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High-Level Conference on Gas Market Regulation

Location and date(s) of workshop:	Paris: 26 January 2006

Organiser(s):	IEA / IGU / CIEP

Contact(s):

Background:	The aim of the Conference was to identify the key strategic features of regulatory regimes in natural gas markets that maximise efficiency, security and environmental outcomes. The Conference built on the two regional workshops previously organised by IGU in Europe (October 2005) and US (December 2005). A third regional workshop will be organised by IGU in Asia in the first half of 2006. The IEA/IGU/CIEP High-Level Conference and the three IGU regional workshops will lead to the Strategic Round Table on Regulation at the IGU World Gas Conference in Amsterdam in June 2006. The following four themes were discussed : Changing Paradigms in World Gas Markets and Energy Policy Investments for the Future, the Global Perspective Market Designs and Upstream Market Power Dynamic Regulation

Links to relevant documents:	Programme IEA Conclusions

Proceedings:	Introductory Session - Amb. William C. Ramsay, Deputy Executive Director, International Energy Agency - Mr. George H.B. Verberg, President, International Gas Union The progress of the IGU Special Project on Regulation - Mr. René Snijder, Senior Adviser Regulation, International Gas Union Session 1: Changing Paradigms in World Gas Markets and Energy Policy Chairman: Mr. Noé van Hulst, Director, Office of Long-Term Co-operation & Policy Analysis, IEA Introduction: Miss Joan MacNaughton, Director General, Energy Group, DTI, United Kingdom Panel: Ms. Susan J. Court, Director, Office of Market Oversight and Investigations, FERC, USA Mr. Keiichi Ogi, General Manager, Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd., Paris Representative Office, Japan Mr. Hartmut Schneider, Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Germany Mr. Alistair Buchanan, Chief Executive, Ofgem, United Kingdom Mr. Daniel Lauré, Vice-President Strategy, Total Strategy and Planning, France Session 2: Investments for the Future, the Global Perspective Chairman: Prof. Dr. Coby van der Linde, Director, Clingendael International Energy Programme Introduction: Dr. Dieter Helm, Fellow of Economics, New College, Oxford, UK Panel: Mr. Nicola Pochettino, Senior Economist, International Energy Agency Mr. Knud Petersen, General Manager, Global Commercial and Technical Advice, Shell Gas & Power International B.V., the Netherlands Dr.-Ing. Walter Boltz, Chairman, Austrian Energy Regulatory Authority Mr. Ralf Dickel, Director - Transit, Trade and Relations with Non-Signatories, Energy Charter Treaty Session 3: Market Designs and Upstream Market Power Chairman and Introduction: Mr. George H.B. Verberg, IGU President Panel: Prof. Anatoly Dmitrievsky, Director, Oil and Gas Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Science Mr. Dieter Pfaff, Vice-President, E.On Ruhrgas, Germany Mr. Vincenzo Cavicchia, Chairman of the Gas Sub-Group, Eurelectric Mr. Geert Joosten, President, Gas Infrastructure Europe Mr. Jean-Marie Devos, Secretary General, Eurogas Session 4: Dynamic Regulation Chairman: Mr. Francisco P. de La Flor, Director of Regulation, Enagas Introduction: Dr. Boaz Moselle, Principal, The Brattle Group Panel: Ms. Roberta Luxbacher, Director, Europe Gas Marketing, ExxonMobil International Ltd Mr. Sergio Garribba, Director General for Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Productive Activities, Italy Mr. Jacques de Jong, Senior Fellow, Clingendael International Energy Programme Mrs. Petra H.J. Smeets, Manager Regulatory Affairs, NV Nederlandse Gasunie, Netherlands Mr. Robert Price, Director, European & Asian Affairs, DOE, USA Wrap up/Conclusions/Follow-up - Prof. Dr. Coby van der Linde, Director, Clingendael International Energy Programme - Mr. Noé van Hulst, Director, Office of Long-Term Co-operation & Policy Analysis, IEA