Global administrative law and the energy sector. Towards a transnational energy law

Abstract

For a large sector of Administrative Law specialists, energy law is one more component, among many others, of the so-called special part of Administrative Law. However, for various reasons, Energy Law already has its own principles, not strictly legal principles, but guiding principles that, when incorporated into the legal system of the European Union and the Spanish one, manage to individualize this discipline with respect to Law Administrative, from where Energy Law (in Latin jurisdictions) has departed. In reality, when we talk about energy law, we mean, on a large number of occasions, energy regulation, to express the directive nature of Law. The profound liberalization and privatization processes of the late 20th century, to the extent that they multiplied energy transactions between private agents in energy systems, have contributed to the birth of an incipient transnational energy law.