European Energy Law Report VI presents, in four parts, an overview of the most important legal developments in the field of EU and national energy law as discussed at the 2008 European Energy Law Seminar. The first part examines recent developments in the EU energy market liberalization process. It includes developments in competition law and selected topics from the Third Energy Package (i.e. ownership unbundling and the establishment of an Agency for Energy Regulators). The second part focuses on the need for network investments in a liberalized energy market. It addresses the adequacy of the legal regime for investments in electricity networks and provides an analysis of the Commission's policy on Third Party Access exemption requests for new gas infrastructure. Part three first addresses the Third Energy Package's internal and external aspects of supply security, looking at how supply security balances with energy market liberalization. This is followed by an analysis of the reciprocity clauses in the Energy Charter Treaty, a chapter on the development and impact of the Nord Stream pipeline, and an analysis of the EU's view on supply security in the second strategic energy review. The final section of the book examines the role of the State in energy production. It includes chapters on the re-organization of State participation in the upstream oil and gas sector in the Netherlands and Denmark and an analysis of the impact of the 2007 European Free Trade Association court decisions on the Norwegian hydro power sector.
About the Author: Martha M. Roggenkamp is professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen and Director of the Groningen Centre of Energy Law. She is also a board member of the Groningen Energy and Sustainability Program (GESP) and the coordinator of the North Sea Energy Law Program and the specialization 'Energy and Climate Law" in the LLM European Law. She has published widely on energy law issues since the early 1990s. She is the author of the monograph "Oil and Gas: Netherlands Law and Practice" (Chancery 1991) and "Het Juridisch Kader van Pijpleidingen in de Olie- en Gasindustrie" (PhD, Intersentia 1999). She is one of the co-editors of the book "Energy Law in Europe" (OUP 2003, 2007 and 2015), The Regulation of Power Exchanges in Europe (Intersentia 2004), the "European Energy Law Report I - X (Intersentia 2004-2014), "Legal Design of Carbon Capture and Storage-Developments in the Netherlands from an International and EU Perspective" (Intersentia 2009), "Energy Networks and the Law - Innovative Solutions in Changing Markets"(OUP 2012) and "Essential EU Climate Law"(Edgar Elgar forthcoming 2015). She also has the chair of the Dutch Association of Energy Lawyers and as a member of the Academic Advisory Group of the Section on Energy, Environment and Infrastructure law of the IBA she has participated in several research projects covering issues such as "Security of Energy Supply", "Human Rights in the Energy Sector", "Reregulating the Energy and Natural Resources Sector" and "The Law of Energy Underground" (all published at OUP). In addition, she is editor in chief of the series Energy & Law published by Intersentia (Antwerp), member of the editorial board of the Dutch Journal of Energy Law and of the editorial committee of the Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law, the International Energy Law Review and the Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review.

Ulf Hammer has been Professor dr. juris at the University of Oslo, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law since 2004. He is head of the Institute's Department of Petroleum and Energy Law. Before that he was Senior Executive Officer in the Ministry of Petroleum and Energy (1983-1988), Assistant Judge (1988-1990), Legal Counsel in Hydro (1990-1995) and Research Fellow, Researcher and Associate Professor at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law (1995-2004). He wrote his PhD thesis on the regulation of the Norwegian electricity market. He is co-author of several books on electricity law and petroleum law, and has published several articles on these topics.

With contributions by M. van der Woude, J.G. Westerhof, C.-A. Swanson, E. Gottschal, S. Thomassen, M.M. Roggenkamp, H. Knops, Tj. van der Vijver, S. Muter Goldberg, S. Haghighi, S. Çal, N. Cho, F. Geelhoed, J. Henningsen, M. Caviet, A. Rønne and F. Arnesen.