Abbreviations and acronyms

ACCC

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Australia

AER

Australian Energy Regulator, Australia

ANA

National Water and Sanitation Agency (Agência Nacional de Águas e Saneamento Básico), Brazil

ANACOM

National Communications Authority (Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações), Portugal

ANATEL

National Telecommunications Agency (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações), Brazil

ANRSC

National Regulatory Authority for Public Services (Autoritatea Națională de Reglementare pentru Serviciile Comunitare de Utilități Publice), Romania

ANTT

National Land Transportation Agency (Agência Nacional de Transportes Terrestres), Brazil

ARCEP

Electronic Communications, Postal and Print Media Distribution Regulatory Authority (Autorité de Régulation des Communications Électroniques, des Postes et de la Distribution de la Presse), France

ARERA

Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and Environment (Autorità di Regolazione per Energia Reti e Ambiente), Italy

ARESEP

Regulatory Authority of Public Services (Autoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos), Costa Rica

ART France

Transport Regulation Authority (Autorité de Régulation des Transports), France

ART Italy

Transport Regulation Authority (Autorità di Regolazione dei Trasporti), Italy

BNetzA

Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen), Germany

CER

Canada Energy Regulator, Canada

ComCom

Commerce Commission, New Zealand

ComReg

Commission for Communications Regulation, Ireland

CNH

National Hydrocarbons Commission (Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos), Mexico

CNMC

National Commission of Markets and Competition (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia), Spain

CRA

Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation Regulation Commission (Comisión de Regulación de Agua Potable y Saneamiento Basico), Colombia

CRC

Communications Regulation Commission (Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones), Colombia

CRE

Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission de Régulation de l’Énergie), France

CREG Belgium

Commission for Electricity and Gas Regulation (Commissie voor de Regulering van de Elektriciteit en het Gas / Commission de Régulation de l'Électricité et du Gaz), Belgium

CREG Colombia

Energy and Gas Regulation Commission (Comisión de Regulación de Energía y Gas), Colombia

CRU

Commission for Regulation of Utilities, Ireland

CTA

Canadian Transportation Agency, Canada

ECA

Estonian Competition Authority (Konkurentsiamet), Estonia

EETT

National Telecommunications and Post Commission (Εθνική Επιτροπή Τηλεπικοινωνιών και Ταχυδρομείων), Greece

EGC

Electricity and Gas Market Surveillance Commission (電力・ガス取引監視等委員会), Japan

EI

Energy Markets Inspectorate (Energimarknadsinspektionen), Sweden

EMRA

Energy Market Regulatory Authority (T.C. Enerji Piyasası Düzenleme Kurumu), Turkey

ERRU

Water Regulatory Authority (Entit Rregullator të Ujit), Albania

ERSAR

Water and Waste Services Regulation Authority (Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços de Águas e Resíduos), Portugal

ERSE

Energy Services Regulatory Authority (Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos), Portugal

ERU

Energy Regulatory Office (Energetický regulační úřad), Czech Republic

ESCOSA

Essential Services Commission of South Australia, Australia

EU

European Union

EUR

euro

EV

Energy Authority (Energiavirasto), Finland

HR

Human resources

IFT

Federal Institute of Telecommunications (Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones), Mexico

IMF

International Monetary Fund

ISIC

International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities

IT

Information technology

ITF

International Transport Forum

MEF

Ministry of Economy and Finance (Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas), Peru

MEKH

Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority (Magyar Energetikai és Közmű-szabályozási Hivatal), Hungary

NER

Network of Economic Regulators

Nkom

National Communications Authority (Nasjonal kommunikasjonsmyndigheit), Norway

NSAT

Transport Authority (Dopravný úrad), Slovak Republic

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Ofcom

Office of Communications, United Kingdom

ORR

Office of Rail and Road, United Kingdom

Osinergmin

Supervisory Agency for Investment in Energy and Mining (Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión en Energía y Minería), Peru

OSIPTEL

Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (Organismo Supervisor de Inversión Privada en Telecomunicaciones), Peru

Ositrán

Supervisory Agency for Investment in Public Transport Infrastructure (Organismo Supervisor de la Inversión en Infraestructura de Transporte de Uso Público), Peru

PAFER

Performance Assessment Framework for Economic Regulators

PMR

Product Market Regulation

PUC

Public Utilities Commission (Sabiedrisko Pakalpojumu Regulēšanas Komisija), Latvia

RAE

Regulatory Authority for Energy (Ρυθμιστική Αρχή Ενέργειας), Greece

RAS

Regulatory Authority for Railways (Ρυθμιστικής Αρχής Σιδηροδρόμων), Greece

RPC

Regulatory Policy Committee

RRT

Communications Regulatory Authority (Ryšių reguliavimo tarnyba), Lithuania

Sunass

National Superintendence of Sanitation Services (Superintendencia Nacional de Servicios de Saneamiento), Peru

SUTEL

Superintendency for Telecommunications (Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones), Costa Rica

Traficom

Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Liikenne- ja viestintävirasto), Finland

UN

United Nations

URE

Energy Regulatory Office (Urząd Regulacji Energetyki), Poland

UTK

Office of Rail Transport (Urząd Transportu Kolejowego), Poland

VERT

National Energy Regulatory Council (Valstybinė energetikos reguliavimo taryba), Lithuania

VMM

Flanders Environment Agency (Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij), Belgium

WICS

Water Industry Commission for Scotland, United Kingdom