Directorate-General for Energy and Transport

The Directorate General for Energy and Transport ( DG TREN for short ) was a Directorate General of the European Commission . She was assigned to the Commissioner for Transport and the Commissioner for Energy , in the EU Commission Barroso (2004 to 2009) these were Antonio Tajani and Andris Piebalgs . Matthias Ruete was the head of the general management .

Among other things, the Directorate General was responsible for the regulation and control of the European Energy and Transport Association. In terms of energy policy, it steered the connection of energy sources according to demand and organized the opening of the energy market for electricity and gas as well as the market for rail transport.

On February 17, 2010, the Directorate-General for Energy and Transport was split into the Directorate-General for Energy and the Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport .

Directorates

The Directorate-General consisted of ten directorates, eight in Brussels (700 employees) and two in Luxembourg (300 employees).

The directorates in Brussels were (August 2007):

Directorate R: Resources
Directorate A: General Affairs
Directorate B: Trans-European Networks for Energy and Transport
Directorate C: Security of Supply and Energy Markets
Directorate D: New and Renewable Energies, Energy Efficiency and Innovation
Directorate E: Land Transport
Directorate F: Air Transport
Directorate G: Logistics, Innovation, Co-Modality and Maritime Transport
Directorate J: Safety and protection of people, goods and facilities

The directorates in Luxembourg were (August 2007):

Directorate H: Nuclear Energy
Directorate I: Monitoring of Nuclear Safety

Some directorates were partially assigned to Euratom .

Political control function

The Directorate-General had the political control function for the following European agencies and European executive agencies (October 2006):

European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) in Lisbon.

European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) in Cologne.

European Railway Agency (ERA) in Valenciennes.

Galileo Joint Undertaking in Brussels.

GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) in Brussels.

Euratom Supply Agency (ESA) in Luxembourg.

history

On January 1, 2000, the General Directorate for Energy and Transport was created by merging the two General Directorates for Energy and Transport. In June 2002, Directorates H and I were created out of Euratom Safeguards .

politics

Trans-European Networks

The trans-European networks consist of the networks for energy (TEN-Energie), transport (TEN-Verkehr) and telecommunications (eTEN). Projects of international importance are co-financed by the EU budget line TEN, the EU structural funds (particularly the European regional development fund ) and the cohesion fund .

The Transport Ministers established the Pan-European Transport Corridors in 1994 and 1997 to complement the Trans-European Transport Network for Western Europe. These main traffic axes are to connect Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals and from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean.

Forums of Florence and Madrid

In 1998 the European Commission created the so-called Forum of Florence (European Electricity Regulation Forum (EERF)) and in 1999 the so-called Forum of Madrid (European Gas Regulation Forum (EGRF)). Both forums to be held once or twice a year were intended to promote the integration of national energy markets into a single European energy market.