1. After a slow start in the 1970s to tackle trans-boundary environmental issues and level the playing field for European businesses, EU environmental policies now cover water, air or noise pollution; habitat and biodiversity preservation; sustainable production and consumption and the fight against climate change. This afterthought of European integration -the environment wasn't even mentioned in the EU's founding Rome Treaty in 1951 -has now become central to the EU's international affairs. For a more recent analyses on the EU Environmental Policy and its influence on the EU Energy policy see further, Emanuela Orlando;; P Kr�mer;European Environmental Law: Innovative, integrative but also effective? In European legal Dynamics" Revised and updated Edition of Thirty Years of European Legal Studies at the College of Europe,2010
2. Manufacturing the EU Energy Markets: The Current Dynamics of Regulatory Practice
3. Ownership unbundling and constitutional conflict: a typical German debate?;Johann-Christian Pielow;European Review of Energy Markets,2008