Energy: a key sector for the Mediterranean partner countries - Issue number 57/2009 - Products Statistics in Focus

The energy sector is a lynchpin of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership. Reinforcing the Mediterranean's energy infrastructures (connecting electricity and gas networks; planned refineries and pipelines; electricity and natural gas production projects), trade between the Mediterranean partner countries (MPCs) and the European Union and, above all, liberalisation of the energy sector in the Mediterranean countries all require a level of monitoring that can only be ensured by energy statistics compiled to international standards. This publication was prepared within the frame of the MEDSTAT II programme, see Statistical co-operation with Mediterranean countries