The Energy Community (EC) Treaty and its Importance for the Renewable Energy Sector of Western Balkans
/8th May 2019, by Renewable Market Watch™/
The Energy Community Treaty, establishing the Energy Community, was signed on 25 October 2005 in Athens between the European Community, on the one hand, and Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and the UN Mission in Kosovo (the "Contracting Parties"), on the other hand. It entered into force on 1 July 2006. Bulgaria and Romania subsequently became Member States of the EU. Moldova became a full-fledged member as of 1 May 2010, and Ukraine officially acceded to the Energy Community on 1 February 2011. Armenia, Georgia, Norway and Turkey take part as "observers".
One of the principal activities of the Energy Community is the implementation by the Contracting Parties of the acquis communautaire for renewables, adapted to both the institutional framework of the Energy Community and the specific situation of each of the Contracting Parties. Initially, the acquis communautaire for renewables comprised only the RES-Electricity Directive and Directive 2003/30/EC on the promotion of the use of biofuels and other renewable fuels for transport.
However, the Renewable Energy Directive 2009 specifically envisages that the measures of cooperation provided between Member States will become applicable to the Contracting Parties of the Energy Community if these countries, by virtue of a decision taken under the Energy Community Treaty, become bound by the Renewable Energy Directive.
At the 10th Energy Community Ministerial Council held on 18 October 2012 in Budva (Montenegro), the Ministerial Council decided to extend the relevant acquis communautaire in the area of renewables to include the Renewable Energy Directive 2009. Thus, each Contracting Party is obliged to bring into force the laws, regulations, and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 1 January 2014.
The decision also sets out, for each of the Contracting Parties, the mandatory national target (for the share of energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy in 2020). The targets for the share of renewable energy in Contracting Parties in 2020 are the following: Albania 38%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 40%, Croatia 20%, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 28%, Moldova 17%, Montenegro 33%, Serbia 27%, Ukraine 11%, Kosovo 25%.
The Energy Community Secretariat, which has the responsibility to monitor and review the application of the Renewable Energy Directive 2009 in the Contracting Parties, has been obliged to submit an overall progress report to the Ministerial Council by 30 June 2015 (for the first report) and thereafter every two years.
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