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On the 26th of December 2013 the Spanish Parliament approved Law 24/2013, of the electricity sector which replaces the Law 54/1997 after sixteen years from its entry into force. The Law has been published in the official journal on the following day and has entered into force on January 1st 2014. This law is only … Continued

We’re in the first days of the new year: 2014. On the brink of it the Spanish Government approved a new Electricity Sector Law (Ley24/2013) which will bring even more chaos to the Spanish Electricity sector: it merely cuts back without structurally improving thing. We will publish shortly about why we think that also this … Continued

The review “La Marea” published yesterday this article by Jordi Ortiz, where issues such as the current state of the electricity market, the defense of energy sovereignty and the vision that the European Union has in relation to the matter were addressed thoroughly. In this article, the author took the opportunity to applaud the intervention … Continued

When I said, about two months ago, that the IBV case meant a watershed for renewal energies in Spain, my thoughts were both with our procedures in Spain and with our complaints filled in Brussels.  On Thursday of last week, the 5th of December of 2013, Daniel Pérez and  I met, together with other lawyers … Continued

“The Baltic Course”, an International Internet Magazine about Baltic news & analytics, posts  on its website an article about a Technical meeting  held in Brussels the 5th of December, with six European Commission officials of DG Energy, DG Competition and DG Taxation and several attorneys, one of them Piet Holtrop, representing renewable energy producers and … Continued

  The 5th December, on his trip to Brussels to meet with the legal cell of the EU Energy Commissioner Oettinger, Piet Holtrop and other members of the delegation, were interviewed by Anca Gurzu of Europolitics. You can read the article following this link.    

Mr. Sandis Bertaitis Attorney-at-Law FORT Antonijas Street 8-4, Riga, Latvia   Mr. Piet Marco Holtrop Attorney-at-Law HOLTROP S.L.P. C/Via Augusta 10, 3º, Barcelona, Spain   Mr. Antonis Metaxas Attorney-at-Law METAXAS & ASSOCIATES Asklipiou Street 154, Athens, Greece   PRESS RELEASE Six European Commission officials of DG Energy, DG Competition and DG Taxation and several attorneys … Continued

  Last week the Commission made public a package of documents on the internal electricity market and public intervention, consisting in a Communication[1] and four Working Papers on: (1) public intervention in the electricity market[2], (2) the design of support schemes for renewables[3], (3) the mechanisms of cooperation in renewables[4], (4) demand of flexibility[5] and … Continued

The European Commission will bring Austria before the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to transpose Directive 2009/28/EC, also known as the Renewable Energy Directive. The Directive aims at ensuring a 20% share of renewable energy in the EU by 2020 and had to be transposed by the Member States by 5 … Continued

In this article, Piet Holtrop, member of APPA and founder of the Law firm Holtrop S.L.P. Transaction & Business Law, an international firm specializing in European Law in the renewables sector, reviews the legal rebuke suffered by clean energy since 2010 and provides arguments that explain why European Law will not allow certain outrages against … Continued

The Platform for a New Energy Model presented yesterday a complaint against Spain before the European Commission for breaches of EU law, due to the lack of competition in its electricity sector and the incorrect implementation of EU legislation on the internal market. The document, prepared by Holtrop S.L.P. lawyers, is the fourth in a … Continued

Last October 6th the BBC published an article on its website following a series of interviews, on of which was with Piet Holtrop. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24272061