Gas rates : The French Energy Regulatory Commission audits procurement and non-procurement costs used as a basis for calculating regulated natural gas sales rates

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Under the terms of Article L. 445-3 of the Energy Code, "regulated tariffs for the sale of natural gas are defined according to the intrinsic characteristics of the supplies and the costs associated with these supplies. They cover all of these costs, excluding any subsidy for customers who have exercised their right under Article L. 441-1". Article 4 of Decree No. 2009-1603 of December 18, 2009, as amended by the Decree of May 16, 2013, provides that "for each supplier, a tariff formula is defined that reflects the full cost of natural gas supply. The tariff formula and the costs excluding supply make it possible to determine the average cost of supplying