Sustainable Energy Law Notebook

The European Commission has released this month the final report it had ordered to a Group of consultants on the review of Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide (so-called CCS Directive ).   The report is available here . It will be summarised and its conclusions commented on this blog in a forthcoming post.   The purpose of the report was twofold:   " This report presents the consultant’s work in supporting the Commission in their review of the CCS Directive. The work under this contract consists of two main parts. The first part is to effectively carry out an interim evaluation of Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide (the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Directive), including consideration of the Directive under the new Regulatory Fitness and Performance programme (REFIT) . The second part of the work is more forward-looking and focuses on preparing a set of recommendations for the future o...