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Paul - thanks for forwarding.
Rick I don't know if this is material for Steve's meeting, but may be of interest to you anyway. Given our increasing confidence that the Arcos capacity isssue is settled, John Sheriff & Michael Brown indicated that they may consider another regulatory battle in Europe, possibly on gas, and have asked Paul Hennemeyer & me to draw up a list of possible complaints. As you know, Germany is probably our biggest problem area, but that may not mean this is the battle we want to fight first. Significantly, the European Commission is losing patience with Germany. I attended the European Gas Regulatory Forum in Madrid this week (consists of delegates from member states gas regulators, ministries, the Commission and groups representing Gas Transmission Enterprises, consumer groups, offshore gas producers, incumbent suppliers, European Federation of Energy Traders. The representative from the German ministry was unbelievably outspoken about refusing to agree that consensus had been reached on anything, and supported GTE's refusal to publish any information on available capacity, transparent terms of access. They also refused to recognise that the Council of European Energy Regulators might have any authority over Germany as they had chosen to go down a different route. Political patience is clearly running out and the Commission is considering how they might use powers under Article 86 to progress either the proposed acceleratino directive or a new directive on information disclosure, in spite of Germany. (Brendan says they have already used these powers in telecomms). D. -----Original Message----- From: Dawson, Paul Sent: 05 July 2001 19:17 To: Wood, Doug Subject: FW: Kean' s Friday call -----Original Message----- From: Styles, Peter Sent: 05 July 2001 19:09 To: Shapiro, Richard Cc: Dawson, Paul; Hennemeyer, Paul Subject: Re: Kean' s Friday call Fighting hard on a number of EU, French, Dutch and Belgian fronts, but no definitive victories to report in last week. << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) << Richard Shapiro@ENRON 05/07/2001 13:19 To: Peter Styles/LON/ECT@ECT, Paul Dawson/Enron@EUEnronXGate, Paul Hennemeyer/Enron@EUEnronXGate cc: Subject: Kean' s Friday call Any updates for me to communicate tommorow on Steve's call? Please e-mail or call. Thanks.
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