Budapest workshop - 13 March 2008

EVENTS

Budapest workshop - 13 March 2008

Government & Regulatory Committee

This workshop was organised by the AIB and the Italian Embassy to bring Member States up to speed with guarantees of origin, addressing the issues surrounding policy and the practice and implementation of GO schemes, emphasising the importance of guarantees of origin as a key instrument of the recent energy package.

The main themes were:

The Energy Package itself, including the EU legal framework and the draft RES Directive;

The need for a common approach for certification;

The relationship between guarantees of origin and support, disclosure and targets; and

How RES-E, biofuels, CHP and renewable heat inter-relate.

This was the first in a planned series of events addressing guarantee of origin systems.

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 13 March 2008

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POLICY Welcoming speech by H.E. Paolo Guido Spinelli, Ambassador of Italy to Hungary
Chairman's introduction to the conference (Christof Timpe, AIB president, Germany)
Introduction to AIB (Christof Timpe, AIB president, Germany)
Keynote -fundaments of the energy package and the new Renewables Directive (Karina Veum, EU Commission)
Need for a common approach for certification - EECS, legal structure, consequences for issuing bodies and the AIB (Marko Lehtovaara, AIB Board Chairman, Finland)
LEGISLATIVE & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK Relationship between GO & support, disclosure and targets (Jan Vorrink, EnerQ, The Netherlands)
CHP guarantee of origins - legal framework, implementation and future usage (Florian Leber, EuroHeat and Power (EHP), Germany)
PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION The market for guarantees of origin (Peter Niermejer, RECS International, The Netherlands)
Regulatory perspective: Presentation by Hungarian, Slovenian and Austrian Regulators (Tamás Toth, Magyar Energia Hivatal, Hungary,
Gorazd Skerbinek, AGEN-RS, Slovenia
and Dietmar Preinstorfer, E-Control, Austria)