(ANSA) - MILAN - Snam and EDA THESS, one of the main gas infrastructure corporations in Greece, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for developing collaboration opportunities to support the management and development of the distribution infrastructure managed by the Greek company, in view of the upcoming final phase of the market opening.

The Memorandum is part of the activities that Snam recently launched with the Global Solutions business unit, with the aim of leveraging at a global level Snam's expertise, core competences and know-how developed in 75 years of experience along the entire gas infrastructure chain in Italy and Europe. The collaboration is targeting, inter alia, to support EDA THESS in the development and implementation of methodologies and technologies with maximum efficiency, consistently with the regulatory framework. Greece has opted for the unbundling of the natural gas activities at the end of 2016, foreseeing a full customer eligibility from January 2018, promoting also a further development of the gas market to enable a more extensive use of natural gas across the country. (ANSA).