This is intended to settle the legal dispute with the four companies.
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The German government is paying the Akw operators a good 2.4 billion euros for the nuclear phase-out ten years ago. The federal government announced on Friday that the legal dispute with the four companies will be resolved.
The government is thus implementing a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court from 2016 that awarded companies compensation payments for residual electricity volumes and investments. Vattenfall is to receive 1.425 billion euros, RWE 880 million, EnBW around 80 million and E.ON 42.5 million euros.
Withdraw complaints
In return, the companies would withdraw lawsuits and terminate lawsuits. That includes Vattenfall's billion-dollar lawsuit before the International Court of Arbitration in Washington, the ministries for the environment, economics and finance said. The regulations are to be cast in legal form and implemented, if possible, in 2021. However, the company's committees still have to agree. The same applies to the EU Commission.
After the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan in 2011, the federal government at the time decided to accelerate the nuclear phase-out. Older reactors were shut down early. The Constitutional Court had ruled this to be lawful. provided the corporations were compensated.
