Energy & transport international relations

\|Overview	\|3^rdmeeting EU-India energy panel, Brussels 20/06/2007
	\|EU-India Working Groups on energy
	\|2^ndmeeting EU-India energy panel, New Delhi 07/04/2006
	\|1^st EU-India Business Conference on Energy, New Delhi 06/04/2006

Overview

EU and India are increasingly interdependent especially in terms of energy supply. The Commission’s Green Paper “A European Strategy for sustainable, competitive and secure energy”, the European Council conclusions of March 2006 on the Energy Policy for Europe as well as the Strategic EU Energy Review presented on 10 January 2007 by the European Commission clearly prioritise the need for an increased cooperation with major energy consumers, India being among them.

India-EU Energy Panel

Co-operation between India and the EU in the field of energy is quite young:

At the fifth EU-India Summit of 8 November 2004 the political decision was taken to embark in an energy dialogue. Key priorities for our cooperation are development of clean coal technologies, increasing energy efficiency and savings, promoting environment friendly energies as well as assisting India in energy market reforms.

The India-EU Energy Panel has been created as the formal instrument of EU-India cooperation in the energy sector and its constitutive meeting was held in June 2005. Four working groups were established.