Dvenadtsatova, T.I. Final stage of creating a common energy market of the EU: when strictness is a formula for success

Abstract: The article concerns the practice of the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the EU on implementation of the “Energy Package” (mainly, the Third Energy Package) in order to point out the primary role of the Commission and the Court of Justice of the EU in the formation of the united energy market of the EU at its final stage. The author aims to show how the Commission in close cooperation with the Court of Justice of the EU uses the coercive means towards states and companies so that they fulfill their obligations in the power industry sphere. The author provides detailed descriptions of the number of cases against energy companies or the EU Member States, which were initiated by the Commission, and some of them made it into the Court of Justice. The conclusion is drawn that it is the strict approach of the European Commission and principal position of the Court of Justice of the EU in the sphere of interpretation of the provisions of the EU legislation in the sphere of power industry that guarantee the success of the formula for the formation of the internal energy market of the EU in 2014.

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