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Enacted Seanad
No. 11 of 2016

Energy Bill 2016

Public bill · Government · Presented

Renames the Commission for Energy Regulation as the Commission for Regulation of Utilities and gives it stronger powers to investigate energy companies and impose penalties, including for market manipulation, unsafe or unregistered electrical and gas work, and other misconduct. It also updates the all-island electricity market, gives the national oil agency more flexibility over biofuels and oil data, changes rules for the sustainable energy authority, and makes several technical legal corrections.

Formal long title

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 16 April 2018

Sponsor
  • Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
    Seanad
  • Report Stage
    Seanad
  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad
  • Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Committee Stage
    Dáil
  • Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Fifth Stage
    Dáil Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages
    Seanad
  • Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage
    Dáil
  • Energy Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages
    Dáil
  • Energy Bill 2016: Committee Stage
    Select Committee on Communications, Climate Change and Natural Resources
  • Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Referral to Select Committee
    Dáil
  • Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil
  • Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Energy Bill 2016: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Seanad
  • Energy Bill 2016: Order for Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Energy Bill 2016: Second Stage
    Seanad

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