Urgent question to Commission for the “violation of European Law by Greece to the detriment of consumers electric power“, Testified the Eurogroup of SYRIZA-PSon her own initiative Elenas Kountoura.
The relevant press release on the Eurogroup question referred to “violent, in breach of European law, and opaque application of adjustment clauses in Greece, which has led to an unprecedented wave of huge increases in electricity bills and has brought households and businesses to their knees. ” SYRIZA-PS MEPs call on the European Commission to intervene on the issue, in a move that comes at a time when the Greek parliament has tabled the amendment of the party president, Alexis Tsipras, and the KO, to suspend payment of the adjustment clause, until its legality is judged in the Greek courts.
According to the relevant press release on the Eurogroup question, Greece “has not properly transposed into national law the 2019 Community Directive, which allows EU Member States, by way of derogation, to apply consumer protection public pricing interventions for the supply of electricity to energy-poor or vulnerable citizens “. They note that the deadline for the transposition of this directive into Greek law has already passed by the end of 2020, “with the result that the European Commission has already initiated infringement proceedings against Greece, as European law is being violated and the consumers”. It points out that “today’s huge increases have been passed on from providers to consumers through ‘adjustment clauses’, which either either existed from the outset in their electricity supply contracts or were subsequently introduced, usually in an invisible way (with a small font on the back accounts and cryptocurrencies, as well as references to regulatory texts unknown to consumers) “.
The SYRIZA-PS Eurogroup emphasizes that this practice “violates the principle of transparency, information and validity conditions as defined in European Directives 2019/944 and 93/13 / EEC and are specified in the judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union “. The communication also states that “Community law clearly states that electricity providers are required to ensure that the principles of effective transparency and timely information on the reasons, conditions and extent of this adjustment are applied before and for the right of consumers to terminate the contract if they do not wish to accept this amendment “.
MEPs then asked the Commission whether it “believes that the adjustment clauses applied are sufficiently ‘transparent’ under Directives 2019/944 and 93/13 / EEC, as they do not specify the adjustment mechanism in a way that is to the non-specific consumer-consumer “and” what measures does it intend to take to oblige Greece to transpose the Directive, to apply European Law and to protect consumers “.
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