Energy regulators call for mandatory regional plans for gas security of supply at the Madrid Forum, Brussels, 14 October 2015
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• Fully implement the Gas Balancing Network Code Today, the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) presented at the Madrid Forum To enhance cross-border cooperation, CEER supports mandatory regional plans. Walter Boltz, Chair of the CEER Gas Working Group, said: “The regional plans would be complementary to national plans (risk assessment, preventive action plan and emergency plan).” Fully implement the Gas Balancing Network Code Define protected customers at EU level LNG and storage are important to delivering security of supply Mr Boltz cautioned that “concepts such as demand aggregation through common purchasing could raise competition issues and thus distort the functioning of gas markets.” With respect to gas storage, Mr Boltz also advocated a market-based and regional approach. He explained “It is not possible to define single optimum levels/shares of LNG or storage.” The European Commission has welcomed CEER’s (April) response to the Commission’s consultation on the revision of the Gas Security of Supply Regulation (994/2010), our response to the LNG and Storage Strategy (September) and our (July) Concept Paper as valuable inputs as the Commission revises Europe’s Security of Supply Regulation.
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