Title: Legal structure in the European energy sector

Authors: Antoine Delanoe

Addresses: Laboratoire de Recherche en Economie et Gestion des Organisations, University of Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, Batiment Vauban, 78280 Guyancourt, France

Abstract: A patchwork of different energy situations characterizes the European energy sector. The extreme diversity of the situations can be explained by economic and historical circumstances peculiar to each country. This results in considerable differences in intervention and in the policies chosen by the different States (planned or market economy), between the structures (centralization or decentralization), and between the status of companies (public, private and mixed). Legal disparities between European countries are connected with the political and economic factors in each State. Thus, in spite of apparently similar energy objectives. member States can pursue diverging energy policies, through differences in implementation.

Keywords: energy policy; legal structure; Europe; legal disparities; law.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGEI.1995.063416

International Journal of Global Energy Issues, 1995 Vol.8 No.1/2/3, pp.31-43

Published online: 14 Jul 2014 *

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