Trygve Slagsvold Vedum will stop the EU’s controversial energy package – Dagsavisen

– What is at the heart of the entire Center Party is that we do not want to give up more power over energy policy, Vedum asserts to the Nation.

The debate about the EU’s fourth energy market package has escalated after the EU put pressure on Norway to introduce parts of the package, the so-called renewables directive, by 13 August.

The EU has threatened punitive measures if Norway does not meet the deadline. Vedum says it is not appropriate to introduce parts of the package.

– It is the entirety of the EU’s fourth energy market package, where we give up more control, that the Center Party is against. And we will work against that, says Vedum.

Despite the fact that government partner the Center Party has expressly refused to introduce the EU’s fourth energy package, the Labor-led Ministry of Oil and Energy (OED) has been in dialogue with the EU on the matter for a long time.

Oil and Energy Minister Terje Aasland confirmed this to NTB at the end of October last year.

– We are now working to see what consequences this may have for Norway, and what scope we have, said Aasland.

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Facts about the EU’s fourth energy package

• Was adopted in the EU in 2018 and 2019. Also called the Clean Energy Package.
• Consists of eight different legal acts, including:
• A renewables directive which enshrines in law that at least 32 per cent of the energy mix must be renewable by 2030.
• An energy efficiency directive with a target of at least 32.5 per cent energy savings by 2030.
• A directive for energy saving in buildings.
• A revised regulation for the energy agency Acer (Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators), which gets a bigger role and more authority.
• It took a full ten years before the EU’s third energy package was incorporated into the EEA regulations. It became part of Norwegian law in 2019.

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