The European Commission has just completed an assessment of the “Solidarity Regulation” including the EU Joint Gas Purchasing mechanism. Its main conclusion is that EU’s ‘Solidarity Regulation’ significantly contributed to addressing the energy crisis…and it’s considering the prolongation of certain measures. “The Commission is considering whether to propose prolonging some or all of the measures of the Regulation and how some of the measures in it could be integrated in a more structural way. To this end the revised Gas Regulation has been identified as a suitable legal act for integrating CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE JOINT PURCHASING MECHANISM and the […]