EU Energy Law & Policy Workshop Decentralised Energy Law Enforcement 30-31 October 2014, Florence Location: European University Institute Villa La Fonte – Via delle Fontanelle 18 – San Domenico di Fiesole Thursday, 30 October 2014 14.00 – 14.15 Registration and welcome coffee 14.15 – 14.30 Introduction Leigh Hancher | Florence School of Regulation, Tilburg University, Allen & Overy LLP st 1 session: Consumer contracts in the energy sector | chair: Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, European University Institute 14.30 – 15.00 “I want my money back” – Problems, successes and failures in the price regulation of the gas supply market by civil law remedies in Germany Norbert Reich | University of Bremen 15.00 – 15.30 What if everybody gets his money back? The suppliers dilemma Jost Eder | Becker Büttner Held 15.30 – 16.00 The influence of public law on consumer contracts in energy Saskia Lavrijssen | University of Amsterdam, Tilburg University - TILEC 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break nd 2 session: Implementation of Article 9 commitments| chair: TBC 16.30 – 17.00 Commitments monitoring: the ENI case Pier Luigi Parcu | Florence School of Regulation 17.00 – 17.30 Implementing a market split in Sweden – commitments in conflict with the Swedish constitution? Mattias Bexelius | A1 Advokater 17.30 – 18.00 ČEZ settlement agreement – unique possibility of alternative divestment Jana Vitáková | ČEZ 18.00 – 18.30 The GDF SUEZ’s experience : a daily work to comply with our commitments in the long run Florence Weingarten | GDF Suez 18.30 – 18.45 Concluding remarks Leigh Hancher | EUI, Florence School of Regulation Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz | EUI, Law Department 18.45 Drinks reception followed by dinner at 20.00 1 Florence School of Regulation ■ Via delle Fontanelle 19 ■ 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) ■ Italy ■ Tel. +39 055 4685 037 Fax +39 055 4685 755 ■ www.fsr.eui.eu Friday, 31 October 2014 08.45 – 09.00 Coffee rd 3 session: Preliminary rulings | chair: Wim Vandenberghe, Dechert LLP 09.00 – 09:30 Preliminary rulings in a decentralised EU energy law enforcement context: Revisiting the basics Pieter Van Cleynenbreugel | Leiden University – Europa Institute 09.30 – 10.00 Whatever happened to Federutility? Francesco Salerno| Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 10.00 – 10.30 State aid law limitations to decentralised policy-making: Guidance from the ECJ Rein Wesseling | Stibbe 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break th 4 session: Competition enforcement | chair: Wynne Jones, Frontier Economics 11.00 – 11.30 The robustness of commitment decisions Giorgio Monti | European University Institute 11.30 – 12.00 UK market investigation – an Internal Energy Market perspective Gordon Downie | Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP 12.00 – 12.30 UK market review – market failures and policy solutions Barry Coughlan | Ofgem 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch 13.00 Lunch talk: A new energy policy for the new European Commission? Jean-Michel Glachant | Florence School of Regulation th 5 session: Infringement cases | chair: Thomas Starlinger, Fiebinger Polak Leon Partner GmbH 14.00 – 14.30 Infringements in the energy sector and the ECJ ruling on Bulgaria’s lack of reverse flows Yona Marinova | European Commission 14.30 – 15.00 Comment Michael Gillis | Electrabel NV 15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break th 6 session: State aid cases| chair: Kai Uwe Pritzsche, Linklaters LLP 15.30 – 16.00 Applying EEAG 2014-2020 to RES, capacity mechanisms and energy intensive users: recent experiences Diana Barglazan | European Commission 16.00 – 16.30 The question of compatibility: The UK Hinkley Point nuclear power plant support notification SA.34947 Dörte Fouquet | Becker Büttner Held 16.30 – 17.00 The recent amendment of the German Renewable Energy Act Björn Heinlein | Clifford Chance LLP 17.00 – 17.30 Lithuania’s LNG terminal Leigh Hancher | Florence School of Regulation, Tilburg University, Allen & Overy LLP 17.30 – 17.45 Wrap-up and conclusions Leigh Hancher Presentations are 15-20 min long, followed by Q&A. 2 Florence School of Regulation ■ Via delle Fontanelle 19 ■ 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) ■ Italy ■ Tel. +39 055 4685 037 Fax +39 055 4685 755 ■ www.fsr.eui.eu Organisers: Prof Leigh Hancher | European University Institute - Florence School of Regulation, Tilburg University, Allen & Overy LLP Prof Hans Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz | European University Institute - Law Department Dr Adrien de Hauteclocque| European University Institute - Florence School of Regulation, Court of Justice of the European Union Dr Malgorzata Sadowska | European University Institute - Florence School of Regulation Please join us for the following workshops and training courses of the FSR Energy Law & Policy Area: 6 February 2015, Berlin | FSR & BNetzA Forum on Legal Issues of Energy Regulation 13 March 2015, Vienna | Vienna Forum on European Energy Law May 2015, Brussels | EU Energy Law & Policy Workshop 28 May - 2 June 2015, Florence | Summer School on EU Energy Law & Policy June 2015, Brussels | Energy Law Training September 2015, Athens | EU Energy Law & Policy Workshop 3 Florence School of Regulation ■ Via delle Fontanelle 19 ■ 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) ■ Italy ■ Tel. +39 055 4685 037 Fax +39 055 4685 755 ■ www.fsr.eui.eu