March 9, 2022 Bratislava. For the fourth time, members and invited guests met with important stakeholders for a joint breakfast and discussion on current topics in the battery industry.

The current guest was the State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic RNDr. Karol Galek, MSc., who presented the preparation of new legislation in energy sector, which he considers a breakthrough: "Batteries will play an irreplaceable role in the near future and we are thinking of this in the new legislation that is being prepared," he said.

The new legal regulation of Act no. 251/2012 Coll. on Energy and Act No. 309/2009 Coll. on the promotion of renewable energy sources , in addition to new concepts such as aggregator, aggregation, energy community, energy storage, introduces the liberalization of the electricity market and its new conditions. Following the evaluation of the comments by the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, the new legislation submitted to the Government of the Slovak Republic will probably take place in April.