ENERGY POLICY PROPOSALS BY THE LITHUANIAN SEIMAS WERE INCORPORATED INTO COSAC FINAL DOCUMENTS
The Conference of Parliamentary Committees for Union Affairs (COSAC) agreed with the proposals on EU energy policy made by the Seimas Committee on European Affairs.
The Committee delegation proposed the COSAC to underscore, in its final document, the objective of the EU energy policy to create an integrated energy infrastructure and single energy market. During the debate, the Lithuanian proposal was supported by the delegations of the Committees on European Affairs of Latvia and Estonia and later received the approval of all the EU parliamentary delegations participating in the meeting.
In addition, during the consideration of the new legislative initiatives of the European Commission on the regulation of the EU’s internal market in public procurement, Lithuania’s representatives proposed giving more leverage to economic effectiveness rather than the lowest price criterion in the process of decision-making on public procurement. Experience has demonstrated that the lowest price criterion in public procurement fails to ensure the most rational and effective decisions.
On 22–24 April 2012, the delegation of the Seimas Committee on European Affairs under the leadership of Mr Česlovas Vytautas Stankevičius, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas, participated in the COSAC plenary session in Copenhagen (Kingdom of Denmark).
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