Reporting suspicious energy trading
Energy traders must do their best to track down and report suspicious trading. Exchanges, brokers, and platforms are statutorily required to do so. This has been laid down in the European regulation called REMIT (Regulation on wholesale Energy Market Integrity and Transparency).
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Suspicious trading
By suspicious trading on the energy market, we mean market manipulation or insider trading such as erroneous orders, or other suspicious transactions by energy market participants.
Filing a report with ACER
Please report suspicious trading to ACER if you see something suspicious on the Dutch or European energy market. ACER is the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators.
Please file a report, too, if you have any indications that inside information is published incorrectly, too late, or not even at all by a market participant. ACER refers to such a report as a Suspicious Transaction Report (STR).
Please file a report about the suspicious behavior without four weeks after you became aware thereof.
Notification is mandatory for PPATs (Person Professionally Arranging Transactions) on the Dutch energy market. Examples of PPATs are:
- Energy exchanges
- Energy brokers
- Capacity platforms
- Other platforms on which transactions are made
From November 8, 2024, some energy traders that carry out orders will also be required to report suspicious trading. For more information, please read ACER’s open letter.
You can also report suspicious trading on the Dutch market to ACM. We work together with ACER, and we pass on reports to each other.
You can also file reports with ACER and ACM anonymously.