Conferences, Seminars, Workshops and other Events

On 9 December 2005, the 16th Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference took place in Brussels, Belgium.

The global energy market faces new risks in an era of strong demand, tight capacity and high prices, and these risks - and the appropriate responses to them - were the subject of a major Conference organised in Brussels by the Energy Charter Secretariat in cooperation with the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Opening the Conference, the Energy Charter Secretary General Dr. Ria Kemper underlined that meeting future global energy requirements will require massive long-term investment in energy...

Following on from the successful Conference on Investment Arbitration and the Energy Charter Treaty, which took place in Stockholm in June 2005, the Energy Charter Secretariat organised a workshop on 20 October 2005 in Brussels for representatives of member and observer states on the dispute settlement mechanisms of the Energy Charter Treaty.

The Government of Belarus and the Energy Charter Secretariat held a workshop in Minsk on 22 June 2005 to examine the role of the Energy Charter Treaty.

Treaty-based investment arbitration is becoming increasingly important in international commerce; the vast majority of such investment cases were filed within the past three years, and the issues associated with investment arbitration are therefore of growing interest not only to governments but also to the business and legal communities. Within this overall picture, the Energy Charter Treaty occupies a singular position, providing a unique multilateral investment protection regime for the...

Ashgabat, 2-3 March 2005

Presentations and materials from the event can be found below.

On 14 December 2004, the 15th Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference took place in Brussels, Belgium.

This Expert Meeting, which was chaired by Mr Steivan Defilla, was a follow-up to previous discussions in the Group on Trade on the compatibility of various policies and measures that aim at promoting the use of renewable energy with the provisions of the trade rules of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The objective of the Expert Meeting held on 2 November 2004 in Brussels was to establish a policy dialogue between officials dealing with trade, energy and...

The Energy Charter's Transit Protocol is an important 'missing link' in the legal framework necessary to support an open and integrated Eurasian energy market. This was the conclusion of a Conference on 'Energy Transit in Eurasia: Challenges and Perspectives' held in Brussels on 19-20 October 2004.

The Conference brought together over 150 participants from governments, energy companies, financial institutions and international organisations, with the aim of discussing the role of transit in...

On 15 June 2004, the 14th Meeting of the Energy Charter Conference took place in Brussels, Belgium.