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Public Hearing on Revised Energy Law (EnWG Novelle)
- the German Parliment voted for a open hearing in conjunction with deliberations over the revision to the Energy Law. We had been pushing hard for such a hearing so as to be able to get EFET and other like-minded associations to voice our concerns about the lack of real market opening in the gas and power markets. The hearing is now scheduled for th 24th of Sept and I will probably speak on behalf of EFET Germany. Possible Application of Article 86 by EU Commission to Force Greater/More Rapid Market Opening - Tensions between Germany and the EU on lack of implementation of the Gas Directive and German instransigence on regulated TPA and cross-border issues continues to build. Indeed, the atmosphere is quite tense now and it seems likely that the EU will no employ the "nuclear option" of Article 86 to force greater and more rapid market opening in member states. (Peter can add to this) Gas VV Negotiations Difficult: German Cartel Office Sends Highly Critical Letter to Associations - The negotiations of amendments to the German Gas network agreement continue to move at a snail's pace.Key issues that we have argued for (cost-based tarriffs, development of standard transport and storage contracts, replacement of point-to-point tariff model with an exit/entry system) have yet to be addressed -largely because the gas industry is wholly opposed to making these part of the negotiations. The negotiating associations to the network agreement (so-called VV-Gas) have been criticized in a letter from the head of the German Cartel Office. He concludes that there efforts have not produced a basis for gas competition in Germany and that if significant progress is not made in the next few months, the Cartel Office does not see how Germany can continue to defend the model of negotiated access and may have to accept a regulated solution. Negotiation Begin for Access to Baltic Cable After many months of correspondence and insistence by Philip Davies that Baltic Cable provide us with terms for TPA, the new managment of Baltic Cable has agreed to meet with us to negotiate access. Negotiations will begin with Eon (now manager of Baltic) on the 11th. OMV/Tag Finco Some weeks ago we initiated a formal proceeding against the Austrian pipeline company for effective denial of access to their long-distance pipe running to Italy. After several hours of hearings, the Ministry accepted Enron's complaint and rejected OMV's petition to withdraw the complaint. The Ministry provided clear indications to OMV that they would prefer a negotiated settlement but were ready to proceed with a full-scale investigation if necessary. The pressure was sufficient to bring OMV to the table and we are now in the process of trying to reach closure of firm capacity through Austria and into Italy.Should we fail to conclude agreement by July 15th, the case against OMV will resume. -----Original Message----- From: Shapiro, Richard Sent: 05 July 2001 13:20 To: Styles, Peter; Dawson, Paul; Hennemeyer, Paul 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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