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Apr
2024
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Internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (recast) - Union’s electricity market design: Regulation - Union’s electricity market design: Directive (joint debate – Reform of the energy and electricity markets)
Mr President, thank you very much. Mr. Commissioner, I'm sorry. Today's debate and vote conclude the two-year period of work on the Hydrogen Gas Package. And I think it is worth emphasizing that observing the work during this term on many legal acts and topics that we have considered, it is in this case a very important, important document, even laying the foundations for the development of the fuel of the future, which is hydrogen, that made it possible to work out this document in a great consensus. And I would like to thank everyone for that, and I would like to thank the rapporteur, Jens Geier, for all the rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs, because it seems that, something that is rare in this House, with such important topics, we are reaching solutions for the future and in great consensus. So it should really be emphasized that something that unites us is that hydrogen is the fuel of the future, which in many sectors will replace more emission-intensive sources of energy. So let's notice that we have a future when it comes to caring for the climate. And I don't think there's a dispute. We're arguing about solutions, and I think hydrogen connects us here in all of this. It is a fuel that will be used in the future in sectors such as the steel industry, maritime transport, fertilizer production, will allow the development of innovative solutions and reduce dependencies on the supply of raw materials, mainly gas from outside the Union. I think it is also worth emphasizing what has already been raining here, without repeating the other values of this directive, that we have given and are giving this document the foundations for investments in hydrogen transmission infrastructure. And this, I think, is very important, because it builds something that will make us fight for the fuel of the future, so that its price, and its technology, will actually be the future of the new energy.