Seminario sobre mejores ofertas para los consumidores de energía

The objective of the Seminar is to discuss how to facilitate better deals for consumers in energy reflecting on existing best practice from across the EU and to identify potential actions at the Member State level towards empowering/activating consumers.

The Seminar will be interactive with short statements from invited speakers from consumer organisations, national energy regulatory authorities, national energy agencies and/or other public and civil society organisations. Focus will be on identifying why and how national campaigns were successful, what worked well (and what not) and the main lessons learnt for the organisers and for policy-makers.

Chair: D. Spanou, Director, Consumer Affairs

Draft Agenda

13:00     Registration and lunch offered by the Commission

14:00     Keynote speech by Commissioner Mimica

14:15     Switching Campaigns

Collective switching campaigns – testimonies by consumer associations that organised them

Michiel Karskens, Consumentenbond, The Netherlands

Vitor Machado, DECO, Portugal

David Miguel Ortega, OCU, Spain

Karine De Crescenzo, UFC – Que Choisir, France

Georgia Caroli, Test Achats, Belgium

Individual switching campaigns – testimonies from national energy regulators

                Belgian Federal Energy Regulatory Authority

                Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets

15:50     Energy saving actions/campaigns – testimonies from organisers

Good practices across Europe – European Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

‘Energy Efficiency at Home’ programme – Presentation by Greek Energy & Climate Change Ministry

Involving vulnerable consumers in energy efficiency - Presentation from ACHIEVE project (Action in low-income Households to Improve energy Efficiency through Visits and Energy diagnosis)

16:50     Closing remarks by chair

17:00     End of meeting