ECJ SAYS GENERAL RULES BLOCKING ACCESS TO SMALL ELECTRICITY NETWORKS ARE ILLEGAL
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Court of Justice (ECJ) has backed its advocate general in ruling that national laws within the European Union (EU) may not generally block third party supplier access to self-contained electricity networks. The ECJ supported judge Jan Mazák in concluding such restrictions could not be justified "on the grounds that they are located on a geographically connected operation zone and...predominantly serve to supply the energy needs" of a business based there or "connected undertakings." Such restrictions could be ...
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