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9.12.2011 | 10:55
Gaggið í Evrópu-hænunum heyrist langar leiðir
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8.12.2011 | 21:32
Orkulindir Íslands undir stjórn Evrópusambandsins ?
Ritað 07. nóvember 2011. Friðrik Daníelsson Breytingar sem gerðar hafa verið á íslendska orkugeiranum vegna aðildar Íslands að Evrópska efnahagssvæðinu (EES) fela m.a. í sér að skilin hafa verið að framleiðsla og dreifing orku. Það hefur orðið til þess að stofna hefur þurft ný fyrirtæki sem eru milliliðir milli orkuframleiðandans og orkukaupandans. Það hefur valdið hærra raforkuverði til neytenda. Íslendska orkukerfið er lítið bæði að framleiðslugetu og landdreifingu og hagkvæmast að hafa framleiðslu og dreifingu undir sömu stjórn. Notendasvæði fyrirtækjanna eru að miklu leyti bundin við nágreni virkjana þeirra. Það er gamalt og gróið fyrirkomulag í íslendskum orkubúskap og hefur gefist svo vel að fyrir daga EES var íslendska orkukerfið eitt það hagkvæmasta í heimi. Umhverfislöggjöf EES hefur reynst mjög kostnaðarsöm og flókin, margir aðilar sem fá aðkomu að verkefnunum og hefur það bæði tafið uppbyggingu og fælt fjárfesta frá. Vegna EES-samningsins hafa núverandi stjórnvöld einnig ákveðið að setja orkufrekan iðnað hérlendis undir kerfi ESB fyrir losun koltvísýrings. Það mun valda skertri samkeppnisstöðu miðað við nálægustu samkeppnislöndin, sérstaklega Norður-Ameríku.Fyrirsjánlegar afleiðingar fyrir löndin í Evrópusambandinu. Miðstýringarvald ESB hefur með nýju stjórnarskránni fengið heimildir til að stjórna mikilvægum málum orkuframleiðslu og dreifingar, þar á meðal til að þvinga aðildarlönd sem hafa næga orkuframleiðslu til þess að afhenda orku til þeirra landa sem vantar orku. Vald það sem ESB hefur nú yfir orkugeiranum, reyndar líka að hluta hér gegnum EES-samninginn, hefur verið að talsverðu leiti í gegnum tilskipanir um umhverfismál og samkeppnismál, en innifelur nú einnig úrslitavald um hvar orkan verður nýtt og á hvaða forsendum. Aðildarlönd munu því eiga erfiðara með að standa vörð um eigin framleiðslu orku til heimanota. Samtenging dreifikerfanna og samkeppnis regluverkið þýða að staðbundinn orkuframleiðandi mun framleiða inn á samtengt orkunet. Hann fær betra verð fyrir orkuna til stórborga í sambandinu en til iðnfyrirtækja í sínu nágrenni. Stefna ESB er að öll orkufyrirtæki í opinberri eigu verði sett á hlutabréfamarkað og þannig komast þau með tímanum í eigu þeirra sem aðeins hafa gróða að markmiði. Þar með hækkar orkuverðið og aukast líkur á að enn meiri flótti bresti í iðnað ESB en mörg iðnfyrirtæki hafa flutt til annarra landa. Þetta mun veikja stöðu orkuvera í þeim aðildarlöndum sem hafa aðstöðu til aukinnar orkuframleiðslu. Nú eiga þau á hættu að orkuframleiðsla sem byggð var upp fyrir eigin iðnað og til almannanota verði nýtt annarsstaðar í sambandinu.Afleiðingarnar fyrir Ísland ef landið gengur í ESB. Af þeim 50 TWst raforku sem talið hefur verið að Ísland gæti í framtíðinni gefið af sér árlega er þegar búið að virkja um 1/3, það besta og hagkvæmasta. Sæstrengur mundi þurfa obbann af orkunni sem eftir er til að bera sig, jafnvel þó mun hærra orkuverð fáist í ESB. Íslenskur iðnaður , t.d. ál, járnblendi eða lýsi og mjöl, mun ekki standa undir því orkuverði og draga saman seglin. Þar með yrði innlend atvinnustarfsemi, sem byggir á aðgengi að hagkvæmri orku, úr sögunni og hrörna smám saman eða hverfa. Ef gas- og olíulindir finnast fyrir Norðurlandi munu þær lenda undir sameiginlega yfirstjórn ESB. Leyfisveitingakerfi ESB mun ná yfir þær og mikilvægar ákvarðarnir um nýtingu og uppbyggingu yrðu teknar af ESB. Fjárfestar og samstarfsaðilar Íslendinga um uppbyggingu orkufreks iðnaðar vita að bæði íslendska hagkerfið sem og efnahagslegur sjálfsákvörðunarréttur Íslands byggist á einkaafnotarétti og fullu forræði þjóðarinnar á orkufyrirtækjunum og auðlindunum. Fjárfestarnir hafa hingað til getað samið beint við Íslendinga um orkuna enda öll orkufyrirtækin í almannaeigu lengst af. Aðildarviðræður við ESB eru túlkaðar sem uppgjöf þeirrar stefnu að íslendska ríkið og almannafyrirtæki hafi óskoraðan yfirráðarétt yfir auðlindunum og sem yfirlýsing um að Ísland ætli að gefa frá sé yfirstjórn orkulinda til erlends yfirvalds. Sama er að segja um inngönguna í koltvísýringslosunarkerfi ESB. Þetta þýðir að sumir erlendir samstarfsaðilar, sem flestir koma frá Vesturheimi og öðrum heimsálfum en ESB-löndin, munu bíða með fjárfestingar í orkufrekum iðnaði hérlendis meðan ekki er vitað hvort ESB mun taka við stjórn orkumála hérlendis. Þungt skrifræði og kvaðir ESB á iðnað almennt munu hafa slæm áhrif á nýfjárfestingar í landinu. Orkufrekur iðnaður hefur rýrnað í ESB um langt skeið, bæði vegna kvaða og reglugerða auk hás orkuverðs og kraumandi orkukreppu. Umhverfisreglur ESB eru hamlandi, kostnaðarsamar og óskilvirkar, ýta undir spillingu og svik, eins og kvótakerfið með losunarheimildir fyrir koltvísýring innan ESB hefur sýnt. Vegna EES-samningsins hafa núverandi stjórnvöld einnig ákveðið að setja orkufrekan iðnað hérlendis undir kerfi ESB fyrir losun koltvísýrings. Það mun valda skertri samkeppnisstöðu miðað við nálægustu samkeppnislöndin, sérstaklega Norður-Ameríku.
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7.12.2011 | 21:55
Evrópusambandið stendur ekki við gerða samninga
Y F I R L Ý S I N G ! Evrópusambandið stendur ekki við gerða samninga
Yfirlýsing gerð á Sjálfstæðisdeginum 01. desember 2011.
Félagar í Samstöðu þjóðar Pétur Valdimarsson Borghildur Maack Loftur Altice Þorsteinsson _____________________________________________________________________ |
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5.12.2011 | 14:11
Samstaða þjóðar: Ályktun Alþingis gegn Icesave-kröfum nýlenduveldanna
Samstaða þjóðar gegn Icesave Við lýsum yfir ánægju með skýra og skorinorða andstöðu Alþingis gegn Icesave-kröfum Bretlands og Hollands.
efnahags-hernað gegn Íslandi og brotum á samningnum um Evrópska efnahagssvæðið (EES).
Nýlenduveldin hafa brotið á meginstoðum EES, hvað varðar "frjálst flæði fjármagns" og "frelsi til þjónustustarfsemi".
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4.12.2011 | 11:09
Myndbönd og PowerPoint sýningar
Nigel Farage fjallar um mútur Evrópusambandsins 30. nóvember 2011
Smelltu á myndina Gagnsókn gegn nýlenduveldunum. Viðtal á Stöð 2 - 03. júlí 2011
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Smelltu á myndina Bara kostir við að segja nei við Icesave. Viðtal á Stöð 2 - 03. apríl 2011
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sem varða baráttumál Samstöðu þjóðar.
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3.12.2011 | 11:32
Skaðlegar hugmyndir um skipan bankamála eftir hrunið
Fyrst birt í Morgunblaðinu 09. nóvember 2011.
með ríkistryggðu innistæðu-tryggingakerfi og seðlabankar mega ekki vera lánveitendur til þrautavara. |
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2.12.2011 | 00:19
Schengen-aðild Íslands var misráðin
Fyrst birt í Morgunblaðinu 26. apríl 2011. Hjörleifur Guttormsson Tíu ár eru liðin frá því Schengen-samningurinn um afnám persónueftirlits á sameiginlegum landamærum Evrópusambandsins, Íslands og Noregs öðlaðist gildi. Ekki hafa íslensk stjórnvöld minnst þessara tímamóta svo ég hafi tekið eftir, þó ekki væri nema með því að meta reynsluna af þessum viðamikla og kostnaðarsama samningi. Það er frekar að hans sé nú getið vegna atburða á meginlandinu í kjölfar vaxandi straums flóttamanna frá Norður-Afríku og deilna milli Schengen-ríkja um hvernig við skuli brugðist. Hér verða rifjuð upp nokkur atriði um Schengen um leið og skorað er á íslensk stjórnvöld að gera hið fyrsta rækilega úttekt á reynslunni af aðild Íslands að samningnum. Fimm ára þóf 1995 - 1999 Falsrök notuð sem tálbeita Glæpagengi hafa frjálsa för Fíkniefnaeftirlit erfiðara en áður Endurmeta ætti afstöðuna til Schengen
þeirri kvöð að hafa meðferðis vegabréf í ferðum til meginlands Evrópu.
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27.11.2011 | 11:57
Evrópska efnahagssvæðið er helfjötur Íslands
Fyrst birt í Morgunblaðinu 06. september 2011. Sanngjörn krafa um að Ísland verði fyrir Íslendinga Burt með ógildan EES-samning
en það verður ekki gert með Samfylkinguna á ríkisjötunni.
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20.11.2011 | 15:21
Kærur til Evrópusambandsins vegna efnahagsárása Bretlands og Hollands gegn Íslendingum
Commission of the European Union 2. The EU Commission does not have authority to make judgement in the name of the European Court of Justice. Only the Court itself can decide if there can be found any settled cases which resemble the unprecedented situation of Iceland. This fact makes it necessary that the Court processes our complaint. The European Court of Justice has repeatedly expressed its dismay with untimely case rejections of the Commission. 3. Article 232 of the EU Treaty states: »Any natural or legal person may, under the conditions laid down in the preceding paragraphs, complain to the Court of Justice that an institution of the Community has failed to address to that person any act other than a recommendation or an opinion.« Accordingly, if the Commission fails to address our complaint, we will take our cases direct to the European Court of Justice. 4. In its letter of 27.07.2011, the Commission states the finding that our »complaint does not show any infringement of EU law by the British or Dutch authorities and will therefore not lead to opening infringement proceedings«. This surprising conclusion seems to be partly based on a General Principle of the European Court of Justice. This General Principle can be stated thus: »the existence of an infringement must be determined by reference to the situation prevailing in the Member State at the end of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion«. 5. The Commission fails to mention that on several occasions the European Court of Justice has expressed Exceptions from the General Principle. These Exceptions specify that an infringement case is admissible and indeed desirable, independent of the situation prevailing in the Member State at the end of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion, provided that one out of three conditions is fulfilled: a) The affected Community rules can be considered very important. b) Liability claims against the Member State can arise from the breach. c) The ECJ ruling can serve as a preventive measure of repeated occurrence. 6. In the three cases where Britain and the Netherland infringed the jurisdiction of Iceland and breached the EEA agreement these conditions were clearly met. Not only was one of the conditions met but all three of them. Therefore it is in the interest of the future of European Union that the European Court of Justice finds our cases admissible and reaches a factual verdict. The Commission should not shy away from preparing the cases and bringing them to ruling of the Court. Cross-border banking within the European Economic Area. 7. In cross-border banking within the European Economic Area, reorganisation and winding up of branches of credit institutions is under the jurisdiction of the home Member State. This is firmly established in Directive 2001/24/EC. Accordingly, reorganisation and winding up of Landsbanki branches in Britain and the Netherlands belonged to the jurisdiction of Iceland and not the host Member State jurisdiction. Directive 2001/24/EC states: Article 3. Adoption of reorganisation measures - applicable law. 1. The administrative or judicial authorities of the home Member State shall alone be empowered to decide on the implementation of one or more reorganisation measures in a credit institution, including branches established in other Member States. 2. The reorganisation measures shall be applied in accordance with the laws, regulations and procedures applicable in the home Member State, unless otherwise provided in this Directive. Article 9. Opening of winding-up proceedings - Information to be communicated to other competent authorities. 1. The administrative or judicial authorities of the home Member State which are responsible for winding up shall alone be empowered to decide on the opening of winding-up proceedings concerning a credit institution, including branches established in other Member States. A decision to open winding-up proceedings taken by the administrative or judicial authority of the home Member State shall be recognised, without further formality, within the territory of all other Member States and shall be effective there when the decision is effective in the Member State in which the proceedings are opened. Article 10. Law applicable. 1. A credit institution shall be wound up in accordance with the laws, regulations and procedures applicable in its home Member State insofar as this Directive does not provide otherwise. 8. An infringement of EU law by authorities of Britain and the Netherlands is therefore obvious, since the jurisdiction of Iceland was breached by these states. We present three separate cases where the jurisdiction of Iceland was breached and consequently an infringement was done against EU law. The FSA Supervisory Notices of October 2008. 9. On October 3rd, 6th and 10th of the year 2008, the Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) in Britain issued Supervisory Notices (SN) which effectively put the London branch of Landsbanki into default administration. These Supervisory Notices infringed the jurisdiction of Iceland and were thus illegitimate. They thereby constituted a breach of existing rules of the treaty governing the European Economic Area. 10. On 20th July 2010 the FSA rescinded the Supervisory Notices from October 3rd and 6th but that of 10th October is still in force at this date. Therefore, the General Principle »the existence of an infringement must be determined by reference to the situation prevailing in the Member State at the end of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion« does certainly not apply in this case. The breach by Britain of the jurisdiction of Iceland is still in existence and has not been amended. The HM Treasury freezing orders of October 2008 against Iceland. 11. On October 8th and 20th of the year 2008, HM Treasury of Britain infringed the jurisdiction of Iceland, by issuing Orders called The Landsbanki Freezing Orders (S.I.2008/2668 and S.I.2008/2766) The freezing orders were directed towards: (a) Landsbanki Íslands, (b) Landsbanki Receivership Committee, (c) Central Bank of Iceland, (d) Icelandic Financial Services Authority, (e) Government of Iceland. The freezing orders were of such enormity that they were directed against the whole Icelandic state and thus the entire Icelandic people. 12. The Freezing orders were based on the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, which is a law established in wake of the terror attacks on 11th September 2001 (9/11 attacks) against the United States of America. This law is explicitly intended to combat crimes of major proportions against the United Kingdom and specifically to meet the threat of terrorism. A dispute of commercial nature with a single bank does certainly not constitute a threat to be fought off by the use of anti-terrorism legislature. The Freezing Orders were in force until 15th June 2009, or in more than 8 months. 13.The United Nations General Assembly has since 1994 used following political description of terrorism: »Criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or any other nature that may be invoked to justify them.« This description of terrorism hardly fits any of the institutions hit by the wrath of HM Treasury. 14. Reference is made to the European Council’s Framework Decision of 13th June 2002 on combating terrorism (3), which defines terrorism as described in following points: (a) attacks upon a person's life which may cause death; (b) attacks upon the physical integrity of a person; (c) kidnapping or hostage taking; (d) causing extensive destruction to a Government or public facility, a transport system, an infrastructure facility, including an information system, a fixed platform located on the continental shelf, a public place or private property likely to endanger human life or result in major economic loss; (e) seizure of aircraft, ships or other means of public or goods transport; (f) manufacture, possession, acquisition, transport, supply or use of weapons, explosives or of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, as well as research into, and development of, biological and chemical weapons; (g) release of dangerous substances, or causing fires, floods or explosions the effect of which is to endanger human life; (h) interfering with or disrupting the supply of water, power or any other fundamental natural resource the effect of which is to endanger human life; (i) threatening to commit any of the acts listed in (a) to (h). 15. One must stretch the imagination very far in order to reconcile the HM Treasury’s view of terrorism with any accepted definitions. Indeed, we maintain that Britain’s decision to brand the Icelandic institutions as seats of terrorism is pure fabrication. It is clearly a violation of internationally accepted human rights and comes nowhere close to internationally accepted definitions of terrorism. The application of Anti-terrorism law by one state of the European Economic Area against another state of EEA, can not be ignored but must be thoroughly investigated by the European Court of Justice. Netherlands’ infringement of the jurisdiction of Iceland. 16. On 13th October 2008 the Amsterdam District Court (Rechtbank Amsterdam) declared emergency regulations applicable to the Dutch branch of Landsbanki. This was done at the request of the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank) and the ruling was based on Dutch law. The court appointed administrators to handle the affairs of the branch, including all assets and dealings with customers. These rulings infringed the jurisdiction of Iceland and were thus a breach of Directive 2001/24/EC. 17. The illegal administrative proceedings of the Amsterdam Court continued for 18 months, or from October 13th 2008 until 13th March 2010 when the Amsterdam District Court finally decided to lift the emergency application. It took the court this long to discover that the banking license of Landsbanki had not been revoked and that the basis for its ruling was non-existent. It is still to be determined if the ruling was caused by incompetence or deliberate infringement of the jurisdiction of Iceland. Concluding remarks. 18. We have shown that Britain and the Netherlands infringed the jurisdiction of Iceland and thus dishonoured Directive 2001/24/EC. These states breached the EEA principles of “free movement of capital” and “the freedom to provide services”. The breach by Britain of the jurisdiction of Iceland is still in existence and has not been amended. 19. We furthermore maintain that the Netherlands took part with Britain in a conspiracy to deny Iceland access to international financial markets. It is documented that these states have used their access to the International Monetary Fund and the European Investment Bank to illegally deny Iceland financial loans and economic advice. These actions are additional breaches of the EEA principles. 20. We have pointed out that the European Court of Justice is not only concerned with implementation of EU regulations, but is also occupied with basic principles which manifest themselves in following three situations:  The affected Community rules can be considered very important.  Liability claims against the Member State can arise from the breach.  The ECJ ruling can serve as a preventive measure of repeated occurrence. 21. The use by Britain of a law called the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, against interests of all citizens of Iceland must be investigated by a competent court of law. The European Court of Justice will surely appreciate the opportunity to rule on the legality of such a grievous act by a member state of the European Union. 22. This letter is an addition to our earlier complaint to the Commission, dated 25 June 2011. As stated in our previous letter, we offer our full cooperation with the Commission in order to bring this matter to a satisfactory conclusion. We stress the importance of our complaint to all the citizens of Europe. Citizens of Iceland. Sincerely. Loftur Altice Þorsteinsson Pétur Valdimarsson Laugarásvegur 4 Lækjarhvammur 20 104 Reykjavík 220 Hafnarfjörður Iceland Iceland _____________________________________________________________________ Skrásett heimilisfang: Laugarásvegur 4, 104 Reykjavík - Netföng: hlutverk@simnet.is / thrastalundur@simnet.is |
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate General Internal Market and Services FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS Financial Stability Brussels, 27/07/2011 MARKT H4/SS/cr Ares (2011) Mr. Loftur Altice Þorsteinsson Mr. Petur Valdimarsson Laugarásvegur 4 104 REYKJAVIK Iceland E-mail: hlutverk@simnet.is Subject: Complaint Nr. CHAP(2011) 2011 related to alleged breaches of the EEA Agreement by the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Dear Sirs, I refer to your complaint Nr. CHAP(2011)2011 concerning alleged breaches of the EEA Agreement by the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. We have carefully examined the information provided in your letter of 25 June 2011. Our analysis of your complaint based on the relevant EEA and EU law provisions, is the following. The Landsbanki Freezing Order 2008 of the UK Treasury was revoked by Statutory Instrument 2009 N. 1392 of 10th June 2009. Since the contested order has been repealed, any potential incompatibility of its provisions with EEA or EU law has been eliminated. As a consequence, the Commission cannot conduct any legal proceedings against the UK authorities in relation to this Order. It's important to recall that according to settled case- law of the Court of Justice, the Commission, in exercising its powers of monitoring compliance with EU law, has the function, in the general interest of the Union, of ensuring that the Member States give effect to the Treaty and the provisions adopted by the institutions and of obtaining a declaration, of any failure to fulfil the obligations deriving therefrom with a view to bringing it to an end. The Court has thus clarified that the existence of an infringement must be determined by reference to the situation prevailing in the Member State at the end of the period laid down in the reasoned opinion (see, inter alia judgements of 27 October 2005, Commission/Italy, C-525/03, ECR 1-9405, point 14, and of 6 December 2007, Commission/Germany, C-456/05, ECR 1-10517, point 15). It is therefore outside the Commission's remit to verify a situation that does no longer exist. As regards the ruling of the Amsterdam District Court referred by you, we would point out that according to settled-case law, it is for the domestic legal system of each Member State to designate the courts and tribunals having jurisdiction and to lay down the detailed procedural rules governing actions for safeguarding rights which individuals derive from EU law, provided, first, that such rules are not less favourable than those governing similar domestic actions (principle of equivalence) and, secondly, that they do not render virtually impossible or excessively difficult the exercise of rights conferred by Community law (principle of effectiveness) (see case C 129/00 Commission /Italy, ECR 1-14637, point 25). The information provide by you do not show any violation of these principles in connection with the ruling of the Amsterdam Court quoted by you. In view of the above, we regret to inform you that the examination of your complaint does not show any infringement of EU law by the British or Dutch authorities and will therefore not lead to opening infringement proceedings. Should you have further elements that might show the existence of an infringement, we would ask you to provide us with these elements within two months of the receipt of the present letter. In the absence of such elements, your complaint will be closed within this deadline. Yours sincerely, Silvia SCATIZZI ______________________________________________________________________ |
_____________________________________________________________________ Skrásett heimilisfang: Laugarásvegur 4, 104 Reykjavík - Netföng: hlutverk@simnet.is / thrastalundur@simnet.is |
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