At a joint session on 21 March attended by MEPs from the Committee on International Trade (INTA) and the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), Cristina Lobillo Borrero, Directorate-General for Energy’s (DG ENER) head of energy policy, set out the issues involved in the European Union’s withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty(see EUROPE B13366A9).
Lobillo Borrero explained the complexity of the Treaty, a multilateral agreement signed in 1994 which, despite modernisation...