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CESR and ERGEG look at market transparency

  • Dentons
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • January 16 2009

CESR and ERGEG have published the third part of their advice to the Commission on how best to improve transparency of trading in the electricity and gas markets

FERC declines to change merger Supplemental Policy Statement

  • White & Case LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 27 2008

On February 21, 2008, FERC denied requests for clarification and reconsideration of the July 2007 Supplementary Policy Statement which provided additional guidance on FERC's 1996 Merger Policy Statement and the implementation of FPA Section 203 requirements under the Energy Policy Act of 2005

FERC stepping up enforcement efforts

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 1 2007

Susan Court, Director of Enforcement for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and Gregory Mocek, Director of the Division of Enforcement for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), discussed coordinating enforcement efforts at a luncheon sponsored by the Futures Industry Association’s Law & Compliance Division on May 24, 2007 in New York City

FTC joins other agencies in policing oil industry “market manipulation” and “false reporting”

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2008

The Energy Independence and Security Act (Energy Act) signed into law December 19, 2007, gives the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) new authority to police “market manipulation” and “false reporting” in the petroleum industry

Enforcement authority under the Commodities Exchange Act undercut by US v. Radley

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 23 2009

On September 17, 2009, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas dismissed a twenty-six count indictment brought by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") and U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") against four former BP employees for allegedly attempting to manipulate the Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation ("TET") propane market in 2004

Federal Reserve approves application related to energy management and tolling

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 11 2008

On March 27, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the Federal Reserve) announced its approval of an application by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (Royal Bank) to engage in physical commodity trading and to provide energy management services

Proposed Energy Act has implications for OTC derivatives

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 5 2009

The Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved H.R. 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act (Energy Act), a bill containing provisions directly aimed at over-the-counter derivatives

CME group releases White Paper providing recommendations for imposing position limits in energy derivatives markets

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 16 2009

The White Paper recommends a hard position limit regime for energy markets, balanced with the assurance that such limits do not have a detrimental effect on price discovery and hedging functions of futures markets

Force majeure provisions in power purchase agreements

  • Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 4 2009

Recently Energy Risk magazine featured an article regarding "Force Majeure Provisions for Power Contracts."

Pork bellies, frozen concentrated orange juice (with a hat tip to Billy Ray and the Duke Brothers) and now carbon

  • Dentons
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 18 2009

The Commodities and Futures Trading Commission held a high-profile meeting of the Energy and Environment Markets Advisory Committee last Wednesday