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This document is a summary of the main debates of the Seminar organized by the Energy Chair of Orkestra and Notre Europe- Jacques Delors Institute at the Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall on 4th July at Bilbao, Spain. The seminar focused on energy regional cooperation. In this regard it was organized in three panels. The first one offered an overview of the State of art of national energy policies in transition in Spain, Portugal and France. Speakers introduced the principal characteristics of the energy policy in the Iberian Peninsula, Portugal and Spain, as well as in France, and how they address the energy transition. It also looked at how these national energy systems are impacted by EU energy policy.

In the following panel about the potential interaction between the three countries through Regional Cooperation as a key channel for improving the current European Energy Policy framework, presenters addressed the issue of regional cooperation as an instrument to improve the present framework of the European energy policy. It identified current obstacles to further cooperation in the energy field among the countries involved, with a specific focus on the issues related to the physical infrastructures needed to achieve an adequate interconnection and to secure energy supplies.

The last panel dealt with the future governance of European energy policy post 2020 including the finalization of the EU internal energy market by 2014/15 as well as the post 20/20/20 EU energy policy framework by 2030.