Strategic Oil Stock Holding Obligations
As the new EU regime for compulsory oil stocking comes into force, we are well placed to advise on compliance with the obligations that are imposed on operators.
We have expertise in national oil stocks management, the creation of public entities designed to hold stock and the CSO including ticketing arrangements designed to provide obligated parties with stock availability. Our lawyers also have experience in advising governments on their stock holding compliance strategies.
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News: 03 FEBRUARY 2020
Top rankings for A&O’s Projects, Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure group
A&O’s global Projects, Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure group has finished top of the IJGlobal and Dealogic league tables, making 2019 another highly successful year.
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Publications: 27 JANUARY 2020
Updated Equator Principles Finalized
Updated Equator Principles with stronger standards and a broader scope were finalized in November 2019 and are set to come into effect in July 2020.
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Publications: 17 DECEMBER 2019
European Green Deal: roadmap to a climate neutral Europe
On 11 December 2019, the new European Commission announced its much-awaited European Green Deal (EGD)1, which sets out a wide range of major policy and legislative proposals to transition Europe to be ‘climate neutral’ by 2050.
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Publications: 29 NOVEMBER 2019
Distorting mirrors: UK sanctions and Brexit
The UK’s various sanctions regimes are currently very strongly correlated, although not completely aligned, with those of the EU. This position arises, in part, from the direct applicability of certain EU laws within EU Member States (e.g. via EU regulations). Much of this EU law would cease to apply within the UK should the UK leave the EU without any new agreement being established to govern the future EU-UK relationship.
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Chambers UK 2016 (Environment)