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ECOTEC has extensive experience in providing research, consulting and technical assistance services to EU institutions, including the European Commission and the European Parliament. Our Brussels office was established in 1984 and continues to provide a physical presence in the European capital.  We deliver European level work using the best available team drawn from offices across the company.

For many years, we have been recognised as a market leader in serving EU clients, particularly in the areas of: 

  • Employment, social affairs and equal opportunities
  • Education, training and culture
  • Information society
  • Local and regional development
  • Energy
  • Environment  

 

In these and other policy areas, ECOTEC is able to deliver large and complex projects that operate across all 27 EU Member States and beyond.  Our team of international staff has expert knowledge of current European policies and the economic, social and environmental issues that influence them.  Through this in-house team and our network of external associates, ECOTEC is able to undertake research in every EU country and all 23 official languages of the EU.  Our multi-disciplinary teams can address the complexity of problems that cut across policy areas.  In all our work for EU clients, we have access to the very highest level of expertise available across Europe. 

Drawing on this substantial in-house and external expertise, our services for EU clients include: 

  • Impact assessments and ex-ante evaluations
  • Feasibility studies
  • Policy research
  • Interim and ex-post evaluation
  • Management of framework contracts
  • Communication and dissemination activities
  • Programme management and secretariat services  

Region Portfolio: Impact of opening electricity and gas markets on employment

This 18 month project was initiated by the European Commission in 2006 and was implemented by ECOTEC on behalf of the Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities.

 

Our aim was to expand findings of the first study into the effects of liberalisation on employment in gas and electricity industries carried out by ECOTEC on behalf of the European Commission in 2000/01 by covering the enlarged EU-27 and Turkey, and by taking into account recent key legislative acts related to the energy sector. Our work also sought to capture examples of good practice of the process by which restructuring has been achieved and managed by different energy companies.

 

Our study produced comprehensive insights and recommendations for policymakers, both at the European and national level, on the effect of liberalisation on employment and identified the groups most affected by restructuring.

james.rampton@ecotec.com
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