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Hinkley Point nuclear project could be delayed by years, due to Austrian legal action


justiceflag Austriaflag-UKAUSTRIAN LEGAL ACTION COULD DELAY HINKLEY POINT NUCLEAR FOR THREE TO FOUR YEARS, Power Engineering  09/07/2015 

International Digital Editor Based on the average data associated with such cases, the legal objection made by Austria this week against the European Commission to facilitate Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant could delay the progress of the facility for around three to four years.

That timeframe is based on the average expectation associated with such cases, as confirmed this week by a legal expert who had been advising the Austrian government on the matter. It is less than the worst case scenario timeframe of five to eight years but that delay is not beyond the bounds of possibility as the subsequent decision could still be challenged.

Dr Dorte Fouquet, Partner, BBH Brussels who has been advising Vienna on the matter of their objection to Britain’s flagship nuclear power project on the basis of State Aid contravention told Power Engineering International, “From the publication on average statistics from the European Court in State Aid cases the duration can be on average between 31,5 und 50,3 months.”

Dr Fouquet quoted the information from the 2013 Annual report of the European Court of Justice, (pg. 186).

She had told an audience at Platts Power Summit in central London at the end of April that if Vienna pressed on with its challenge it could set back construction of the Hinkley Point C project for even longer than that average.

“Based on whether a party was unhappy with that, it could then go again before the European Court of Justice, which could also take years, though probably not as much as the first; this is based on average procedures.”……….

Dr. Reinhard Schanda, a partner at the Vienna-based law firm Sattler & Schanda told PEi that a three to four year delay is ‘optimistic’. ……..http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2015/07/austrian-legal-action-could-delay-hinkley-point-nuclear-for-three-to-four-years.html

July 10, 2015 - Posted by | EUROPE, Legal, UK

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