Opublikowane: 2021-12-18

Independence of Regulatory Authorities in the Energy Market. Comment to the Judgement of EU Court of Justice in C-378/19 Prezident Slovenskej republiky

Adam Szafrański
Polish Review of International and European Law
Dział: Case comments
https://doi.org/10.21697/priel.2021.10.2.07

Abstrakt

In its judgement C-378/19, the Court of Justice of the European Union responded to the question for a preliminary ruling referred by the Slovak Constitutional Court. The ECJ found in this judgement that Directive 2009/72/EC must be interpreted as not precluding withdrawal of the competence of the President of a Member State to appoint and dismiss the chairperson of the national regulatory authority, and conferral of the same power to the Member State’s government. Similarly, allowing the participation of the Ministers of the Environment and of the Economy in certain price-setting procedures does not violate the decision-making independence of the national regulatory authority. In his commentary, the author cites the line of argument in the judgement and presents the political context in Slovakia that led to the preliminary question. The author then comments approvingly on the judgement, noting that the Court rightly refrained from assessing the political situation in Slovakia, instead opting to focus on the law. At the end of the commentary, the author makes remarks of a general nature relating to the independence of national regulatory authorities.

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Szafrański, A. . (2021). Independence of Regulatory Authorities in the Energy Market. Comment to the Judgement of EU Court of Justice in C-378/19 Prezident Slovenskej republiky. Polish Review of International and European Law, 10(2), 121–134. https://doi.org/10.21697/priel.2021.10.2.07

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