Regulated tariffs: The Council of State requests the French Competition Council’s opinion about GDF regulated tariffs (Poweo)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. – CE, July 7, 2006, Poweo and Fédération Française des combustibles, carburants et chauffage (FF3C), n° 289012 and 289776 Pursuant to the provisions of Law No 2003-8 of 3 January 2003 on the gas and electricity markets and the public energy service, non-eligible customers, as well as eligible customers who have not exercised their eligibility, are charged the "public distribution" rates for their gas supply. These tariffs, the level of which is set by decree of the Ministers for the Economy and Energy after consulting CRE, must, in application of Article 7 of the Law of 3 January 2003, be defined according to the intrinsic characteristics of the supplies and