EU regulation of cross-border carbon capture and storage
Subtitle: legal issues under the directive on the geological storage of CO2 in the light of primary EU law
By: Marijn Holwerda
Series: Energy & law series -- 14; Energy & law -- 14.
Publisher: Intersentia
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge; Antwerp; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781780681900
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Carbon sequestration; Law and legislation; Carbon dioxide mitigation; Greenhouse gas mitigation; Environmental law; Global warming; Prevention; International cooperation; Air quality management
Other titles: European Union regulation of cross-border carbon capture and storage
Description: In 2009, the EU adopted one of the first dedicated regulatory frameworks for the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology worldwide. This book analyses the EU regulatory framework for CCS and examines its suitability for facilitating the deployment of CCS in the longer term. Departing from the growing necessity for CCS projects to go beyond EU Member States' borders, the book identifies a number of potential legal hindrances to the cross-border deployment of CCS in the EU. It examines the interaction of these legal hindrances with EU environmental, competition and free movement rules and answers the question to what extent they could indeed hamper the cross-border deployment of CCS. In doing so, the book addresses a wide variety of topics, ranging from third-party access to CCS infrastructure to the required composition of the CO2 stream for storage --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-392).
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: Carbon capture and storage : concept and technology --; title: The CCS directive : a brief overview --; title: CO₂ stream purity and member states' scope to impose stricter norms --; title: Storage site stewardship financing and the cross-border storage of CO₂ --; title: Refusing access to CCS infrastructure and the general EU law principle of loyalty --; title: Refusing access to CCS infrastructure and Article 102 TFEU --; title: The development and management of CO₂ transport infrastructure and EU antitrust law --; title: Centralising CO₂ storage site selection under EU law --; title: Public funding of CCS infrastructure and EU state aid law.