Liberalization on the CEE energy market - Progress & Challenges, March 20th - 22nd, 2006
6th International IIR Congress
Vienna (pts009/02.03.2006/08:10) The 6th time in 2006 the Institute for International Research (IIR) in Austria organizes the http://www.iir.at/u/DV953">EPCON Central and Eastern European Congress on Liberalization of the energy market of seven CEE countries and as a special highlight energy market information of Turkey. The event takes place in the Congress Casino Baden near Vienna. More and more companies in the electricity and gas industry are exposed to keen competition and have to develop strategies to survive - how they progress and practice, as well as the experiences made by Scandinavian companies and their policies will be presented on the event. These exciting inputs are accompanied by different discussions with the Ministries, Regulation Authorities and EU Members. Due to this fact knowledge and experiences can be exchanged.
Speakers at the conference are Central and Eastern European Ministry and Regulatory Authority Members: From Czech Republic (Josef Firt), Hungary (Isztvan Pataki), Romania (Alexandru Sandulescu), Slovakia (Jan Klepac), Slovenia (Gorazd Skerbinek). They will inform about their actual liberalization status and get in touch with EU Commission Members on the conference.The second part of the conference is concentrated on global players in Central Eastern European and Western European countries: Vattenfall -Sweden, Gazprom - Russia, MOL - Hungary, Cez - Bulgaria and many more. Finally, the third day we get in the Turkish energy market with actual hot topics and the market situation there.
The main focus of the conference is set on exchange of experiences and knowledge about the liberalization and unbundling process amongst Eastern and Western European companies including Scandinavian and Northern European players. The topics are highly interesting with a good mix of economical, financial and legal subjects.
To top the conference festivities off, the competition for the http://www.iir.at/u/DV953">EPCON AWARD - powered by Accenture - will be open for the first time also to Eastern European companies in the energy sector.
The EPCON CEE website http://www.iir.at/u/DV953">www.epcon-cee.at offers a good overview about the congress program, the speakers and the Award. Additionally, Mrs. Dagmar Wasilewski, conference Manager, Tel: +43 (1) 891 59-652, e-mail: dagmar.wasilewski@iir.at can be contacted for further details
If you are interested in free press admission, please contact Ms. Renata Pasich, PR Senior Marketing Manger, Tel.: +43 (1) 891 59-314, e-mail: renata.pasich@iir.at.
About IIR
The Institute for International Research was founded in 1972 in New York. It started as editor of the 'International Tax Report' and produced the first conferences in UK in 1978. Due to the success of the first events, the focus of IIR rapidly switched to conferences. In 1989 IIR entered the seminar and training market by taking over the company 'American Institute'. This merger enabled IIR to extend its seminar-business in the area of Europe, Australia and Asia. Nowadays IIR consists of a global network of more than 40 companies which offer more than 20,000 events worldwide per year with more than 600,000 attendees of the management sector in 2004. IIR has been successfully presented in the Austrian market since 1992. The office, which is considered to be the market leader in the area of business information, is based in Vienna. In 2005 T&F Informa plc acquired IIR Holdings Limited ( http://www.iir-global.com/ ) and IIR Austria became part of http://group.informa.com">Informa Group. To learn more about the complete IIR organization, please visit http://www.iir-global.com">www.iir-global.com
| Aussender: | Institute for International Resarch (IIR) GmbH. |
| Ansprechpartner: | Mag. Renata Pasich |
| Tel.: | +43 (1) 891 59-314 |
| E-Mail: | renata.pasich@iir.at |
