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Part 1 · Restraints of Competition  ›  Division 1 · Market Transparency Unit for Electricity and Gas Wholesale Trading › Section 47h

Reporting Duties, Publications

(1) The Market Transparency Unit shall inform the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of the provision of information pursuant to Section 47b(7) sentence 1.

(2) The Market Transparency Unit shall prepare a report on its activities every two years. Where wholesale trading in electricity and natural gas is concerned, it shall prepare such report in agreement with the Bundeskartellamt. Business secrets of which the Market Transparency Unit has obtained knowledge in performing its tasks shall be removed from the report. The report shall be published on the website of the Market Transparency Unit. The report may be issued at the same time as the report to be issued by the Bundeskartellamt pursuant to Section 53(3) and combined with it.

(3) The Market Transparency Unit shall publish the lists prepared pursuant to Section 47b(5), including the drafts of such lists, on its website.

(4) To increase wholesale transparency, the Market Transparency Unit may publish, in agreement with the Bundeskartellamt, the generation and consumption data currently published on the transparency platform operated by European Energy Exchange AG and the transmission system operators, as soon as that publication is discontinued. The publication requirements imposed on the market participants under the German Energy Industry Act and any statutory instruments issued under this Act as well as under European law in order to increase transparency on the electricity and gas markets shall remain unaffected.

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