Website: Oil: First Forum on Fossil Fuels, Berlin, 19-20 October 2005

At the initiative of the European Commission, the Forum on Fossil Fuels gathered for the first time European Commission and Member States representatives together with stakeholders and energy experts. This first session allowed an initial exchange of views and analyses on the prospects of the security of supply of fossil fuels, the objective being to turn the Forum into an annual structured dialogue with oil, gas and solid fuels industries. As part of the response of the Commission to the oil price increase, the meeting in Berlin opened a stakeholders’ consultation process on possible measures to be taken in the oil sector. The Forum was opened by Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Energy, and its host, the German State Secretary of Economy, Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch.