The Italian regulatory authorities The Italian regulatory authorities that mainly affect the Group's activities are the Authority for Electricity and Natural Gas (insofar as monitoring and regulating quality levels, setting rates for grid activities and the regulated components of the sales activities, monitoring of economic, accounting and organizational aspects of the activities that concern the equal treatment of competitors and the transparency of the conditions for access to the networks) and the Italian Antitrust Authority (antitrust, authorizations for mergers and acquisitions, protection of consumers and monitoring of the correctness of commercial policies).