Economics Minister Andrej Vizjak said at Thursday's session of the EU Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council that small transit countries, like Slovenia, are faced with having to invest heavily to ensure reliability of the entire region's electricity infrastructure.
With respect to this problem, Slovenia backed the European Commission in its bid to draft new guidelines within the regulation on electricity.
These are to set down a new basis for tackling problems of overloaded electricity grids, as well as enhancing international electricity trade and market integration. Vizjak said he pointed to the problem of small transit countries because of numerous electricity lines which cross Slovenia and influence the reliability of its own network.
The ministers agreed that the EU regulation on energy is an appropriate framework, however, its implementation is another story, Vizjak also said.
The participants also discussed the integration of markets of individual EU states, a move supported by Slovenia, according to the minister.
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