EU/Euratom Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty: adoption by Euratom

The European Parliament adopted by 557 votes to 47, with 46 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a Council decision on the adoption by the European Atomic Energy Community of the Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty between the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States.

Parliament approved the Commission's proposal.

The Commission has negotiated an Agreement on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) between the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States. The single provision of substance of the Agreement sets out the common understanding of the Parties to the Agreement regarding the non-applicability of Article 26(2)(c) of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) as a basis for intra-EU arbitration.

Under the Agreement, the Contracting Parties reaffirm, for the sake of clarity, their common understanding on the interpretation and application of the Energy Charter Treaty, according to which Article 26 of that Treaty cannot and will never serve as a legal basis for intra-EU arbitration proceedings.