Turkey’s Compliance with European Union Energy Rules and Policies

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Hosein Mofidi Ahmadi ¹

1 - Ph.D. of International Relations from Islamic Azad University, Reaserch and Science Baranch, Iran, Tehran

Received: 2014-06-19 Accepted : 2014-09-02 Published : 2014-11-06

Keywords: Turkey, Compliance, Europeanization, EU Accession Process, European Union Energy Rules and Policies,

Abstract :

This paper aims to investigate Turkey’s compliance with European Union energy rules and policies.  European Union encourages and reinforces member states and candidate countries to compliance with its rules and policies by normative and monitoring structures. Because of European Union’s sensitive situation in energy sector, candidate countries compliance with EU energy policies, is one of the most important requirements for the country’s accession to the Europe Union. It seems that Turkey in its accession process, have been significant advances in compliance with EU rules and policies in the sectors of energy supply security; internal market; energy efficiency; renewable energy sources and transnational networks. To test this hypothesis, the author tries to utilize Compliance literature and investigate the Turkey’s compliance with European Union energy rules and policies from the perspective of annual progress reports of EU and focus on different sectors of the country’s energy.

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