Abstract
There are great modifications in the organization of the electric sector in Europe. It is agreed that the sector management must change and must adapt to the requirements of the European Unique Market, and that consequently the invisible power of the private market must replace the visible power of the European governments. The objective is obviously an improvement of the service for the final customer - consumers and producers - and thus of a greater economic effectiveness of the European productions. The European dynamism pushes towards a total opening of the markets. The ultimate objective of the Member States, determined during the European Council of Lisbon, aims to the development of a full market opening. EDF's creation is linked to the ambitious program of hydraulic equipment launched a few years before the World War 2 by the Minister of Civil Engineering's (Ministre des Travaux Publics), confirmed in a difficult time by the organization of Vichy (Comité d'Organisation de Vichy) and reaffirmed in a more ambitious perspective in March, 1946 by the “Plan Monnet”.
