Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

AddedWhere a breakdown of the final customer's price is presented in bills, the common definitions of the three components in that breakdown established under Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council shall be used throughout the Union.

Added4. Access to complementary information on historical consumption

AddedMember States shall require that, to the extent that complementary information on historical consumption is available, such information is made available, at the request of the final customer, to the supplier or service provider designated by the final customer.

AddedWhere the final customer has a meter that allows remote reading by the operator installed, the final customer shall have easy access to complementary information on historical consumption allowing detailed self-checks.

AddedComplementary information on historical consumption shall include:

Added(a) cumulative data for at least the three previous years or the period since the start of the gas supply contract, if that period is shorter. The data shall correspond to the intervals for which frequent billing information has been produced; and

Added(b) detailed data according to the time of use for any day, week, month and year, which is made available to the final customer without undue delay via the internet or the meter interface, covering the period of at least the previous 24 months or the period since the start of the gas supply contract, if that period is shorter

Added5. Disclosure of energy sources

AddedSuppliers shall specify in bills the share of renewable and separately low-carbon gas purchased by the final customer in accordance with the supply contract for gas (product level disclosure). In case of a mixture the supplier shall provide the same information separately for different categories of gas, including renewable gas or low-carbon gas.

AddedThe following information shall be made available to final customers in, with, or signposted to within their bills and billing information:

Added(a) the share of renewable gas and low-carbon gas in the mix of the supplier (at national level, namely in the Member State in which the supply contract for gas has been concluded, as well as at the level of the supplier if the supplier is active in several Member States) over the preceding year in a comprehensible and clearly comparable manner;

Added(b) information on the environmental impact, in at least terms of CO2 emissions resulting from the gas supplied by the supplier over the preceding year.

AddedAs regards point (a) of the second subparagraph, with respect to gas obtained via a gas exchange or imported from an undertaking situated outside the Union, aggregate figures provided by the exchange or the undertaking in question over the preceding year may be used.

AddedThe disclosure of the share of renewable gas purchased by the final customers shall be done by using guarantees of origin in accordance with Article 19 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 [amended RED].

AddedThe regulatory authority or another competent national authority shall take the necessary steps to ensure that the information provided by suppliers to final customers pursuant to this point is reliable and is provided at a national level in a clearly comparable manner.

AddedSMART METERING SYSTEMS IN NATURAL GAS

Added1. Member States shall ensure that any deployment of smart metering systems in their territories happens only after a positive economic assessment of all the long-term costs and benefits to the market and the individual consumer or which form of smart metering is economically reasonable and cost-effective and which timeframe is feasible for their distribution.

Added1a. Such an economic assessment shall take into account network development plans referred to in to Article 51, in particular, paragraph 2, point (c) thereof, on decommissioning of networks.

Added2. Such assessment shall take into consideration the methodology for the cost-benefit analysis and the minimum functionalities for smart metering systems provided for in Commission Recommendation 2012/148/EU to the extent that they are applicable for natural gas, as well as the best available techniques for ensuring the highest level of cybersecurity and data protection.

AddedSuch assessment shall also duly consider potential synergies with an already rolled-out electricity smart metering infrastructure, or options for selective rollouts to cases that can quickly return net benefits to keep costs in check.

Added3. Subject to a positive assessment, Member States, shall prepare a timetable with a target of up to ten years for the deployment of smart metering systems. Where the deployment of smart metering systems is assessed positively, at least 80 % of final customers shall be equipped with smart meters within seven years of the date of the positive assessment.

AddedRepealed Directive with list of the successive amendments thereto (referred to in Article 90)

AddedTime-limits for transposition into national law and date of application

Added(referred to in Article 90)

AddedCORRELATION TABLE

AddedAmendments to parts of the proposal which remain unchanged ('white parts') were necessary for pressing reasons relating to the internal logic of the text or because the amendments are inextricably linked to other admissible amendments