Hanna Hopko, the Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs held a meeting with Lilian Darii, a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova
The meeting which has taken place on September the 28th, was also attended by the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Moldova to Ukraine Ruslan Bolboceanu.
The meeting participants discussed opportunities of bilateral trade cooperation and noticed a high level of the inter-parliamentary ties. In the course of the meeting, there was underlined the European Union should render the both countries a clear vision of their European membership in combination with a set of precise criteria to be accomplished in order to attain stability and due security for the region, as well as fast development and thriving of the two nations.
Particular emphasis was laid upon Ukrainian media broadcasting over Moldova.
Another pressing point that has been touched upon was harmonizing of the Ukraine-Moldova interaction within the ENTSO-E framework with regard to meeting the requirements which are part of the Agreement on future interconnection of the power system of Ukraine and Moldova with the power system of Continental Europe, signed late June with UkrEnergo and MoldElectrica by the electricity transmission system operators (TSOs) of Continental Europe.
Before any
interconnection can be achieved, UkrEnergo and MoldElectrica will have to
implement in the next five years a catalogue of measures including a series of
technical requirements. These measures will include in the near future
adherence to the rules under new EU Guidelines on System Operation which are
expected to enter into force this year. ENTSO-E’s role is to facilitate the
cooperation and coordination between TSOs to ensure effective and transparent
access to the transmission networks and to provide coordinated and
forward-looking planning. Supporting the technical evolution of the
transmission system, including the creation of interconnection capacities with
third-party TSOs, is a fundamental aspect of ENTSO-E’s remit.
The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, ENTSO-E, is an association of 43 European Transmission System Operators, TSOs, from 36 countries, including the synchronously interconnected TSOs in Continental Europe; TSOs in the Nordic countries; TSOs in Great Britain; TSOs in Ireland and TSOs in the Baltic countries. The electrical transmission systems of Continental Europe are synchronously interconnected and comprise the so-called Continental Europe Synchronous Area, CESA. Within ENTSO-E, the Regional Group Continental Europe decides on the extension of CESA by setting the technical prerequisites and by monitoring the compliance and performance of the candidate system before connection.