The Commission shall facilitate and encourage coordination among Member States with a view to:

1. (a)

   reviewing developments in relation to intergovernmental agreements and striving for consistency and coherence in the Union’s external energy relations with producer, transit, and consumer countries;

2. (b)

   identifying common problems in relation to intergovernmental agreements and considering appropriate action to address those problems and, where appropriate, proposing solutions;

3. (c)

   on the basis of best practice and in consultation with Member States, developing optional model clauses, which, if applied, would significantly improve compliance of future intergovernmental agreements with Union law;

4. (d)

   supporting, where appropriate, the development of multilateral intergovernmental agreements involving several Member States or the Union as a whole.