ERRA Events 2009

City Hotel Bratislava
City Hotels, s.r.o.
Seberíniho 9, 821 03 Bratislava
Tel.: +421 2 206 06 100
Fax: +421 2 206 06 120
Email: bratislava{.}cityhotels.sk
www.cityhotels.sk/bratislava

Agenda

(R1 Conference Room): Joint Licensing/Competition and Tariff/Pricing Committee meeting

09:00 Welcoming Comments

• Mr. Jozef Holjenčík, Chairman of the Board for Regulation and Acting Chairman of the Office, Regulatory Office for Network Industries (RONI), Slovakia
• Ms. Aistija Zubaviciute, Head of Electricity Department, National Control Commission for Prices and Energy, Lithuania (NCC); Chair of the Tariff/Pricing Committee
• Commissioner Maria Manicuta, Director General, Network Access and Authorization Department/Electricity, Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE), Romania; Chair of the Licensing/Competition Committee
• Ms. Andrea Farkas Program Manager, ERRA Secretariat; 

09:15 Introduction of New Committee Members and Other Guests

09:30 Creation of a Regional Market: Possible Pricing Barriers and Solutions

• Ms. Otilia Marin, National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE), Romania;
• Mr. Peter Kaderjak, Director, Regional Energy Policy Research Centre;
• Mr. Egons Jansons, Head of Electricity Division, Public Utilities Commission (PUC), Latvia;
• Questions & Answers

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 Significant Market Power: Potential Regulatory Interaction to Support Competition, Mitigating Market Power

• Mr. Csaba Kovacs, Hungarian Energy Office, Hungary
• Mr. Cetin Kayabas, Group Head, Electricity Market Regulation, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), Turkey;
• Mr. Szabolcs Koppányi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences/ Centre for Infocommunications Law, Hungary
• Questions & Answers

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Quality Regulation Through Pricing

• Mr. Luca Lo Schiavo, Deputy Director, Service Quality and Consumers’ Affairs, Autorita’ per l’Energia Elettrica e il Gas (Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity and Gas) AEEG, Italy;
• Mr. Ede Tresó, Senior Advisor, Department of Pricing, Hungarian Energy Office (HEO), Hungary;
• Mrs. Mare Karotamm, Chief Expert, Energy Regulatory Division of the Estonian Competition Authority (ECA), Estonia;
• Questions & Answers

15:30 Demand Side Approach – Introducing the ERRA Case Study Paper

• Mr. Peter Kaderjak, Director, Regional Energy Policy Research Centre, Introduction of the final issue paper
• Discussions
• Questions & Answers

16:30 Meeting Concludes

19:00 Working Dinner

09:00 Introduction of ERRA Database on Operating Wholesale Market Monitoring Network (capacity adequacy/ balance/, energy flow, market prices, tendencies)

• Commissioner Maria Manicuta, National Energy Regulatory Authority, Vice-Chair of the Licensing/Competition Committee;
• Discussions

09:30 Roundtable Discussions: Tariff/Pricing Updates by Committee Members

(Each Committee Member will be requested to give a max. 5 minutes verbal update on the recent developments in their country in the field of tariff and pricing)

10:15 Roundtable Discussions: Recent Gas Crisis in Europe

• Discussions

10:45 Coffee break

11:00 Defining of the content of the 2009 Tariff Committee Issue Paper: Corporate Finance of License Holders after the Asset Re-evaluation. Chart of Accounts

• Ms. Aistija Zubaviciute, Head of Electricity Department, National Control Commission for Prices and Energy in Lithuania (NCC); Chair of the Tariff/Pricing Committee;
• Discussions

11:45 Introduction of the Electricity & Tariff Data Submitted by Members for the Quarters of 1-2 of 2008 for the ERRA Tariff Database

• Ms. Andrea Farkas Program Manager, ERRA Secretariat;
• Discussions

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Evaluation of Performance of the Energy Distribution Companies of the ERRA Member Countries – Evaluation of the work done by now, consideration of steps for further development

• Mr. Nebojsa Despotovic, Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia;
• Questions & Answers

15:00 Coffee break

15:15 Tariff Setting in a Non-discriminatory Manner

• Discussions

15:45 Update on Recent and Future ERRA Activities

• Ms. Andrea Farkas Program Manager, ERRA Secretariat
• Discussions

16:00 Meeting Concludes