EU ROUND UP – BRUSSELS THREATENS COURT ACTION OVER GAS DIRECTIVE FAILURES
March 1st, 2012
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is coming down hard on European Union (EU) member states which have yet to sufficiently liberalise their natural gas industries, breaching the EU gas directive, agreed as long ago as 2009.
It has sent legal final warnings to Bulgaria, Cyprus, Estonia, Spain, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia saying they have two months to show how they will comply, or face possible cases at the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
It has the authority to order natural gas reforms, such as allowing third party access to ...
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