Energy regulator head says Gov’t adopted over 30 acts in EU energy union commitments

Davit Narmania, the Head of the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission, on Friday said the Government had approved over 30 acts in its commitments to the European Union’s energy-related legal frameworks.

Narmania was reporting on the current state of the domestic energy and water supply sectors, and progress in harmonising legislation with the bloc, to a session of the Parliament’s Sector Economy and Economic Policy Committee.

The Commission Head said his office had adopted the acts following commitments taken up through membership of the Energy Community, which Georgia joined in 2017.

The normative acts adopted by the Commission are important for creating proper conditions for the existence and development of effective competition in the energy market”, he told lawmakers.

The Commission prepared a fundamentally sound legal framework for opening up the market, which has further improved the readiness indicators of the participants”, the official of the regulatory body said.

Narmania was reporting to the session as part of a two-day gathering of the Committee, organised with the support of the United States Agency for International Development.