EU & WBs / Albania Energy Events

The Albanian Energy Regulator (ERE) kindly hosted
today the 20th General Assembly (GA) meeting of the Mediterranean Energy
Regulators (MEDREG) in Tirana that approved 6 working groups reports.

The GA approved a comprehensive review that describes
the results performed by the Association in the last 2 years in the overall
framework of the evolution of the Mediterranean energy sector. Regulatory achievements at national level from both
the Southern and the Northern shore of the Mediterranean represent a consistent
step forward towards regulatory harmonization in the region. Progress made by Southern shore regulators is in line
with the recommendations issued by the Association.

Fact-findings from the
document include several steps forward made at national level:

– the process of establishment of the Moroccan
electricity regulator and the Egyptian gas regulator is advancing;

– the reinforcement of institutional cooperation with
Euro-Mediterranean energy stakeholders;

– the enhancement of knowledge about good regulatory
principles and practice among Southern shore members as well as intensified
exchange and publication of data on Mediterranean gas and electricity markets.

During the Assembly MEDREG also presented and
discussed two important results that will shape the future activities of the
Association.

1. Cooperation between MEDREG and Med-TSO in the
framework of the Euro-Med Platforms: in the context of the Union for the
Mediterranean (UfM) Regional Electricity Market (REM) Platform, Mediterranean
Energy Regulators, in collaboration with the Association of Mediterranean Transmission
System Operators (Med-TSO), is intensively working on a roadmap proposing 4 steps
to promote the progressive integration of power systems and markets in the
EuroMediterranean region. Further discussions will take place in Brussels with
the UfM, the European Commission and the REM Platform participants by the end
of 2015.

2. Mediterranean Financial Sounding Panel for Energy
Regulation (Med-FPE): MEDREG GA approved the creation of a Mediterranean
Financial Sounding Panel for Energy Regulation (Med-FPE) with the aim to
increase interactions with international financial institutions (IFIs) active
in the Mediterranean energy sector. This activity follows the work initiated by
MEDREG in June 2015 with the publication of the report: “Interconnection Infrastructures
in the Mediterranean: A Challenging Environment for Investments”, testifying for
the strong commitment of the Association on investment issues.

The Albanian Secretariat of Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (EITI Albania) in collaboration with Columbia Center on Sustainable
Investment, Columbia Law School – The Earth Institute, conduct a training
sessions on good governance of Natural resources, Fiscal Regime, Legislation,
the EITI standard and Social and Environmental aspects of the Extractive
Industry.

The first day see an Introduction to the basics of Extractives and
Sustainable Development

12:30pm – 12:40pm – Introduction

12:40pm – 1:00pm – Energy sector – basics – Perrine Toledano

This session give a quick introduction to the Petroleum sector, giving
an overview of the market, the players and the value chain

1:00pm – 1:45pm – Nexus of extractives and development – Paulo Cunha and
Jordon Kuschminder

This session give an overview on how extractive industries can
constitute a spring-board to development if the right policies are in place.
This session cover concepts like resource curse and Dutch disease and also deal
with the social and environmental safeguards that need to be put in place to
ensure sustainable development

1:45 pm – 2:30pm – Introduction to the EITI – Paulo Cunha

This session present the EITI and the associated theory of change. EITI was
presented as a tool to escape the resource curse talked about in the previous
sessions. Case studies and examples were provided.

230pm – 245pm – Coffee Break

2:45pm – 3:30pm – Introduction to the legal framework – Lise Johnson

This session introduce the participants to the legal and regulatory
framework that governs the relationship between a host-country government and
investors in the extractive industries, situating the legal framework of
Albania in the global context.

3:30pm – 4:30pm – Introduction to the fiscal framework – Lise Johnson

This session will give the basic theoretical tools of a fiscal framework
in order to facilitate the understanding of Albania’s fiscal regime for oil.

4:30pm – 4:45pm: Wrap up and questions

The training was conducted by professors of Columbia University.
Participants were representatives of the Albanian Government, parliamentarians,
journalists and members of EITI Albania Multi-stakeholder Group (MSG).

Launch of the ACER/CEER Monitoring report on the internal electricity and gas markets CEER premises at Cours Saint-Michel 30a, Brussels, 30 November, 2015. From 1:45 PM to 4:45 PM ACER and CEER invite you to the Brussels launch of their latest joint Market Monitoring Report on the internal electricity and gas markets Date: 30/11/2015 Time: 13.30 to 16.45 Location: CEER premises at Cours Saint-Michel 30a, Brussels. You can follow this event via web stream: the link will be visible here on the date of the event. To follow the event via web streaming no registration is necessary. The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) has produced this report in collaboration with the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER). The main results of our analysis of the progress towards the implementation of the Third Energy Package and the completion of the internal energy market will be presented. Registrations will be treated on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please note that, due to limited room capacity, the number of representatives per organisation may need to be restricted.

Dalla Indipendenza a una “Granda” amicizia: sabato 5/12 la prima Festa provinciale italo albanese

Festa di fine anno “dell’economia e del lavoro, della cultura e del turismo” con la partecipazione di Blue Panorama Airlines. Il ringraziamento di Besa e A Cuore Aperto ai relatori Presidenti Ghisolfi e Dardanello e Dott. Cataldi, al Csv Società Solidale, all’inviato Alessandro Zorgniotti e a tutti i sostenitori. Aderiscono 4 CCIAA di cui una francese, 4 Associazioni imprenditoriali e le due ATL Cuneo e Alba Bra. Appuntamento dalle ore 9,30 nel Castello degli Acaja.

Ogni Indipendenza vera è sempre stata accompagnata da un desiderio di confronto, di comunione, di condivisione di sfide, strategie, destini. Da ogni sana Indipendenza può nascere una grande, una Granda amicizia. Proprio questo si prefigge la conferenza e giornata pubblica del 5 dicembre prossimo, sabato mattina a Fossano, nella sede della Sala Barbero del Castello degli Acaja, dove avrà luogo il convegno con la finalità di proseguire, in terra cuneese e subalpina, la promozione della reciproca conoscenza con il Paese delle Aquile.

Un’Aquila a due teste che, graficamente e non solo, abbraccia due territori, per creare un ponte culturale e storico che diventi anche fisico e materiale via mare, terra e cielo; nella stessa maniera in cui ha armonizzato nei secoli Occidente e Oriente, Cristianesimo e Islamismo, Chiese e Moschee le une vicine alle altre, in una stessa via o piazza, in un dialogo interculturale che ne fa uno sprone di Pace unico al mondo e il solo Paese a formale maggioranza religiosa musulmana ad avere vestito i colori e le luci della Bandiera tricolore francese e indetto una giornata di lutto nazionale per la strage di Parigi.

La Cassa di Risparmio di Fossano, Banca e Fondazione, già distintasi nel corso di questi 14 intensi mesi con il suo Presidente Beppe Ghisolfi, per l’ospitalità accordata alla prima conferenza provinciale con l’Ambasciatore S.E. Neritan Ceka, massimo rappresentante istituzionale dell’Albania in Italia, e successivamente al workshop GrandAlbania con la Dottoressa Blerina Xhafa e l’avvocato Oltian Oxholli, prosegue il proprio impegno collaborativo sostenendo attivamente la Festa di scambio degli auguri indetta dalle associazioni Besa e A Cuore Aperto assieme al giornalista e inviato Alessandro Zorgniotti e al Csv Società Solidale; giornata successiva alle celebrazioni del 28 novembre (giornata in cui nel 1912 lo statista Qemal Ismaili da Valona proclamò l’Indipendenza albanese) e di arrivederci al 2016.

Molto vasto e qualificato il ventaglio delle adesioni, dalla Compagnia aerea Blue Panorama Airlines a ben quattro Camere di Commercio (Cuneo, CC italiana in Albania, CC italo albanese, la CC di Nizza, Sophie, Antipolis) di cui una con sede in Francia simbolo ancor più di fratellanza, altrettante Associazioni imprenditoriali e di categoria (Aiia – Imprenditori italiani in Albania, Cna Cuneo, Confapi Cuneo, Ascom Fossano) e le due ATL di Cuneo e Alba Bra, passando per un vasto scibile di realtà professionali e culturali molto vitali sul fronte delle relazioni italo albanesi come Lpa – Studio legale, Mb Consulting – Consulenza fiscale e del lavoro, Lions Club Tirana Host, Pen International Tirana, Hermes News, Italians – Italiani in Albania e altre ancora; aderiscono inoltre realtà aziendali di respiro globale come le industrie cuneesi Maina Panettoni, Merlo Group, Inalpi, Cascina San Cassiano, e da Asti l’Albergo Etico, e poi realtà finanziarie di territorio come Bene Banca.

L’evento sarà anche una occasione, per la comunità italo albanese attiva tanto a Tirana quanto nella Granda, per ribadire solidarietà e vicinanza al territorio fossanese in questo momento così complesso per la sua economia, e per riaffermare i valori di una sana internazionalizzazione economica che crei opportunità di lavoro per le aziende di tutti i settori e del turismo. Dopo il saluto introduttivo del Comune, nella persona del Sindaco Davide Sordella, la mattinata, con inizio alle 9,30, continuerà con gli interventi dei rappresentanti delle due Associazioni, del Presidente Cr Fossano e Vicepresidente ABI Beppe Ghisolfi, del vertice Unioncamere Piemonte e CCIAA Cuneo Ferruccio Dardanello, del Dirigente commerciale di Blue Panorama Albino Naldo e dell’esperto di studi araldici e cavallereschi Carmelo Cataldi.

Il coordinamento dei lavori è affidato al giornalista cuneese Alessandro Zorgniotti, residente a Tirana da oramai un anno, che svilupperà un intervento testimonianza con foto servizio proiettato per testimoniare i veloci cambiamenti modernizzatori intervenuti nella società e nell’economia albanesi, dalle aree urbane ai siti turistici, per evidenziare i punti di analogie e di convergenza con il Cuneese. Nel corso della mattinata, sarà servito nei locali un coffee break gentilmente offerto da Maina Panettoni e Crf.

Saremmo onorati della
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SEMINARIO FORMATIVO
GRATUITO

“Il Diritto del
Lavoro in Albania”

approfondimenti sulle
norme che regolano i contratti di lavoro in Albania

Relatore:

Prof. Avv. Vito Antonio P. Boccia

– docente di Diritto del Lavoro presso l’ Università Statale
“A. Moisiu” – Durazzo”

– autore del volume sul diritto del lavoro in Albania,
tradotto e commentato in italiano

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Tirana Business University Rruga Kavaja – Tirana (accanto
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Austrian Kosovo Energy Day 2015, organized
by Austrian Kosovo Society and UBT the University for Business and Technology
Kosovo in coordination with the Ministry for economic Development and interested
stakeholders to be defined.

Objective is to promote, discuss, analyze the Kosovo Energy Sector and
propose solution and success models based on Austrian Model or similar best
practices working successful in other EU member states.

As a follow up on the Kosovo Austrian Industry Day successfully
concluded on the 7th of October the objective is to discuss the integration of
the energy reform agenda with the industrial potential and reform agenda in
this vital sector and so significantly improve the economic development of
Kosovo on its way to EU and to intensify Austrian Kosovo cooperation in the
area of industry and energy and to promote economic development in the sector
and set Kosovo on a new growth trajectory improving the employment situation in
Kosovo and supporting the faster integration of the Kosovo in the European
Union.

18th of November 2015 900 to 1300, UBT Campus

Draft Agenda “Austrian Kosovo Energy Day 2015 “

Time: 18th of November 2015

9:00 – 9.30 Registration

9:30 – 1030 Panel Discussion: Energy
Development Opportunities for Kosovo as a basis for industrial Development –
Political Priorities for the Energy Sector of Kosovo

Opening by Moderator Gunther Fehlinger, President of OeKG

Edmond Hajrizi, President of UBT, Quality in Service Delivery, confirmed

HE Ruairí O’Connell, British Ambassador to Kosovo, Strategic Energy
Security for Kosovo in European Union context, tbc

HE Besa Gashi, Deputy Minister for Economic Development, Political
Priorities for the Energy Sector of Kosovo tbc www.mzhe-ks.net/sq/

Jan Peter Olters, Resident Country Manager for Kosovo, Worldbank, tbchttp://www.worldbank.org/en/about/people/jan-peter-olters

Detlef Radtke, Leiter Kaufmännische Projektabwicklung Power Babcock
Borsig Steinmüller GmbH, confirmed Presentation of the Kosovo A Power
Renovation Project, tbc www.bbs.bilfinger.com

Emmanuel Mitsou, CEO of Sharrcem, Chairman of EIC, Kosovo,www.sharrcem.com/ confirmed

Arben Gjuka, CEO of KEK , confirmed www.kek-energy.com

Kostas Rizopoulos, CEO of Ferronickel , tbchttp://www.cunicoresources.com/b/ferronikeli.php

Hamdi Malushaj, President of the Kosovo Association for Renewable Energy, http://www.sherk.net/en/ confirmed

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 1230

Panel Discussion: Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and how Innovation
and modern Technology and support the transformation of the Kosovo energy
sector and integration the reform agenda of the energy, industrial and property
sector into one holistic, integrated strategic approach to improve the economic
situation of Kosovo based on quality infrastructure, quality education and
European standards in all 3 areas

Moderator: Gunther Fehlinger President of
OeKG

Afrim Ajvazi, ERO Kosovo Energy Regulatory Agency, Renewable Energy and
ERO’s role, confirmed

George Karagutoff – KEDS CEO, confirmed, CEO of KEDS www.keds-energy.com

Sasho Saltirovski, Head of regulatory Affairs EVN Macedonia, confirmed

Hajdar Peca, of Ibar Lepenc, tbcwww.iber-lepenc.org

Xhevat Muqa, http://www.muqacompani.com confirmed Representative of Austrian Solar
Company www.sonnenkraft.at

Arsim Fetar, CEO of District Heating Pristina, tbc http://www.termokos.org/

Erion Nako, SAP and Energy Sector Solutions – Modern Technology –
Essential for Market Liberalisation, confirmed

Prof Ardian Gojani, UBT Expert for Energy, confirmed

Lorenc Gordani, Executive Director Albania Center for Energy Regulation
and Conservation – ACERC, with a presentation on Albania RES in framework of the EU
Policy of 2020 and 2030, http://albaniaenergy.org/index.html confirmed

Vebi Sofiu, Professor for Energy Efficiency Department of UBT, confirmed

Lindita Dalija, Chairman of Business Consultant Council, tbc www.bcc-ks.org

Admir Shala, Director of Djakovo DH , tbc

1230 –1400 Lunch, tbc and than departure to site visit of KEK on
invitation of KEK

Please we will leave at 14.30 to KEK site
and so please let me know!

Austrian Kosovo Energy Day 2015

Organized by Austrian Kosovo Society and UBT the University
for Business and Technology Kosovo in coordination with the Ministry for
economic Development and interested stakeholders to be defined

Objective is to promote, discuss,
analyze the Kosovo Energy Sector and propose solution and success models based
on Austrian Model or similar best practices working successful in other EU
member states.

As a follow up on the Kosovo
Austrian Industry Day successfully concluded on the 7th of October
the objective is to discuss the integration of the energy reform agenda with
the industrial potential and reform agenda in this vital sector and so
significantly improve the economic development of Kosovo on its way to EU and
to intensify Austrian Kosovo cooperation in the area of industry and energy and
to promote economic development in the sector and set Kosovo on a new growth
trajectory improving the employment situation in Kosovo and supporting the faster integration of the Kosovo in the
European Union.

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The 2nd Annual Albania Oil & Gas 2016 Summit, in close partnership and with full support of the Ministry of Energy and Industry and the AKBN, will be held in Tirana on 17-18 March.

The country, one of the oldest and most consistent oil and gas producers in Europe, is currently offering many attractive opportunities to international investors. The Summit will provide companies the ideal platform to discuss the country’s current licensing stage, analysing all available blocks, investment requirements and future ventures.

This exclusive gathering will bring together the key Albanian decision makers and most influential and active global upstream and midstream companies to the country with one of the most established oil and gas industries in Europe.

A summary of the 2nd Annual Albania Oil & Gas 2016 Summit 17-18 March 2016 | Tirana, Albania

– Officially endorsed and with the full support of the Ministry, the Summit is the only event focusing on Albania’s oil and gas Industry

– With the largest operating onshore oilfield in Europe, the Summit will host discussions with focus on all available blocks for licensing and Albania’s current licensing stage

– Insights on Ministerial requirements from an investing company and terms of cooperation

– Get important information on how to conduct and operate business in Albania, as well as how to overcome any challenges around the Albanian multi-layered geography

– Meet with key Albanian decision makers and create networks with some of the most influential and active companies in the field that manage key aspects of the exploration, production and refineries in Albania

– Insightful analysis of the Albanian legal framework and regulations in addition to future changes, to prepare you on how to make the most out of your future ventures in the country