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What is the Energy Dialogue?
Joint Progress
Reports
Thematic Groups
Reference
Texts
Events
Energy Dialogue Technology
Centre
Issues being
addressed
Presentations
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What is the Energy Dialogue?
|Overview
|Why
such a partnership?
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are the objectives of the partnership?
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being examined under the Energy Dialogue
Issues being examined under the Energy Dialogue
The
EU-Russia Summit of October 2001 established the future
direction of the energy dialogue. Recognising that the initial,
analytical phase had been successfully completed, the Summit noted
that the Energy Dialogue was now entering a more practical,
operational stage, and highlighted that in the short term, progress
could be obtained in the following areas:
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improvement of the legal basis for energy
production and transport in Russia;
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legal security for long-term energy supplies;
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ensuring the physical security of transport
networks;
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the recognition of certain new transport
infrastructures as being of "common interest". Such projects, and
the choice of routes, clearly remain the responsibility of the
States and companies concerned;
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the implementation of pilot projects in the
Arkhangelsk and Astrakhan regions of Russia on rational energy use
and savings.
The Summit also recognised that certain important
issues required further examination and technical study:
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the potential and merits of an investment
support scheme which would mitigate non-commercial risks;
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a study of the prospects that the flexible
mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol could offer to Russia for
attracting investment in the modernisation of its energy sector;
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the conditions for reinforcing energy science
and technology co-operation, notably through the creation of a
Russia-EU Energy Technology Centre;
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certain preconditions which should be required
for the supply of electricity, such as sufficient availability of
installed capacity on the Russian market, measures to protect the
environment and a high level of nuclear safety, comparable to those
in force in the EU Member States;
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a study of the possibilities for common
implementation of energy-saving and renewable energy projects, in
particular by drawing up a catalogue of such projects in Russia
which could be financed under the joint implementation mechanism
provided for in the Kyoto Protocol;
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the organisation of training in corporate
governance (i.e.: international accounting standards, rights of
minority shareholders etc).
Further issues were identified for joint work at the
Russia-EU Summit of May 2002:
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the extension of the pilot energy saving
projects from the Archangelsk and Astrkakhan Oblasts to include
Kaliningrad;
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the necessity of jointly examining any
constraints to the trade in primary energy;
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for electricity, the necessity of moving forward
on the questions of reciprocity in market access and environmental
and nuclear standards;
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and, for the trade in nuclear materials, the
importance of reaching a mutually acceptable solution in accordance
with Article 22 of the PCA.
The
EU-Russia Summit of November 2003 also took note of the
intention to enhance co-operation to:
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