"Our priority remains the price emergency to protect families and businesses".
Thus the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, at the end of the extraordinary Energy Council in Luxembourg.
"We reiterated the urgency of the measures included in the energy package, and with us most of the other countries", he added.
"The Commission therefore undertook to evaluate all the" gas "proposals quickly and in this sense the President announced the convening of an extraordinary Energy Council for next November 24th".
More specifically, as regards the proposal for a dynamic corridor for gas prices, Minister Pichetto specified that "on the basis of what is proposed by Italy and shared by other countries,
On the other measures of the package, which still contains some points under negotiation, "we have expressed our generally positive opinion".
The minister said he was optimistic that the Commission is committed to giving a formal and "swift" response with "an elaboration of the various requests" on the introduction of a price cap on gas.
Speaking of hydrogen during the public session of the Council, Pichetto explained that "Italy attributes research in the hydrogen sector a central role in its NRP, given its importance in shaping the future of energy markets; it is necessary to guarantee graduality and flexibility as well as guaranteeing a level playing field between operators ".
"We believe that the start-up phase of the new hydrogen market is a complex operation of great importance in order to ensure the success of the decarbonisation efforts within the European Union and the Member States", highlighted the minister.
"The early application of the ownership unbundling model in the hydrogen market could hinder development,
Pichetto then expressed "appreciation by Italy" on the directive on the energy performance of buildings.
"The compromise" found by EU ministers "makes the redevelopment of existing non-residential buildings a little easier, allowing statistical sampling to be used to assess the energy performance of buildings, and allowing for the renovations made with our national plans to be taken into account of recovery and resilience ", he pointed out, observing that Rome" would have liked a link to be created with our objectives for 2050 in line with the long-term restructuring strategies ".
"As far as the existing residential buildings are concerned, the presidency's proposal represents a compromise, a balance between ambition and feasibility, in a spirit that we can therefore accept. they would be compatible and we will not be willing here to accept such an orientation of the directive ", said the minister.