Press Release: Energy Community – Five years of regional cooperation

The Energy Community celebrated its fifth anniversary on Monday 24 October 2011. Established to increase socio-economic stability and security of supply, the Energy Community has set a good example of regional cooperation in which the EU and the South-Eastern European countries can diversify their energy sources.

It has created a functioning institutional framework and more legal certainty for investors. Next steps are to enhance market reforms and to boost investments in the energy sector. The final objective is that the regional market should be fully integrated in the European's internal energy market.

• Primary Source

European Commission: DG Energy: Single market for gas & electricity: Energy Community http://ec.europa.eu/energy/gas_electricity/community/community_en.htm

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