On March 17, 2015, the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators published the European register of market participants on its designated portal together with its list of standard contracts and the fourth edition of ACER's REMIT Q&As. This is further to ACER finalizing its preparatory work on supporting documentation under REMIT, the EU Regulation that aims to prevent market manipulation and trading on inside information in the wholesale energy market, and more generally improves integrity in this market. On March 20, 2015, ACER also published a recommendation to the European Commission on wholesale energy derivative contracts that must be physically settled under Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II. ACER's recommendation states that wholesale energy products that must be physically settled and that are in the scope of REMIT include futures, options on futures, options on swaps and any other type of derivative that must be physically settled. ACER also proposes, amongst other recommendations, that the Commission clarifies in its delegated acts that a wholesale energy derivative contract traded on an Organized Trading Facility must be physically settled if it cannot be settled in cash.
ACER's designated REMIT portal, Q&As and recommendation are available at: https://www.acer-remit.eu/portal/european- register; https://www.acer-remit.eu/portal/document-download?documentId=2703; and http://www.acer.europa.eu/Official_documents/Acts_of_the_Agency/Recommendations/ACER%20Recommendation%2001-2015.pdf.
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