Contributions to the EPSU Energy Conference
EPSU European Energy Conference
Understanding European Policy on Internal Market Electricity and GasPreparing for the European Evaluation of the Internal Market
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Day 1: Thursday, 3 November 2005
Opening/ Welcome/ Objectives
President of the EPSU Standing Committee Public Utilities, Sven Bergelin, Ver.di, Germany
Internal market for electricity and gas: what the Commission is doing?
William Webster, European Commission Directorate General Transport and Energy
Internal market for electricity and gas: a critical view
Steve Thomas, PSIRU, University of Greenwich
See also his report on the European Union Gas and Electricity Directives
Key note speech
Claude Turmes, MEP
Reactions and Debate/ Panel I
Moderator: Sven Bergelin, Ver.di, Germany
Reactions and Debate/ Panel II Our social Partners
Moderator: Jan Ruden, SEKO, Sweden
Paul Buteel, Eurelectric General Secretary
Jean-Marie Devos, Eurogas General Secretary
presentation upon request at epsu@epsu.org
Juha Kekkonen, ETSO, Executive Vice President at Fingrid (Finland) and member of ETSO Steering Committee
Reactions and Debate III
Moderator: Reszo Gal, VDSZSZ, Hungary
Gert De Block, CEDEC, European municipal distribution companies
Beatrice Widmer, VKU, German municipal companies association
Regulators
Carl Wood, former Commissioner of the CPUC (California)
Jacques Andres Troesch, Commissioner of CRE, French regulator
Pierre Bornard, ETSO, Managing Director Power System Division RTE (France) and Chairman of ETSO Steering Committee
Summary of discussion
Steve Thomas, PSIRU, University of Greenwich
Conclusions
End of the 1st day
Day 2: Friday, 4 November 2005
Moderator: Claude Pommery, FNME-CGT, France
Consumers and TSOs: the steps to take
Marcel Bial, UCTE General Secretary
Jean-Paul Aghetti, Chair of Working Group electricity, IFIEC-Europe
Views from the academic world on the internal market
Yannick Perez, professor economics, Paris
Ferdinand Banks, Professor marco-economics, Stockholm
Gunda Kirchner, researcher Austrian Arbeitkammer, Vienna
The future of the Internal market for electricity and gas - Options for the future
Jan Willem Goudriaan, EPSU Deputy General Secretary
See also the EPSU Contribution to the Progress Report on the Internal Market for Electricity and Gas
Debate on different interventions with the participants
Mrs. Britta Thomsen, MEP, vice-president of the EP Committee on Industry, Technology, Research and Energy
Closing address
Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, European Commission for Energy
Conclusions
End of Conference
Final programme
List of participants
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Other interventions
INTERVENTO di Carlo DE MASI (Segretario Generale FLAEI-CISL Italia)
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