The EU nations are close to a common energy policy, agreeing on cleaner fuel targets while watering down a proposal to force the break-up of the sector into production and distribution operators.
European Union regulators want to split energy utility groups, in electricity and natural gas markets, into separate production and transmission businesses so as to make networks accessible to companies without their own grids.
The ministers agreed on the general objectives.
(News from Brussels)
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