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DRAFT REPORT (COM(2025)1006 – C100342/2025 – 2025/0399(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure, amending Regulations (EU) 2019/942, (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2024/1789 and repealing Regulation (EU) 2022/869

ITRE-PR-785275

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy · Rapporteur: Tsvetelina Penkova

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This is the rapporteur's draft report on the Commission proposal for a regulation on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure, replacing Regulation (EU) 2022/869 and amending Regulations (EU) 2019/942, (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2024/1789. The draft proposes 53 amendments to the Commission proposal, adding affordability safeguards so infrastructure development does not disproportionately raise final electricity prices. It requires foreign direct investment screening for projects of common and mutual interest before priority status and before any final investment decision, plus notification of material ownership or control changes. It strengthens the central scenario, infrastructure needs identification and cost-benefit analysis, requiring projects to be compared against demonstrated needs and residual gaps to be identified. It makes Commission action mandatory where needs remain unmatched, raises the share of congestion rents set aside for network investments from 25% to 35%, and adds reporting on congestion income use.

Committee position. The rapporteur supports the Commission proposal's strategic objective but proposes 53 amendments to strengthen evidence-based planning, affordability for final consumers, foreign investment screening, transparency, and oversight of congestion income use.

Key points

  1. Adds a new infrastructure category for investments in equipment and installations enhancing the resilience and protection of critical network elements, without disproportionate electricity cost increases for final customers.
  2. Requires transparency on ultimate beneficiary ownership of cross-border energy infrastructure and projects with cross-border impact, to be considered when selecting projects of common and mutual interest.
  3. Requires all projects of common interest and projects of mutual interest to undergo applicable Union and national foreign direct investment screening before priority status is granted and before any final investment decision.
  4. Requires material post-designation changes in ownership, control or governance of the project promoter or project company to be notified without delay to competent national authorities and the Commission.
  5. Adds project assessment criteria: the project must be the most cost-effective solution for identified needs and must not disproportionately increase electricity costs for final consumers.
  6. Requires each regional Group to indicate how each candidate project addresses a demonstrated infrastructure capacity need, or why it is otherwise justified for inclusion in the regional list.
  7. Requires the Commission to develop a central scenario and sensitivity analysis for the electricity, hydrogen and gas sectors, consistent with national energy and climate plans and national network development plans.
  8. Requires the ENTSO for Electricity and the ENNOH to identify and quantify how far submitted projects address identified infrastructure needs, including remaining gaps, and to report residual unmet needs.
  9. Makes Commission action mandatory where projects do not fully meet identified needs: it shall launch a process to find solutions and, if insufficient, a call for proposals open to any third party.
  10. Requires the Commission to publish identified unmatched needs, proposed solutions and assessment outcomes, while protecting commercially sensitive, confidential, security-relevant and personal data.
  11. Raises the share of congestion rents that transmission system operators must set aside for network investments into Union list projects reducing interconnector congestion from 25% to 35%.
  12. Requires the Agency to publish and submit to the Commission an annual report assessing the use of congestion income and fulfilment of priority objectives, covering the 12-month period ending on 31 December of the previous year.

Who is affected

  • Transmission system operators: must set aside 35% of congestion rents for network investments and provide data for the central scenario.
  • Project promoters: must provide cost data to national regulatory authorities and the Agency, and notify ownership or control changes.
  • Final electricity consumers: protected from disproportionate cost increases and from bearing costs of implementation shortcomings.
  • The Commission: must develop the central scenario, launch processes for unmatched needs, and publish outcomes.
  • The ENTSO for Electricity and the ENNOH: must produce infrastructure needs identification reports and publish input data.

Figures and deadlines

  • 35% of congestion rents to be set aside for network investments, up from 25%.
  • At least 200 Megawatts (MW) increase in net transfer capacity for electricity transmission projects.
  • Central scenario to be developed by two years after entry into force and at least every four years thereafter.
  • Draft infrastructure needs identification reports to be submitted within six months of publication of the central scenario and its sensitivity analysis.
  • Agency to assess draft reports within two months of receipt by the TEN-E Group.
  • ENTSO for Electricity and ENNOH to address Commission requests within one month and re-submit revised reports.
  • Agency to publish unit investment cost indicators starting from April 2028 and every two years.
  • Agency congestion income report by 31 October one year after entry into force, and every year thereafter.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 172 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.