Expectation and Opportunities of 13th Ministerial Council Meeting of Tirana

Part of Report: Energy Market Liberalisation and Regional Integration

Dr Lorenc Gordani | Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

The transformation of the today energies market highlights need after making the market to make the consumer. The question only in appearance simple pass through the activation of the role of civil society and the involvement of the CSO in the formal channels of representation. Nevertheless the above complexity, going here by order, it would like to start by recalling the importance of a very special institutional moment that we are facing.

Without going very deeply into the details of legislative agenda, it is the place to start by mention the 13th Ministerial Council Meeting to be held in Tirana, on 16th October 2015, will see the address of an opening speech by Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete. The here ministerial follow the summit held in Vienna, seen as a crucial a fully alignment with EU energy legislation (namely EU Third Energy Package) and bring back healthy competition in order to encourage foreign private investment in power generation, cross-border interconnectors, as well as the enabling more significant use of renewable energy and efficiency measure.

In regard the legally framework, the Ministerial Council (MC) decision prepared by the 38th Permanent High Level Group (PHLG), kept in Vienna, 22 September 2015, has already approved the Decision on the implementation of the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU) although the overall timeframe of 2020 remains a challenge, especially financial. Other work that are attending for an adoption is the Decision regard comply with the Energy Community Treaty on the Renewable Energy. And Decision on setting an implementation deadline for existing plants regard the Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions.

In regard the institutional framework, the all see the adoption of the Procedural Act on the establishment of Energy Community Parliamentary Plenum meetings (already endorsed by 38th PHLG). Accompanied for equivalence with the involvement of the CSO by the Secretariat draft presented on Procedural Act (endorsed without amendments) on strengthening the role of civil society, which in the context of the EnC suffers from a lack of formal representation. The all completed by the Procedural Act on the Rules of Procedure for Dispute Settlement under way. The ECS presented a draft reviewed based on the original Procedural Act, taking into account the experience gained, as key for addressing the problem of strengthening the enforcement system and consequently better implementation of the Treaty agreed on a number of amendments.

The here above framework described not because we are or have to politicising everything. It is brought because the immense chance the Europe is currently offering, leave us no choice but to address them from a very political perspective, in a very political manner and having the political consequences of our decisions. Some still are reluctant and indeed, there is no silver bullet to tackle the change.  However, the time is not for business as usual. Instead, it is time for honesty with our ambition, because the integration in European Union is a public good that we all share.

In the here conclusion, there are many things I could mention and it still could not be include everything. There is much more to be said but among all for me, there is one thing that becomes clear: our best prospective to succeed as a country and the region in whole is only following the effort to be part of the European Union. We do not have to lose this chance! Then, we have to change our way of working and have to start faster working with more European method.

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