The EU has adopted sweeping new legislation that introduced new rules and repealed earlier legislation governing the EU electricity and gas sectors. This requires a review and rethinking of existing law and practice in all of the Member States and the ten new Member countries. It builds on a dramatic increase in regulation in recent years, arising from the introduction of competition in a highly sensitive and strategic sector of the EU economy, as well as a shift to regulation by national agencies in all 25 states, and an emerging role for the European Commission as a federal-style regulator. The new legislation will, among other things, modify the competences of the European and national regulatory authorities, creating new potential for tensions and problems in implementation and observance by the wide range of players now involved, including governments, regulators, and industry. It will also add to the potential for conflict between energy and non-energy regulatory authorities, especially with respect to the implementation of competition law and environmental law.
Taking the latest developments as a starting point, the book focuses on those areas of national regulatory practice that raise important issues of a wider European significance, and which may provide lessons for improved regulatory co-operation in future. The book draws on the experience of prominent energy lawyers to provide an analysis of their own national experiences. The authors describe and comment on the key regulatory issues of third-party access, interconnector access, cross-border trade, the harmonisation of tariff methodology, congestion management, security of supply and public service obligations, the liberalisation v regulation debate, and the interface between the EU and national authorities.
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Practitioners dealing with European energy law and regulation, or utilities law more generally, regulators in the utility sector, policy specialists and business professionals in the energy sector, academics, students, reference libraries.
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Höhe: 253 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 37 mm
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978-0-19-927963-0 (9780199279630)
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Peter Cameron is Professor of International Energy Law and Policy at the University of Dundee, UK and at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of Competition in Energy Markets: Law and Regulation in the European Union (OUP, 2002). He has written widely on issues of energy regulation and has been adviser to various regulatory agencies in the EU.
1. Introduction ; PART 1 - THE NEW EUROPEAN REGIME ; 2. Completing the Internal Market in Energy: An Introduction to the New Legislation ; 3. The New EU Directives on Energy Liberalisation: From a Competition Point of View ; 4. Regulation by Co-operation ; PART 2 - NATIONAL APPROACHES TO IMPLEMENTATION ; 5. Introduction ; 6. Austria ; 7. France ; 8. Germany ; 9. Greece ; 10. Ireland ; 11. Italy ; 12. The Netherlands ; 13. Portugal ; 14. Spain ; 15. The United Kingdom ; 16. Central Europe: An Introduction ; 16A Hungary ; 16B Poland ; 16C Slovakia ; 17. Conclusion ; APPENDICES ; The Electricity Directive 2003 ; The Gas Directive 2003 ; The Electricity Regulation 2003 ; The Gas Regulation 2004
