Faced with the lack of a mandate to continue the process of modernising the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), the European Commission’s services are currently assessing the possibility of withdrawing from the treaty, said Cristina Lobillo Borrero, a member of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy (DG ENER), on Monday 5 December.
“We are assessing how to withdraw from the treaty, but we also need to be aware of all the legal issues. So we need to have a very sound analysis...