Implementation of the Third energy package into the legal order of the Czech Republic Summary This thesis discusses the implementation issue of the Third energy package, also known as the Third liberalization package, into the Czech national law. It consists of three regulations and two directives of the European Union, which determines the energy politics both on the European level and on the level of the member states. The first part of this thesis describes the ancestors of the Third energy package and their accomplishments or failures together with reasons for creating the next generations of liberalizing legislation. The author describes the liberalization in the form of the legal, functional and accounting unbundling separately for electricity and gas industry at the European level, and then the implementation at the level of the Czech legislation. In the next chapter it is further explained, what were the European legislator's incentives for creating the Third energy package, and what new institutes it stipulates. It is herein described that the European Union came with three different unbundling versions of the transmission system operators (TSO) - Ownership unbundling (OU), Independent system operator (ISO) and the Independent transmission operator (ITO). Requirements of all of the three variations...

Depuis le début de la construction européenne, définir une politique énergétique européenne était un défi important. Malgré les Etats membres qui voulaient préserver l’autonomie de leur secteur énergétique, une vague de restructurations s’est mise en place dans le secteur européen de l’électricité et du gaz par la libéralisation du secteur. Dans ce cadre, le troisième paquet énergie avec la disposition de la séparation de la propriété qui envisageait de démanteler les grandes entreprises énergétiques, a suscité une grande polémique. En relation avec ce débat intensif, la genèse et l’institutionnalisation de la politique énergétique au niveau européen à partir de 1950 jusqu’à 2010 ont été étudiées. Le rôle des idées néolibérales, les pratiques quotidiennes des acteurs (les groupes d’intérêt, les fonctionnaires des institutions européennes, les parlementaires européens..), leurs rapports de force, les luttes de pouvoir dans l’établissement de cette politique ont été analysés. / From the beginning of the European integration, defining a European energy policy was an important challenge. Despite the Member States who intended to preserve the autonomy of their energy sector, a wave of restructuring has taken place in the European electricity and gas sector through the liberalization. In this context, the third energy package with the unbundling issue which envisaged dismantling the big energy companies, caused great deal of controversy and polemics. In connection with this intensive debate, the genesis and institutionalization of the European energy policy from 1950 to 2010 have been studied. The role of neoliberal ideas, stakeholders’ daily practices (interest groups, officials of the European institutions, MEPs...), their power relations, political struggles in the establishment of this policy were analyzed.