The Senate and Chamber of Deputies industries committees validated three new proposals for appointments to the vacant positions of members of the Regulatory Committee of the National Regulatory Authority for Energy (ANRE).

For the postition of ANRE vicepresident, the governing coalition parties, PSD and ALDE, proposed Henorel Soreaţă, currently head of ANRE’s General Directorate of Control, and Ramiro Angelescu, former Executive Director of the Sales Coordination Division of Electrica SA, for the position of member in the Regulatory Committee.

PNL was proposed as a member of ANRE’s Regulatory Committee Teodor Atanasiu, first deputy chairman of the party, former deputy, minister of defense and president of AVAS.

They could be appointed taking the place of Claudiu Dumbrăveanu (vicepresident), Teodor Bobis and Carmen Filipescu, whose mandates expired since April 2015. Since then, the Committee has functioned incompletely. The other members of the Regulatory Committee, who are in office, are the ANRE President Niculae Havrileţ and VicePresident Emil Calotă, plus Gheorghe Barbu and Zoltan Nagy-Bege.

The ANRE President Niculae Havrileț said, according to profit.ro, that he hopes that the Parliament will quickly appoint the missing members from ANRE’s Regulatory Committee after two years of delay. “There are three years in which we operate to the minimum necessary to have a quorum. We expect the other colleagues to arrive, we are four, missing three. None of these four regulators are allowed to get sick, nor to be absent from the country. It has been a difficult task in the last three years”, said Havrileţ.

According to Law 160/2012, the selection of proposals is performed by the two joint committees. Subsequently, the commission’s proposals are submitted for approval in the joint meeting of the two parliamentary chambers.