Andon Rokov to be SEWRC's new Chairman

A member of Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC), Andon Rokov, will be appointed interim Chairman until the Council of Ministers decides who will take Angel Semerdzhiev's place. At its meeting on Wednesday, the Cabinet accepted Semerdzhiev's resignation and appointed Rokov interim Chairman until the next meeting of the Cabinet, when it should be discussed and voted who will head SEWRC, the Government Press Office announced.

Andon Rokov is a lawyer. He graduated from the Law Faculty of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. He has extensive experience in the sphere of energy and commercial law. He has been Deputy General Counsel at Bulgargaz JSC, a syndic and a lawyer.

On January 28, 2013, Prime Minister Boyko Borissov said that he will propose to the Council of Ministers to dismiss the head of the State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) Angel Semerdzhiev. "The proposal is connected with the delay and lack of drafted and adopted administrative regulations related to the Third Energy Liberalisation Package, which became the reason for the European Commission (EC) to refer the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union," read the Council of Minister's short announcement, adding: "These are ordinances to amend the ordinances regulating the prices of electricity and natural gas, the ordinance to amend the ordinance on licencing the activities in the energy sector and the rules for access to the gas transmission and distribution networks." These changes are required in connection with the transposition of EU rules for the internal energy market.

In the past six months, the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism sent three letters to SEWRC, notifying the regulator that it should maximally speed up the procedure for the adoption of amendments to the regulations relating to the Third Energy Liberalisation Package because our country is threatened with criminal proceedings by the EC, the announcement further explained.

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