This EU Energy Law and Investment Arbitration Conference will dive in deeper into the Achmea case to explore the judgment’s impact on investment and dispute settlement in the EU energy sector.

Achmea made Impossible All Forms of Intra-EU Arbitration with Member State Involvement?

In collaboration with the Dechert LLP and the HEC, the Energy Union Law Area of the FSR is organising a conference which will consider the major issues surrounding the recent ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) in the Achmea case. The ruling of Case C-284/16, Slovak republic v. Achmea BV, delivered on 6 March, determined that investor-state arbitration clauses in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) concluded between EU Member States are incompatible with EU law, creating far-reaching consequences.

In the conference, we will explore the impact of the case across three issues:

• The implications of Achmea for investor-state dispute settlements under BITs concluded by EU Member States.
• The implications of Achmea for investor-state dispute settlements under other types of international agreements, such as the Energy Charter Treaty and intergovernmental and host government agreements often entered into by EU Member States with respect to large energy infrastructure projects (gas pipelines, LNG terminals, etc.)
• The forms of legal recourse available to EU investors in the future, in light of the Achmea ruling and the CJEU’s future CETA Opinion.

Who will attend?

The audience will be composed of senior officials of the European Commission, the Council Legal Service and the CJEU, current and acceding EU Member State representatives, General Counsel of energy and other companies engaged in foreign direct investment, international investment arbitration practitioners, Academics.

Please note that there are limited places available. There is no charge for participation in the workshop.

This year, the conference Athens Conference on European Energy Law will largely focus on the myriad issues surrounding the financing of the clean energy transition. This will include objectively assessing the allocation of financing and the role of the European financial and investment institutions, the privatisation of energy infrastructures and networks, and the funding of gas and electricity interconnections, among other topics.

The Athens Conference on European Energy Law is a joint initiative of the Energy Union Law Area of the Florence School of Regulation and the Hellenic Energy Regulation Institute, which is designed to address the latest topics in energy regulation that are significant for Greece and the surrounding region, from both a legal and economic perspective. The conference, which will be the third year of the initiative, will bring together academics, institutional and NRA representatives and key market players.

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This Public Debate aims to gather policymakers from the European Parliament, Member States and the Commission to discuss latest and future developments of the EU ETS.

The event is organised by FSR Climate (European University Institute) in collaboration with DG Climate Action of the European Commission, as part of the LIFE SIDE project (co-funded by the LIFE Programme of the European Union). The project informs European policy makers regarding the design and implementation of the EU ETS legislation. The event will provide the opportunity to present the results of a literature-based report assessing the economic performance of the EU ETS, produced by FSR climate within the framework of the project.

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This event is organised within the framework of the LIFE SIDE project. The project, started on 1 September 2016, aims to support policymakers with the implementation of the EU ETS.

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The LIFE SIDE project is co-funded by the LIFE Programme of the European Commission

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