Towards a European Energy Union European Energy Strategy in International Law

The European Union is poised to establish a genuine European Energy Union with the new powers conferred on it by the Lisbon Treaty. Since 2014, it has been developing and implementing an energy strategy that responds to the three overarching priorities of climate change, political security, and economic competitiveness by 2030. The European Energy Union aims to provide secure, sustainable and affordable energy throughout the cycle of production, transport and consumption. This book outlines the legal regime underpinning this regulatory strategy, which integrates EU law with international law and with the law of the member states and affiliated states. It analyses and explains the increasing interaction between these legal orders in achieving the shared objective of transforming the European and global energy systems. This book will appeal to scholars and students of energy law and policy at both European and international levels.

Introduction; 1. Establishing the European Energy Union; 2. Rules-based energy governance world-wide: regulation of energy in international law; 3. Realising the European Energy Union in union law: internal and external regulation of the energy cycle; 4. The role of coordinated member states law in a European Energy Union; 5. Regulating energy through an integrated legal regime. Formation, normative questions, and global regulatory law.

Volker Roeben is Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Centre for Global Priorities at Swansea University and concurrently Visiting Professor of Law at China University of Political Science Beijing and Law and Adjunct Professor at Turku University, Finland. He was interim legal adviser of the European Energy Charter and senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Public International Law at Heidelberg. He has written widely on public international national law and European Union law, and currently works on the project of an associate citizenship for British nationals commissioned by the European Parliament.