According to the Energy Ministry, the Moldovan government at a meeting on November 12 approved the denunciation of the last of the 10 energy agreements in force with the CIS states, thus completing the process of withdrawal from all commitments aimed at energy cooperation within the CIS.
The last denounced document was signed in Minsk in 1995 and concerns the use of compressed natural gas as fuel for motor vehicles.
According to the Ministry of Energy, the 10 agreements cover various segments of the energy sector. Six of these documents deal with technical cooperation with CIS countries, parallel operation of energy systems, transit of electricity and establishment of unified procedures for system operation. These documents became irrelevant due to the synchronization of the national energy system with the continental European ENTSO-E grid in 2022. After this synchronization, the national energy system was disconnected from the CIS unified energy system (UES/OES) and operates in accordance with European norms and standards.
The other three agreements concerned the natural gas and oil products sector, including transit of natural gas, oil and oil products, as well as the use of compressed natural gas in transportation. According to the Energy Ministry, the denunciation of these documents was justified and necessary in the context of Moldova’s reorientation to the European energy market after the elimination of dependence on Russian energy carriers and the transition to the purchase of gas on European exchanges.
One of the agreements also concerned the transit of oil and oil products through trunk pipelines. It was considered irrelevant because there are no pipelines for transportation of oil products on the territory of Moldova, and the country’s participation in the agreement was of a formal nature.
To date, Moldova has denounced a total of 64 agreements concluded within the CIS framework, which either no longer correspond to modern realities or did not bring direct benefits to the citizens.
