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Mgr Artur Jacek Tyński
ORCID: 0000-0002-1220-5930

PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Graduate of the College of Individual Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Silesia (law, philosophy) and the international nuclear law programme at the University of Montpellier. The author’s research interests revolve around energy transition, energy law and energy security.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2026.10.7
JEL: K23, K32

This paper pursues a twofold objective: to examine whether the national regulatory frameworks of the Czech Republic and Hungary concerning energy sharing and Energy Communities (ECs) align with EU law, and to assess the extent to which they support distributive justice (DJ) principles, especially through ensuring the vulnerable consumers’ participation. On that basis, recommendations for amending the regulations on ECs and energy sharing in the Czech Republic and Hungary, with guidance transferable to other EU Member States are formulated. The thesis of the paper is that, despite the formal transposition of the EU framework on ECs and energy sharing, Czech and Hungarian legislation only partially realise distributive justice goals, thereby constraining equitable and meaningful vulnerable consumers’ participation. The authors conducted their research using dogmatic-legal and comparative methods. The study highlights regulatory gaps and recommends amendments.

Keywords: Energy Communities; energy sharing; distributive justice; vulnerable consumers; energy justice