Olt decision – The Administrative Court states “enough is enough”
Submitted by ISPI on Fri, 10/07/2015 - 19:20by Francesca Morra e Lorenzo Parola - With decision of 18 and 30 March 2015, the Administrative Court of Lombardy (TAR) dismissed the appeal of OLT Offshore LNG Toscana S.p.A. against a number of resolutions of the Italian energy regulator - AEEGSI - regarding the regasification activity. OLT is a joint venture between the Italian utility IREN and the German one EON, which developed and manages together a floating regasification terminal off the coast between Livorno and Pisa with a capacity of 3.75 billion cubic metres/year. Many aspects of the case are worth noting. In fact, it created a precedent of waiver of the exemption from third party access (TPA) provisions, forcing the relevant authorities to fill a gap in the TPA exemption discipline.