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About the CEER and ERGEG  

The Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) and the European Regulators’ Group for Electricity and Gas (ERGEG) are two organisations established for the cooperation of the independent energy regulators of Europe. Both organisations pursue the same overall aim of facilitating the creation of a single, competitive, efficient and sustainable internal market for gas and electricity in Europe.

CEER and the ERGEG share similar objectives and the work and achievements of the CEER and ERGEG are intrinsically linked. Yet there is one main difference in the role of the organisations in relation to the EU and the other stakeholders of the energy sector in Europe. Cooperation in the framework of the CEER is based on a voluntary agreement among the regulators themselves, while ERGEG was founded by the European Commission in 2003 as its official advisory group on energy issues.

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CEER

is the “Council of European Energy Regulators”. It is a “not-for-profit association” under Belgian law and has a small Brussels-based Secretariat.


Foundation and Mission

In March 2000, ten national energy regulatory authorities signed the "Memorandum of Understanding for the establishment of the Council of European Energy Regulators". They had voluntarily formed the council  to facilitate cooperation in their common interests for the promotion of the internal electricity and gas market. In order to cope with a growing number of issues and to improve cooperation at the operational level, the regulators decided in 2003 to formally establish themselves as a not-for-profit association under Belgian law and to set up a small secretariat in Brussels. The Statutes (English version, Statutes amendment) were published in the annex of the Belgian State Gazette on October 21st, 2003. The CEER now has 29 members - the energy regulators from the 27 EU-Member States plus Iceland and Norway


Objectives and Functions

The overall aim of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER) is to facilitate the creation of a single, competitive, efficient and sustainable internal market for gas and electricity in Europe. The CEER acts as a platform for cooperation, information exchange and assistance between national energy regulators and is their interface at European level with the European Commission, in particular the Directorate General Transport and Energy (DG TREN), DG Competition and DG for Research. It cooperates with the European Comission and competition authorities in order to ensure consistent application of competition law to the energy industry. CEER also strives to share regulatory experience worldwide through its links with similar associations in America (NARUC) and in Central/Eastern Europe (ERRA) and its membership in the International Energy Regulation Network (IERN). CEER has taken a central role in developing an effective and competitive electricity and gas market in the Energy Community of South East Europe.