On April 19th 2005 Boris Ayuev, CEO of System Operator of UES of Russia, and Martin Fuchs, President of the UCTE and CEO of E.ON Netz GmbH, signed the Cooperation Agreement.

Helmut Schmitt von Sydow, Director of DG-TREN, European Commission: “Efficient market integration requires technological infrastructure.”

M. Fuchs, President of UCTE and CEO of E.ON Netz: “A historical day for UCTE: the Cooperation Agreement is signed.”

B. Ayuev, CEO of System Operator of UES of Russia: “We are starting a joint project of large scale."

M. Luther, Project Manager: “The world will look on our project”