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In this issue: Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Renewable energy Capacity Market, balancing services and energy system flexibility Conventional power, waste to energy, biomass, and CHP projects Nuclear energy Planning issues in energy projects International energy Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers Electricity and gas market regulation and licensing Ofgem publishes determinations on code manager selection for REC and BSC Ofgem has issued two determinations, setting out its conclusions under section 187(1) of the Energy Act 2023 to move ahead with appointing code managers for the Balancing and Settlement Code (BSC) and the Retail Energy Code (REC) without running a competition. As a consequence, both the Retail Energy Code Company Ltd and Elexon Ltd will, respectively, be asked to provide a licensing assessment form. Ofgem will subsequently review the submissions and confirm whether it proposes to award each entity a licence. See:...

In this issue: Autumn Budget 2024 Brexit highlights Brexit SIs Subsidy control and State aid Judicial review Equality and human rights Constitutional and administrative law Information law Other Public law news LexTalk®Public Law: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary Trackers New Q&As Useful information Autumn Budget 2024 Bar Council responds to Autumn Budget 2024 The Bar Council has issued its reaction to the Autumn Budget, praising the ‘overall settlement for justice’. The settlement sets a departmental expenditure limit of £13.8bn for 2025–2026 for the Ministry of Justice. The Bar Council’s Chair, Sam Townend, welcomed the uplift, describing it as an overdue move towards treating justice as a core public service. He nevertheless cautioned that the sector remains far from recovery, pointing to a 20% real-terms per person cut in justice funding since 2010. To move beyond crisis...

Jump to: General Brexit headlines Brexit SIs and sifting updates Made Brexit SIs laid in Parliament Post-Brexit transition guidance Editor’s picks—the practice area/sector view New and updated Brexit related content LexTalk®Brexit: a Lexis®Nexis community Useful information General Brexit headlines This section contains key overarching Brexit news headlines and updates. Northern Ireland Assembly does not obtain cross-community approval in inaugural vote on EU law in Northern Ireland The Northern Ireland Assembly (NIA) considered and held a vote on the inclusion, via the Joint Committee, of Regulation (EU) 2023/2411 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 October 2023—on the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial goods and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 and Regulation (EU) 2019/1753—into the Windsor Framework by the UK and the EU, in accordance with Article 13(4). The proposal did not attract cross-community consent and was therefore defeated, and was accordingly negatived in consequence. This marked the first...

How has decision making in Northern Ireland been carried out since the passing of the Northern Ireland Act 1998? To answer this, recall the wider devolution framework for Northern Ireland. The Belfast Agreement envisaged not just a Northern Ireland Assembly, but also the creation of a North/South Ministerial Council and a British-Irish Council. Under the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (NIA 1998), law-making for specified ‘transferred matters’ is vested in the Assembly. ‘Excepted matters’ remain the responsibility of the UK Parliament, while ‘reserved matters’ also stay there pending potential devolution at a later stage. As an illustration, policing and justice were in the reserved category until their devolution to the Assembly in 2010. See also Practice Note: The mechanics of devolution. Although an Assembly met in shadow form from 1998, full operation began in late 1999. It was then suspended for several months in 2000, on two separate occasions in 2001, for an extended period from October 2002 to May 2007, and again between...

Reviewing 2017 Planning for nationally significant infrastructure What happened? Key developments in major infrastructure comprised: The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC)’s interim National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA) — the NIC is progressing towards releasing the first NIA in 2018, which will analyse the UK’s long-term infrastructure requirements, set a strategic vision through to 2050, and propose recommendations to bolster the nation’s infrastructure...

From the outset of UK devolution, devolved enactments have faced various legal challenges. Early cases were typically mounted by individuals invoking the European Convention on Human Rights to vindicate their rights. Since 2008, however, the emphasis has moved towards alleging that such enactments stray outside the devolved legislature’s own law-making competence. This Practice Note offers core guidance on the mechanics and rationale of these disputes, and summarises judicial treatment to date. Additionally, UK ministers may, under section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 (SA 1998) and section 114 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (GWA 2006), intervene by order in defined circumstances to prevent a Presiding Officer of a devolved legislature from presenting a Bill for Royal Assent. Any such order can itself be contested by judicial review. Part II of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (NIA 1998) serves a comparable function through a distinct route whereby the Secretary of State submits Bills for Royal Assent and, for certain Bills, must give consent...