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The European Energy Handbook 2012: edited and published by Herbert Smith and is republished on OGEL with kind permission.

About Herbert Smith LLP

Herbert Smith LLP is a leading international law firm with top-tier practices across Asia, Europe and the Middle East. With a dedicated energy team of over 75 partners, supported by over 100 other lawyers worldwide, the team spans corporate, finance, dispute resolution and specialist areas such as competition, regulatory, construction, environment, tax, planning and employment. This enables us to provide a full range of services to our clients around the world. We are pre-eminent in dispute resolution and have an outstanding reputation for corporate and other high-value transactional advice. Our market leading energy and natural resources practice regularly advises on domestic and international projects across all sectors, including oil and gas, power and mining. We are also at the cutting edge of emerging energy initiatives such as the Clean Development Mechanism, carbon capture and storage, biofuels and nuclear and LNG.

Editors:

Mark Newbery, Partner, energy and natural resources, Herbert Smith LLP

Silke Goldberg, senior associate, energy and infrastructure, Herbert Smith LLP

Contribution authors:

• Jonida Cepani, Schoenherr; and Krenar K. Lopoci, partner, Lopoci Associates
• Bernd Rajal, partner, and Christina Toth, associate, Schoenherr Rechtsanwälte, Vienna
• Wouter Geldhof, partner, and Thomas Deruytter, trainee, of Stibbe (Brussels)
• Stevan Dimitrijevic, partner; Nihad Sijercic, senior associate, Petar Mitrovic, associate, Feda Bicakcic, associate, all of Karanovic & Nikolic Law Office
• Stefana Tsekova, partner, and Mariya Mihaleva, lawyer, of Schoenherr, Sofia
• Matthias Wahl, partner, Schoenherr Zagreb
• Galatia Sazeidou, associate, Georgiades & Pelides LLC, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Martin Nedelka, partner, and Jitka Linhartová, attorney at law, Schoenherr, Prague
• Anders Stubbe Arndal, partner, and Lars Møller Salling, senior associate, Kromann Reumert, Copenhagen
• Jaanus Ikla, partner, and Triin Frosch, senior associate, of Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Tallinn
• Jyrki Prusila, a partner, and Ilkka Puikkonen, a senior associate, at Roschier Attorneys Ltd., Helsinki
• Mehdi Haroun, partner and Ruxandra Lazar, senior associate, Herbert Smith, Paris
• Dr. Petra Linsmeier, partner; Dr. Yvonne Kerth, Dr. Jan Hennig and Jan-Kristof Wellershoff, associated partners; all of Gleiss Lutz,
• Gus J. Papamichalopoulos, partner; Dr. Sotirios Douklias, associate and Stratos Gonithellis, junior associate, all of KDGI law firm, Athens
• János Juhász, associate, Schoenherr, Budapest
• Antoine Lochet, senior associate, Gunnar Örn Petersen, associate, and Baldvin Björn Haraldsson, partner, BBA//Legal, Reykjavík
• Alex McLean, partner, and Jennifer Burke, associate, of Arthur Cox, Dublin
• Monica Colombera, partner, and Lia Paoletti, associate, of Legance, Milan
• Yuliya Daurova, LLM, partner of Linkage & Mind, Kazakhstan
• Girts Lejins, Managing Partner, and Martins Tarlaps, Associate, both of Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Riga
• Ruslanas Cerniauskas, associate, Ingrida Uleviciute, associate, and Dr Juozas Rimas, senior associate, of Raidla Lejins & Norcous, Vilnius
• Dirk Leermakers, partner, Michaël Hunt, trainee, and Hélène Mespouille, all of Stibbe
• Ljupka Noveska, Veton Qoku, Leonid Ristev, associates, all of Karanovic/ Nikolic Law Office, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
• Roderick Zammit Pace, partner, Karen Borg, associate, and Sharon Pace Gouder, associate, all of Refalo & Zammit Pace Advocates, Malta
• Slaven Moravcevic, partner, and Miloš Lakovic, associate, both of Schoenherr Belgrade
• Martin In de Braekt, partner, and Kirsten Berger, partner, of Stibbe, Amsterdam
• Karl Erik Navestad, Torkjel K. Grøndalen and Henrik Bjørnebye, all of Arntzen de Besche, Oslo
• Dr Jerzy Baehr, senior partner, Dr Jakub Pokrzywniak, of counsel, Dr Sergiusz Urban, of counsel, and Maciej Szambelanczk, senior associate, all of Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr Sp.k., Warsaw
• José Luís Esquível, partner and Diogo Macedo Graça, senior associate, both of Esquivel Advogados, Lisbon
• Monica Cojocaru, senior associate, and Anca Velicu, attorney at law, both of Schoenherr Bucharest
• Danila Logofet, partner, and Artjom Tamaev, associate, Herbert Smith, Moscow
• Slaven Moravcevic, partner, and Miloš Lakovic, associate at Schoenherr Belgrade
• Gudrun Stangl Lutz, managing partner, Michal Lucivjansky, research associate, and Lucia Tadlankova, attorney-at-law, all of Schoenherr Bratislava
• Jani Soršak, local partner, and Petra Smolnikar, associate, both of Schoenherr, Ljubljana
• Ignacio Paz, partner, and Eduardo Soler Tappa, of counsel, Herbert Smith, Madrid
• Mariella Orelli, partner, Homburger, Zürich
• Ebru Ünal, managing associate, Burcu Basar, Ayse Hosta and Utkü Ünver, associates, all of Hergüner Bilgen Özeke, Istanbul
• Vladimir Sayenko, partner, and Konstantin Gribov, counsel, of Sayenko Kharenko, Kiev
• Lynda Schlich, energy professional support consultant, Herbert Smith, London