EU Energy Law & Policy Workshop Decentralised Energy Law Enforcement

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
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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
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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
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Friday, 31 October 2014
08.45 – 09.00
Coffee
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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