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The Third Gas Directive Process

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Herweg applies the modified multiple streams framework to the third natural gas directive process, which took place between 2003 and 2009. Guided by the hypotheses derived in Chap. 2, she discusses how the draft directive returned on the agenda and how decision coupling resulted in policy change. The agenda window opened with the election of the Barroso Commission, which made achieving the internal energy market a key priority by means of competition law. Changes in the problem stream and political stream held the agenda window open until the Commission considered the revision of the directive necessary. Policy-makers started negotiating package deals and concessions in parallel to the Commission drafting the third directive. This made decision coupling easier for political entrepreneurs.

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Herweg, N. (2017). The Third Gas Directive Process. In: European Union Policy-Making. International Series on Public Policy . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49400-5_6

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