This Regulation lays down rules: (i) to ensure the proper and continuous functioning of the internal market in natural gas; (ii) to allow for exceptional measures to be implemented when the market can no longer deliver the gas supplies required, including solidarity measure of a last resort; and (iii) to provide for the clear definition and attribution of responsibilities among natural gas undertakings, the Member States and the Union regarding both preventive action and the reaction to concrete disruptions of gas supply. The purpose of this Regulation is to safeguard the security of gas supply in the Union. This Regulation also establishes transparent mechanisms concerning, in a spirit of solidarity, the coordination of planning for, and response to, emergencies at national, regional and Union level.
2017-10-25