The Energy Market Regulatory Authority’s (EPDK) Regulation on Transparency and Market-Distorting Practices in Energy and Environmental Markets has been published in the Official Gazette.
The regulation sets out the principles and procedures for preventing market-distorting practices and defines the duties, powers, and responsibilities of relevant parties, with the aim of ensuring that trading activities in energy and environmental markets are conducted in a reliable, transparent, efficient, stable, fair, honest, and competitive manner.
The regulation covers electricity futures, day-ahead, intraday, balancing power, and ancillary services markets; natural gas futures and spot markets; the emissions trading system market; the organized renewable energy source guarantee market; and bilateral agreements executed for wholesale purposes within these markets.
Under the regulation, information that may affect prices in energy and environmental markets must be disclosed to the public in a timely and accurate manner.
Within this framework, Energy Markets Operation Inc. (EPİAŞ) will operate a centralized data platform called the “Inside Information Platform” to ensure public disclosure of inside information, enable market participants to conduct their activities on the basis of equal opportunity, and prevent information asymmetry in energy and environmental markets.
In addition, EPİAŞ will operate a separate centralized data platform named the “Transparency Platform” for publishing general market data such as prices, volumes, and similar information that do not qualify as inside information.
According to the regulation, market participants who violate the obligation to disclose inside information may face administrative fines of up to TRY 2,509,800, while those engaging in inside information abuse or market manipulation may be fined up to TRY 25,098,000. For natural persons committing the same offenses, fines of up to TRY 2,509,800 are предусмотрed.
The regulation will enter into force on June 1, and its provisions will be implemented by the President of the EPDK.
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