Energy Community Secretariat

BELGRADE - Work on an integrated national energy and climate plan and a strategy of energy sector development is in the final phase and their adoption is due by the end of the year, Serbian Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Djedovic said at a meeting with Energy Community Secretariat Director Artur Lorkowski on Tuesday.

According to "Blic", Trivan rarely appeared in public during his term in office, and now that citizens are suffocating in the polluted air, instead of taking urgent action, he blames it on other actors.
In the article entitled "Trivan must be replaced," the paper says he must bear responsibility for the pollution.

Coal-fired power plants in the Balkans are failing to hit toxic emissions targets and many face imminent closure if they continue to operate at current rates, the Energy Community warned on Monday in its latest report.

The Program to support investments in corporate and municipal green technology projects; the EU grants to support energy efficiency and small-scale renewable energy projects

The organization in charge of creating a Pan-European free energy market on Monday criticized Macedonia for its failure to liberalize its energy market, saying it had breached consumers' rights and protected the monopoly of the current supplier, Austria's EVN.

Representatives of Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia as well as European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič and Commissioner for Climate Action & Energy Miguel Arias Cañete held the first meeting of the Central East South Europe Gas Connectivity (CESEC) High Level Group in Sofia on Monday.

BRUSSELS - The EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Policy Catherine Ashton has welcomed the agreement reached earlier this week between Serbia's and Kosovo's power transmission companies with EU mediation.

EU asks the Balkans to fight energy sector corruption

The Energy Community Secretariat of the EU has asked the EU Council to examine the legality of bilateral agreements on the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline concluded between Serbia and Russia's Gazprom company.

Serbia "ignored" EU objections over South Stream

BRUSSELS -- The EU Energy Community Secretariat has asked the EU Council to examine the legality of bilateral agreements between Serbia and Gazprom.

The agreements concern the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline.