At the margins of the residential part of the Annual Training on the Regulation of Energy Utilities, Maria Olczak (FSR) discusses with Sergio Ascari (FSR; REF, Ricerche per l’Economia e la Finanza) current developments in Ukrainian gas market. In June 2017, at the latest meeting of the Eastern Partnership Platform 3 on Energy Security, the FSR has presented its recent study on Ukrainian gas market reforms. Sergio Ascari, who is one of the authors of the report, explains the main findings of the study.

In the second part of the interview, Sergio Ascari explains the situation in Central and Eastern European countries, which was one of the regions that suffered the most during the 2009 gas crisis, but also invested heavily in the development of new infrastructure. However, security is not just a matter of hardware: infrastructures need to be complemented by the adoption of efficient market arrangements, i.e. a proper software.