Introduction

The successful cooperation of the regulatory authorities of Albania, Greece and Italy as well as the Energy Community Secretariat (the "Secretariat") and the European Com-mission in the case of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline ("TAP") is appreciated as a milestone for the Energy Community. The national regulators had developed a Joint Opinion on the exemption of the TAP project from certain regulatory requirements under the Gas Di-rective , such as unbundling, third party access and tariff regulation, and notified their corresponding exemption decisions to the European Commission and the ...