Traduction de «Sécurité d'approvisionnement énergétique » (Français → Anglais) :

The Network of Energy Security Correspondents endorsed by the European Council in December 2006 has improved the capacity to collect information and has provided early warning of potential threats to the security of energy supply.

The EU and the partners share the interest of maintaining stable, secure and clean energy supplies for their citizens and industry and to move towards low-carbon energy resources. The Commission’s 2007/2008 energy and climate change package set a bold framework to address energy challenges including the development of an external energy policy. The gas dispute between Ukraine and Russia in the winter of 2008/2009 highlighted the need to deal urgently with energy security. The Commission’s 2008 second strategic energy review[4] calls for relations to be stepped up with partners, which are important producer and transit countries for the E ...[+++]U.

Calls on Member States, in the light of the growing risks which the European Union is running in terms of energy security, to speak with a single voice; notes that their current practices are anything but geared to this aspiration; considers it imperative, in the interests of security of supply, solidarity and of the effectiveness of negotiations with a view to determining the international regulatory framework, for the Commission to propose to Parliament and the Council the drawing up of a European energy policy which has due regard for the respective competences of the European Union and of the Member States: international relations, ...[+++] energy efficiency, combating climate change, further development of the internal market, negotiation of international treaties, forward studies and dialogue with producers and transit countries, energy research and diversification of energy supplies;

By addressing energy demand this policy is part of the EU policies on energy supply including its efforts to promote renewable energies and is as such part of the set of priorities first outlined in the 2000 Green Paper “Towards a European Strategy for the security of energy supply”.

(1) Natural gas (gas) is becoming an increasingly important component in Community energy supply, and, as indicated in the Green Paper "Towards a European strategy for the security of energy supply", the European Union is expected in the longer term to become increasingly dependent on gas imported from non-EU sources of supply.

Security of energy supply was one of the areas included in a follow-up study to the Nice European Council, which requested an examination of the arrangements to ensure the security of supply of certain strategically important products in the EU.