STATISTICS : COMPROMISE IN SIGHT ON REFORM OF ENERGY STATISTICS.

Europe Energy, March, 2008

The European Parliament is expected to give the green light, on 12 March, to an inter-institutional compromise at first reading on the reform of European energy statistics, whose objective is to better support the Community's energy policy.

The Committee on Industry having granted its unanimous support to the report by Claude Turmes (Greens, Luxembourg), it should benefit from the same support in the plenary. The text of the compromise will then be ratified as such by the EU Council of Ministers.

The Community regulation proposed on 10 January 2007 in the framework of the Commission's energy package' (see Europolitics 3223) aims to rectify the deterioration of the quality of energy statistics, in terms of exhaustiveness, exactitude and reactivity....

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