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Commission raids german electricity companies

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
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  • January 22 2007

On December 12, 2006, the European Commission (Commission) announced that it had carried out surprise inspections (so-called “dawn raids”) at the premises of several electricity companies in Germany

Wind energy - issues of ownership

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • June 5 2007

A new legal issue has arisen for wind farm developers the potential theft of wind

Germany fines liquefied gas suppliers

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • May 27 2009

The FCO has fined two liquefied natural gas suppliers, Westfalen and Propan Rheingas, 41 million for running a customer-allocation and price-fixing cartel for at least eight years

RWE to divest gas transmision network

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • May 27 2009

The EC has accepted RWE ’s commitment to divest its west German gas transmission network, and has closed its investigation into RWE ’s alleged abuses of dominance

Commission opens the German energy sector up to competition

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • January 23 2009

On 26 November 2008, the European Commission adopted a decision making divestment commitments offered by E.ON legally binding

Saharan solar energy

  • Nabarro LLP
  • -
  • Africa, Germany
  • -
  • September 17 2009

Recent interest from a number of German companies has stimulated interest in the use of the Saharan Desert to supply Europe's, and indeed potentially the world's, energy needs

Federal Supreme Court blocks further shareholding in regional suppliers by market-dominant energy producers

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • January 23 2009

The Federal Supreme Court has confirmed the decisions of the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court and of the Federal Cartel Office which prohibited the acquisition of a 33.3 share in municipal supplier Stadtwerke Eschwege by German energy producer E-ON

German draft CCS law stopped and highly disputed

  • Norton Rose LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • August 31 2009

On 1 April 2009 the German Federal Government passed a draft for a law relating to CCS measures (the German CCS Law

EC Commission imposes 38 million fine for obstructing dawn raid

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, Germany
  • -
  • January 31 2008

On 30 January 2008 the EC Commission imposed a fine of 38 million on the German energy company E.ON for breaking a seal that had been affixed by Commission officials during a dawn raid

New rules on price control for the energy and food trade sector in Germany

  • Bird & Bird
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • February 6 2008

With the 8th amendment of the German “Act against Restraints of Competition” (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen, ARC) Germany intensifies the cartel law provisions on the abuse of a dominant market position with respect to the energy and the food trade sector

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