Discriminatory Nature of the Proposed Changes to the Gas Market Directive - Extension to External Pipelines or Only One of Them?
Article from: OGEL 4 (2018), in Pipelines
Introduction
This article examines the on-going developments relating to one pipeline project and the European Commission and its DG Energy's efforts to complicate the realization of Nord Stream 2 pipeline project bringing gas from Russia to Germany. The article argues that the progress towards what is currently a proposal to modify the 2009 Gas Market Directive is in clear violation of general principle of non-discrimination as applied by the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU"). When examining the compatibility of the proposal with the principle of non-discrimination ...