Benelux, France and Germany couple their electricity markets

On the 6th of June 2007, the Energy Ministers of the Benelux, France and Germany as well as the representatives of the transmission system operators, the power exchanges, the regulators and the market parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding on market coupling and security of supply in Central Western Europe (Benelux, France and Germany).

Jan van Laarhoven, Secretary-General of the Benelux, was the privileged witness of the official handing over, by the Ministers, of the signed document to the European Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs during a summit meeting of the Pentalateral Energy forum in the margins of the European Energy Council in Luxembourg.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING