In the area of the regulation of the relations between distribution and sales the cancellation by the judge of the court of appeals, of the resolution introducing the “guidelines for functional separation,” has assumed a high degree of significance; the result, subject to the intangible principles of independence, unbiasedness and transparency in the management of the networks, is a higher level of flexibility, accompanied by the acknowledgement, as declared by the regulator, of the "provisional" nature (i.e., in expectation of completion of the structural market reforms, this time by the competition) of some of the provisions relating to separation, such as the information systems, which have a significant impact in terms of organization and economics.