Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors to the volume
- Preface
- Chronological table of cases
- Table of European legislation
- Table of UK legislation
- Editors' Note – the decision in Rüffert v. Land Niedersachsen
- 1 Public procurement and horizontal policies in EC law: general principles
- 2 EC regulation of public procurement
- 3 A taxonomy of horizontal policies in public procurement
- 4 Application of the EC Treaty and directives to horizontal policies: a critical review
- 5 The impact of the EC state aid rules on horizontal policies in public procurement
- 6 EC public procurement law and equality linkages: foundations for interpretation
- 7 Disability issues in public procurement
- 8 The legality of SME development policies under EC procurement law
- 9 The procurement of ‘green’ energy
- 10 Reconciling national autonomy and trade integration in the context of eco-labelling
- 11 CSR in the utilities sector and the implications of EC procurement policy: a framework for debate
- 12 Coordinating public procurement to support EU objectives – a first step? The case of exclusions for serious criminal offences
- Index
- References
9 - The procurement of ‘green’ energy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors to the volume
- Preface
- Chronological table of cases
- Table of European legislation
- Table of UK legislation
- Editors' Note – the decision in Rüffert v. Land Niedersachsen
- 1 Public procurement and horizontal policies in EC law: general principles
- 2 EC regulation of public procurement
- 3 A taxonomy of horizontal policies in public procurement
- 4 Application of the EC Treaty and directives to horizontal policies: a critical review
- 5 The impact of the EC state aid rules on horizontal policies in public procurement
- 6 EC public procurement law and equality linkages: foundations for interpretation
- 7 Disability issues in public procurement
- 8 The legality of SME development policies under EC procurement law
- 9 The procurement of ‘green’ energy
- 10 Reconciling national autonomy and trade integration in the context of eco-labelling
- 11 CSR in the utilities sector and the implications of EC procurement policy: a framework for debate
- 12 Coordinating public procurement to support EU objectives – a first step? The case of exclusions for serious criminal offences
- Index
- References
Summary
Community energy policy
The context in which energy procurement takes place is complex, implicating at least three areas of European policy: energy, environmental and public procurement. Furthermore, energy policy is a field which deals with issues now recognised as being amongst the most urgent facing the Community but which has until now found no ‘bespoke’ legal basis within the Treaty. Energy policy measures must, therefore, be based on other Treaty provisions, notably those relating, on the one hand, to the internal market and, on the other, to environmental protection.
Until the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon one cannot, therefore, simply look to the EC Treaty to ascertain the objectives of Community energy policy. Instead one must examine a number of instruments which have mapped out the energy challenges which face Europe and the Community's emerging response. These suggest that European energy policy has, in particular, three key objectives. These are: (i) the maintenance of security of supply; (ii) maintenance and improvement of European competitiveness through further development of the internal energy market; and, (iii) last but absolutely not least, contributing to environmentally sustainable development and, in particular, reducing emissions of greenhouse gases so as to combat climate change. The radical changes that will have to take place within the European economy if these objectives are to be achieved should not be underestimated.
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- Chapter
- Information
- Social and Environmental Policies in EC Procurement LawNew Directives and New Directions, pp. 369 - 407Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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