Julius Rumpf

Rumpf, Julius & Hancher, Leigh (2021). Baltic Cable AB v Energimarknadsinspektionen (C-454/18): The CJEU Decides on Congestion Income Regulation of Single Electricity Interconnector Companies and Applies Classic Remedies for Modern Issues
European Law Review 46(2) p 242–257.
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Hancher, Leigh, Kehoe, Anne Marie & Rumpf, Julius (2020). The EU electricity network codes and guidelines : a legal perspective European University Institute RSCAS Research Project Reports.

Rumpf, Julius (2020). Congestion displacement in European electricity transmission systems – finally getting a grip on it? Revised safeguards in the Clean Energy Package and the European network codes
Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 38(4) s 409–436.

Rumpf, Julius (2019). Does the Energy Union End at the Baltic Sea Coast? Capacity Curtailments on the Baltic Cable
European Competition and Regulatory Law Review (CoRe) 3(3) p 298–305.

Rumpf, Julius & Bjørnebye, Henrik (2018). Just how much is enough? EU regulation of capacity and reliability margins on electricity interconnectors
Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 37(1), p 67–91.

Rumpf, Julius & Wirth, Philipp (2015). Immer Ärger mit dem Widerrufsrecht
InfrastrukturRecht p 170–173 & 194–196.

Eder, Jost & Rumpf, Julius (2015). Separierte Energiepreissysteme: Kein Fall für das Sonderkündigungsrecht nach § 41 III EnWG
Zeitschrift für das gesamte Recht der Energiewirtschaft p 105–109.

Lehnert, Wieland, Wagner, Florian & Rumpf, Julius (2015). Die Sprache der Direktvermarktung: Die MPES 2.0 auf dem Prüfstand
Zeitschrift für das gesamte Recht der Energiewirtschaft p 201–207.

Eder, Jost & Rumpf, Julius (2015). Preisklarheit, quo vadis? Zur Umsetzung der neuen Vorgaben zur Preisdarstellung und für Preisanpassungen in der Grundversorgung in der Praxis
InfrastrukturRecht p 218–221 & 270–277.

• Rumpf, Julius & Hancher, Leigh (2021). Baltic Cable AB v Energimarknadsinspektionen (C-454/18): The CJEU Decides on Congestion Income Regulation of Single Electricity Interconnector Companies and Applies Classic Remedies for Modern Issues. European Law Review.  ISSN 0307-5400.  46(2), s 242- 257 Show summary

  This article explores the impact of an important ruling in the energy sector from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In its judgment, the CJEU narrowly avoids giving the referring court a green light to interpret a key provision of the EU internal energy market legislation contra legem. Invoking instead the principle of non-discrimination, the CJEU relies on a classic remedy to recognise that a Swedish company owning and operating an electricity interconnector should be entitled to earn a reasonable profit. Although the interconnection of energy networks is an objective enshrined in art.194(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the realisation of this objective has spawned a dense and highly technical web of regulation. This article explains the Court’s reasoning and its potential legal as well as economic impact in this complex and evolving regulatory space. We explain that while valuable progress has been made on technical harmonisation, classic fundamental principles of EU law, such as the non-discrimination principle, remain pivotal for resolving modern and central issues of electricity market integration.

• Hancher, Leigh; Kehoe, Anne Marie & Rumpf, Julius (2020). The EU electricity network codes and guidelines: a legal perspective. European University Institute Working Papers.  ISSN 1830-7728. . doi: 10.2870/566796
• Rumpf, Julius (2020). Congestion displacement in European electricity transmission systems – finally getting a grip on it? Revised safeguards in the Clean Energy Package and the European network codes. Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law.  ISSN 0264-6811.  s 409- 436 . doi: 10.1080/02646811.2019.1707441 Full text in Research Archive.
• Rumpf, Julius (2019). Does the Energy Union End at the Baltic Sea Coast? Capacity Curtailments on the Baltic Cable. European Competition and Regulatory Law Review (CoRe).  ISSN 2510-3148.  3(3), s 298- 305 . doi: 10.21552/core/2019/3/8 Show summary

  The Baltic Cable case concerns a pressing issue regarding the allocation of scarce transmission capacity on electricity interconnectors: Network operators regularly curtail cross-border capacity to resolve network congestion within their grids, which often results from increased renewables production. This practice constitutes a major obstacle to the achievement of a European 'Energy Union' of unrestricted cross-border trade. A recent order from Germany - a Member State particularly affected by internal 'bottlenecks'- is noteworthy for two reasons: firstly, because it asserts the legality of systematic curtailments despite a general prohibition in the pertinent EU legislation; secondly, because it stands in stark contrast to competition law decisions of the European Commission in similar cases.

• Rumpf, Julius & Bjørnebye, Henrik (2018). Just how much is enough? EU regulation of capacity and reliability on electricity interconnectors. Journal of Energy and Natural Resources Law.  ISSN 0264-6811.  37(1), s 67- 91 . doi: 10.1080/02646811.2018.1471802

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