ECJ RULES AGAINST POWER LIBERALISATION EXEMPTIONS FOR ESTONIA AND SLOVENIA
December 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN EXEMPTION from European Union (EU) power liberalisation rules to be enjoyed by Estonia until 2013 has been cut back to 2008 by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which ruled the special measure had been approved illegally. The ECJ backed the European Parliament in claiming a special emergency procedure, which excludes MEPs from decision-making, should not have been used to allow the exemption. Indeed, the court stressed the "co decision procedure [involving the parliament] in no way precludes a relatively rapid adoption of a ...
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