Trans-European energy networks: guidelines

In adopting the recommendation for second reading by Mr ADAM (PSE, UK), the European Parliament approved the Council's common position with the following amendments: - Parliament felt that in the construction of links currently missing from the trans-European energy networks, these links should be as short as possible and optimally sited, taking economic factors into account; - with regard to comitology, the European Parliament called for an advisory committee and reminded the Commission that it was obliged to inform Parliament at the same time as the committee; - it stated that Parliament should be consulted on the basis of the first and second paragraphs of Article 129d of the Treaty should the list of priority projects be updated; - finally, it proposed changes with regard to the electricity networks surrounding the Baltic (adding Russia (Baltic regions) and Belarus), and the Baltic and Nordic gas distribution network (for Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic states). �