Energy Charter Protocol on Transit: On the way to Agreement - What Kind of Treatment will be Accorded to Russian Gas in EU Countries?
Article from: OGEL 1 (2004), in The Energy Charter Treaty
Introduction
The session of the Energy Charter Conference in December 2002 has marked a stride forward towards completing negotiations among 51 European and Asian nations, in their 3rd year now, to hammer out a legally binding Transit Protocol to the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). All delegations to that round of the talks decided that the draft Transit Protocol had been agreed upon to an extent requiring no further negotiating - except for the following three related issues, namely: the right of first refusal; the clause on a Regional Economic Integration Organization (REIO); and transit tariff ...