In Brussels on Tuesday 21 June, Kosovo and Serbia’s chief negotiators agreed on the Energy Agreements’ Implementation Roadmap under the EU-facilitated dialogue, which imposes specific obligations on both sides, the European External Action Service has announced in a statement.
The EU welcomed the adoption of the roadmap as a “step forward in the normalisation of relations”, calling for progress on other outstanding measures.
According to the EEAS, the roadmap sets out a clear timetable and concrete steps for the implementation of the 2013 and 2015 energy agreements, which have only been partially implemented, with “relevant elements still outstanding”.
The Diplomatic Service explained that as a result of the agreement reached on Tuesday, Elektrosever, a Serbian-owned company established in Kosovo and subject to Kosovo law, will start supplying electricity to customers in the four Serb-majority northern municipalities. “This paves the way towards ending the non-transparent and non-regulated current practice”, it stressed.
In addition, the EU requested the Energy Community Secretariat to monitor the technical implementation of the commercial agreement between Elektrosever and KEDS, the Kosovo Energy Distribution Company. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)