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EU Energy Policy under the Treaty of Lisbon Rules: Between a new policy and business as usual / Jan Frederik Braun. EPIN ; CEPS, Feb. 2011, 14 p. ISBN 978-94-6138-082-1 (working paper ; 31)http://www.ceps.eu/book/eu-energy-policy-under-treaty-lisbon-rules-between-new-policy-and-business-usualThis paper provides a preliminary assessment of the EU’s energy policy  under the Treaty of Lisbon rules. It reviews the major and minor effects  of the rules on energy (both formally and informally) and how these are  perceived by the EU institutions post-Lisbon. This includes  consideration of the new elements of the reformed institutional  architecture in this policy area. In the context of the Treaty of  Lisbon, the main questions this paper seeks to answer are to what extent  energy policy constitutes a new policy area and whether the EU is a  more coherent actor in this and other instances where competence is  shared with the member states.