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Comisión Reguladora de Energía de México.- Mexico´s Regulation Comission of Energy

Mexico´s Regulatory Commission of Energy (CRE), for its name in Spanish: Comisión Reguladora de Energía, is the regulatory body, coordinated in the energy sector, as a promoter of the efficient development of the Energy industry and the reliable supply of hydrocarbons and electricity.

History
The establishment of the Energy Regulatory Commission, a decentralized body of the Secretariat of Energy, has as its main antecedents the reforms to the Public Electric Power Service Act of 1992 and the statutory law of article 27 of the Constitution in the 1995 Oil industry. These reforms pose significant modifications to the legal framework of the electricity and natural gas sectors. The spirit of the reforms is to allow the private sector to build, operate and own power generation plants and gas transportation, storage and distribution systems, previously reserved activities Exclusively for Mexican oil and the Federal Electricity Commission. The participation of the private initiative in these areas required the creation of governmental institutions that carried out functions of energy regulation. In such a way, the Congress of the Union approved in October 1995 the law of the Regulatory Commission of Energy. The Energy Regulatory Commission was created by presidential decree published in the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF) on October 4, 1993, which entered into force on January 3, 1994, with powers to act, exclusively, as a consultative body of the Then secretariat of Energy, mines and parastatal industry in electrical energy, without having clauses powers or regulatory powers of its own.

The law of the Regulatory Commission of Energy was published in DOF on October 31, 1995 converted the institution into a decentralized body of the Secretariat of Energy (Sener) with technical and operational autonomy and with powers to implement the regulatory framework in the Gas and electricity sectors, including transport, storage and gas distribution activities, with the exception of gas distribution by pipelines within populations could be carried out directly by Petroleos Mexicanos or by Contractors.

On 28 November 2008, they were published in DOF: the decree reforming, adding and repealing various provisions of the Law of the Energy Regulatory Commission; The decree reforming and adding various provisions of the statutory law of article 27 of the Constitution in the field of petroleum, and the decree issuing the law for the use of renewable energies and the financing of the transition Energy that strengthened the Commission in terms of its nature, structure and functioning, in addition to its greater powers to regulate not only the gas and electricity sector already under its responsibility, but also the development of Other activities of the hydrocarbon industry, as well as the generation with renewable energy sources.

On December 11, 2013, the energy reform was approved, which proposed the Modifiocación of articles 5, 27 and 28 of the Mexican Constitution. Establishing a new regulatory framework, on which the publication of 21 secondary laws, 24 regulations and 1 Ordinance are relapsed. These changes gave rise to a new institutional arrangement that involved the creation of a fund and three institutions, the strengthening of regulatory bodies and the transformation of state-owned hydrocarbons and electricity enterprises.

The regulatory bodies of the Mexican energy sector, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH), the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) and the Agency for Security, Energy and Environment (ASEA).