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Registration and welcome coffee
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| 09h00 : |
Emmanuel Cabau
- Policy Officer, Electricity & Gas, DG TREN
Jean-Michel Glachant
- Professor, Loyola de Palacio Chair of Energy and Regulation EUI, Florence
- "The new unbundling requirements; a clause-by-clause examination of the new requirements"
- Analysis of the text of the Third IEM Directive, clause-by-clause
- Applying the requirements in practice
- The difference between the ITO and ISO
- What this means for companies
- Derogations from the unbundling requirements
- How will national regulators police the non-discrimination requirements?. The new regulators powers in practice
- The possibility for regulators to fine TSOs for discriminatory behaviour. When will this be applied, what are the safeguards? What of overlap with action by the competition authorities?
- How will the new rules impact on distribution companies? How will regulators use their new powers?
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Comments and Q&A by:
Anne-Malorie Géron
- Head of Unit Markets, Eurelectric
Marc van der Woude
- Partner Stibbe, Brussels
Michael Gillis
- Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs, Distrigas
- Chairman of Legal Affairs Committee, Eurogas
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| 10h30 : |
Coffee break
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| 11h00 : |
Nadia Horstmann
- Bundesnetzagentur, BNetzA / ERGEG
- "The creation of an Energy Regulatory Agency; an opportunity for change"
- The objectives of the new Agency
- How will the Agency work in practice?
- The relationship between the Agency and national Energy Regulators: who acts when?
- The priorities for 2009-2010
- What should the agency endeavour to achieve by 2012?
- When will informal guidelines be turned into binding law?
- The new powers and independence requirements on national Energy Regulators: what will they change in practice?
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| 11h45 : |
Konstantin Staschus
- Secretary-General ENTSO-E
- "The new ENTSOE body; gradual evolution or the possibility of very fast change"
- The objectives of ENTSOE
- The structure and working of the new body
- The relationship with other transmission and distribution bodies
- Ensuring rapid results; anticipating the entry into force of the Directive and Regulation.
- The relation between the Agency and national Energy Regulators
- The priorities for 2009-2010
- How will ETSOE go about in preparing the mandatory 10-year rolling investment Plan?
- Will new rules be needed on information exchange?
- What are the priorities for developing the grid to meet the 20-20-20 objectives?
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| 12h30 : |
Lunch
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| 13h50 : |
Pierre Bernard
- Secretary-General, Elia System Operator
Cecilia Hellner
- Secretary-Genera ETSO
David Halldearn
- CEER
- "The architecture and practicalities of the new decision-making process, a clause-by-clause guide"
- Analysis of the text of the Third IEM Directive, clause-by-clause
- The role of national Regulators - how will the new Directive change this?
- The Agency, how will it function in reality?
- When will it be fully operational
- When will the Commission take the lead, when will it be the Agency, when ENTSOE and ENTSOG
- The role of the Director of the Agency
- The first tasks and priorities of the Agency: which decisions when?
- How will the Agency differ from the CEER and ERGEG?
- When will comitology be used, how will it work in practice?
- Which decisions can be taken by comitology
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| 15h20 : |
Coffee break
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| 15h50 : |
Mark van Stiphout
- Official responsible for the Internal Energy Market, European Commission
- "Derogations from the Directive"
- The new rules and how they can be expected to be applied in practice
- New infrastructure
- Case-by-case assessment of recent decisions on new infrastructure derogations
- Take-or-pay contracts
- Emerging regions and countries; will the existing approach change under the new rules?
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| 16h30 : |
Lars Kjolbye
- Partner, Howrey LLP Brussels
Marc van der Woude
- Partner Stibbe, Brussels
- "Will the Third Liberalisation Package change the way the Commission addresses Competition Policy in the sector?"
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