Traduction de «Stratégie de l'Union pour la sécurité énergétique » (Français → Anglais) :

EU energy security strategy | European Energy Security Strategy | EESS [Abbr.]

EU energy policy [4.7] [ energy union | EU energy strategy | European Union energy policy | European Union energy strategy ]

Energy Union strategy

European Union Internal Security Strategy 2015-2020 | renewed EU Internal Security Strategy | renewed European Union Internal Security Strategy | renewed European Union Internal Security Strategy 2015-2020

An important element in ensuring energy (and in particular gas) security is full compliance of agreements related to the buying of energy from third countries with EU law.

2. Reiterates that energy is a basic human need and is essential for human economic activity and particularly important for the competitiveness of industry and other economic sectors; insists, therefore, that the EU’s energy security strategy should ensure affordable, sustainable, stable, secure and predictable access to energy for both citizens and enterprises and should strengthen public control as well as regulation and fairness in the field of competition, in order to focus on the issue of energy poverty and promote measures to tackle this problem, which concerns a large number of EU citizens (according to Euros ...[+++]tat’s reports on Income and Living Conditions (EU SILC)) and in the developing world (as reported by the International Energy Agency (IEA)); emphasises that the decision-making process concerning energy infrastructure projects should involve all local communities directly affected; points out that the Union’s energy security strategy should be an essential component of an inclusive Union strategy for economic growth;

The European Union's long-term strategy for energy supply security must be geared to ensuring, for the well-being of its citizens and the proper functioning of the economy, the uninterrupted physical availability of energy products on the market, at a price which is affordable for all consumers (private and industrial), while respecting environmental concerns and looking towards sustainable development, as enshrined in Articles 2 and 6 of the Treaty on European Union.

The recent European Energy Security Strategy points to the role of energy efficiency as means to improve the Union's security of supply - every additional 1% in energy savings cuts gas imports by 2.6%.