Summary
Background information on the Third Package and action taken to implement a number of proposed amendments to
the Gas Order, the Energy Order, the SEM Order, the IME3 Regulations and the Competition and Service Order.
Documents
Consultation description
The key elements of the Third Package include
- a range of greater consumer protection measures
- stringent requirements for unbundling network operations from other activities
- ensuring fairer competition between companies within the EU and those outside the EU
- more powers and independence for national regulators
- greater co-operation between Member States
- the creation of a new European energy agency (the Agency for the Cooperation of European Regulators or ACER)
Ways to respond
Consultation closed — responses are no longer being accepted.