The national regulatory authorities in Hera's sectors of operation that impact the Group's operations and activities the most are the Authority for Electrical Energy and Gas (control and regulation of quality level’s, setting of tariffs for the network activity and regulated components of sales, monitoring of financial, accounting and organizational issues that affect the equality of treatment of the operators and the transparency of the conditions through which networks are accessed) and the Antitrust Authority (antitrust, merger and acquisition authorizations, safeguarding of consumers and supervising of the correctness of commercial policies).