Late last week, international law firm WilmerHale published a very thorough review of the European Commission’s (EC) recently proposed rules aimed at preventing abuse in wholesale energy markets. The proposal hopes to close gaps in the “existing regime” that were found upon inspection by the Committee of European Securities Regulators and the European Regulators Group [...]
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7 Feb
Strengthening European Rules on Chemical Accident Prevention
A recent memo from Squire Sanders discusses the proposed changes to the European Commission’s Seveso II Directive (96/82/EC), an updated version of legislation originally adopted in 1982 that aimed to prevent and control major accidents in the chemical industry. The Directive is named after a 1976 industrial accident near Seveso, Italy, in which kilograms of [...]
