"Eastern Climate Change Network" successfully founded
On 3-5.4.02, the first conference and training workshop within the framework of DG TREN's Synergy Eastern Climate Change Network Pro­ject was carried out in the Moscow Region. During this event organisations from the pro­ject's executive consortium (MVV Consultants and Engineers, Tebodin Consultants and Engi­neers, ADEME and East-West Energy Agency) participated with executives from some 25 en­ergy and environmental expert organisations in EU accession countries, Eastern Europe and the NIS. The event was addressed and welcomed by Mr. Vardakis from the European Commission's Delegation in the Russian Federation as well as by representatives from the World Wildlife Fund, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation and RAO EES Rossii, Russia's large state-owned power utility which is actively working on this subject itself and recently created its own Carbon Fund. Over the three days, the participants received a com­prehensive overview of the current status of im­plementation of Kyoto flexibility mechanisms in a number of ANNEX I - countries and in countries to which the Clean Development Mechanism is applied. The presentations were complemented by information on the respective activities and experience collected in the Netherlands, France and Germany. Specific exercises trained partici­pants on issues regarding the history and back­ground of the Kyoto process and rules for its im­plementation and on the preparation of project idea notes for projects that would be suitable for submission under Joint Implementation or Clean Development Mechanisms. Training courses were held on services needed for the imple­mentation of the Kyoto flexibility mechanisms during particular projects, and requirements to these services were explained in detail. The conference and workshop represented the offi­cial start of the new international organisation, "Eastern Climate Change Network", comprising 11 countries up to now. Through its database and website (www.eclimnet.com), the Eastern Climate Change Network will significantly con­tribute to the implementation of Kyoto flexibility

mechanisms in future and will provide targeted assistance and service support to investors in­terested in carrying out projects that are aimed at a reduction of climate gases in the regarded area.
Contact: Daniel Droste, d.droste@ consultants.mvv.de

Extended stay for PIU in Belgrade

The European Agen­cy for Reconstruc­tion (EAR) in Bel­grade has recently confirmed a contract extension with MVV Consultants and En­gineers for the Ener­gy Programme

Ser­bia 2001 - Project Implementation Unit (PIU) un­til the summer of 2002, thereby raising the total contract budget to 1.15 million Euros. With the reduction of PIU experts from 6 to 5 members, the team now has a strong Serbian supporting component which has proved invaluable as re­gards dealing with local companies, EPS coop­eration and acquiring in depth experience of Serbian working practices. With deadlines ap­proaching for multi-million euro work contracts, a combination of power sector experience is re­quired to ensure that the generation / transmission cycle is in keeping with pre­determined EU parameters. Please contact: t.mansfield@consultants.mvv.de

MVV at the Hanover Fair

At MVV’s stand in the Hanover Fair, the Chinese and the German Ministers for Economic Affairs Li Rongrong (centre) and Werner Müller (right), inform themselves about MVV Consultants and Engineers’ projects worldwide.