TIRANA (Albania), May 15 (SeeNews) – Albania’s parliament has approved changes to the energy legislation enabling the effective unbundling of state-owned electricity distribution system operator OSHEE, energy minister Belinda Balluku said.
The amendments aim to bring Albanian laws closer to the legislation of the EU countries in order to create an integrated and more attractive energy market for foreign and local investors, Balluku said in a statement posted on Facebook on Thursday.
He added that all the changes have been implemented in full cooperation with the Energy Community, an international organisation which brings together the European Union and its neighbours to create an integrated pan-European energy market.
In April 2018, OSHEE said it has successfully concluded the unbundling of its operations by registering three separate companies, thus meeting one of the main requests of the Energy Community secretariat.
However, according to the Energy Community secretariat, the country had not correctly transposed the requirements for unbundling of electricity distribution system operators into national legislation and had not taken measures to effectively implement legal and functional unbundling of OSHEE.
The completed registration of separate legal entities responsible for distribution and supply in Albania still does not sufficiently put in place effective operation of de facto unbundled companies, the Energy Community said in June 2019.