With improvement changes made by the leadership of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy, the process of the bill, which provides for a partial integration of a Community Directive on the “framework for promoting biomedhane production, and other hydrogenic region” and other restrictive production and other hydrogenic production rules, was completed in second reading. provisions.
The bill was accepted by a majority.
In favor of his beginning was the NDwhile, in addition to the KKE and WIN who voted against it, PASOK, SYRIZA, EL.LY, New left and Sauce They reserved them to be placed during the discussion and voting of tomorrow by the plenary.
The Minister of Environment and Energy, Stavros Papastavrou, announced that in a few hours the bill would be tabled in the bill and the arrangement for the settlements which he said, “It gives a solution to an existing problem that concerns the whole territory, leads to legal security because it identifies these zones A B and B1 and allows local urban planning to proceed without wasting valuable time».
«We strive in a coherent way and in accordance with the legitimacy and the case -law of the CoE to regulate a matter that has been horizontal all society horizontally“, Mr. Papastavrou noted.
In addition, the Minister of the Environment has categorically rejected opposition objections for the effort to privatize water through Article 55 on water supply measures, stressing that for the government it is clear that the water is a public good and no jurisdiction is assigned to anyone.
«The government is not a matter of public nature of the water. Its position is non -negotiation, water is a public good“, He added.
Mr Papastavrou, described the bill as “As a first important step in the new energy transition aimed at the country’s energy self -sufficiency and autonomy, but also the cheap power price especially for vulnerable consumers».
Responding to the issue of sharing the cost of infrastructure projects, he said that the government is seriously considering whether it will be between the manager and the producer.
For his part, the Deputy Minister of Environment and Energy, Nikolaos Tsafos, appeared reassuring about concerns that the bill would raise energy prices on the market at the expense of consumers.
«We are very careful about the aid so that it can help the energy sectors, but without giving a lot of money to burden the consumer, so we wanted to bring the legislative framework first and then go into the framework.“, He said and added:
«This investment we make in RES, though it has not yet brought, at absolute level, lower prices, has brought us to a greater comparison with the European average, although Europe as a whole and in particular Eastern Europe is still suffering from very high energy prices. We have managed, to the extent that international conditions allow us to keep the increase at a lower level».
At the same time, Mr. Tsafos defended the colored invoices, describing them as “an innovation that brought transparency to the energy market because you can compare the prices between providers, which was not clear before and also bringing competition.”
«Most people went to green invoices, but we see the market mature. We have already reached the point where 1/3 of consumers have, either blue, that is, a fixed invoice, or a yellow invoice which means that they have ups and downs that they have accepted because they want to take the risk, therefore, the same market, in one third of it left the green invoices. We consider it to be an encouraging trend. Find consumer products firmly, which are mostly more competitive than green invoices and is a trend we want to encourage“, He said and added:
«Of course, the fixed tariff at the total market level has a risk. Because now someone is committed to providing you with a product at a fixed price for 12 months. He somehow has to take this risk. Not even in the rest of Europe and certainly in our region, there are no products that will allow one to protect and lock the price on the side of the producer or supplier for 12 months.
So we believe that the market is moving in the right direction, we want to encourage this movement, but we also recognize the dangers that will pay for who will pay for prices volatility.
And obviously we consider it and we are pursuing it, the move that will be in invoices will be beneficial to consumers and will be able to protect them from the ratings we see from time to time».
Reservations and objections from the opposition
For their part, opposition rapporteurs focused their reservations and criticism mainly on the licensing framework, referring to ambiguities, but also on the criteria for state funding, arguing that big investors are being strengthened and excluding small energy businesses and local government.
PASOK’s rapporteur, Francis Parasiris, spoke of the complexity of the bill and a lack of imagination for the utilization of two new fuels in the energy market.
At the same time, he criticized the government’s pricing policy with colorful invoices, arguing that the massive transition to the green invoice raised a huge issue because with the fluctuations of retail price, Greek households have reached more than the EU.
SYRIZA’s rapporteur, Miltos Zambaras, said that “the priorities of the bill are in the wrong direction”, while describing “the government’s strategic error to insist on existing network infrastructures-which is in a marginal state of exploiting the two new energy and to use the two new energy. players. “
The KKE special market, Diamanto Manolakou, opposed the bill, focusing her criticism of the article on “the abolition of the National Forest Council, thus releasing from any restriction and protection of mountains and forests”, as well as the arrangement of “with the measures to deal with water water”.
«The only sure thing is that it has an anti -populist footprint, it is in accordance with European directions and always in view of the capitalist profit of the big business groups“, He said.
Intense reservations about the effectiveness of the bill was expressed by the Greek Specialist, Konstantinos Boubas, referring to “bureaucratic anchors, disobediences over who will be burdened by the costs for the construction of networks, facilitations of specific groups”Reasonably worries the middle consumer audience about increases in power prices».
The special market for the New Left, Theopistis Perka, argued that the government is proceeding without a vision of the energy transition, and without the necessary cooperation with competent scientific bodies and local government.
«It is simply a partial integration of a European directive and a framework that refers to later ministerial decisions. The government seems to have no vision and a plan that will be the result of consultation and with a great deal of involvement of self -government. First plan and determine the market and then follows the legislation by the government“, Mrs Perka said.
Nikolaos Brettos said against the bill, saying that “The government has become synonymous with the service of the few».
«The problem it does not face is the viability of small energy businesses. It is allegedly legislating the national interest while in fact enhances an illegal buckwheat and fools every small businessman who does not have access to funding“, He argued.
The Special Court of Freedom Freedom, Alexandros Kazamias, was strongly criticized, arguing that “The regulatory plan for the new energy market is not coherent, there is no provisions for low energy market prices to protect consumers, while talking generally and indefinitely about state funding to investors without accountability and control».
For his part, ND’s rapporteur, Fani Papas, described the bill as an important step in the energy transition with a full licensing framework, which ensures speed, transparency and legitimacy, by reducing bureaucracy and investor -friendly and which determines its energy future and energy future.