The Single Market for Electricity and the European Electricity Regulatory Forum
Article from: OGEL 1 (2003), in Roundup of Articles
Summary
One of the fundamental objectives of the Treaty of Rome is the free movement of goods among the Member States of the European Union. By the mid-1990s the European Commission reached the conclusion that both electric energy and natural gas should be considered to be ‘goods’ that should be purchased and sold in a single market spanning all of the Member States. This concept was reflected in the Electricity Directive and the Gas Directive, which are both based on the principle that access to the network at the national level, under some form of third party access tailored to national ...