INOGATE & Energy standards
Standards enable access to markets and build trust, ensure good practice, increase competitiveness, protect consumers, improve efficiency and reduce risk. They enable technology transfer among countries. Standards should work together with the policies and regulations of companies, countries and regions. Where they are incompatible, consensus-building is essential to adopt and accept standards.
The lack of harmonisation of codes and practices in the electricity and gas sector are major obstacles to the convergence of energy markets between the EU and INOGATE Partner Countries (PCs). The old Soviet system, based on GOST standards, is being replaced by a new, voluntary system of standards which will reflect more fully the national standards of a country as used by its industry and its various stakeholders. Harmonisation with EU and International standards requires the adoption of new standards, amendment of existing technical regulations and development of new secondary legislation.
Since 2008, INOGATE has facilitated the adoption of 12 Euro-Asian Standardization Council (EASC) Inter-State gas standards by INOGATE PCs; they were based on translated EU and International standards. In addition to these Inter-State standards, EASC also provided the PCs with 100 translations of standards previosuly carried out by the INOGATE project. These standards are at different stages of adoption and readiness in PCs and are slowly being included as part of the National Standardisation Programmes for their adoption as national standards.
To prepare countries for this step, a series of seminars, conferences and study tours have been organised to familiarise PC delegates involved in standardization with how EU standardization systems work, the international bodies responsible for standardization (ISO, CEN/CENELEC, BSI) and important private companies that establish standards for industry around the world. INOGATE is supporting the establishment of technical committees on gas and electricity for the sustainable and effective harmonisation of specific standards in each INOGATE Partner Country.
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Ministers, deputy-ministers and other high-ranking officials from INOGATE Partner Countries (PCs), Directors-General from the European Commission and European representatives of international financial organisations, energy agencies, the private s... Read more
The fundamental European standards have already been adopted by some countries in the INOGATE region. However, its implementation is delayed due to the inaccessibility of the secondary documents, i.e. technical regulations and standards of the ... Read more
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INOGATE & Energy standards
| Activity Title ▴▾ | Date ▾ | Status ▴▾ | Location | Type |
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| INOGATE Annual Report 2009 | 15/02/2009 - 14/02/2012 | Completed | Publications Reports and Studies |
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| INOGATE Web Portal | 15/02/2009 - 14/02/2012 | Ongoing | Publications | |
| Preparation of INOGATE Country Leaflets | 01/06/2011 - 14/02/2012 | Ongoing | Publications | |
| INOGATE 15th Anniversary Report - INOGATE in Milestones 1996-2011 | 14/02/2012 - 14/02/2012 | Completed | Publications | |
| INOGATE Annual Report 2011 | 30/11/2011 - 14/02/2012 | Completed | Publications Reports and Studies |
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| Translation of 3rd Energy Package of EU Directives | 30/11/2011 - 14/02/2012 | Completed | Publications Reports and Studies |
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| AHEF Project Fiches | 01/01/2010 - 18/01/2012 | Completed | Country Requests (AHEFS) Event |
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| PPF Project Fiches | 01/06/2010 - 18/01/2012 | Completed | Country Requests (AHEFS) Reports and Studies Event |
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| SEMISE Case Stories | 18/01/2009 - 18/01/2012 | Completed | Reports and Studies Country Requests (AHEFS) Event |
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| SEMISE Methodological Approaches | 18/01/2009 - 18/01/2012 | Completed | Reports and Studies | |
| Development of Country Communication Action Plans | 01/03/2011 - 31/12/2011 | Ongoing | Publications | |
| Textbooks | 30/09/2011 - 31/12/2011 | Ongoing | Publications Reports and Studies |
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| Meeting of the INOGATE Country Coordinators and Working Group Members 13-14 December 2011 | 13/12/2011 - 14/12/2011 | Completed | Brussels (Belgium) | Event INOGATE Meetings |
| Closing conference of the project “Feasibility studies for expanding the Boyarka Gas Metrology Centre” | 06/12/2011 - 06/12/2011 | Completed | Kiev (Ukraine) | Event |
| Brochure 'East-European Regional Centre for Hydrocarbons Metrology' (in Ukrainian) | 06/12/2011 - 06/12/2011 | Completed | Kiev (Ukraine) | Reports and Studies |
| Meeting of the INOGATE Country Coordinators and Working Group Members 18-19 May 2011 | 18/05/2011 - 19/05/2011 | Completed | Brussels (Belgium) | Event INOGATE Meetings |
| Draft Benchmarking Reports on Progress on the Astana Road Map | 03/01/2011 - 11/05/2011 | Ongoing | Reports and Studies | |
| Brochure - 'East-European Regional Centre for Hydrocarbons Metrology' | 08/09/2008 - 30/03/2011 | Completed | Kiev (Ukraine) | Publications Reports and Studies |
| Final conference | 08/02/2011 - 08/02/2011 | Completed | Kiev (Ukraine) | Event INOGATE Meetings |
| Study visit | 17/01/2011 - 21/01/2011 | Completed | Brussels (Belgium) | Event Study visits |
| Final Conference "Environmental Protection in the Oil and Gas Industry of Central Asia – Achievements and Results of the EPMOGI Project" | 14/12/2010 - 15/12/2010 | Completed | Almaty (Kazakhstan) | Event INOGATE Meetings |
| Harmonization methodology for the adoption of international standards and detailed presentation of the two selected high and low voltage pilot standards | 09/12/2010 - 10/12/2010 | Completed | Kiev (Ukraine) | Event Seminars & Workshops |
| Bilingual web-site on standardization | 30/11/2009 - 30/11/2010 | Completed | Publications | |
| EPMOGI Newsletters | 01/11/2009 - 30/11/2010 | Completed | Publications | |
| Inter-regional meeting # 4 of the project “Harmonisation of gas and oil technical standards and practices in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus” | 15/11/2010 - 16/11/2010 | Completed | Kiev (Ukraine) | Event INOGATE Meetings |