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On 29 April 2014 negotiations opened on updating 1991 Energy Charter – the political declaration underpinning the whole Energy Charter Process. The original Energy Charter signatories were joined in Brussels by representatives of a further thirty countries. The negotiations are another step in the ongoing modernisation of the organisation aimed at widening its geographic scope and strengthening its framework for cooperation. The meeting was held on the platform of the Energy Charter's Group on...

Cross-Border Trade and Investment Flows as the Backbone of International Energy Security

The highly successful first Moscow Energy Charter Forum took place on 3 April 2014. This event was organised by the Energy Charter Secretariat, Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and supported by the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Mr. Alexander Novak.

On 1 April 2014, the Energy Charter Industry Advisory Panel (IAP) held a meeting at the premises of the Secretariat in Brussels. The Secretary General Dr. Urban Rusnák informed the IAP members on the latest developments in the Energy Charter framework including activities of the Energy Security Contact Group, negotiations on the Updated Energy Charter and start of the regular five-year Review of the functions of the Energy Charter. The IAP welcomed the developments and agreed to participate in...

On 25-27 March 2014, three subsidiary groups of the Energy Charter Conference met to promote the organisation's ambitious agenda in a number of fields. The Strategy Group first gathered the signatories of the European Energy Charter to prepare negotiations with countries worldwide on an updated Energy Charter, as mandated by the Energy Charter Conference in Warsaw in November 2012.

Paris, 7 March 2014 – the Energy Charter Secretary General Dr. Rusnák gave today a welcome speech at the Conference to mark the 20-year anniversary of the signing of the Energy Charter Treaty. The conference was organised jointly by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC) and the Energy Charter Secretariat.

On 23-24 January 2014, the Energy Charter's Strategy Group gathered the signatories of the European Energy Charter of 1991 for negotiations on an updated version of this basic political declaration of the Energy Charter Process.

The Energy Charter Conference held its 24th Meeting on 5-6 December 2013. The Meeting took place in Nicosia, Cyprus, at the kind invitation and with valuable support of the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Cyprus. More than 140 high-level delegates from almost 90 countries attended this important event. The first day of the Meeting was dedicated to a Ministerial Session titled "15 Years of Energy Investment Promotion and Protection under the Energy Charter Treaty". The...

Executive Training Programme for Young Energy Leaders: Rising to the Energy Security Challenges of Tomorrow by Applying Effective Investment Protection Strategies Today

28-30 October 2013 - Energy Charter Secretariat, 56 Boulevard de la Woluwe, 1200 Brussels

On 23 October 2013 the Strategy Group of the Energy Charter reached agreement on three important projects aiming at strengthening the organisation's effectiveness and visibility. Most significantly, a draft Conference decision was agreed mandating the Strategy Group to start negotiations on an updated version of the European Energy Charter of 1991.

The Investment Group of the Energy Charter held a meeting on 22 October 2013. Delegates from seventeen Energy Charter member countries, the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the observer countries of Morocco and Montenegro and invited speakers attended the meeting.

A total of thirty-five participants representing twenty-eight countries attended the Observer and Outreach Countries Meeting, which was held at the Secretariat office in Brussels on 10 October 2013. The Secretariat introduced recent developments in the Energy Charter Process and its modernisation, including the updating of the Energy Charter so as to better reflect global energy dynamics.

The Energy Charter Secretariat and the Kazenergy Association together with the Delegation of the European Union to Kazakhstan organised a roundtable "Towards Sustainable Energy Cities" in Astana, Kazakhstan, on 8 October 2013. The roundtable took place within the framework of the DACO project (Yes (Da) to the Covenant of Mayors), which is financed by the European Commission and led by the Italian Province of Chieti.

The 9th meeting of the Task Force on Regional Energy Cooperation in Central and South Asia was organised by the Energy Charter Secretariat together with the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company KEGOC on 7 October 2013 in Astana. The meeting was attended by over thirty participants from Austria, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Regional organisations such as the CIS Power Council,...

On 2 October 2013 the Energy Charter Secretariat hosted the meeting of the Energy Charter Trade and Transit Group. Delegates from 21 member countries and the European Commission attended the meeting to discuss the latest developments in energy infrastructure and policies in the Energy Charter constituency.

The Energy Charter Working Group on Energy Efficiency held its regular meeting on 1 October 2013. Delegates from thirteen Charter member countries, the European Commission and the observer state of Montenegro attended the meeting. Delegates were given presentations on the in-depth energy efficiency reviews of Tajikistan and Ukraine, prepared earlier this year. It was agreed to forward to the Energy Charter Conference for adoption by written procedure the recommendations made to the governments...