Regulation of Electricity Markets at the EU Level
Article from: OGEL 1 (2007), in Electricity Interconnectors
Introduction
One of the many policy issues addressed in the European Commission documents posted at the "Energy for a Changing World" website on 10 January 2007 is the question how best to regulate electricity and gas markets, in the light of the "single market" objectives of the Electricity Directive and the Gas Directive. The same question has been addressed before and in many occasions the Commission has stated that an efficiently functioning internal energy market requires regulation at the European level. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief commentary on the ...