Translation of "Sécurité des approvisionnements en médicaments " (French → English) :

The completion of the internal gas market and effective competition within that market offer the Union the highest level of security of supply for all Member States, provided that the market is allowed to function fully in the event of disruption of supply affecting a part of the Union, whatever the cause of the disruption.

Where the security of supply of a Member State is threatened, there is a clear risk that measures developed unilaterally by that Member State may jeopardise the proper functioning of the internal gas market and the supply of gas to customers.

These measure must focus, in particular, on harmonising the organisation of oil stocks and promoting their coordinated use (national storage systems, emergency stocks, intervention criteria), harmonising minimum measures for the security of gas supplies (minimum standards, crisis measures, supply contracts) and organising an energy dialogue between producer and consumer countries.

39. Believes that the proposed Strategic Energy Review (SER) should integrate the work of the proposed Energy Supply Observatory (which should not be an independent body) and that it should analyse security of supply on a regular basis; considers that the SER's remit should involve strategic analysis of the problems confronting the EU in the energy sector, including the external aspects; encourages the Commission to use the SER to develop a formula that enables Member States to analyse the trade-offs between different policy options with regard to the environment, security of supply, competitiveness and job creation and that thus helps ...[+++] to minimise risks; welcomes the Commission's effort to undertake a detailed study of the subsidies and costs of all energy sources, including the internalisation of externalities within the SER, applying the life-cycle and well-to-wheel approach; requests the publication of such a study in order to raise public awareness; proposes that a Europe-wide forward study of supply and demand in the medium and long-term be conducted in order to identify investment needs, especially on the production side, and raise the profile of operators; proposes that a cost-benefit analysis should focus on the contribution of each energy source to the EU's three objectives in the energy field, namely security of supply, competitiveness, and environmental sustainability;

(18 ) With a view to assisting in preparing and implementing Community legislation in the field of safety and security of gas supply, to monitoring its application and assisting in evaluating the effectiveness of the measures in force as well as to better monitor the development of security of gas supply, a European Observation System of hydrocarbons should be established within the services of the Commission;

Any limiting of the security of supply obligation would result in a double burden on other undertakings with such an obligation, since they would have to guarantee security of supply for undertakings with small market shares, or new market entrants, over and above their normal supplies.