Ownership Unbundling - The Portuguese Experience
Article from: OGEL 5 (2011), in Energy Union, EU Energy
Introduction
The third energy package[1], adopted in 2009, put forward the possibility to unbundle the ownership of vertically integrated companies, namely by separating the ownership of the transmission network from generation and/or supply - Ownership Unbundling . This topic raises a number of interesting legal and political questions and consequently has been highly debated at EU level. While some Member States struggle against the implementation of such an intrusive measure - tending to adopt one of the other two models put forward by the new legislative package[2] - others have already had ...