ENTSO-EOur Governance
ENTSO-E is governed by an Assembly representing the 39 Transmission System Operators and by a Board consisting of 12 elected members.
Assembly
Hervé Laffaye
President of the Assembly
RTE
Zbyněk Boldiš
Vice-President of the Assembly
CEPS
Board
Joachim Vanzetta
Chair of the Board
Amprion
Liam Ryan
Vice-Chair of the Board
EirGrid
Dirk Biermann
Member of the Board
50Hertz Transmission
Damian Cortinas
Member of the Board
RTE
Maurice Dierick
Member of the Board
Swissgrid
Guido Guida
Member of the Board
Terna
Frank-Peter Hansen
Member of the Board
TenneT TSO
Søren Dupont Kristensen
Member of the Board
Energinet
Robert Paprocki
Member of the Board
PSE
Eduardo Prieto
Member of the Board
REE
Taavi Veskimägi
Member of the Board
Elering
Dimitar Zarchev
Member of the Board
ESO EAD
Committees
Håkon Borgen
Research Development & Innovation Committee Chair
Statnett SF
Gerald Kaendler
System Development Committee Chair
Amprion
Fokke Elskamp
Legal and Regulatory Group Chair
TenneT TSO B.V.
Tahir Kapetanovic
System Operations Committee Chair
Austrian Power Grid
Kjell A. Barmsnes
Market Committee Chair
Statnett SF
Hartman Radek
Information & Communication Technologies Committee Chair
ČEPS a.s.
Association documents
ENTSO-E was formally established and given legal mandates by the EU’s Third Energy Package, which was adopted in July 2009. Although the Third Energy Package did not formally apply until March 2011, ENTSO-E was created in December 2008 and fully operational as of July 2009.
In December 2010, in order to be fully compliant with the obligations under Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 714/2009 regarding the establishment of the Association, ENTSO-E submitted its Articles of Association and Internal Regulations to the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) and the European Commission (EC). Based on the opinions formulated by ACER and the EC, ENTSO-E’s Assembly adapted the documents in June 2011.
The Articles of Association and Internal Regulations were further reviewed and improved in September 2014.
The Articles of Association govern, among others, the operation of ENTSO-E, its membership, the roles and relationships between the various ENTSO-E’s bodies and the distribution of voting rights between the members.
The Internal Regulations complements the Article of Association by defining the practical and technical rules and procedures governing the operations of the Association.
Principles of Conduct
Context
- ENTSO-E is the Brussels based association of the European Electricity TSOs which, on a non-profit-making basis, pursues the co-operation of the European TSOs both on pan-European and regional levels. It coordinates TSOs’ actions in the fields of transmission system operation, system development, market development and research.
- The work is focused on promoting completion and functioning of the internal energy market in electricity and cross border trade. Furthermore, it has an active and important role in the European rule setting process, in compliance with EU legislation (network codes, Ten-Year Network Development Plans).
- The legally mandated tasks assigned to ENTSO-E in several EU Regulations, including the 2009 Regulation on Cross-Border Electricity Trading and the 2013 Regulation on Guidelines for Trans-European Energy Infrastructure, significantly shape ENTSO-E’s work.
- The EU’s Council, Parliament, and Commission have assigned these mandates to ENTSO-E because the TSOs are independent, thoroughly regulated and pursue the interests of the society at large.
- TSOs are neutral in the energy markets and their responsibility and expertise are crucial for most energy policy goals, as large power systems are among the most complex systems ever created, both in their spatial and temporal dimensions.
- Being the legally mandated association of European TSOs, and given the important neutral role of the TSOs, ENTSO-E provides to policy makers, regulators, market participants and the public valuable information about the European power system in publications and information systems.
- Besides information and data, ENTSO-E also provides important analyses and proposals, based on its legally mandated tasks, or taking initiative for the benefit for the society, building on the TSOs’ experience in operating and developing the European transmission systems, as well as in building up an efficient electricity market.
Principles
- Regulation of the TSOs is designed to align their interests with those of consumers and society at large. Therefore, in shaping analyses, providing advice, making proposals and discharging our formal responsibilities, ENTSO-E is committed to always focusing on the public interest.
- ENTSO-E listens and strives to understand customers, stakeholders and other relevant parties’ concerns.
- ENTSO-E aims to explain its work products in easy-to-understand ways, and aims to continuously improve the quality of its work products using stakeholder feedback as an important contribution.
- ENTSO-E respectfully receives energy policy direction, laws, guidelines and regulatory rulings from the national and European governments, Council, Parliament, Commission and regulators and provides them feedback on the implications of policy decisions. Policymakers can count on ENTSO-E to support them in the delivery of such energy policy measures and, where directly applicable to pan-European TSO activity, to provide leadership in implementation.