European Energy Law Report VI

European Energy Law Report VI presents, in four parts, an overview of the most important legal developments in the field of EU and national energy law as discussed at the 2008 European Energy Law Seminar. The first part examines recent developments in the EU energy market liberalization process. It includes developments in competition law and selected topics from the Third Energy Package (i.e. ownership unbundling and the establishment of an Agency for Energy Regulators). The second part focuses on the need for network investments in a liberalized energy market. It addresses the adequacy of the legal regime for investments in electricity networks and provides an analysis of the Commission's policy on Third Party Access exemption requests for new gas infrastructure. Part three first addresses the Third Energy Package's internal and external aspects of supply security, looking at how supply security balances with energy market liberalization. This is followed by an analysis of the recipr