Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the EEA Joint Committee concerning an amendment to Annex IV (Energy) and Annex XXI (Statistics) to the EEA Agreement

The draft Decision of the EEA Joint Committee (annexed to the proposed Council Decision) aims to amend Annex IV (Energy) and Annex XXI (Statistics) by adding new European Union acquis in this field.

This concerns Directive 2008/92/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 concerning a Community procedure to improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users (recast). Directive 2008/92/EC repeals Council Directive 90/377/EEC, which is incorporated into the EEA Agreement and which is consequently to be repealed under the EEA Agreement.

For the purpose of the implementation of this act, an adaptation is proposed in relation to Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein wishes to be exempted from the obligations foreseen in this Directive, except for the obligation to provide the industrial price data for consumer band IC for electricity and for consumer band I3 for gas.

EUR-Lex: COM(2012)645: Follow the progress of this document through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2012:645:FIN

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