Press Release: High Level Group proposes urgent actions to promote a competitive and sustainable European energy system

The new High Level Group (HLG) on Competitiveness, Energy and the Environment on 2 June 2006 adopted its first report, including a number of concrete recommendations to address pressing issues, such as: the improvement and implementation of EU regulatory energy framework, cost-effective inputs for energy intensive industries, energy efficiency, the functioning and the review of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Composed of high level stakeholders, the HLG's task is to look at ways to foster consistency between policy and legislative initiatives and to contribute to creating a more stable, predictable and competitive regulatory framework.