In a letter to the Senate, Minister for Relations with Parliament calls on the President’s Chamber, Călin Popescu Tăriceanu, to consider starting proceedings to hold a special session in which to adopt the draft law amending the Law on Electricity and Natural Gas 123/2012, Oil Law 238/2004 and amending Executive Ordinance 6/2014 on the state’s exercise of rights and obligations arising from shareholder position in Transelectrica and Transgaz, according to Mediafax.
The Senate will debate the government’s introduction of EU directives into national laws, project submitted to the Senate on July 9, in an extraordinary session on August 25. The deadline for amending the laws mentioned in complete agreement with the European rules was March 3rd, 2011, but at that time there were only some debates on bills that have not been completed.
In the summer of 2012, Law 123 was approved, an insufficient framework to introduce into national law all European standards in energy. For example, among others, the European Commission (EC) said that Romania does not comply with Article that consumers have the right to receive all relevant consumption data, nor the one about protection of vulnerable consumers.
The aim was to introduce fully the Directive 2009/72 / EC concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and Directive 2009/73 /EC concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas sector. This was not done, according to the EC, who also noticed this topic at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on July 17, 2013.
If by August 29 implementation will be carried out completely, the penalty of 30,200 euros per day of delay from the date of the CJEU decision will be withdrawn, notes Mediafax.
The transposition of EU rules into national law will change, for example, the legal regime of transport networks. In other words, the new electricity transmission networks to be made of the resources of a carrier will not be public property, but will become private property of the operator. For gas transport, the state ownership is limited to public transport pipes that are part of the National Transmission System.