Elvestuen will interrupt the Storting’s summer vacation to urgently deal with the EU directive

– We don’t need to be a full Storting, but we should call in enough people so that we can urgently deal with a case about the EU’s renewables directive. We have to put up with that as parliamentary representatives, he adds The class struggle.

The reason why Elvestuen wants to cancel the summer holiday is that the European Commission has given a deadline of 13 August to adopt the directive, which is not practically possible since the Storting has taken a holiday.

The negotiations on the EU’s fourth energy market package, also called the Clean Energy package, have wavered back and forth for years, and in March the EU’s energy commissioner Kadri Simson sent a letter to the Norwegian government demanding that one of the directives in the package, the renewables directive, be adopted into the EEA agreement by 13 August this year. If not, Samson threatened countermeasures.

However, Elvestuen’s proposal is not heard by either the FRP, the Conservative Party, the Labor Party or the Center Party.

– No, I’ll stay on the mountain. It makes no sense to hastily convene the Storting to implement EU policy that we do not want, says energy policy spokesperson Aleksander Øren Heen in Sp.

Ingvild Kjerkol (Ap), who heads the energy committee in the Storting, sees no reason to urgently convene, Frps Terje Halleland says it is not relevant, and Høyre’s Mathilde Tybring-Gjedde agrees that it is urgent to adopt the directive, but says it is going well to continue with the summer holidays.

A high-ranking spokesperson in the European Commission has previously told NTB that they are so far satisfied with the dialogue with Norway, and calls it “constructive”.