The European Commission plans to liberalise energy market

The editorialist Pascal Aubert welcomes all initiatives to reform the European energy market. "It is in order to prevent competition remaining an empty word that the Brussels Commission has presented a directive project that envisages the separation of activities in the production and distribution of electricity and gas. There is clearly something unhealthy about a system where the dominant supplier also controls the 'pipes' - electric networks and gas pipelines - that lead to the clients. For competition to be freely exercised, everyone - the big and the small - should benefit from equal access to the final consumer, which is not guaranteed by the current system. How to achieve this? [The Commission's propositions] deserve a better reaction than the initial war cries sounded in France yesterday."

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