Energy Community Treaty: conclusion

The Council adopted joint guidelines and agreed to send a request for assent to the European Parliament with regard to the draft Council Decision on the conclusion by the European Community of the Energy Community Treaty (please refer to the former initial proposal dated 14/09/2005).

The Treaty was signed in Athens on 25 October 2005 by the EU and Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244) with the view to establishing an Integrated Energy Market Organisation in South East Europe.