Egemen Bağış attended the Quadripartite Meeting of “Türkiye-EU Positive Agenda: Enhanced Energy Cooperation between EU and Türkiye”

Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bağış came together with Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yıldız, EU Commissioner for energy Günther Oettinger and EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Füle in the quadripartite meeting of “Türkiye-EU Positive Agenda: Enhanced Energy Cooperation between EU and Türkiye” in Stuttgart.

Joint statement by Bağış, Yıldız, Oettinger and Füle

Türkiye and the EU are important energy partners, sharing common strategic challenges and objectives. There is great scope for cooperation on issues which are in the interest of both sides.

Following their meeting in Istanbul on 9 February 2012, where the Ministers and Commissioners agreed to look at concrete possibilities to deepen EU-Türkiye energy relations, they agreed today to focus efforts on 5 topics of mutual interest:

• Long term perspectives on energy scenarios and energy mix

• Market integration and development of infrastructures of common interest (gas, electricity, oil)

• Global and regional energy cooperation

• Promotion of renewable energy, energy efficiency and clean energy Technologies

• Nuclear safety and rediation protection

The Ministers and Commissioners agreed to establish a steering group to coordinate the joint work of teams of experts and to report regularly to the ministers and Commissioners. They also decided on some specific activities which should start immediately, focusing on gas, electricity, energy efficiency, renewable energy and nuclear energy.

This cooperation will contribute to a positive agenda for EU-Türkiye relations in general, and it will facilitate the eventual integration of EU and Türkiye energy markets. Such integration will not only increase security of energy supply in Europe and Türkiye, it will also create important business opportunities.