ROLE OF THE COURT OF THE EURASIAN ECONOMIC UNION IN ENSURING ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE EAEU ENERGY MARKET

The Eurasian Economic Union, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2024, has established itself as a viable form of economic integration. Cooperation between the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union in the energy sector is one of the main focuses of the Eurasian Economic Union. This article describes the nature of legal regulation of energy cooperation within the EAEU, as well as how the EAEU’s coordinated policy is being implemented. Its bodies, including the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union, which celebrated its tenth anniversary this year, are at the core of the implementation of the tasks of this international association. The article covers the competence of the Court and its legal positions contributing to the development of integration-based economic cooperation, including that in the energy sector, within the EAEU. In particular, the author analyzes the legal positions of the EAEU Court which define its legal nature as a supranational organization, and the EAEU Court itself as a supranational justice body. In addition, by examining the nature of the coordinated legal policy within the EAEU, the author attempts to identify the main aspects of such a policy, which is also important for cooperation in the energy sector on the basis of the energy policy, to analyze the approaches of the EAEU Court formulated in the case of cooperation in transport sector on the basis of a coordinated policy, with the goal of applying them to the energy relations within the EAEU. This article reviews a number of decisions of the EAEU Court, including one of the Court’s latest Advisory Opinions regarding secondary measures of economic coercion (“sanctions”)