The Energy Community Secretariat facilitates the NECP process in various roles including:
- providing informal comments on preliminary NECP drafts or draft chapters;
- facilitating the cooperation of modelling experts in Contracting Parties in order to create a harmonized and comparable analytical and modelling practice, underpinning the NECP development;
- assessing draft NECPs and possibly issuing country-specific recommendations to Contracting Parties no later than six months before the deadline for submitting final NECPs;
- monitoring and assessing the ambition and contribution of the targets, policies and measures in the draft NECPs or draft updates of NECPs to the overall Energy Community 2030 targets;
- on the basis of the integrated progress reports, assessing the progress made at Contracting Parties’ level and by each Contracting Party individually towards meeting the EU targets by 31 October 2025 and every two years after. In addition, the Secretariat issues recommendations in case of inconsistencies with overarching EU objectives or insufficient progress made towards meeting national objectives, targets and contributions.
