Sustainable Energy Law Notebook

The General Court of the European Union   concluded in the case T-201/11 Si. mobil telekomunikakcijske storitve v Commission on 17 December 2014 that the Commission was entitled to reject a complaint when a national competition authority was already dealing with the case .   This is a landmark judgment as the decision represents the first interpretation of Regulation (EC) No 1/2003 of 16 December 2002 on the implementation of the rules on competition law laid down in Articles 81 [EC] and 82 [EC] (now Articles 101 and 102 TFEU) on that topic. One of the objectives of the Regulation is to ensure that cases are dealt with by the most appropriate authorities within the European Competition Network .  

  Ofgem, the UK Office of Gas and Electricity Markets , announced on 15 December 2014 that it has  launched an investigation against UK Capacity Reserver Limited (UKCR) which is suspected of having submitted " false or misleading information to National Grid (the Delivery Body) regarding whether it had planning consent for some Capacity Market Units (CMUs) ."  

  The Transport, Telecommunications and Energy (TTE) Council met on 9 December 2014 to discuss energy issues. The following matters were on the agenda: policy debate on the follow-up to the 2030 climate and energy framework completion of the internal energy market policy debate on the mid-term review of the Europe 2020 strategy recent developments in the field of external energy relations , including with the US, Ukrain, Energy Community, Energy Charter Treaty, Mediteranean countries (among others). indirect land-use change for biofuels (adoption of position at first reading on draft Directive on ILUC)   The two first points are reviewed below.