Edited by Matteo Manera - Energy Governance, Institutions and Policies in China and the EU

In 2005, in view of China’s surging energy demand, which underscored the contradictions between supply and demand and the lack of coordination in the development of the energy industry, the Chinese Government strengthened strategic control over energy by establishing the National Energy Leading Group, headed by the Prime Minister and comprising the National Development and Reform Commission, the M. [...] The National Energy Administration is mainly responsible for regulating the energy industry and taking over from the National Development and Reform Commission and its subordinate agency, the National Energy Administration, the administrative responsibilities related to the energy industry, as well as the responsibilities of the Office of the National Energy Leading Group and of the Commission of. [...] The national energy regulatory system involves eight government entities, namely the National Energy Commission, the National Energy Administration, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Environment, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission[U1] and the State Administration of Coalmine Safety. [...] The expiry of the ECSC Treaty has meant the end of the ECSC research programme and the transfer of research in the coal and steel industries within the framework of a new European research fund named ‘Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel’(RFCS). [...] In order to contribute to the transparency of the oil product market, the Commission publishes the weekly Oil Bulletin, which describes the price trends of the main petroleum products and the evolution of the taxation of these products in Member States.