Study Group: Energy / Utilities Experts: Legal, Economic, and Regulatory Affairs (France)
Council Members in this Study Group: 25
This study group may include professors, attorneys, former regulatory officers, and consultants knowledgeable on topics such as law and litigation issues, lobbying, policy and government, elections, antitrust, immigration, intellectual property, and legislation, among others.
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
- Miguel Mesquita da Cunha
Consultant
Miguel Mesquita da Cunha
Miguel Mesquita da Cunha is a Consultant in Belgium who specializes in EU policy and regulatory trends that affect business. Previously, Dr. Mesquita da Cunha worked in the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) under Lord...
Peter StylesPrincipal Consultant
Stratos European Policy LimitedPeter Styles is the principal consultant at Stratos European Policy in England, where he offers analytical and related consulting services to business clients with an interest in European Union policy development and regulation. He follows broad trends...
GLG NewsSM Analyses by this Study Group's Leading Experts(?)
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The European Commission may struggle to reflect national views on financial sector regulation
May 1, 2009
Analysis by: Peter Styles, Principal Consultant,Industry attacks draft EU hedge-fund bill | www.euractiv.com
The largest EU Member States, represented directly in the G7 and/or the G20, have given the European Commission a clear mandate to propose new regulatory controls over alternative investment managers operating inside the EU. Mostly affected will be hedge, private equity and venture capital funds above a threshold size. While the Commission has produced quite clear proposals (albeit criticised from many quarters), once the new European Parliament has been elected and once the Swedish Presidency of the EU Council gets started, we will witness a battle royal among Member State governments to influence the precise legislative outcome
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Green certificates would gain value if flat rate feed-in tariffs were phased out
April 10, 2008
Analysis by: Peter Styles, Principal Consultant,Incentives to Invest in Electricity Production from Renewable Energy under Different Support Schemes | www.arrhenius.de
There is another flaw in the Arrhenius argument, not mentioned in peer reviews dealing with the distinction between wholesale power market spot and future prices. The Arrhenius authors appear to assume that green certificates would be issued or required on top of the German feed-in tariff regime, rather than as an eventual complete replacement for it. Instead, any reasonable assumptions, about reform of the German regime and EU harmonisation of means of support according to market based principles, would suggest that a quota scheme should eventually replace flat rate feed-in tariffs. Enhanced value for investors could then come not from overly generous guaranteed payments but from their meeting the marginal need for certificates, valid EU wide, in those countries or on the part of those suppliers who become most "short".
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Microsoft v. European Commission: a victory for innovation & for the consummer
September 20, 2007
Analysis by: Miguel Mesquita da Cunha, Consultant,Microsoft's Big European Defeat: What Now? | www.businessweek.com
By restricting Microsoft's ability to bundle unrelated features (such as media players, server software) to Windows, the EU ruling will bolster competition & innovation in the software industry. The judgement further asserts that companies may not unfairly prevent rival products from functioning properly with their offerings. More generaly, the ruling confirms the EC legal power to pursue abuses of market dominance.
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Wrong, dear FT: Investors should beware of Royal
February 26, 2007
Analysis by: Miguel Mesquita da Cunha, Consultant,Why business need not worry too much about Royal | www.ft.com
French business and equities would take a plunge if Ms. Royal were elected President in April next.
Ms. Royal’s personal economic views are statist & interventionist; if elected she would have to govern with an alliance of unreconstructed Socialists and Communists.
Far from reforming products, services and labor markets, a Royal administration would most probably impose extra burdens on companies and entrepreneurship. -
Car fumes: do not panic (yet…)
February 6, 2007
Analysis by: Miguel Mesquita da Cunha, Consultant,Car industry facing 18% CO2 cut | news.bbc.co.uk
The European Commission plans to propose measures to bring emissions of greenhouse gases from the average new car down to 120g of CO2 per kilometer by 2012 - 25% below the 2005 level of 162g/km.
Final provisions will depend on a host of complex negotiations, but the overall trend is clear: the competitive advantage for car manufacturers to offer more efficient engines is likely to become ever more pronounced in the years ahead.
Members in this Study Group include these company types:
- Law Firm (general practice/large)
- Academic Institution*
- Law Firm (Boutique / Specialized)
- Policy or Political Consulting Firm
- Wind Farm Developer (ei)
- Federal Government
- Advocacy Group or Issue Focused
- Independent Consulting Firm
- E&P Company (ei)
- Think Tank
- Power Generation Equipment Manufacturer (ei)
Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:
- Partner
- Associate
- Researcher
- Government Employee or Official
- General Manager
- Professor
- General Counsel
- Owner
- Director
- Fellow
- Attorney
- Research & Development Manager