Energy Community

Aims and Objectives

For the Energy Community’s Contracting Parties, the  adapted ‘Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action’ (adapted and adopted by the Ministerial council of the Energy Community in 2021)  establishes common rules for planning, reporting, and monitoring energy and climate policies and targets, including through National Energy and Climate Plans. Targeted support is needed to ensure compliance, particularly regarding  the quality of reported data, its comparability with EU data, and its appropriate compilation and analysis.  

The reporting requirements have been introduced gradually, with the first obligations taking effect in 2023. Contracting Parties are now required to report on their national systems for national greenhouse gas (GHG) policies and measures (PaMs) and projections, as well as on planned and implemented PaMs, national climate change adaptation strategies and planning processes, climate finance, and GHG inventories. They must also report on progress towards the Energy Community’s climate-neutrality objective, as well as the targets and contributions set out in their integrated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). 

This also covers reporting under the National Energy and Climate Progress Reports (NECPRs), including progress towards targets in energy efficiency, renewable energy, GHG emissions, and adaptation goals, in line with the five dimensions of the Energy Union. 

The nine Contracting Parties are the six West Balkan Contracting Parties of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia, as well as the three Eastern Partnership members of the Energy Community: Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine. The project includes both virtual and in-person training sessions where the targeted technical assistance will be provided. 

A key partner of this effort is the Energy Community Secretariat, which coordinates the full scope of reporting under the adapted Governance Regulation and collects the final datasets for further communication. The Secretariat plays a central role in the coordinating the project's technical assistance and ensuring alignment with its broader support activities. 

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