Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/256096 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comments No. 21/2009
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
In July 2009 the EU Commission presented a Regulation proposal on crisis management in the natural gas sector which has the potential to initiate a paradigm shift in European energy security-of-supply policy. After years of futile attempts to create a common external energy policy, a phase could now ensue in which the EU increasingly becomes aware of its internal options for action. The risk-management architecture developed by the Commission will contribute to make the debate on energy security more objective. If all member states are to achieve a standard level of provisions, as the draft intends, they will be obliged to develop a pragmatic security-of-supply policy. Attention will no longer be fixed on just a few symbolic major projects, as it was in the past; the focus will be more on sober cost-benefit considerations for a large number of rather unspectacular options for action
Document Type: 
Research Report

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