State Aid and the Energy Sector

This important new work offers a comprehensive and compelling account of State aid law and policy and its application to the energy sector. Clearly structured and offering meticulous detail and robust analysis, it is required reading for all practitioners in the field. The volume explores general questions from the definition of State aid to its application in Member States by national courts. It also examines questions of procedure, questions of compatibility, and State aid and the EEA. It is an invaluable tool for lawyers, policymakers and tax professionals specialising in State aid law and energy law, written by a team of leading practitioners and academics in the field.

Dr Leigh Hancher is a part-time Professor and the Director of the Energy Union Law Area at the Florence School of Regulation (EUI), Florence, and Professor of European Law at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.Dr Adrien de Hauteclocque is a Law Clerk (Référendaire) with Vice-President M van der Woude at the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court), Luxembourg, and an Adviser of the Florence School of Regulation, Florence.Dr Francesco Maria Salerno is the partner heading the Brussels office of law firm Gianni Origoni Grippo Cappelli & Partners.