Downstream from the inspection on application of the matters envisaged by the Consolidated Law on Active Connections, on 8 October 2013 Hera received the AEEG resolution no. 416/2013 for the launch of the sanction/prescriptive procedure since it was maintained that Hera has failed to observe the regulation concerning the acknowledgment of the automatic compensation: in detail, it emerged that, in the presence of a selected sample of cases extracted during the inspection in October and relating to the period 1 January 2008 - 30 April 2012 (out of a total of 3,843 requests for active connections), 44 cases of non-payment of the compensation were revealed, due to delays in making the quote available or due to delays in the realisation and activation of the connection.