Ec energy law (1st ed )

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176 p. · 13.8x21.6 cm · Paperback
This book pulls together the different strands of EC law affecting energy, rather than taking a country by country approach to the subject. It offers an accessible but comprehensive account of the developments of policy relating to energy and addresses the key issues that have emerged, such as security of supply, public service, national/regional competitiveness, environmental issues and employment implications. It then situates these within a broader context of global energy development.




  1. Introduction: EU energy law - literature and information
  2. The role of energy in the EU 2000
  3. EU institutions and energy law and policy
  4. History and evolution of EU energy law and policy
  5. Application of general EU law to the energy industries - freedom of establishment of trade, competition law, merger control, state aids
  6. Specific energy law Directives: Towards a single energy market
  7. Phase I directives: transparency, licensing, transit, utilities and procurement
  8. Phase II directives: Gas and electricity
  9. Secondary EU law and regulations
  10. EU law and nuclear energy
  11. Energy and the environment
  12. Implementation of single market energy Directives in member countries: UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia - the regulators' forum and cross-border trade rules
  13. International and external dimension
  14. Phare, tacis, Synergie, EBRD
  15. Lome and follow-up ACP countries agreements
  16. EU trade agreements: WTO, association partnership and PC agreements
  17. Accession negotiations and energy
  18. Energy Charter Treaty - pre-investment/ post-investment, investment and arbitration transit, trade, competition, environment, tax, other dispute settlement procedures - supplementary treaty and relation to failed MAI
  19. Special issues: direct effect in EU and member countries law
  20. Conclusions
  21. Markets versus pro-active EU regulation
  22. National versus international regulators, courts, commission services - national culture, EU integration and globalisation
  23. Subsidiary and uniformity - liberalisation and re-regulation
  24. Proposals
    - partial integration among like-minded countries - problem of reciprocity
    - integration outside EU: ECA - NAFTA - North Atlantic energy integration
    - EU energy chapter
    - expansion of energy charter treaty