For det tredje resulterer ovenstående forhold i alvorlige forstyrrelser af funktionen af det indre marked, og konkurrencen hindres, så det heller ikke er muligt at sænke priserne til gavn for såvel energiproduktionssektorens konkurrenceevne som de europæiske virksomheder og forbrugerne. For det fjerde hindrer denne forsinkelse også markedernes grænseoverskridende funktion.
For example, Great Britain has fully liberalised, while France is doing exactly the opposite and the same applies, unfortunately, to my own country; three, as a result of the foregoing, there are serious disruptions in the working of the internal market, competition is being distorted and, consequently, prices are being squeezed at the expense of competitiveness both in the energy production sector and between European companies and in the consumer sector and, four, this delay is hampering cross-border transactions on these markets.