To balance the relationship between supply and demand, but also between incumbent firms and new entrants, or even between operators and governments, regulators can rely on the formal levers of power granted to them (as obligations, tariffs, and sanctions) or on the levers of soft-law: recommendations, guidelines, benchmarking, naming and shaming, etc. Recent studies highlight that information gathering and publicization of practices by regulators have increased over the last years. Datafication but also the relatively low cost of these tools may explain this trend. This conference was aimed at comparing the practices and the performance of sunshine regulation in diverse industries and various institutional contexts to better understand how regulatory goals can be met thanks to an appropriate management of data and information.

SPEAKERS:

Introduction: Eric Brousseau | Scientific Director, Dauphine Gouvernance and Regulation Chair & Club of Regulators 

A/Sunshine Regulation through data

• FRANCE/Electronic Communications Regulatory Authority, ARCEP - Pierre Dubreuil | Head of the Regulation by Data Unit - “Data-driven regulation: how to enable users to make informed choices and better shepherd the market ?” (slides)
   
• MEXICO/Federal Institute of Telecommunications - Pedro Javier Terrazas Briones | General Coordinator of Strategic Planning - "Experiences of IFT with the Telecommunications Information databank (BIT)" (slides)

B/Soft law tools

• SWITZERLAND/Federal Electricity Commission, ELCOM - Barbara Wyss | Head of Prices and Tariffs Section - "Sunshine Regulation in the Electricity Sector in Switzerland : A Status update" (slides)
   
• HUNGARY/Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority - Gábor Kisvárdai | Head of the Secretariat of the Vice President for public services; also Member of the Secretariat, WAREG (Network of European Water Regulators) - "Soft law tools in the Hungarian water regulation" (slides)

C/International experiences of coordination/experiments

• EUROPEAN UNION/Council of European Energy Regulators, CEER - Jean-Laurent Lastelle | Vice President ; also Commissioner at the French Energy Regulator (CRE) -  "Sunshine regulation tools at EU and national levels in the energy sector" (slides)

• International overview/OECD - James Drummond | Policy Analyst - Regulatory Policy, Behavioural insights -  "Behavioural Insights global feedback" (slides)

Conclusion: Anna Pietikainen | Senior Policy Advisor, Public Governance and Regulatory Policy, OECD

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