In an Opinion delivered on Thursday 16 June, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that a request by Belgium for an Opinion on the compatibility of the draft modernised ‘Energy Charter Treaty’ (ECT) with the EU Treaties was premature and therefore inadmissible (Opinion 1/20).
“In its opinion, the Court does not have sufficient information on the actual content of the envisaged draft modernised ECT and that, therefore, the present request for an Opinion, on account of its...