Traduction de «Electricity tariff structures » (Anglais → Français) :

20. Points out that any meaningful 'Social Package' promoting social progress must be complemented by supportive economic and structural policy measures; considers that the Stability and Growth Pact must be revoked and that the monetary policy of the ECB must be relaxed in order to counter the effects of the current economic slowdown in Europe; calls on the Commission and the Council to draw up a 'European Investment Programme for Sustainable Development, Employment and Social Inclusion' to which at least 1% of EU GDP should be allocated, which should be complemented by similar public investment programmes of the Member States in order ...[+++] to stabilise the economy, counter climate change and promote full employment with quality jobs and social rights; proposes that Member States also introduce measures to stabilise and enhance the purchasing power of people on low incomes (faced with rising prices of food, energy and transport), for example by introducing social default tariffs for gas, electricity, telecommunications, public transport, etc.;

19. Points out that any meaningful 'Social Package' promoting social progress must be complemented by supportive economic and structural policy measures; considers that the monetary policy of the ECB must be relaxed in order to counter the effects of the current economic slowdown in Europe; calls on the Commission and the Council to draw up a 'European Investment Programme for Sustainable Development, Employment and Social Inclusion' of at least 1 % of EU GDP, which should be complemented by similar public investment programmes of the Member States in order to stabilise the economy and counter climate change; proposes that Member Stat ...[+++]es also introduce measures to stabilise and enhance the purchasing power of low-income people (rising prices for food, energy, transport), e.g. by introducing social default tariffs for gas, electricity, telecommunication, public transport etc.;

Tariffs must be measured against the benchmark of the costs of an efficient network operator with a comparable structure; this is what this House devised and got accepted for cross-border trade in electricity, and it is also suited to the gas networks.

In its Green Paper on security of supply the Commission also points out that demand for electricity could increase by 20% as a result of lower prices. Public service obligations, relating in particular to environmental protection and which lay down tariff structures for electricity bills designed to increase energy efficiency, should therefore, in view of the 18% potential for saving energy in the European Union as calculated by the Commission be mandatory in the Member States.

Community aid will be conditional on the introductions of structural reforms allowing application of the directives in the gas and electricity sectors (separation of distributors and producers, establishment of a regulator, setting of tariffs).

D. Legislation on electricity * Council recommendation 81/924/EEC of 27 October 1981 on electricity tariff structures in the Community.