RABAT, Sept 12 (Reuter) - Italy will make every effort to ensure that Morocco and the European Union (EU) conclude an association accord when Rome takes over the rotating EU presidency next year, an Italian official said on Tuesday.

The official Moroccan news agency MAP said Mario D'Urso, Italian undersecretary at the ministry of external trade, made the remarks during a meeting with Moroccan Energy Minister Abdellatif Guerraoui.

"Italy will do everything in its power for the conclusion of an accord between Morocco and the European Union if negotiations now in progress do not achieve results before the end of this year," MAP quoted D'Urso as saying.

Morocco and the EU recently began negotiations on a wider association accord but relations turned sour after the collapse of parallel negotiations last month on a fisheries accord.

EU Fisheries Commissioner Emma Bonino suggested that the 15-nation bloc review its wider relations with Morocco after both sides failed to agree terms for a fisheries accord which would allow the mainly-Spanish EU fleet to fish in Moroccan waters.

The failure of the talks put current EU president Spain in a particularly awkward position as it tried to negotiate trade deals with countries on the southern Mediterranean rim.

MAP said D'Urso and Guerraoui discussed the possibility of Italian participation in Morocco's energy sector, which is being privatised.

It quoted Guerraoui as saying the talks focused on the refining sector. Morocco plans to sell its two main refineries before the end of 1995 and will soon launch tenders for the construction of two combined-cycle power plants.

MAP quoted D'Urso as saying that Italian Foreign Minister Susanna Agnelli planned to visit Morocco in November at the head of a delegation that would include the President of Italy's Industry Federation.

Italy's Fiat Spa recently signed an agreement with Rabat for a car assembly plant in Casablanca and has said that it planned to make Morocco the hub of its North African operations.