy treaty” in the long term. Addressing the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) for the last time on Wednesday 2 September, before he leaves for Rabat in Morocco, where he will head the Commission's delegation, Eneko Landaburu insisted that energy policy should be Community-based. He affirmed that he did not think that, “the Lisbon treaty will be sufficient for the EU to have an energy policy that benefits the whole of Europe. I support Jacques Delors' proposal (2007: Ed) calling for an energy policy for Europe” similar to the ECSC of 1951. He stressed that they needed to convince member states of their interest in sharing sovereignty in this area. Several members of the AFET overtly supported the Director General's goal. The former president of the committee, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (EPP, Poland) affirmed that, “We should have our own institutional framework and an energy policy that is as Community-based as possible”. At the end of 2007, Mr Delors informed the French press that creating a European energy community would be, “as vital a project as the Treaty of Rome or the Single Act”. (H.B./trans/rh)