
- Website of Le Grenelle de l'Environnement;
- Website of the Ministry (Ministère de l'Energie, de l'Ecologie, du Développement Durable et de la Mer);
- The legislative procedure.
This blog is meant as a personal notebook on recent legal developments in the sector of sustainable energy.




On 24 June, the European Commission has sent 35 reasoned opinions to 20 Member States in relation to the implementation of second energy liberalisation package.
The EU legislation which the European Commission suspects the non-implementation or non-conform implementation concerns:
By launching such a wide procedure, the Commission seems to be keen to ensure that previous legislation is already implemented and conform before the forthcoming adoption of a new legislative package focused on energy infrastructure.
Based on the procedure defined in Article 258 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), Member States have to answer the critics made by the Commission within a delay of 2 months.
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Le Rapport d'Information publié par le Sénat francais en avril dernier inaugure une réflexion intéressante sur le rôle des organes législatifs dans la "prospective".


The European Parliament is hosting today and tomorrow, 7 and 8 June 2010, a Joint Parliamentary Meeting (JPM) entitled "Towards a European Energy Community for the 21st Century."