(COCOO).MEMBERS: The Energy Community has nine Contracting Parties – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, North Macedonia, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine. The European Union is a Party to the Energy Community Treaty. Represented by the European Commission, it serves as a permanent Vice-President of the organisation. Any European Union Member State may obtain the status of a Participant. The Energy Community is an international organisation which brings together the European Union and its neighbours to create an integrated pan-European energy market. The organisation was founded by the Treaty establishing the Energy Community signed in October 2005 in Athens, Greece, in force since July 2006. The key objective of the Energy Community is to extend the EU internal energy market rules and principles to countries in South East Europe, the Black Sea region and beyond on the basis of a legally binding framework
The Title VI of the Treaty of establishing Energy Community outlines the internal decision making process. The Ministerial Council and Permanent High Level Group may take measures in the form of recommendations, decisions or procedural acts. This gives rise to the Energy Community secondary legislation. According to the Article 76 “A Decision is legally binding in its entirety upon those to whom it is addressed”. Furthermore, the Secretariat may be empowered by the Energy Community acquis to take specific decisions.
Since the entry into force of the Treaty, the following decisions have been enacted. You can filter the Ministerial Council decisions by organisational issues, and decisions related to acquis and dispute settlement cases.