THE CRISIS OF THE ENERGETIC SECTOR

The competitivity of the European Economy is assured by the energetic sector. At the European Community level,there existed from the very beginning, in the energetic sector, a cooperation of the nuclear politics, a restructuring of the coal industry and a better security of the petrol supply. Until the 80's, efforts were made for the establishing of the common energy politics, but without succes. A view over the energy sector, at the level of the member states of the European Union shows that between the member states there existed huge differences regarding the national energetic structures and the national interests in this sector are in contradiction with the supranational authority of the European Union. After the 90's, the problem of the liberalization of the energy and gas internal market was discussed at the European Union. The European Carta for Energy, elaborated in 1991 and signed by 51 states together with the Carta Treaty promotes the cooperation in the energy sector on the European continent, because of the Russian energy offer. In 2002 the European Council in Barcelona adopts the full liberalization decision for the electric energy and methan gas markets to try to avoid the effets of the economic crisis. The liberalization of the energy markets represents a central instrument of the common politics in the energy field and its purpose is to avoid energy crises. The liberalization of the energy markets is a global tendancy.