Towards a European Energy Union
European Energy Strategy in International Law

This book outlines the legal regime underpinning the European Energy Union, which provides secure, sustainable and affordable energy.

Volker Roeben (Author)

9781107142817, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 January 2018

282 pages
23.5 x 15.7 x 0.8 cm, 0.53 kg

'… this book still maintains its appeal to the energy law scholar; the conceptual grounding and analyses are excellently crafted. Chapters 2 and 5, in particular, would attract an audience that is wider than those focused on the EU only.' Tedd Moya Mose, International Energy Law Review

The European Union is poised to establish a genuine European Energy Union with the new powers conferred on it by the Lisbon Treaty. Since 2014, it has been developing and implementing an energy strategy that responds to the three overarching priorities of climate change, political security, and economic competitiveness by 2030. The European Energy Union aims to provide secure, sustainable and affordable energy throughout the cycle of production, transport and consumption. This book outlines the legal regime underpinning this regulatory strategy, which integrates EU law with international law and with the law of the member states and affiliated states. It analyses and explains the increasing interaction between these legal orders in achieving the shared objective of transforming the European and global energy systems. This book will appeal to scholars and students of energy law and policy at both European and international levels.

Introduction
1. Establishing the European Energy Union
2. Rules-based energy governance world-wide: regulation of energy in international law
3. Realising the European Energy Union in union law: internal and external regulation of the energy cycle
4. The role of coordinated member states law in a European Energy Union
5. Regulating energy through an integrated legal regime. Formation, normative questions, and global regulatory law.

Subject Areas: Environment law [LNKJ], International law [LB], Alternative & renewable energy industries [KNBT], EU & European institutions [JPSN2]