Energy News – 6th Issue-Electricity Storage Energy Markets Energy Community: Strategy and Projects of Common Interest ReportPoland: Consumer Protection Stipulations in the “Little Energy Three Pack” Electricity Greece: Decision of the Permanent Arbitration Tribunal forces Greece’s Major Electricity Supplier to sell to an Industrial Customer at Low CostBiH: Νew Law on Electricity introduced in the...Read More

Arbitration News – Pro-enforcement Bias of New York Convention Given Effect Under Articles V and VI (Article by Dr. A. Tsavdaridis, published in the Arbitration Newsletter of the ILO on November 07, 2013) In the enforcement stage of a foreign award in a cotton arbitration, a court held that litispendence is not a valid ground...Read More

Energy News – 5th Issue- LAGIE Energy Markets SEE: Energy Community’s Annual Implementation Report Electricity Greece: Introduction of the Risk Management of LAGIE for the Day Ahead Scheduling On 7 October 2013, the Greek Regulatory Authority for Energy, accepting the proposal of the Electricity Market Operator (LAGIE), amended the Power Exchange Code (the Code), the...Read More

Energy News – 4th Issue- energy performance of buildings Electricity Greece: The TSO will be able to conclude interruptible contracts with energy-intensive consumers Bulgaria: Decision of the State Energy Regulatory Commission on the implementation of smart metering systems Oil and Gas EU: ACER issues guidance for the Guidelines for Congestion Management Procedures Renewables Greece: The...Read More

  Rokas (Athens) senior partner, Prof. Dr. I. Rokas, participated actively at the Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA) National Conference, 18 – 20 September, 2013, Sydney, Australia, chairing the session of AIDA Working Party “Distribution of Insurance Products”, during which he also delivered a speech on “Online insurance intermediation”.Read More

Arbitration News-Hague Service Convention Does not Apply to Arbitration Documents (Article by Dr. A. Tsavdaridis, published in the Arbitration Newsletter of the ILO on August 22, 2013) Facts In 2008 a Chinese company entered into two agreements for the sale of around 60 tons of pistachio nuts to a Greek company. Although the Chinese company...Read More

Energy News – 3d Issue- electricity price in Greece Energy Markets EU: MoU regarding implementation of REMIT concluded between ACER and NRAs Electricity Greece: Reform of the electricity wholesale marketGreece: PPC privatisation – further stepsGreece: Developments in the electricity price in Greece In order to cut down the deficit incurred by Greece’s market operator LAGIE,...Read More

Energy News – 2nd Issue Some of them follow below ELECTRICITY Backloading of carbon permits approved by the European Parliament The European Parliament adopted on July 3 the amended proposal of the European Commission to withhold theauction of 900 million emissions permits in the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) for the period2013-2015 and reintroduce...Read More

Energy News – 1st Issue of June 2013 Some of them follow below ELECTRICITY Restructuring and privatization of PPC On May 15 the restructuring and privatization plan for the Public Power Corporation (PPC) was made public by theGreek Government. Three main steps are envisaged in this direction: a. separation of the operator of the electricitytransmission...Read More

     Rokas (Bucharest) internship programme I.K. Rokas & Partners – Constantinescu, Radu & Ionescu SPRL (RCRI), member of Rokas international network launches an internship programme, open to law students being in the 3rd or the 4th year.  Motivated and dynamic students with strong English knowledge, willing to make a career in business law, are welcome...Read More