CONFERENCE PROGRAMME


08h45 : Registration and welcome coffee

09h30 : Matthias Ruete
Director-General, DG Energy & Transport, European Commission
  • Perspectives following the Energy Council
  • The remaining obstacles to a final agreement
  • Will a regional market approach meet the Commission's objectives?
  • The foreign investor clause: how will it work in practice?

10h15 : Johannes Kindler
Vice Chairman ERGEG
  • Will the proposal following the Energy Council and the Parliament's first reading result in effective regulation at national and European level?
  • Are the powers and level of independence sufficient to guarantee equivalent levels of quality regulation in all Member States?
  • The Agency, what additional provisions are necessary?
  • How will - or should - the division of powers between the national regulators, the Agency and the transmission system operators organisation work in practice?
  • Priorities for the regulators in the coming months to improve the functioning of European energy markets

11h00 : Coffee break

11h40 : Jean-Michel Glachant
Head of Economics Department, University Paris XI
Emmanuel Cabau
Policy Officer, Electricity & Gas, DG TREN

  • A detailed explanation of exactly what has been agreed on the Energy Council from Friday 6 June
  • An academical point of view on the Energy Council agreements

12h20 : Domenico Dispenza
COO ENI
President Eurogas

"The point of view of the gas companies"

13h00 : Lunch

14h30 : Jacques Laurelut
President GTE

"The role of the Gas TSO's in the Third Liberalisation Package"

15h00 : Philip Lowe
Director-General, DG Competition, European Commission
  • Obstacles holding back effective competition in the Energy sector
  • Remedies through the Third liberalization package
  • EC Competition law enforcement in the energy markets

15h45 : Coffee break

16h30 : Claude Turmes
Member of European Parliament for the Greens
  • The Parliament's opinion in its first reading
  • How will the Parliament react to the conclusions of the Energy Council?
  • Second reading agreement: the difficult remaining issues

17h00 : Round Table Discussion

"Will the third package as it is now developing meet the interests of EU citizens and energy consuming industry?"

chairman: Christopher Jones
Deputy Head of Cabinet, Commissioner for Energy A. Piebalgs

  • Céline Gauer, Head of Unit Antitrust: Energy and Environment, DG COMP
  • Michael Gillis, Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs, Distrigas
  • Hans Grünfeld, President IFIEC
  • Cecilia Hellner, Secretary-General ETSO
  • Johannes Kindler, Vice Chairman ERGEG
  • Hans J. B. M. ten Berge, Secretary-General Eurelectric
  • Claude Turmes
    Member of European Parliament for the Greens



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