PRESS AND INFORMATION

The regular Energy Community news items stand for the key information product between the Secretariat and its stakeholders. This page, additionally, aims at providing key fact and figures on the activities and achievements of the Energy Community. There is a separate page listing the press releases issued by the European Commission.
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FACTS AND FIGURES  

KEY REPORTS

LEGAL FRAMEWORK

KEY NOTE SPEECHES 

 


 

FACTS AND FIGURES   

Energy Community

 Energy Community

Standard fact sheet about the Energy Community. Composed of one double-sided A4, the sheet sums up the aims, membership, structures and key policy areas of the organisation.
The version on-line dates from 20 Oct 2011.


 

Energy Community Regulatory Board

 Energy Community Regulatory Board

A complementary fact sheet on the Energy Community Regulatory Board, ECRB. Designed in a double sided flyer format, the sheet describes composition, tasks and activities of the ECRB.
The latest version is available on-line as of Feb 2010.

 

 

 


 

KEY REPORTS 

Annual Report of the Implementation of the Treaty

 Annual Report of the Implementation of the Treaty

On 6 October 2011, the Secretariat presented its annual implementation report covering the period of mid 2010 to mid 2011. The report takes stock of the implementation of the acquis in each sector covered by the Energy Community Treaty (electricity, gas, oil, renewable energy, energy efficiency, environment, competition and social issues), both at regional and national level.

For the report 2011 there now also is a 8 - page long executive summary available.

 

 

European Commission's Report on the Energy Community

European Commission's Report on the Energy Community

On Mar 2011, the European Commission published its first assessment report on the Energy Community after entry into force of the Treaty. The report “reviews the achievements of the Energy Community and also its main challenges for the future.”

 

 

 


 

LEGAL FRAMEWORK  

 

The publication consists of three parts. Whilst the Part I replicates the Treaty establishing the Energy Community, the Part II provides a complete list of the Energy Community acquis communautaire in force. The Part III displays a selection of the Energy Community secondary legislation.

The  publication has been compiled by the Secretariat for reference purposes only and is not authentic. This is the  second edition (285 pages), published on 1 Nov 2010.
 

 

 


KEY NOTE SPEECHES

The selected speeches were held by the leading figureheads of the process. The speeches date from the last five years and portrait well the development of the Energy Community process.  
 

Mr. Günther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Energy, delivered the key note speech at a conference, celebrating the 5th anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty establishing the Energy Community on 24 October 2011 in Vienna.


 

On 15 May 2009, Mrs. Dr. Meglena Kuneva, EU Commissioner for Consumer Affairs, gave a lecture at the Energy Community Secretariat. As for her, making energy markets work better for consumers will the the ultimate indicator of success for the Energy Community.


 

Mr. Slavtcho Neykov, Director of Energy Community Secretariat, adressed the Parliamentary Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria on 24-26 May 2007.  The Treaty establishing Energy Community is at the centre of the focus.


 

Mr. Erhard Busek, Special Co-ordinator for the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe, spoke about the modus operandi of Energy Community at the Energy Investment Round Table in Munich, Germany on 8 May 2006. 


 

Mr. Andris Piebalgs, Member of the EC in charge of Energy, gave an opening speech on the occassion of signing the Treaty establishing Energy Community in Athens, Greece on 25 October 2005.


 


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