The Single Energy Market (“SEM”) Committee published
its Roadmap to Clean Energy Package (“CEP”)
Implementation Information Paper (the “Paper”) on 16
December 2019. The Paper can be found here.
The CEP contains eight European legislative acts, including the
regulation on the internal market for electricity EU 2019/943
(recast) (the “Regulation”). The Regulation forms
a part of the CEP that seeks to establish a modern design for the
EU electricity market, one which is “more flexible, more
market-oriented and better placed to integrate a greater share of
renewables”. The Regulation applies from 1 January
2020, with exceptions for certain provisions.
The Paper sets out the SEM Committee’s plan to progress
changes to the SEM in order to implement the Regulation. The
SEM Committee will work within the context of policies set by
Ireland’s Department of Communication, Climate Action and
Environment and Northern Ireland’s Department for the Economy
in order to give
