Legal provisions of COM(2023)174 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) 2022/1369 as regards prolonging the demand reduction period for reduction measures for gas and reinforcing the reporting and monitoring of their implementation

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dossier COM(2023)174 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) 2022/1369 as regards prolonging the demand reduction period for reduction measures for gas and ...
document COM(2023)174
date March 30, 2023



Article 1

Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2022/1369


Regulation (EU) 2022/1369 is amended as follows:

(1) in Article 2, points (5) and (6) are replaced by the following:

(a) ‘(5) ‘reference gas consumption’ means the volume of a Member State’s average gas consumption during the reference period; for Member States where gas consumption increased at least by 8 % in the period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 compared to the average gas consumption during the reference period, ‘reference gas consumption’ means only the volume of gas consumption in the period from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022;

(b) “(6) ‘reference period’ means the period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2022.


(2) Article 3 is replaced by the following:

Article 3

Voluntary demand reduction

Member States shall use their best efforts to reduce their gas consumption in the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 at least by 15% compared to their average gas consumption in the period from 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2022 (‘voluntary demand reduction’). Articles 6, 7 and 8 shall apply to those voluntary demand reduction measures.


(3) in Article 5, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘2. For the purpose of mandatory demand reduction, for as long as the Union alert is declared, gas consumption in each Member State over the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 (‘reduction period’) shall be 15 % lower compared to its reference gas consumption. Any demand reductions achieved by Member States during the period before the Union alert was declared shall be taken into account for the purpose of the mandatory demand reduction.


(4) in Article 8, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

“1. The competent authority of each Member State shall monitor the implementation of the demand reduction measures on its territory. Member States shall report on gas consumption (in terajoules, TJ) to the Commission every month and not later than by the 15th day of the following month. Member States shall include in their reporting a breakdown of gas demand reduction per sector, including gas demand for the following sectors:

(a) input for electricity and heat generation;

(b) final energy consumption in industry;

(c) final energy consumption in households and services.

For the purpose of this paragraph, the definitions and conventions established in Regulation (EC) 1099/2008 on energy statistics shall apply.

The GCG shall assist the Commission in the monitoring of the voluntary and mandatory demand reduction.”


(5) in Article 9 ‘1 May 2023’ is replaced by ‘1 March 2024’;


(6) in Article 10, the second paragraph is replaced by the following:

‘It shall apply until 31 March 2024’.


Article 2

Entry into force and application


This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 April 2023.

It shall apply until 31 March 2024.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.