Energy Act 2016

Bill entitled an Act to change the name of the Commission for Energy Regulation; to confer on the Commission powers to carry out investigations and impose administrative sanction; to give further effect to Directive No. 2003/54/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity and repealing Directive 96/92/EC; to give further effect to Regulation (EC) 714/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 on conditions for access to the network for cross-border exchanges in electricity and for that purpose to make provision in respect of certain revised arrangements in the State and Northern Ireland relating to the Single Electricity Market; to give further effect to Regulation (EU) No. 1227/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2011 on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency and for that purpose to amend the European Union (Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 480 of 2014); for those and other purposes to amend the Registration of Title Act 1964, the Gas Act 1976 , the Electricity Regulation Ac t 1999 , the Gas (Interim) (Regulation) Act 2002, the Sustainable Energy Act 2002 and the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007; to amend the Continental Shelf Act 1968; to repeal the Intoxicating Liquor Act 1946; and to provide for related matters

Last updated: 30 Jul 2016

Sponsored by: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

Source: Government

Originating House: Seanad Éireann