Supplying Gas and Electricity securely

22Jan
2003

Speakers: Geert E.H. Joosten, Chairman of GTE, member of the supervisory boards of Intergas and Gastec, and Juha Kekkonen, Chairman of ETSO Steering Committee (European Transmission System Operators Association).

This event took place in the context of the ongoing institutional discussion concerning the achievement of the internal electricity and gas markets. After a first reading by the Parliament, the Commission issued a modified proposition of directives which takes into account quite a number of E.P. amendments in view of the second reading.

Mr. Joosten and Mr. Juha Kekkonen, having outlined similarities and differences between the electricity market and the gas market, presented the key issues still under discussion, stressing in particular their influence on the security of supply dimension.