Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers have again identified Germany’s best lawyers. As in the previous year, BBH partners Prof. Dr Christian Theobald and Dr Ines Zenke made the distinguished list of top lawyers.

BBH lawyers are regularly recommended as experts for different areas of law in relevant…

In the framework of a short legal opinion commissioned by the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, the law firm Becker Büttner Held (BBH) has analysed how the Euratom Treaty might be updated. The legal opinion concludes that a meaningful reform would be possible by consistently implementing…

The Atomic Energy Act (Atomgesetz – AtG) is being revised once again in order to regulate the compensation payments for stranded investments granted by the Federal Constitutional Court to nuclear operators. A public hearing takes place at the German Bundestag today within the framework of the…

In a landmark decision, the Federal Court of Justice has found that the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur – BNetzA) has incorrectly determined the efficiency level for the 2nd regulatory period in the gas sector. The regulatory authority had wrongfully included the regional transmission…

Die kommunaleigenen Kieler Verkehrsbetriebe dürfen weiterhin den öffentlichen Linienverkehr in der Stadt Kiel erbringen. Die Klage eines privaten Verkehrsunternehmers, der die Hälfte des Kieler Stadtverkehrs übernehmen wollte, hat das Schleswig-Holsteinische Verwaltungsgericht abgewiesen (Az. 3 A…

The study “Distribution System Operators 2030 – Tasks I Challenges I Strategies” was presented for the first time to the public at today’s regulatory conference of AK REGTP. The study focuses on the distribution system operators, their position and how their tasks and their approach will change as…

The Sauerland region is about to launch a huge and ground-breaking project: the switching of its natural gas supply from low-calorific L-gas to high-calorific H-gas. To jointly respond to the challenges associated with the project, the municipal utilities of Hemer, Iserlohn, Menden and Schwerte…