Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I WORLD ENERGY ASSESSMENT
- II INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
- III INTERNATIONAL LAW DECLARATIONS AND OTHER SOFT LAW INSTRUMENTS
- IV ACTION PLANS AND MULTILATERAL OPERATION RECOMMENDATIONS
- V SELECT REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGREEMENTS
- European Energy Charter Conference: Final Act, Energy Charter Treaty, Decisions and Additional Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Aspects
- Additional Protocol to the Energy Charter Treaty on Energy Efficiency and Related Matters
- North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
- North American Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 6, Energy & Basic Petrochemicals
- Transboundary Impact Assessment Overarching Principles (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador”
- Action Plan of the Council of Andean Community Ministers of Energy, Electricity, Hydrocarbons and Mines (Bogota, Colombia)
- VI SELECT NATIONAL LEGISLATION ILLUSTRATIVE OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LAW INNOVATIONS
- Index
European Energy Charter Conference: Final Act, Energy Charter Treaty, Decisions and Additional Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Aspects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I WORLD ENERGY ASSESSMENT
- II INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
- III INTERNATIONAL LAW DECLARATIONS AND OTHER SOFT LAW INSTRUMENTS
- IV ACTION PLANS AND MULTILATERAL OPERATION RECOMMENDATIONS
- V SELECT REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGREEMENTS
- European Energy Charter Conference: Final Act, Energy Charter Treaty, Decisions and Additional Protocol on Energy Efficiency and Related Aspects
- Additional Protocol to the Energy Charter Treaty on Energy Efficiency and Related Matters
- North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation
- North American Free Trade Agreement, Chapter 6, Energy & Basic Petrochemicals
- Transboundary Impact Assessment Overarching Principles (Oaxaca, Mexico)
- Additional Protocol to the American Convention on Human Rights in the Area of Economic Social and Cultural Rights, “Protocol of San Salvador”
- Action Plan of the Council of Andean Community Ministers of Energy, Electricity, Hydrocarbons and Mines (Bogota, Colombia)
- VI SELECT NATIONAL LEGISLATION ILLUSTRATIVE OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LAW INNOVATIONS
- Index
Summary
PREAMBLE
The Contracting Parties to this Treaty,
Having regard to the Charter of Paris for a New Europe signed on 21 November 1990;
Having regard to the European Energy Charter adopted in the Concluding Document of the Hague Conference on the European Energy Charter signed at The Hague on 17 December 1991;
Recalling that all signatories to the Concluding Document of the Hague Conference undertook to pursue the objectives and principles of the European Energy Charter and implement and broaden their co-operation as soon as possible by negotiating in good faith an Energy Charter Treaty and Protocols, and desiring to place the commitments contained in that Charter on a secure and binding international legal basis;
Desiring also to establish the structural framework required to implement the principles enunciated in the European Energy Charter;
Wishing to implement the basic concept of the European Energy Charter initiative which is to catalyse economic growth by means of measures to liberalize investment and trade in energy;
Affirming that Contracting Parties attach the utmost importance to the effective implementation of full national treatment and most favoured nation treatment, and that these commitments will be applied to the Making of Investments pursuant to a supplementary treaty;
Having regard to the objective of progressive liberalization of international trade and to the principle of avoidance of discrimination in international trade as enunciated in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade its Related Instruments and as otherwise provided for in this Treaty;
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- Compendium of Sustainable Energy Laws , pp. 173 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
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