Mr Mosar will point out that the Community energy market suffers from the following inconsistencies : - insufficiently transparent prices, - free-tax prices may be assimilated either to minimum or to maximum prices,
thereby preventing true competition, - different levels of taxation, such that the price of a public metre (m3) of heating oil, for example, is three times as high in some countries as in others, - national oil monopolies continue to exist, - public procurement is entesively nationalist, - national aids and subsidies are provided directly or indirectly and some escape detection, - the interconnection of gas and electricity ne
...[+++]tworks is inadequate.Le Commissaire responsable a l'energie ne manquera pas d'epingler quelques unes des incoherences du marche de l'energie dans la Communaute : - prix insuffisamment transparents; - prix hors taxes qui sont, soit assimiles a des prix minima, soit, au contraire a des prix maxima et qui, donc, excluent une vraie concurrence; - taxation differente qui, dans le cas du gasoil domestique de chauffage, se traduit par des prix au metre-cube (m3)
allant du simple au triple; - persistance de monopoles petroliers nationaux; - marches publics frileusement nationalistes; - aides et subventions nationales directes ou indirectes, connues ou meconnues
...[+++]; - interconnexion insuffisante des reseaux de gaz et d'electricite.