Author: Jean-Michel Glachant
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781849804790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'. . . it is the combination of various approaches that make the book worth reading. As such, it contributes significantly to the ongoing discussion in Europe on long-term contracts, the role of markets, the ability of markets to deliver investments and so on. . . well worth reading.' - Kim Talus, Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence
Author: Robert Bork
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-22
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9781736089712
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most important book on antitrust ever written. It shows how antitrust suits adversely affect the consumer by encouraging a costly form of protection for inefficient and uncompetitive small businesses.
Author: Aikaterini Florou
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-02
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9004407472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Contractual Renegotiations and International Investment Arbitration, Aikaterini Florou explores the complex phenomenon of the renegotiation of investor-state contracts. The author reconstructs the relationship between those contracts and the overarching investment treaties using an original interpretative methodology based on transaction cost economics and relational contract theory.
Author: Kim Talus
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9041134077
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Because the EU depends on a very small number of external suppliers for its natural gas, energy security issues inevitably arise. In theory, competition law should regulate and adjudicate such issues. Yet, because contracts between EU companies and producers are highly sensitive and politically charged, the application of EU competition law to natural gas contracts is far from clear. This important book, drawing on ECJ case law, Commission administrative cases and inquiries, and the full range of relevant legal and economic theory, provides an extremely valuable and detailed study of how EU competition law can be applied to long-term natural gas capacity reservation and commodity contracts. Issues and topics such as the following arise in the course of the analysis: Third Gas Market Directive provisions; Article 102 TFEU cases on strategic under-investment; pre-liberation or "legacy" gas contracts (e.g., with Algeria and Russia); "right of first refusal"; take-or-pay requirement; third-party access; ownership unbundling; effect of elimination of priority access regimes; short-term trading; spot markets; and law and economics of vertical restraints. Focusing on the foreclosing effect of long-term upstream commodity contracts, the author recommends restrictions on the use of capacity reservation contracts, and analyses the efficacy of security of supply as a competition law defence in cases relating to such contracts.