Albania Host the Higher Level of Energy Meeting for 2015

13th Ministerial Council Meeting, Hotel Sheraton Tirana, Albania, Friday, 16 October 2015

Dr Lorenc Gordani | Saturday, August 15, 2015

On 16 October 2015, due to actual role of holder of the Energy Community Presidency for the 2015, the 13th Ministerial Council Meeting will be take place in Tirana, Albania. The here ministerial follow the summit to be held in Vienna this August, seeing as a crucial, a fully alignment with EU energy legislation (namely EU Third Energy Package) and bring back healthy competition against corruptive practices, in order to encourage foreign private investment in power generation, cross-border interconnectors, and more significant use of renewable energy and efficiency measure.

Indeed the Ministerial Council (MC) is the highest decision making body of the Energy Community and it convenes with regularity once a year.  The key task of the Ministerial Council is to ensure that the objectives set out in the Treaty establishing the Energy Community are attained. According to the Treaty, the ministers: provide general policy guidelines; take Measures; and adopt Procedural Acts.

In concrete terms, the ministers can, inter alia, decide to extend the acquis, adapt the existing acquis or establish a new institution or working group. It is also the Ministerial Council that decides on the accession to the Energy Community, be it for Observer or Contracting Party status. The Council also approves the Secretariat's budget and work programme. The Treaty also defines the reporting obligations of the Ministerial Council. In more, once a year, the Ministerial Council submits a report on the activities of the EnC to the EP and to the Parliaments of the CP and the Participants.

In following of the deep reform overtake by the EnC and in the central role that the WBs have in the new strategy of the Union of Energy this year see the address of an opening speech by Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete. Presentation that it will proceed with the session on Energy Community for the Future seeing the deliver of the General Policy Guideline "Roadmap on Reform of Energy Community". In following it will proceed with Decision D/2015/01/MC-EnC on the implementation of the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU), Decision D/2015/02/MC-EnC on the implementation of Regulation 347/2013, and General Policy Guideline "Future Joint Act on Security of Supply".

As usual the annual meeting see the delivery of report about the implementation of the Treaty. This year one of the dispute settlement report focus the Decision on Sanctions on Bosnia and Herzegovina under Art. 92.1 of the Treaty. In the regard of regional market integration initiatives, the work will focus also to the WBs 6 Summit on the Market Coupling project of Ukraine and Moldova CESEC. The activity is also the occasion of the appointment of the Director of the Energy Community Secretariat Mr Janez Kopač.

And in last the Ministerial Conclusions: with the Handover of the Albanian Presidency, the Annual Report on the Activities of the Energy Community (ECS). Decision on the implementation of Commission Regulation (EU) No 431/2014 of 24 April 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on energy statistics, as regards the implementation of annual statistics on energy consumption in households.

Other work that are attening for an  adoption such is the Decision on the failure of the Republic of Albania to comply with the Energy Community Treaty in Case ECS-3/14, on the failure of the Bosnia and Herzegovina to comply with the Energy Community Treaty in Case ECS-4/14, and on the failure of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to comply with the Energy. Decision on setting an implementation deadline for existing plants with regard to Chapter III and part I of Annex V of Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions. Decision on amending Decision D/2013/05/MC-EnC of 24 October 2013 on the implementation of Directive 2001/80/EC.

In last but not least the appointment of the Members of the Advisory Committee 2016-2017. The Procedural Act on amending Annex 26, for adoption of the Procedural Act on strengthening the role of civil society. The adoption of the Procedural Act on the Rules of Procedure for Dispute Settlement under the Treaty and the establishment of an Energy Community Parliamentary Plenum meetings.

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