The prime Minister formed officially the national Y2K coordination committee in February 1999. The committee is headed by the State Minister for Cabinet Affairs. The national coordination committee is now coordinating the work in all critical sectors and is also addressing the other sector. Position of the Strategic Sectors Petroleum Sector Y2k committees were set-up at the Ministry level and in all petroleum companies. The Ministry of petroleum and the petroleum companies are all compliant.
Contingency plan is ready.
Electricity sector Y2K program started mid 1998. Two Y2K committees in the Electricity Generation and the Electricity Establishments. Impact assessment showed minor non-compliance in generating plants, mainly in the diagnostics and error reporting equipment. Compliance underway where non-compliance is not considered secondary. In newly installed plants, vendors guaranteed full compliance Billing systems are compliant.