A Technical Assistance mission from 7/1/2010 to 12/15/2010 has been organisedthrough Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt to develop an action plan for facilitating investments in the photovoltaic sector. Beyond the initiative, the action plan provides the means for initiative partners to guide their companies in investment decisions in the Másreq region to this end, the findings have been presented in the Seminar held in Barcelona last October 21st Operation 3.

The Technical Assistance mission has been led by TramaTecnoAmbiental consultancy which work has been coordinated by ACC1Ó as leader of this operation.

 The study was conceived as a preliminary market study to approach the potential that a group of five countries in the Mashreq area have regarding the development of photovoltaic projects that could attract EU private investment. As so, it analyses both technical and economic aspects of each country, and offers a comprehensive list of benchmark indicators with which a small medium size company will be able to have summarised vision of the current state and future development of PV in each country.

In order to present the most updated information of the evaluated countries and to consider not only the institutional information, but also the industry feelings and concerns; this study is mainly based on direct feedback from primary sources. This fact has given a clear vision of each state analysed, projects and future plans of the main key players of the sector.

Primary sources have been approached using two step mechanisms. Firstly, a specific questionnaire was prepared and emailed to several key players in each country. And secondly, a selection of key players were interviewed via field mission (ACC1Ó-Egypt undertook the field in Egypt; invest in Israel in Israel and the external experts did the field work in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.