The National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) has launched in public debate a project that provides that gas producers must sell on the stock exchange an annual quota of 30% of output, between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2023. ANRE argues that the reason is the low liquidity of the gas market in Romania.

“The draft normative act is proposed in the context in which the natural gas market in Romania has a low liquidity, the measure wishing to contribute, on the one hand, to increase the liquidity of the market, and on the other hand to increase the degree of transparency of transactions on the market, on all the segments of the centralized market for natural gas, which are carried out according to the trading rules established by ANRE,” is shown in the presentation note of the project, according to Hotnews.ro.

The holders of the tendering obligation are the natural gas producers whose annual output exceeds 1 million MWh, meaning only Romgaz and OMV Petrom are envisaged.