Advocating for a flexible and coherent approach in the governance of the Energy Union

We welcome the ambitious framework proposed and the commitment of the European Commission towards the energy transition. The Governance of the Energy Union Regulation provides the ideal framework to articulate Member States contributions to reaching our common climate and energy targets, in a coherent manner, by supporting complementarity rather than uniformity. This framework should put the emphasis on the means needed to reach them in the most cost-efficient way. In the context of the discussions on the 2030 energy targets in the European Parliament, two priority issues need to be raised to commit to the main objective of the economy’s decarbonisation: