Sustainable Energy Law Notebook

On 30 April 2014, the World Trade Organization (WTO) received a request for consultations from the Russian Federation against the European Union and its legislation regarding the Third Energy Package and implementing legislation by Member States. See previous post .   The text of the request as submitted by Russia is now available on the WTO website here .

On 5 May 2014 , I will be discussing legal issues related to the licensing, permitting and contracting of wind power projects at Norway Wind Development Forum (Radisson Blu Hotel Nydalen, Oslo). My own presentation will focus on Grid connection rules for onshore wind power in Norway .   More on the event:   here .

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has now published a press release confirming the request for consultations put forward by Russia before the Organization as regards the EU Third Energy Package (see previous post ).

According to Russian media, the Russian government has decided to sue the European Union over the Third Energy Package before the World Trade Organization (WTO) .   The news was reported by the press agency ITAR-TASS on 30 April 2014 ( link 1 and link 2 ). According the source, Russia has sent a note to the EU Mission to the WTO after having notified the WTO Secretariat that it wanted to launch the law suit against the EU (normal procedure). More official press releases are not yeat available, neither from the European Commission nor the WTO.