In accordance with Annex I, ‘Measures on consumer protection’, paragraph 2, of Directive 2009/72/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity, Member States must ensure the implementation of intelligent metering systems that assist the active participation of consumers in the electricity supply market. The implementation of those metering systems may be subject to an economic assessment of all the long-term costs and benefits to the market and the individual consumer or which form of intelligent metering is economically reasonable and cost-effective and which timeframe is feasible for their distribution.

Under Directive 2009/72/EC concerning common rules for the internal market in electricity, such assessment is to take place by 3 September 2012. Can the Commission say whether the abovementioned assessments have been conducted or are under way in all Member States and whether their results will be publicly available, thus facilitating the exchange of best practices between Member States in relation to the implementation of intelligent metering systems?