The Implementation of the Internal Electricity and Gas Market

The European Council in barcelona in March 2002 welcomed the first benchmarking report of the Commission concerning the effective opening of the internal market for gas and electricity and called on the Commission to update it annually before every Spring European Council. This Report contains the final updated results of the Commission's second benchmarking exercise. The report now includes preliminary results for candidate countries for which a limited amount of information has been collected during 2002.