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Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts and Railway | |
Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen | |
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| Abbreviation | BNetzA |
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| Formation | 1 January 1998 |
| Type | Federal agency |
| Legal status | Established by Telecommunications Act 1996,[1] renamed by Federal Agency Act[2] |
| Purpose | Regulator and competition authority for privatised infrastructure. |
| Headquarters | Bonn, Germany |
Region served | Germany |
President | Klaus Müller |
Main organ | Board |
Parent organization | German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology |
| Website | www |
| Remarks | Established as Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (Regulierungsbehörde für Telekommunikation und Post, RegTP) |
The Federal Network Agency (German: Bundesnetzagentur or BNetzA) is the German regulatory office for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railway markets. It is a federal agency of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and headquartered in Bonn, Germany..
- ^ Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG) of 1996-07-25, BGBl. Part I, p. 1120 (in German)
- ^ Gesetz über die Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen (BEGTPG) [Act on the Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Posts, and Railways] of 2005-07-07, BGBl. Part I, p. 1970, 2009 (in German)