October 14 (SeeNews) - The Energy Community said on Friday that it had established breaches of its legislation by Serbia, Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina and urged those countries to rectify them without delay.
Serbia failed to respect the Second Energy Package on the interconnectors between Kosovo and its neighbours, the Energy Community said in a statement.
Macedonia breached rules on eligibility by postponing full opening of its electricity market.
The Energy Community Ministerial Council also established a breach of Community law by Macedonia and by Bosnia and Herzegovina for failing to transpose the Third Energy Package.
The Ministerial Council declared the existence of a serious and persistent breach by Serbia of its obligations in the gas sector but postponed the adoption of sanctions to 2017 following the Serbian authorities’ adoption of a binding action plan on the restructuring of Srbijagas, in line with the Third Energy Package, the Energy Community said,
It also said that in the eve of the Ministerial Council the European Union and the Energy Community brokered an agreement with the national and entity ministers responsible for energy of Bosnia and Herzegovina on an action plan on the transposition of the acquis in the gas sector. Failure to adopt the measures envisaged in the action plan will automatically trigger sanctions.
The Vienna-based Energy Community was established by an international law treaty in October 2005 with the key aim to extend the EU internal energy market to Southeast Europe and beyond on the basis of a legally binding framework. As of July 1, 2013, the parties to the treaty are the European Union and Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine.