Meetings
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10.05.2013 Addressing Global Energy Challenges and Building a Sustainable Future based on International Cooperation This very first training programme of the Energy Charter Secretariat Knowledge Centre was designed as a three-day-long course aimed at assisting younger generation energy professionals to better understand how the tools and instruments of multilateral cooperation can help address the prevailing challenges facing international energy markets. Participants were exposed to the leading forms of knowledge and experience outlining the benefits of international cooperation in the energy field. The programme focused on providing the participants with instruments for developing the relevant know-how in order to promote an innovative, secure and sustainable future for global energy. |
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30.04.2013 On 29 April 2013 the Energy Charter Secretariat held a workshop on the Role of Intergovernmental Agreements in Energy Policy. The workshop was hosted by the WTO at its headquarters in Geneva. The aim of the workshop was to shed light on the application of existing international rules on trade and investment in energy embodied in the WTO Agreements and in the ECT. Another aim of the workshop was to raise awareness of the challenges the energy sector currently faces and the implications of such challenges for the regulatory framework. More specifically, the discussion focused on the interaction of the ECT and the WTO Agreements. |
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21.03.2013 On 20 March 2013, the Energy Charter Secretariat and the Ministry of National Development of Hungary held a joint Workshop on Contractual Issues Related to Energy Trade. The event gathered around sixty decision-makers from industry and governments from energy exporting, importing and transit countries to discuss the impact of recent developments in natural gas trade and regulatory measures on long-term natural gas contracts and gas trading hubs. |
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26.02.2013 This three-day-long training programme has been designed specifically to assist younger generation energy professionals to better understand how the tools and instruments of multilateral cooperation can help address the prevailing challenges facing international energy markets. Participants in the programme will benefit from in-depth exposure to many of the fast moving and ground breaking changes taking place in the arena of global energy. Such developments include our engagement of innovative technologies designed to produce energy from conventional and unconventional, new and renewable sources, the shift towards efficient and smart energy policies, whilst seeking to create an integrated vision for energy and environment.
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27.11.2012 On 26-27 November 2012 the Energy Charter Conference held its 23rd Meeting in Warsaw, with the kind support of the Ministry of Economy of Poland. The first day of the Meeting focused on internal institutional matters. Day two was dedicated to a Ministerial Conference on the topic of "Demands for Global Energy Governance and the Potential of the Energy Charter". |
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06.11.2012 On 6 November 2012, the Secretariat organised a workshop on investor-state arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty, aimed mainly at the governments of the ECT constituency. Three distinguished lawyers briefed the audience on the impact of investor-state arbitration on states, the concepts of "investor" and "investment" under the ECT, and the possibility of claims by state enterprises.
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27.09.2012 On 26 September 2012 the Trade and Transit Directorate of the Energy Charter Secretariat organised an oil stakeholder event on transit and cross-border cooperation. The meeting was held in the context of ongoing consultations with regard to a possible re-set of negotiations on a new Energy Charter instrument on energy transit.
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21.09.2012 The highly successful Rabat Energy Forum was co-organised with the Moroccan Ministry of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment, under the high patronage of His Majesty the King of Morocco Mohammed VI. This event focused on the key energy issues in MENA countries and the relevance of the Charter for the development of the region's energy market. The Forum brought together more than 250 high-level representatives of governments, energy companies, financial institutions, international organisations and academia.
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23.07.2012 The 8th meeting of the Task Force on Regional Energy Cooperation in Central and Southern Asia took place in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 20 July 2012 upon the invitation of the Ministry of Energy and Industry of the Republic of Tajikistan. |
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20.06.2012 On 19 June 2012 the Directorate of Trade and Transit of the Energy Charter Secretariat organised a gas stakeholder event on transit and cross-border cooperation. The purpose of the meeting was to continue consultations with regard to a possible re-set of negotiations on a new Energy Charter instrument on energy transit (click here for more information). |
