Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators

  

Ljubljana, Slovenia

July 13, 2009

The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER, English European Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators ) is a decentralized agency of the European Union based in Ljubljana (German Ljubljana ), Slovenia. The agency, founded in 2009 has the task to monitor the European energy markets under conditions of transparency and stability and to regulate.

History

On 13 July 2009 the European Parliament and the European Council adopted Regulation No 713 /2009 ( founding Regulation ). This also includes creation and legal status, tasks, organization and funding are described. In December 2009, Ljubljana was chosen as the seat of ACER.

In May 2010, the Italian Alberto Pototschnig was appointed the first Director of ACER. His term of office is five years. Pototschnig was previously chairman of the consulting firm Mercados EMI.

The Department of ACER was opened by EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger and Slovenia's Prime Minister Borut Pahor in Ljubljana on March 3, 2011. The establishment of ACER is part of the third energy package, which also entered into force on that day. It contains provisions for the proper functioning of the energy markets, such as the unbundling of the networks and to strengthen the independence and powers of national regulators.

In October 2011, the European Parliament and the European Council adopted the Regulation on the integrity and transparency of wholesale energy market ( REMIT ), the implementation of which ACER has been commissioned. The Regulation entered into force on 29 December 2011.

Tasks

The Agency has the following tasks:

  • Complement and coordinate the work of national regulatory authorities (eg the Federal Network Agency and E-Control )
  • Participation in the preparation of European network rules,
  • Meeting of binding individual decisions on the rules for access to cross-border infrastructure and operational security,
  • Advice to the EU institutions in energy issues and
  • Monitoring of developments in the energy markets and reporting it.
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