Energy Charter Treaty

21 International Energy Charter • modernisation of power stations, interconnection of power networks and transmission of electricity via high-voltage power lines; • development of integrated regional energy markets; • all aspects of the coal cycle, including clean coal technologies; • development of renewable energy sources; • access to sustainable energy; • transfers of technology and encouragement of innovation; • cooperation in dealing with the effects of major accidents, or of other events in the energy sector with transfrontier consequences. Title IV: Final Provisions The original of this Charter will be transmitted to the Government of the Netherlands which will retain it in its archives. Each of the signatories will receive from the government of the Netherlands a true copy of the Charter. The signatories request the Government of the Netherlands to transmit the text of the International Energy Charter, as adopted during the High Level Conference on the 20 th and 21 st May in The Hague, along with a note verbal to the Secretary General of the United Nations for his/her information and circulation among all UN Member States. The text of the International Energy Charter will be officially translated in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish languages and distributed. Done at The Hague on the 20 th of May 2015.