Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and other Events

The Energy Charter Secretariat held a seminar on 'Hydrocarbons Development and Transportation across Borders: Investment, Market Structure and Integration' in Damascus, Syria, on 19 June 2008. The seminar was organised in cooperation and with the financial support of the European Commission and the Euro-Arab Mashreq Gas Cooperation Centre, together with generous contributions from Shell and Total.

This conference, organised in close cooperation with the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) on 28 May 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland, was the first step in a dialogue between governments, industry and other stakeholders to accelerate progress with energy efficiency as the core of an effective response to climate change. It was also a strengthening of the cooperation between international organisations acting on energy efficiency.

The Task Force on Regional Electricity Cooperation, involving the representatives of the Central Asian and selected South Asian economies, met again in Dushanbe on 23 April 2008 to discuss the promotion of regional electricity trade and to share knowledge on sector reform and on the creation of national and regional electricity markets. The meeting was jointly organised by the Energy Charter Secretariat and the Ministry of Energy and Industry of Tajikistan. It followed a Special Workshop on...

16 April 2008 marked ten years since the Energy Charter Treaty came into full legal force. The Energy Charter Secretariat held a reception at Palais d'Egmont in Brussels to celebrate this anniversary, marking the Treaty's achievements over these years and it's readiness to embrace new challenges posed by international energy markets.

The enhancement of legally binding instruments is one of the key factors necessary for the development of greater multilateral cooperation in the Black Sea energy sector. This was one of the key messages arising out of the meeting of the Energy Ministers of the 12 member countries of the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) in Kiev, Ukraine, on 9 April 2008, in which the Energy Charter Secretariat participated at the invitation of the BSEC Secretariat and the Ukrainian...

The conditions under which oil and gas are traded and transported are crucial factors of security of energy supply and demand. The mechanism for price formation for energy and the setting of transit tariffs for oil and gas were the central themes addressed at a seminar jointly organised by the Energy Charter Secretariat, the Ministry of Industry and Energy of Azerbaijan and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), in Baku on 11-12 March 2008. The seminar was attended by over 70 government...

The Energy Charter Conference held its 18th Meeting on 7 December 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Energy Charter Secretariat has held a series of six workshops across the Energy Charter constituency in summer-autumn 2007 on the issue of international energy pricing. Following the release of a study by the Energy Charter in the spring of 2007, the results and findings have been subject to expert scrutiny by energy officials and analysts in Ankara, Moscow, Astana, Vienna, Minsk and Kiev.

Six countries from Central and South Asia have held the first meeting of a Task Force on Regional Electricity Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Kabul on 18 November 2007. The meeting was organised by the Energy Charter Secretariat and the Government of Afghanistan, with financial assistance from the Government of Norway.

With oil at close to $100/bbl, there is a greater need than ever for international dialogue on the challenges of a changing international market, and this was the topic for a Conference organised on 8 November 2007 in Vienna by the Energy Charter Secretariat, in cooperation with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour and the International Energy Agency (IEA). The Conference was opened by Martin Bartenstein, Austrian Federal Minister for Economics and Labour, by Amb. André Mernier,...