Nord Stream 2: A Legal and Policy Analysis. CEPS Special Report No. 151Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2016

This paper offers an in-depth legal and analytical argument that the EU’s energy regulatory regime applies to Nord Stream 2. It finds it indisputable that Union law applies in its own internal waters and territorial seas that Nord Stream 2 will pass through, and highly probable that Union law applies in the exclusive economic zone through which Nord Stream 2 will also passes. It goes on to argue that Nord Stream 2 is a transmission pipeline under EU law to which the full weight of the EU’s liber