management on borders between the Member States and the Contracting Parties, they are invited to closely cooperate when preventing, preparing for and handling a gas crisis. Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas (60) supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to the Union. The Commission should be entitled to deploy a task force to monitor gas flows into the Union in crisis situations, after consulting the third countries involved, and, where a crisis arises from Member States and difficulties in a third country, to act as mediator and facilitator. The Commission should report regularly to the GCG. Where there is reliable information on a situation outside the Union that threatens the (61) security of supply of one or several Member States and that may trigger an early warning mechanism involving the Union and a third country, the Commission should inform the without delay and the Union should take appropriate action to try to GCG defuse the situation. the objective of this Regulation, namely to guarantee a secure gas supply (62) Since within the Union, cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States acting on their better achieved at Union own, but can rather, by reason of its scale and effects, be level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the as principle of proportionality set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve that objective. allow for a swift Union response to changing circumstances (63) In to with regard to security of gas supply, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 the should be delegated to the Commission in respect of TFEU the composition of the ▌ templates for risk assessment and risk groups as well as the for the preventive action plans. It is particular importance that the Commission carry out and emergency of appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the
management on borders between the Member States and the Contracting Parties, they are invited to closely cooperate when preventing, preparing for and handling a gas crisis. (60) Since gas supplies from third countries are central to the security of the Union gas supply, the Commission should coordinate action with regard to third countries, work with supplying and transit countries on arrangements to handle crisis situations and ensure a stable gas flow to the Union. The Commission should be entitled to deploy a task force to monitor gas flows into the Union in crisis situations, after consulting Member States and the third countries involved, and, where a crisis arises from difficulties in a third country, to act as mediator and facilitator. The Commission should report regularly to the GCG. (61) Where there is reliable information on a situation outside the Union that threatens the security of supply of one or several Member States and that may trigger an early warning mechanism involving the Union and a third country, the Commission should inform the GCG without delay and the Union should take appropriate action to try to defuse the situation. (62) Since the objective of this Regulation, namely to guarantee a secure gas supply within the Union, cannot be sufficiently achieved by Member States acting on their own, but can rather, by reason of its scale and effects, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality set out in that Article, this Regulation does not go beyond what is necessary to achieve that objective. (63) In to allow for a swift Union response to changing circumstances with regard to the security of gas supply, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission in respect of ▌ the composition of the risk groups as well as templates for the risk assessment and for the preventive action and emergency plans. It is of particular importance that the Commission carry out appropriate consultations during its preparatory work, including at expert level, and that those consultations be conducted in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making. In particular, to ensure equal participation in the preparation of delegated acts, the