Abstract
The electricity sector illustrates the coordination pattern. The quasi-totality of competences for implementing EU electricity regulation was left in the hands of the member states for very long. To palliate the lack of regulatory authority at the EU level, different regulatory agents were set up with a view to foster regulatory convergence through practices of cooperation and coordination. Among the different organizational formulas, the regulatory network emerged as the key regulatory agent and underwent a gradual process of formalization and reinforcement, which culminated with its transformation into an EU regulatory agency, the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) in 2009. This process is structured in three stages and the chapter ends with an analysis of the findings in light of the conjectures exposed in Chapter 2.
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Mathieu, E. (2016). Electricity. In: Regulatory Delegation in the European Union. European Administrative Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57835-8_4
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