North African Power Pool

COMELEC (Maghreb Electricity Committee) is a body created in June 1974, on the basis of a preliminary agreement between the General Directorates of STEG (Tunisia), SONELGAZ (Algeria) and ONE (Morocco) . Its extension to SONELEC (Mauritania) in 1975 and then to GECOL (Libya) in 1989 came after Mauritania joined the UMA (Arab Maghreb Union) and the extension of this body to Libya by virtue of the Treaty of Marrakech which enshrined the institutionalization of the AMU (Treaty of February 17, 1989).

The permanent nature of COMELEC was enshrined by decision of the Ministers responsible for Energy of the AMU countries and of the Secretary General of this body, at the meeting of 13 and 14 February 1990 in Tunis.

During this meeting, it was also decided to domicile the General Secretariat of COMELEC, under the aegis of the Minister in charge of energy of the host country, in this case, the Algerian Minister in charge of Energy .

COMELEC is interested in all questions relating to the electricity sector. Its concerns are those of companies responsible for the development of all electrical activities on a Maghreb scale.

COMELEC's action is particularly aimed at the regular exchange of information between its members, the coordination of equipment and professional training resources, the monitoring of the interconnection of networks, the promotion of industrial integration of the Maghreb countries