EUROPEX members, in their General Assembly on 22 November in Brussels, elected José Carvalho Netto, chairman and CEO of both OMIE S.A. (the Spanish management company operating the Iberian spot market) and OMIP S.G.M.R. S.A. (the Portuguese office of the Iberian market operator for forward market), as chairman of EUROPEX, the Association of European Energy Exchanges. José Carvalho Netto takes over the chairmanship from Jean-François Conil-Lacoste, CEO of Powernext S.A. and EPEX Spot S.E., and will chair the association, according to its statutes, for a two-year term, starting in January 2012. The General Assembly also welcomed the Central European Gas Hub AG (CEGH AG) of Austria, the Slovak Power Exchange (OKTE S.A.) and the Single Electricity Market Operator (SEMO) of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland as new full members of EUROPEX. www.europex.org