The Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas is the independent body which regulates, controls and monitors the electricity and gas sectors and markets in Italy. It has been established by the law November14th 1995, n.481.
The Authority's role and purpose is to protect the interests of users and consumers, promote competition and ensure efficient, cost-effective and profitable nationwide services with satisfactory quality levels. Its mission includes defining and maintaining a reliable and transparent tariff system, reconciling the economic goals of operators with general social objectives, and promoting environmental protection and the efficient use of resources.
THE AUTHORITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
The Authority also provides an advisory and reporting service to the government and parliament, and formulates observations and recommendations concerning issues in the regulated sectors for which the legislator is directly competent. It plays an active part in creating a standardised system of energy sector regulation in the European Union and integrating the national electricity and gas markets into a single European market. It chairs the Mediterranean Working Group on Electricity and Natural Gas Regulation (MEDREG), a body established to promote the integration of the energy markets in the Mediterranean area set in Milan hosted by the Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas.
The Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas also collaborates with IERN a web platform that aims at facilitating information exchange on electricity and natural gas market regulation, to the benefit of regulators, but also of other interested users. Through IERN, regulators and other energy market stakeholders will be able to exchange information about themselves, the sectors they are involved in and the way these sectors are regulated.
IERN offers information about training courses, conferences and online resources on energy regulation. IERN is managed by the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) in close cooperation with the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER).
The decision to set up IERN was taken following the 2nd World Forum on Energy Regulation (WFER), held in Rome in October 2003. The idea was to develop a permanent networking tool to exchange information among regulators and stakeholders of energy regulation at a worldwide level. The final project was officially launched during the 3rd WFER, held in Washington in October 2006.
Since March 2011 the Athority takes part in the ACER (Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators). ACER cooperates with EU institutions and stakeholders, national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSOs), delivering a series of instruments for the completion of a single energy market . ACER was formally launched in March 2011 in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia, where it has its official Seat.
The Authority maintains bilateral relations with all the European regulators and in particular with the regulators of those countries sharing a border with Italy, by reason of the regulatory aspects of cross-border energy trade. It has also developed numerous contacts with new regulators or those currently being set up, especially in countries that have applied for EU membership and other European transition countries wishing to analyse the Italian model in closer detail.
The Authority's role and purpose is to protect the interests of users and consumers, promote competition and ensure efficient, cost-effective and profitable nationwide services with satisfactory quality levels. Its mission includes defining and maintaining a reliable and transparent tariff system, reconciling the economic goals of operators with general social objectives, and promoting environmental protection and the efficient use of resources.
THE AUTHORITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT
The Authority also provides an advisory and reporting service to the government and parliament, and formulates observations and recommendations concerning issues in the regulated sectors for which the legislator is directly competent. It plays an active part in creating a standardised system of energy sector regulation in the European Union and integrating the national electricity and gas markets into a single European market. It chairs the Mediterranean Working Group on Electricity and Natural Gas Regulation (MEDREG), a body established to promote the integration of the energy markets in the Mediterranean area set in Milan hosted by the Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas.
The Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas also collaborates with IERN a web platform that aims at facilitating information exchange on electricity and natural gas market regulation, to the benefit of regulators, but also of other interested users. Through IERN, regulators and other energy market stakeholders will be able to exchange information about themselves, the sectors they are involved in and the way these sectors are regulated.
IERN offers information about training courses, conferences and online resources on energy regulation. IERN is managed by the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) in close cooperation with the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER).
The decision to set up IERN was taken following the 2nd World Forum on Energy Regulation (WFER), held in Rome in October 2003. The idea was to develop a permanent networking tool to exchange information among regulators and stakeholders of energy regulation at a worldwide level. The final project was officially launched during the 3rd WFER, held in Washington in October 2006.
Since March 2011 the Athority takes part in the ACER (Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators). ACER cooperates with EU institutions and stakeholders, national regulatory authorities (NRAs) and European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSOs), delivering a series of instruments for the completion of a single energy market . ACER was formally launched in March 2011 in Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia, where it has its official Seat.
The Authority maintains bilateral relations with all the European regulators and in particular with the regulators of those countries sharing a border with Italy, by reason of the regulatory aspects of cross-border energy trade. It has also developed numerous contacts with new regulators or those currently being set up, especially in countries that have applied for EU membership and other European transition countries wishing to analyse the Italian model in closer detail.