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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7879

12 January 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission welcomes changes to agreements between E.ON, Statkraft and Elssam electricity companies, freeing capacity on lines between Germany, Denmark and Norway

Brussels, 11/01/2001 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission noted that the electricity companies, E.ON (German), Statkraft (Norway) and Elsam (Danish), have modified as of 1 January the agreements that would have allowed them to merge all of their electricity transportation capacity between Denmark and Norway and a third of their capacity between Denmark and Germany.

In a context of capacity shortages, the long-term reservation agreements concluded by the companies would have given, for...

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