Energy Charter Treaty: Past, Present and Future
Article from: OGEL 3 (2012), in OGEL Ten Years Special Issue: Internationalisation of Energy Law
Introduction
[Added to the special in 2014] On July 30, 2009, the then Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed Government Order No. 1055-r discontinuing the provisional application by the Russian Federation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). On August 24, 2009, in accordance with Article 45 (3-a) of the Treaty, Russia notified in writing the depositary of the Energy Charter (the government of Portugal) of its intention not to become a Contracting Party to the ECT. Sixty days later, Russia ceased to be a party applying the ECT on a provisional basis. On October 19, 2009, it became (along with ...