Please note in particular: safety provisions in national energy procurement; the definition of “vulnerable” customers in the gas market (domestic customers, public service users, and public and private facilities which carry out a recognised assistance activity, as well as civilian and non-civilian customers with consumption of no more than metres per year) and customers under “market tariff protection conditions” in the electricity market; regulations to promote energy efficiency; regulations on competition, which concern the complete functional separation of gas transport companies; regulations confirming the principles on tenders for the assignment of the gas distribution service, in compliance with the decrees issued during the year by the Ministry of Economic Development.