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Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 2003/55/EC (Text with EEA relevance) · European Union

The Commission shall, no later than 1 January 2006, forward to the European Parliament and Council, a detailed report outlining progress in creating the internal market in natural gas. That report shall, in particular, consider: existence of non-discriminatory network access, effective regulation, the development of interconnection infrastructure, the conditions of transit, and the security of supply situation in the Community, the extent to which the full benefits of the opening of the market are accruing to small enterprises and household customers, notably with respect to public service standards, the extent to which markets are in practice open to effective competition, including aspects of market dominance, market concentration and predatory or anti-competitive behaviour, the extent to which customers are actually switching suppliers and renegotiating tariffs, price developments, including supply prices, in relation to the degree of the opening of markets, whether effective and non-discriminatory third-party access to gas storage exists when technically and/or economically necessary for providing efficient access to the system, the experience gained in the application of this Directive as far as the effective independence of system operators in vertically integrated undertakings is concerned and whether other measures in addition to functional independence and separation of accounts have been developed which have effects equivalent to legal unbundling. Where appropriate, the Commission shall submit proposals to the European Parliament and the Council, in particular to guarantee high public service standards. Where appropriate, the Commission shall submit proposals to the European Parliament and the Council, in particular to ensure full and effective independence of distribution system operators before 1 July 2007. Where necessary, those proposals shall, in conformity with competition law, also concern measures to address issues of market dominance, market concentration and predatory or anti-competitive behaviour.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-28 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.