Activity Report 2006 – 2009
Posted on April 20, 2009
In 2006, the FECER elected a new Executive Board. As new President, Matthias Hessling (die Führungskräfte VAF-VDF, Germany) was elected. General Secretary continued to be Pat Carragher (BACM-TEAM, United Kingdom), with Alfons Bleyleven (die Führungskräfte VDF-VAF, Germany) as Deputy General Secretary. Treasurer was Michel Morillo (FIEG, France), who later was replaced by Jean-Claude Pelofy (FIEG, France). As Vice Presidents, Jan Olav Brekke (Lederne, Norway), Jean Conan (Enermine, France) and Gaspare Carlo Ingianni (FEDERMANAGER, Italy) were elected.
Meetings of FECER took place frequently in places such as Brussels, Cologne, Stockholm, Paris and Dublin, where FECER met last year with the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Focus of the most recent meeting of 3 June 2009 in Brussels is the question, whether more competencies in energy policy should be transferred to the European Commission.
Several position papers and press statements were published and discussed with decisionmakers on a European level. Due to the important changes in the European energy and related research industries, the growing role of the European Commission in European energy policy, the significant consequences on all employees in the sector and the particular responsibility of energy managers to deal with these changes and challenges, such papers and statements were of particular importance to put forward the opinion of management representatives from the European energy industry.
FECER’s position papers focused on topics such as the “Future challenges of European energy supply”, “Clean Coal for Europe”, or the “EU Emissions Trading Directive”. Corresponding press releases were published, e.g. one in which FECER called on the G8 to meet environmental challenges. Climate change and the environmental challenges how to deal with this problem were one of the key discussion topics in FECER’s meetings. Among the other topics were questions of legislation concerning the nuclear energy industries or the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology and its potential.
In addition, FECER as the representative federation of management signed a further agreement with a company, this time with TOTAL.
Furthermore, FECER established new contacts to federations, who could be interested in a future membership. At the moment, however, FECER has active member federations from a limited number of countries only: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Norway and Spain. Any help from the CEC or from CEC’s member associations/federations to increase the number of members in the FECER would be highly welcomed.
Dr. Matthias Hessling, President of FECER, 20 April 2009
