The Energy Community,a Vienna-based international energy policy
organization, said on Tuesday it has once more formally requested that Albania,
Bosnia and Herzegovina and FYROM adopt and submit to it their National Renewable
Energy Action Plans (NREAPs).
This is one of the key requirements of
Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable
sources adopted by the Energy Community Ministerial Council in
2012.
Under the adapted Directive 2009/28/EC, each contracting party
committed to a binding target for renewable energy to be reached by 2020. The
Directive requires the adoption of NREAPs to ensure that the national targets
are achieved. These plans are aimed at breaking down the overall target into
sectoral targets and detailing the measures to be taken to support their
achievement. NREAPs are an indispensable milestone to implement the Directive
and achieve the overall target.
If the countries concerned do not notify
measures to ensure full compliance with this obligation within two months, the
secretariat of the Energy Community may submit the concerned cases to the
Ministerial Council for a decision on the contracting parties’ breach of Energy
Community Law, the international organization said in a statement.
The
Energy Community was established by aninternational law treaty in October 2005.
As of July 1, 2013, the parties to the treaty are the European Union and
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, FYROM, Moldova, Montenegro,
Serbia and Ukraine. The key aim of the organization is to extend the EU internal
energy market to Southeast Europe and beyond on the basis of a legally binding
framework.