Sérvulo sponsors conference on Energy Law

NEWS AND EVENTS 23 Nov 2015

The I Lisbon Conference on Energy Law, which takes place on November 23 and 24, brings together the main national and international specialists in the various aspects of Energy, to discuss the sector’s regulatory stability. Professor Sérvulo Correia, founding partner of SÉRVULO, will be one of the speakers on the panel on International Law and International Investment with a paper on National Arbitration in Energy Law.

The conference takes place over the course of two days and 11 panels, with the themes being covered divided into two categories, international, European and Portuguese energy law and the requirements and the limits of regulatory stability. This latter analysis will be focused on the recent amendments introduced by the EU or induced by the Troika in the sector.

The objective of the conference is to clarify the recent amendments that have been introduced, with a view to the liberalisation of and the reduction of State subsidies in terms of prices, the impact of these amendments on society and at the various levels of governance, the globalisation of Energy Law and the spill-over effect it will have on Portuguese law.

The political demands in Europe and in Portugal with regards to the reform of the energy sector are well known, but the legal framework and the social and economic impact of these measures have not yet been duly analysed. With the aim of bringing together worthwhile contributions to this debate, the conference on Energy Law and Regulatory Stability, which is organised by the Institute of Political Legal Sciences (ICJP – Instituto de Ciências Juridico-Políticas) and by the Lisbon Centre for Research in Public Law (CIDP – Centro de Investigação em Direito Público), of the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, will include interventions by specialists in both the theoretical and the practical perspectives, who will cover all the relevant subjects, from a comparison of the Spanish, Italian and Greek realities, to competition issues, covering the current Portuguese scenario in terms of gas, electricity, and oil, from the regulatory, investment, arbitration and litigation perspectives, amongst other themes that are essential to fully understanding what is happening in the sector today in Portugal and in Europe.

The conference is coordinated by Lourenço Vilhena de Freitas, Francisco Paes Marques and Tiago Fidalgo de Freitas.

The full conference programme can be seen here.