Turkey’s transmission system operator Botas to increase cooperation with EU’s ENTSOG and Secretariat13 May 2015 The Energy Community Secretariat hosted today a meeting between the European Network of TSOs for gas (ENTSOG) and high level representatives of Turkish gas company Botas, which is responsible also for operating the Turkish transmission gas system.Both ENTSOG, represented by its General Manager Vittorio Musazzi, […]

Balkans 2020 RES Targets Source: Renewable Energy in the Energy Community Vienna, 27 28 April 2015 For more see the attachments:

On 12 May the Energy Community Secretariat submitted three Reasoned Requests to the attention of the Ministerial Council as the next step in the dispute settlement cases against Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. In the Reasoned Requests, the Secretariat seeks a decision from the Ministerial Council establishing that the Contracting Parties concerned failed to […]

On 8 May 2015, representatives of national state aid monitoring authorities of the Energy Community Contracting Parties as well as representatives of the non-governmental sector participated to a workshop on state aid in the energy sectors organised by the Secretariat. The aim of the workshop was to provide training to representatives of state aid monitoring authorities on how to conduct […]

In the wake of the conclusion of the fifth edition of The State of the Union, we would like to thank you for your interest in this event. Over 80 international speakers have attendend this year’s The State of the Union, opening the the Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre, commenting on the document “Towards a New Schuman Declaration”, analysing the […]

Mediterranean Energy Regulators are pleased to share with you their newly published Annual Report Dear Subscriber, In 2014 MEDREG succeeded in keeping our momentum as an active association of regional cooperation with a clear vision towards the future. We have completed and approved our Strategy for 2020-2030, which identifies five major targets: a sound regulatory institutional framework; optimal conditions for […]

Bulgaria and Greece have distinctive political backgrounds, the first having been a member of the former COMECON Communist economic bloc, while the latter was an EU member without a territorial link to the rest of the union. But they share Byzantine practices that have helped keep monopolies alive, and resist EU energy liberalisation rules. Both countries are also in a […]

TSOs of Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Montenegro have set up South-East Europe’s first Regional Security Cooperation Initiative (RSCI). ​On 21 April 2015 the General Managers of PE EMS (Belgrade) and NOS BiH (Sarajevo), Mr. Nikola Petrović and Mr. Josip Dolić respectively, and the President of the CGES’ (Podgorica) Board of Directors Mr. Dragan Laketić signed the contract for the Establishment […]