Workshop
EU Energy Law & Policy
Co-organised by:Leigh Hancher | Florence School of Regulation/EUI, Tilburg University, Allen & Overy LLP
Francesco Maria Salerno | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Adrien de Hauteclocque | Florence School of Regulation/EUI, Court of Justice of the European Union
Małgorzata Sadowska | Florence School of Regulation/EUI
Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton LLP
57, Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 57 – Brussels
8 May 2015
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Context
This EU Energy Law & Policy workshop brings together individuals working in energy, including regulators,
policy makers, practicioners and academics, to discuss energy law and policy issues of cross-cutting interest.
This year’s workshop is hosted by our donor, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, at their Brussels Office.
The workshop is divided into four sessions. The first session explores whether energy market design can
ensure security of supply in electricity and gas markets. In the second session, we deal with the problem of
asset stranding due to changes in energy systems. The third session looks at antitrust damages in the energy
sector both from a legal and an economic perspective. The workshop closes with a session on the recent
developments in state aid control, and which focuses on the EU state aid inquiry into capacity mechanisms
as well as the Italian Mediaset case on recovery of aid.
The four sessions are complemented by a keynote speech by Maroš Šefčovič, Commission Vice-President for
Energy Union.
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Programme
09.00 – 09.15 Registration & welcome coffee
09.15 – 09.30
Welcome and introduction
Francisco E. González-Díaz | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Leigh Hancher | Florence School of Regulation, Robert Schuman Centre
for Advanced Studies, European University Institute and Tilburg University,
Allen & Overy LLP
Session 1
Energy Market Design
Chair: Christoph Riechmann | Frontier Economics
09.30 – 10.00
Overview
Dan Roberts | Frontier Economics
10.00 – 10.30
Ensuring gas security of supply in a market context
Monika Zsigri | European Commission
10.30 – 11.00
Challenges to power market function
András Hujber | European Commission
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
Session 2
Stranding of Assets Due to Changes in Energy Systems
Chair: Oliver Rix | Baringa Partners LLP
11.30 – 12.00
Stranded generation assets: Lessons from the Spanish experience
Maria Carolina Echenique Moscoso del Prado | Gas Natural
12.00 – 12.30
Stranding risk driven by renewable and decarbonisation targets
Peter Sherry | Baringa Partners LLP
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 14.00
Keynote speech
Maroš Šefčovič | European Commission (tbc)
Session 3
Antitrust Damages in the Energy Sector
Chair: Wim Vandenberghe | Dechert LLP
14.00 – 14.30
EU Directive on antitrust damages
Lars Kjølbye | Latham & Watkins LLP
14.30 – 15.00
Antitrust follow-on damages litigation: An economic perspective
David Parker | Frontier Economics
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee break
Session 4
Recent Developments in EU State Aid Control
Chair: Jens Naas-Bibow | Advokatfirmaet Thommessen
15.30 – 16.00
Capacity mechanisms under EU state aid rules
Christof Schoser | European Commission
16.00 – 16.30
Recovery of state aid in Italy – the Mediaset case
Davide Grespan | European Commission
16.30 – 16.45
Conclusions
Adrien De Hauteclocque | Florence School of Regulation, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute and
Court of Justice of the European Union