Sustainable Energy Law Notebook

  On 1 October 2014 , the European Parliament will hold the confirmation hearing of the Commissioner-designate for Climate Change and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete (from Spain).   The hearing will be broadcasted live on the following website ( here ) at 18:00 Brussels time .   The website contains his CV, declaration of financial interests, as well as his answer to the written questions from the Parliament.   The nomination of the proposed Commissioner has been heavily commented. I recommend the following article from Euractiv to get a rapid overview. The European Parliament has also published an infographic on the nomination process for the new college of the European Commission ( here ).

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) meet in committees this week (22-28 September 2014). Two issues of interest for energy are on the agenda.

" La boucle est bouclée " one can say, at least for the moment. The Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered on 11 September 2014 its judgment in the joined Cases C-204/12 to C-208/12 involving Essent Belgium NV . The case is a reference for preliminary ruling from a Belgium first instance Court to the Court of Justice. It involves questions on the free movement of goods (electricity) , the existence of barriers to that free movement due to territorial restrictions (only regional generation qualifies to support), and interaction between green certificates and guarantees of origin under that support scheme.