the iea carries out a comprehensive programme of energy cooperation among its member countries each of which is obliged to hold oil stocks equivalent to days of its net imports the pepdee work is being undertaken by the iea as a contribution to a task group within the international partnership on energy efficiency cooperation ipeec financial and inkind support for the leas contribution to the pepdee work programme comes from uk decc the us department of energy the australian department of climate change and energy efficiency dccee and the european commissions directorate general of energy dgenergy