Abbreviations and acronyms

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Support to the Energy Consumers Office (ERSE internal department)

Agency for the Co-operation of Energy Regulators

Competition Authority (Autoridade da Concorrência)

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Australian Energy Market Operator 

Australian Energy Regulator

National Authority for Communications (Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações)

Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency (Agência Nacional de Energia Elétrica)

National Association of Portuguese Municipalities (Associação Nacional de Municípios Portugueses)

Economic and Food Safety Authority (Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica)

Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Tributary Authority (Autoridade Tributária)

Cost-benefit Analysis

Council of European Energy Regulators

National Petroleum System Installation Commission (ERSE internal department)

Portuguese Securities Market Commission (Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários)

National Center for Cybersecurity (Centro Nacional de Cibersegurança)

National Commission for Markets and Competition (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados)

Spanish Securities Market Commission (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores)

Board of Regulators of the Iberian Electricity Market

The French Energy Regulator (Commission de Régulation de l’Énergie)

Public Administration Recruitment and Selection Committee (Comissão de Recrutamento e Seleção para a Administração Pública)

Commission for Regulation of Utilities

General Administration Division (ERSE internal department)

Energy Consumers Division (ERSE internal department)

Costs and Revenues Division (ERSE internal department)

Data Envelopment Analysis (ERSE internal department)

Directorate-General for Consumer Affairs (Direção-Geral Consumidor)

Directorate General for Energy and Geology (Direção Geral de Energia e Geologia)

The Directorate-General for Regulation (ERSE internal department)

Infrastructure and Network Division (ERSE internal department)

Markets and Competition Division (previously Markets and Consumers Division, ERSE internal departments)

Legal Division (ERSE internal department)

Distribution System Operator

Pricing and Tariffs Division (ERSE internal department)

Electricidade de Portugal

Energy Intermarket Surveillance Group (ERSE internal department)

National Entity for the Fuel Market, National Entity for the Fuel Market (Entidade Nacional para o Mercado de Combustíveis)

National Entity for the Energy Sector (Entidade Nacional para o Setor Energético)

European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity

European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas

Energy Services Regulatory Authority (Entidade Reguladora dos Serviços Energéticos)

Essential Services Commission of South Australia

European Union

Financial Conduct Authority

Faculty of Law of the New University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa)

Support to the Board of Directors Office (ERSE internal department)

General Data Protection Regime

Internal Management Office (ERSE internal department)

Office of International Relations (ERSE internal department)

Special Projects Development Office (ERSE internal department)

International Energy Agency

Independent Electricity System Operator

Institute for Mobility and Transport (Instituto da Mobilidade e dos Transportes)

The Superior Tehcnological Institute (Instituto Superior Técnico)

Key Performance Indicators

National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia)

Liquefied Natural Gas

Ministry of the Environment and Climate (Ministério do Ambiente e da Ação Climática)

Iberian Electricity Market

National Energy Climate Plan

New Zealand Commerce Commission

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

UK’s Office of Gas and Electricity Markets

Operador del Mercado Ibérico de Energía

Operador do Mercado Ibérico de Energía Polo Portugues

Portuguese Institute of Statutory Auditors (Ordem dos revisores oficiais de conta)

Performance Assessment Framework for Economic Regulators

Swedish Post and Telecom Authority

Solar Photovoltaics

Association of Portuguese Speaking Energy Regulatory Entities

EU Regulation on Wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency

Rede Elétrica Nacional

ERSE Information System for Market Analysis (Sistema de Informação de Mercados)

Small and medium-sized enterprises

Total Primary Energy Supply

Transmission System Operator

Technical Unit for Legislative Impact Assessment