Programming Document 2018 – 2020

The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators 2018 Programming Document, which includes the 2018 Work Programme, was published in September 2017.

The document focuses on the four main areas on which the Agency expected to concentrate its activities:

+ the (post-2014) completion of the Internal Energy Market
+ the infrastructure challenge
+ the monitoring of wholesale energy markets
+ the longer-term regulatory challenges such as the integration of renewables.

As an innovation with respect to previous years, however, the tasks in the 2018 Work Programme have been classified according to three priority levels (critical, important and relevant).

As in 2017, the monitoring of trading in EU wholesale energy markets on the basis of the reported trade and fundamental data remains one of the Agency’s main challenges. The Agency’s effectiveness in such a monitoring activity continued to depend crucially on it being assigned the significant additional resources that it had been requesting since 2014, and which the Agency was again requesting for 2018.

• Primary Source

ACER: Work Programmes https://www.acer.europa.eu/en/The_agency/Mission_and_Objectives/Pages/Work-programme.aspx

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