Looking for an Energy Community Through an International Legal Instrument: Mission Impossible?
Article from: OGEL 3 (2012), in OGEL Ten Years Special Issue: Internationalisation of Energy Law
Introduction
Calls for a comprehensive and coherent regime governing economic relations in the field of energy have been a constant in the history of oil and gas since the end of World War II. Energy's strategic nature requires these relations to be preserved from fluctuations in the economic and legal context (investment protection, stability of contractual relations). The oil and gas operators need reliable forecasts, security and continuity, and an environment that is unaffected by political circumstances. Lawyers and companies have therefore called for the establishment of ...