2012/539/EU: Commission Implementing Decision of 26 September 2012 exempting the production and wholesale of electricity produced from conventional sources in macro-zone north and macro-zone south in Italy from the application of Directive 2004/17/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council coordinating the procurement procedures of entities operating in the water, energy, transport and postal services sector and amending Commission Decision 2010/403/EU (notified under document C(2012) 6665) Text with EEA relevance

Directive 2004/17/EC shall not apply to contracts awarded by contracting entities and intended to enable the production and wholesale of electricity produced from conventional sources to be carried out in the macro-zone south of Italy. Directive 2004/17/EC shall continue to apply to contracts awarded by contracting entities and intended to enable production and wholesale of electricity produced from renewable sources to be carried out in the macro-zone south of Italy.

Article 1 of Decision 2010/403/EU is amended as follows: (a) point (a) is replaced by the following: ‘(a) production and wholesale of electricity produced from conventional sources to be carried out in the macro-zone north of Italy.’; (b) the following paragraph is added: ‘Directive 2004/17/EC shall apply to contracts awarded by contracting entities and intended to enable production and wholesale of electricity produced from renewable sources to be carried out in the macro-zone north of Italy.’.

Article 2 shall apply from 15 April 2013.

This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.