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European Parliament approves new Renewable Energy Directive

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • European Union
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  • January 8 2009

Following protracted negotiations between the European Commission and European Council at the beginning of December 2008, the European Parliament officially approved the proposed new Renewable Energy Directive (the Directive) on 17 December 2008

Brussels energy brief

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • European Union
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  • January 25 2007

At a briefing in December, Germany's Permanent Representative to the European Union described energy as a "difficult issue" for Germany's Presidency of the European Council in the first half of 2007

Nuclear energy

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

The EU’s competence in nuclear matters derives from the 1957 EURATOM Treaty (see above

The market regime of the Second Gas and Electricity Directives

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

In the wake of the coming into force of the First Gas and Electricity Directives, it became apparent that they were implemented very unevenly throughout the EU with access to networks and interconnectors often being granted on a discriminatory basis. Further, market concentration in the energy sector remained very high after the implementation of the First Gas and Electricity Directives

Security of supply

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

The liberalisation and integration of the energy markets have had consequences far beyond the actual economics of the energy sector itself; in the past, security of supply used to be a matter firmly in the hands of partly or wholly stateowned companies

New TPA regulation

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

On 1 July 2006, Regulation (EC) No 17752005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 September 2005 (the “Regulation”) on conditions for access to the natural gas transportation networks applies directly across the European Union came into effect

Public service obligations (“PSOs”)

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

The Second Gas Electricity Directives make it clear that public service requirements are a fundamental requirement for the proper functioning of the internal energy market

Renewable energy in the EU

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

The main reference document in which European policies for the renewable energy sector are defined is the White Paper on renewable energy, which was adopted in November 1997

The EU’s competency in energy matters

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

Whilst concerns about energy security lay at the heart of the European integration project, European energy policy was initially restricted to the coal and nuclear sectors, with the EU deriving its authority in these areas from the treaty establishing, in 1951, the European Coal and Steel Community (“ECSC”) and, in 1957, the treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (“EURATOM”

European energy review 2007

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union
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  • February 8 2007

Towards an EU energy policy 2006 was dominated by the energy sector Inquiry (the “Inquiry”) and the publication of the European Commission’s Green Paper for a common European Energy Policy (the “Green Paper”