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The Athens Process
Secretariat
What we do
The Athens Process Secretariat supported the implementation of the November 2002 Athens Memorandum of Understanding. The aim is to create a Regional Energy Market (Electricity and Gas) in the signatory countries of this Memorandum: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, fYR Macedonia, Greece, Italy, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Turkey and UNMIK-Kosovo, with Austria, Hungary, Moldova and Slovenia as observers.
The Secretariat had the following tasks:
- Assisting the European Commission with the organisation of the
Athens Process meetings (Ministerials, PHLG, Athens Forum)
- Developing this website and materials on it into an electronic library, together with the
joint European Commission / World Bank office for South East Europe
- Providing a focus for information sharing between countries and officials about progress in the creation of the regional energy market in South East
Europe
- Development of national and
regional policy discussions
- Oversight of obligations under
the MoU (benchmarking).
South
East Europe Energy News Updates
Overview
of Energy Developments in South East European Countries (14
pages, pdf, 180 KB),
October 2003
The work of the Athens Process
Secretariat has been taken over by the
interim Energy Community
Secretariat (iECS). |
