Course : ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN THE EU /ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND THE INTERNAL MARKET_περιβάλλον και εσωτερική αγορά

Dear students,

Our next lecture will take place on Thursday 6 June, on site, from 5-7 pm, as planned (Room 8, Hall of Theoretical Sciences, Sina 3). There will be a confirmation announcement folloiwing for the possibility to stay in the same room until 8 pm and have a tutorial, as discussed.

In terms of the lecture, it will focus on the energy transition. Accordingly, you can find reading material uploaded. 

More specifically, you can find

• The Renewable Energy Directive 2018/2001 (RED). As you can see, I uploaded the updated directive, and this is a very long text. You can focus on the first 6 articles, and then do take a look at articles 15 and following, up to articles 21 and 22 on self-consumption. But you can also take a look at the different sectors there.
• "Renewable energy consumption" in Edwin Woerdman, Martha Roggenkamp and Marijn Holwerda (eds) Essential EU Climate Law (Edward Elgar 2021). This book chapter provides a complete overview of the key points of the RED, and hence it can be a very helpful introduction or interpretive tool for more easily reading and better understanding the law.
• Sebastian Oberthür, Hard or Soft Governance? The EU’s Climate and Energy Policy Framework for 2030 (2019) Politics and Governance 17. This article belongs in the field of political sciences, but it can significantly facilitate legal analysis, as it elucidates choices and implications of the “new” (already 5 years now) and complex governance system that has been adopted for the Energy Union (relevant to the field of climate too).
• Theodoros Iliopoulos, “Price support schemes in the service of the EU’s low-carbon energy transition” in Theodoros Zachariadis, Janet E. Milne, Mikael Skou Andersen and Hope Ashiabor (ed) Economic Instruments for a Low-carbon Future (Edward Elgar 2020). In this book chapter you can find a presentation (and historical evolution) of the main instruments that have been so far used for the financial support of renewable energy sources, along with some introductory references to self-consumption/renewable energy communities.

You can also find uploaded the slides from yesterday's lecture on the waste framework directive. I chose to include the whole slide deck that goes through details of the directive and its application. We didn't have the time to cover evertyhing in one lecture, but it is better like this for you to have a point of reference for studying or researchign the area. And of course feel free to contact me if you have questions.

I hope everyhing is clear and helpful, I am anyway at your disposal,

Best, and see you next week,

Thodoris