Third EU energy package

The EU's third energy package was adopted by the European Parliament in 2009 in order to further liberalize the electricity and gas markets in the EU and to strengthen consumer rights . The third energy package contains two directives and three ordinances .

aims

One of the main goals of the third energy package is the separation of network operation from supply and generation, either through

Further goals are:

Strengthening of consumer rights, including the right to change gas or electricity provider free of charge within three weeks
By 2020, at least 80 percent of all consumers are to be equipped with intelligent electricity meters .
Establishment of the right to basic electricity supply and protection of "vulnerable customers"

All directives and regulations of the third energy package were drawn up on July 13, 2009 and published in the Official Journal of the European Union on August 14, 2009 :

Regulation (EC) No. 713/2009 establishing an agency for the cooperation of energy regulators
Regulation (EC) No. 714/2009 on network access conditions for cross-border electricity trading
Regulation (EC) No. 715/2009 on conditions for access to the natural gas transmission networks (also natural gas access regulation)
Directive 2009/72 / EC on the internal market in electricity
Directive 2009/73 / EC on the internal market in natural gas (so-called gas directive)

After the guidelines came into force on August 28, 2009, the member states had a year and a half to implement them in national law.

Creation of an EU agency for cooperation between energy regulators: this happened with the creation of ACER , whose office in Ljubljana opened in March 2011.
Order to the Commission to adopt binding network codes on the basis of these guidelines, e.g. B. for emergency situations;
Establishment of a network of transmission system operators for electricity ( ENTSOE ) and gas ( ENTSOG )
Obligation of the transmission system operator / transmission system operator to submit a ten-year network development plan to the national regulatory authorities every year

In Germany, the directive was implemented with the amendment of the Energy Industry Act (EnWG) in August 2011.

Briefing on the third energy package ( memento from January 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the business law firm Linklaters