The italian natural gas market evolution
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9788846428394
Edition: 1a edizione 2001
Publisher code: 365.139
Availability: Buona
The perspective analysis of the Italian natural gas market, owing to the recent reforms imposed by E.U., and particularly by the process of implementing in our Country the Directive 98/30/EC, shows a true "Copernican revolution" compared to the picture of reference adopted until yesterday.
There has been in fact a change from the presence - along all the gas chain - of wide segments of exclusive rights, legal and/or de facto monopolies, special privileges and strong presence of direct public management, to the affirmation of the free market forces and economic competitiveness, even in the public services, as the new mechanisms of guarantee and guide in the freedom of choice on the side of the consumers.
All, moreover, without compromising the safety of supplies, and in a context of necessary reciprocity between the member States.
In order to better understand the effects of the passage from the ancient regime to the new liberalised model, in the context of a domestic market strongly characterised from the presence of a vertically integrated dominant operator, it has been analysed: the general structure of the gas demand and offer and their tendential projections; the technical, economic, normative and tariff structure of each stage of the gas chain; the role and the position of the industrial actors; the function of the Electricity and Gas Authority and of the Antitrust Authority; the problematical aspects and the obstacles to the competitive opening of the single markets of reference.
We hope that the present job can contribute to the spreading of a reform among the most advanced within the European panorama, rendering at the same available a possible model of reference for eventual next plans of liberalisation in the single States members of the E.U.
Enrico Corali , Professor of Economic Public Law at University of Bergamo.
Index:
Natural Gas in Italy
(Natural Gas demand in Italy; Various uses of natural gas consumption; Forecasts, Natural Gas offer in Italy; Supply; National Production; Importing; Transport; Storage and Despatch; Carrying; Antitrust investigations; Distribution; Primary Distribution; Secondary Distribution; Liquefied Natural Gas)
Prices and Tariffs
(Import Prices and National Production Prices; Carrying Prices; Primary and Secondary Distribution Prices; Contractual reference point; Snam's conditions for industrial clients; Snam's conditions for thermoelectric users; Snam's conditions for secondary distributing undertakes; The secondary distributing undertakes' conditions for end-customers; Administrated Rate Methodology; Updating times; The road to reforming the tariff regime; Fiscal laws)
The road to creating the European Union internal gas market
(Introduction; The European Gas Directive 98/30/EC; The level of market opening; The Electricity and Gas Authority's Evaluations; The procedure of free access to the gas system; The Electricity and Gas Authority's Evaluations; Imports and the Take or Pay Contracts; The Electricity and Gas Authority's Evaluations; The role of public service; The Electricity and Gas Authority's Evaluations; The "unbundling" of the integrated companies)
The procedure for incorporating the Gas Directive in Italy
(The level of market opening; The observations of the Antitrust Authority; The observations of the Electricity and Gas Authority; The observations of ENI; The regulations for free access to the gas system; The observations of the Antitrust Authority; The observations of the Electricity and Gas Authority; The observations of ENI; Imports and the Take or Pay contracts; The observations of the Antitrust Authority; The observations of the Electricity and Gas Authority; The observations of ENI; The role of the Public Service; The observations of the Antitrust Authority; The observations of the Electricity and Gas Authority; The observations of ENI; The 'unbundling' of the integrated companies; The observations of the Antitrust Authority; The observations of the Electricity and Gas Authority; The observations of ENI)
Legislative Decree 164, 23rd May 2000, implementing the Gas Directive
(The degree of market opening; Rules for the protection and development of competition; The regulations for free access to the gas system; Transport and despatch; Storage; Mining infrastructure for exploitation; Cases of refusal for access to the system; Declaration of public utility of the gas infrastructures; Imports and "Take or pay" Contracts; Rules for the regulation and development of competition; The role of public service; Sales; Distribution; Transitory regulations for distribution; The 'unbundling' of the integrated companies; Prices and Tariffs).
Serie: Economia - Ricerche
Subjects: Environmental and Transportation Economics
Level: Scholarly Research
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