Critical Assessment of Europe’s Energy Markets 2008

Description:

A Review of Central and Eastern Europe, Continental Trends and EU Legislation.

Financial Support: The project was sponsored by EU-DG Environment through the operational grant \"AGREE.NET\".

Partners: The report was written by Ada Ámon, Nathalie Francoeur, Antony Froggatt, Mark Johnston and Prof. Steve Thomas. Significant help was also provided by Lidija Zivcic (Focus environmental association). Country profiles were researched and written by: Za Zemiata (Bulgaria), DOOR (Croatia), Hnuti DUHA (Czech Republic), Energy Club (Hungary), Proaktiva (Macedonia), Institute for Sustainable Development (Poland), CEPA (Slovakia), FOCUS (Slovenia), Özgür Guzbuz (Turkey), Antony Froggatt (UK), Ecoclub (Ukraine).

Description: The liberalisation of Europe’s electricity market has been underway for more than a decade since the introduction of the first Electricity Market (1996) and Gas Market (1998) Directives. A revision of both sectors took place in 2002 leading to the introduction of new rules to boost fair competition across the EU. However, the investigation launched in 2005 by the European Commission recognised that there were a number of shortcomings in the market. The ‘next wave’ of energy liberalisation has been introduced by energy policy proposals put forward by the Commission in September 2007.

In the light of these developments our report aimed to provide a critical assessment of the market - with a special focus on the Central and East European region – and policy trends across continental Europe and disseminate our conclusions to decision makers at the national and EU levels.

The full report is available in liminted printed copies and in PDF format downloadable from www.agreenet.info/market/