OREANDA-NEWS. December 25, 2009. The parliament adopted the law on electric energy, according to which the power market will be liberalized for industrial consumers until 1 January 2013, and for households by 1 January 2015.

Under the law, starting from 2013, the power distribution grids will be functionally and juridically divided into power distribution enterprises and power providing enterprises. Presently Moldova has three power distribution grids: RED Nord, RED Nord Vest and RED Union Fenosa.

Also, the lawmakers adopted the law on natural gas, the goal of which is to promote competition on the natural gas market by separating the transit and distribution operations from the ones of supply and production of natural gas. The law also provides for regulated access of all private persons and legal entities to gas networks.

The elaboration of a new legislative framework for the energy sector was one of the conditions put forward for Moldova's full-fledged membership of the Energy Community Treaty.