Second Assessment of the Romanian Energy Regulator

In October 2010 we published the first assessment of the Romanian energy regulator
ANRE. The present paper is an updater of the previous report, analyzing the
observed changes in ANRE’s regulatory governance and substance. The report
examines recent developments, including the proposed legal changes in the status of
ANRE and relevant orders and decisions issued between October 2010 and March
2011. The section on regulatory substance also examines in more detail aspects
covered less in the previous report, related to gas, cogeneration and renewables. In
exchange, the present report focuses less on the electricity market issues covered
extensively in the first report.
In both reports we followed the same methodology (World Bank and Inogate), to
ensure consistency of approach and comparability of evaluation results across time.