COUNCIL REPORT

BY KEITH NUTHALLSIGNIFICANT progress has been made in forging a cross-border energy market in the newly expanded European Union (EU), with the EU Council of Ministers for energy striking political agreement over a regulation on gas networks. This harmonises the conditions for accessing gas transmission infrastructure, specifying third party access, rules on capacity allocation, congestion management and the release of transmission information required for gas providers to use foreign systems. The regulation builds on voluntary good practice guidelines for the ...


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