EU Law

Expertise:

• EU law and in particular EU energy law, state aid and competition law

Representative matters:

• EU Energy Law:
• implementation and Implications of the EU Third Energy Package
• appearing as an expert before an EU Parliament committee on the amendment to Gas Directive (link)
• advising on proposed Winter package and in particular the capacity mechanism, climate change targets
• EU Competition Law: advising on potential breaches of EU competition law
• EU State Aid: advising an energy company on the compliance of UK renewables policy with EU law on state aid, including preparing submissions to the European Commission
• EU Public Procurement Law: C-406/08 - reference from the English Court to ECJ regarding UK’s implementation of EU public procurement rules. The case raised important issues concerning the operation of EU principles of effectiveness, equivalence and legal certainty in public procurement [http://curia.europa.eu/jurisp/cgi-bin/form.pl?lang=EN&Submit=Submit&numaff=C-406/08]
• EU Common Agricultural Policy: C-428/07 - case concerned UK’s implementation of an EC CAP Regulation governing the entitlement of farmers to a minimum income for farming
• Brexit: advising on the likely scenarios of the future UK/EU relations; advising on the energy and state aid implications of Brexit