Western Balkans and Ukraine

In the Western Balkans in March 2023, Serbian oil and gas company NIS extended the public call for the design and technical documentation for the construction of a hydrogen production plant near the Elemir refinery near Zrenjanin.

As the electrification of the transport sector has been a major goal of all European transport policies, Western Balkans countries, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo (references to Kosovo shall be understood in the context of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999)) are going through the same process as they are contracting parties to the Energy Community Treaty (2006) and Transport Community Treaty (2019), under which they are obliged to transpose EU energy and