{"id":4961,"date":"2018-04-23T13:43:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2018-04-23T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T13:45:19","slug":"national-energy-regulators-a-comparative-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expertforum.ro\/en\/national-energy-regulators-a-comparative-assessment\/","title":{"rendered":"National Energy Regulators: A Comparative Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The following report analyzes the capacity (governance and performance) of energy (gas and electricity) regulators in Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine and \u201cbenchmarks\u201d them to the Romanian energy regulator. Energy regulators in countries that follow EU\u2019s Energy Directives of the Third Energy Package \u2013 EU members, as well as members of the Energy Community and countries which have signed Association Agreements with the EU \u2013 must in general follow a \u201cblueprint\u201d to meet their role as gas and electricity regulators as per the Directives. Thus, all regulators must be independent, accountable to the public and the regulated industry, transparent, and should issue predictable regulations. Regulations must ensure reasonable tariffs for the management of natural monopolies (networks), as well as play a decisive role in developing competitive markets for generation\/production and supply \u2013 including market codes, non-discriminatory access to networks, ex ante regulation of competition, market analysis, collaboration with competition authorities to limit anti-competitive behavior, liberalization of both wholesale and retail markets. To meet these complex roles and standards, and guided by the spirit of the Third Energy Package, gas and electricity regulators in different countries are converging towards similar institutional structures. They are independent agencies, separated from the Government\u2019s direct interests (as a shareholder in energy state owned companies or as a defender of \u201clow regulated prices\u201d), with similar oversight procedures, structure of management and boards, institutional subordination, budget autonomy, reporting and accountability mechanisms to stakeholders, as well as practices and sectorial coverage or extent of functions.
\nThe report contains a comparative and benchmarking summary and the national reports for Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia done by the partners in the project. The report on Romania is an updater of previous assessments in 2010-2014 and focuses only on the changes in the meanwhile. The benchmarking with Romania, as a EU member country, has two roles: to indicate to what extent Moldovan, Ukrainian and Georgian regulators are at standards of an EU country; and to examine whether EU member countries themselves really meet EU directives as well.
\nThe report is structured thus: a comparative summary assessment of Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia benchmarked to Romanian regulator; detailed analysis by country; and the full methodology is presented as an annex.<\/p>\n