ENTSOG Annual Report 2014

Collaboration with the Energy Community Ever since its founding, ENTSOG has closely supported the work of the Energy Community. The Energy Community is an interna- tional organisation dealing with energy policy. The Energy Com- munity is an international organisation dealing with energy policy whose mission is to extend the EU internal energy market to South East Europe and beyond on the basis of a legally binding framework. The organistion was founded by a treaty in October 2005 in Athens, Greece. The parties to the treaty are the Europe- an Union and eight contracting parties from South-East Europe and the Black Sea region.

In 2014, ENTSOG engaged the cooperation of the Energy Community in different ways. Ac- cording to Regulation (EC) 715 / 2009, ENTSOG has to adopt recommendations relating to the coordination of technical cooperation between Member States and third country transmission system operators. ENTSOG and the Energy Community Secretariat agreed, in a meeting held at the premises of the Secretariat in Vienna on 1 October 2014, to continue the positive co-

operation that started in 2013. It was agreed to have a working level meeting in the first half of 2015. The aim is to support the contracting parties to the Energy Community in adopting business rules resulting from the Code. In addition, it was agreed to engage with third country TSOs to develop the Early Warning System, especially given the crisis in Ukraine. Therefore ENTSOG presented the Early Warning

Gas contributes to significantly decrease particulate pollution (such as SO2 or NO x ), which has a proven negative impact on health and quality of life

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