Members & Observers

Countries marked in green are signatories to the Energy Charter Treaty, and members of the Energy Charter Conference.

Countries marked in blue are observers (blue vertical stripes denote the countries of ASEAN).

MEMBERS OF THE ENERGY CHARTER CONFERENCE

Albania,  Armenia,  Australia*,  Austria,  Azerbaijan,  Belarus*,  Belgium,  Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Bulgaria,

Croatia,  Cyprus,  Czech Republic,  Denmark,  Estonia,  European Communities,  Finland,  France,  Georgia,  Germany,

Greece,  Hungary,  Iceland*,  Ireland,  Italy,  Japan,  Kazakhstan,  Kyrgyzstan,  Latvia,  Liechtenstein,  Lithuania,

Luxembourg,  Malta,  Moldova,  Mongolia,  the Netherlands,  Norway*,  Poland,  Portugal,  Romania,  Russian Federationˆ,

Slovakia,  Slovenia,  Spain,  Sweden,  Switzerland,  Tajikistan,  The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,

Turkey,  Turkmenistan,  Ukraine,  United Kingdom,  Uzbekistan

  
* - denotes state in which ratification of the Energy Charter Treaty is still pending

ˆ - the Russian Federation signed the Energy Charter Treaty and was applying it provisionally until 18 October 2009 inclusive
  

OBSERVERS TO THE ENERGY CHARTER CONFERENCE

Afghanistan**,  Algeria,  Bahrain,  Canada**,  China,  Egypt°,  Indonesia**,  Iran,  Jordan**Korea,

Kuwait,  Morocco,  Nigeria,  Oman,  Pakistan**,  Palestinian National Authority,  Qatar,  Saudi Arabia,

Serbia**,  Syria**,  Tunisia,  United Arab Emirates,  United States of America**,  Venezuela
  

International Organisations with Observer Status:

ASEAN,  BASREC,  BSEC,  CIS Electric Power Council,  EBRD,  IEA,  OECD,  UN-ECE,  World Bank,  WTO

  
** - denotes observer which has signed the 1991 Energy Charter

° - denotes observer in which signing of the 1991 Energy Charter is pending
  

The Energy Charter Secretariat also has signed in November 2007 a Letter of Understanding on Cooperative Activities with the Secretariat of the International Energy Forum.