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ACHIEVING A COMPETITIVE EUROPEAN GAS MARKET GIE annual conference Athens 3-4 November 2005

ACHIEVING A COMPETITIVE EUROPEAN GAS MARKET GIE annual conference Athens 3-4 November 2005. Maria Rehbinder EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG COMPETITION All views expressed are purely personal and cannot, under any circumstances, be considered as an official position of the European Commission.

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ACHIEVING A COMPETITIVE EUROPEAN GAS MARKET GIE annual conference Athens 3-4 November 2005

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  1. ACHIEVING A COMPETITIVE EUROPEAN GAS MARKET GIEannual conference Athens 3-4 November 2005 Maria Rehbinder EUROPEAN COMMISSION DG COMPETITION All views expressed are purely personal and cannot, under any circumstances, be considered as an official position of the European Commission

  2. IMPROVING COMPETITION – HOW? • Implementing existing EU legislation • Form and content • Role of regulators • Adressing remaining problems: • Internal energy market progress report • Competition Sector inquiry

  3. COMPETITION SECTOR INQUIRY • Competition investigation (reg. 1/2003) • Prompted by indicators of market malfunctioning • Rising prices • Customer complaints • Focus on wholesale markets • Investigating • Market and competition conditions

  4. ROLE OF INFRASTRUCTURE • Infrastructure central • Continues to be: • important bottleneck and key obstacle for potential competitors • Sector inquiry focus on • ‘transit lines” • storage • Other entry barriers! • access to gas • access to customers

  5. SECTOR INQUIRY FINDINGS • Preliminary findings • Reinforce analysis in the Internal Energy market Progress Report • Discussion NCA:s and NRA:s • Preliminary report • Consultation all stakeholders beginning of 2006 • Final report in 2006

  6. Need for progress Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. • PlatoGreek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)

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