European Energy Community willing to start membership talks with Moldova

The European Energy Community (EEC)is willing to start negotiations to grant Moldova the status of a member. Such a statement was made on June 27 at the fourth ministerial council of the EEC joined by first deputy premier Igor Dodon, Info-Prim Neo reports. According to a press release by the Economy and Trade Ministry (ETM), the talks will start in September 2008. Now Moldova has the status of an observer within this organization. Igor Dodon said in his speech Moldova would make the necessary efforts to become a EEC member. The Ministerial Board of the EEC has highly appreciated the way of solving conflicts in Moldova, making reference to the conciliation accord signed on June 20, 2008, by the National Energy Regulator ANRE and the distributor “|Red Union Fenosa”, which eliminated the divergences of the sides as to construing some clauses in the new Methodology of calculating the power tariffs. The EEC was set up on October 25, 2005, and pursues to form a common space regulating the energy market in the EU and South-Eastern Europe. The member-states of this regional organization are the EU countries, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.