Brussels weighs legal action on internal energy market
Thursday, March 3, 2011
EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger yesterday (28 February) gave governments more breathing space to pass energy liberalisation directives into national law as a 3 March deadline approaches. A month ago, not a single country had yet done so.Speaking after a meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels, Oettinger said that the European Commission was scanning legislation put forward by member states to incorporate the third energy package of legislation into national law."Once that ...