A Reference Paper on Energy Services: The Best Way Forward?
Article from: OGEL 4 (2006), in Roundup of Articles
Abstract
The energy services sector was largely disregarded during the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. The process of privatization and liberalization, started at the end of the 1980s, revolutionized a sector traditionally dominated by state-owned, vertically integrated companies, and de facto conferred to it a new and more global, trade dimension. After a description of the characteristics of the energy services market, the paper illustrates several issues of fundamental importance for the ongoing negotiations on energy services. Particular emphasis is placed on the ...