European Energy & Law Report X

The European Energy Law Reports are an initiative taken by the organizers of the European Energy Law Seminar which has been held on an annual basis since 1989 at Noordwijk aan Zee in the Netherlands. The aim of this seminar is to present an overview of the most important legal developments in the field of International, EU, and national energy and climate law. Whereas the first seminars concentrated on the developments at EC level, which were the results of the establishment of an Internal Energy Market, the focus has gradually switched to developments at the national level, following the implementation of the EU Directives with regard to the internal electricity and gas markets. This current report includes chapters based on papers presented at the 25th European Energy Law Seminar, which was held in mid-April 2012. The report contains three sections representing the following topics: EU Energy Law: Case Law and Infrastructure Developments; Internal Gas Market Developments: Security and Safety of Supply; and Greening EU Energy Markets: Promoting and Trading Renewables. (Series: Energy & Law - Vol. 16) [Subject: European Law, Energy Law]

Martha M. Roggenkamp is professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen and Director of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law. She is also a board member of the Groningen Energy and Sustainability Program (GESP) and the coordinator of the North Sea Energy Law Program and the specialization ‘Energy and Climate Law” in the LLM European Law. She has published widely on energy law issues since the early 1990s. She is the author of the monograph "Oil and Gas: Netherlands Law and Practice" (Chancery 1991) and "Het Juridisch Kader van Pijpleidingen in de Olie- en Gasindustrie" (PhD, Intersentia 1999). She is one of the co-editors of the book "Energy Law in Europe" (OUP 2003, 2007 and 2015), The Regulation of Power Exchanges in Europe (Intersentia 2004), the "European Energy Law Report I - X (Intersentia 2004-2014), "Legal Design of Carbon Capture and Storage-Developments in the Netherlands from an International and EU Perspective" (Intersentia 2009), “Energy Networks and the Law – Innovative Solutions in Changing Markets”(OUP 2012) and “Essential EU Climate Law”(Edgar Elgar forthcoming 2015). She also has the chair of the Dutch Association of Energy Lawyers and as a member of the Academic Advisory Group of the Section on Energy, Environment and Infrastructure law of the IBA she has participated in several research projects covering issues such as "Security of Energy Supply", "Human Rights in the Energy Sector", "Reregulating the Energy and Natural Resources Sector" and “The Law of Energy Underground” (all published at OUP). In addition, she is editor in chief of the series Energy & Law published by Intersentia (Antwerp), member of the editorial board of the Dutch Journal of Energy Law and of the editorial committee of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, the International Energy Law Review and the Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review.

Henrik Bjørnebye is an Associate Professor at the Department of Petroleum and Energy Law, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Oslo, where he specializes in energy law and EU law. He has a PhD degree from the University of Oslo on research concerning EU regulation of investments in electricity production (2009). He has lectured and published a number of articles within the areas of energy law and EU law. He has formerly worked as an attorney in law firm Arntzen de Besche, where he advised clients within the petroleum and energy sector.