Legal provisions of COM(2023)762 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) 2022/2576 as regards the prolongation of its period of application

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dossier COM(2023)762 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) 2022/2576 as regards the prolongation of its period of application.
document COM(2023)762 EN
date December 21, 2023


Article 1

Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2022/2576

Regulation (EU) 2022/2576 is amended as follows:

(1)In Article 5, paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:

‘5.   The Commission may request the service provider to provide all information necessary for the fulfilment of the tasks set out in Article 7.’

;

(2)Article 10 is deleted;

(3)In Article 31, the second paragraph is replaced by the following:

‘It shall apply until 31 December 2024.’;

(4)Annex I is amended as follows:

(a)in part (a), footnote (1) is replaced by the following:

‘The figures in Annex I, parts (a) and (b), are based on data from the winter adequacy assessment pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2019/941 by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E), except for Malta for which the electricity generation relies exclusively on LNG deliveries with no significant storage capacities. Given the specificity of the low-calorific gas, the values for the Netherlands in this table should be multiplied with a conversion factor of 37,89 divided by 35,17. Annex I, part (a), represents the individual monthly volumes calculated by ENTSO-E for the months December 2022 to March 2023; the figures in Annex I, part (b), for the months April 2023 to December 2024 represent the average of the values in the period between December 2022 and March 2023.’;

(b)in part (b), the heading is replaced by the following:

‘Maximum critical gas volumes for electricity security of supply pursuant to Article 23 for the period between April 2023 to December 2024 (values in million cubic metres):’.

Article 2

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on 31 December 2023.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.