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dossier	COM(2016)456 - Proposal to establish the Energy Community list of energy infrastructure projects.
document	COM(2016)456
date	July 12, 2016

(1) The Energy Community Ministerial Council Decision ⁶ on the implementation of the Regulation (EU) No 347/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure sets up a process to establish the list of projects of Energy Community Interest and gives also a possibility to apply the provisions of the Regulation to projects of mutual interest on a voluntary basis.

(2) The European Union should make a proposal to establish such a list, in accordance with Title III and Article 82 of the Energy Community Treaty.

(3) The annex to the proposal mentioned in the previous recital and consisting of the final list of projects to the proposal can only be constituted at a later date once the assessment of the various projects proposed has been completed. The present decision should therefore set out all the projects from which the Commission can choose the ones to be included in the list at a later date.