Gazprom Energoholding Group is always open to discussion of proposed legislation affecting the Group companies' business. To this end, experts of the Group companies are actively involved in discussions held on various platforms to ensure the Group's interests are taken into account. In the reporting period, Gazprom Energoholding Group's representatives upheld the Group's corporate interests during the discussion of proposed amendments to legislation related to: - Improving the procedures for taking generating equipment out of service for maintenance or decommissioning; - Launching the Competitive Selection of Capacities for Modernisation programme to upgrade thermal power generation; - Improving the mechanisms of the wholesale electricity and capacity markets; - Paying for electricity transmission services with due consideration of payments for reserved maximum capacity; - Establishing a common electricity market of the Eurasian Economic Union; - Stimulating the development of renewable energy sources in the retail electricity market; - Developing a mechanism to support voluntary demand for renewable energy (introduction of green certificates); - Extending the mechanism stimulating the development of renewable energy sources until 2035; - Developing Russia's Energy Strategy to 2035. The Group actively cooperates with federal executive authorities by participating in consensus meetings and working groups dealing with heat supply regulations. In recent years, the more important efforts to safeguard the Group's interests included: - Drafting and approving Federal Law No. 59-FZ On Amendments to the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, dated 3 April 2018, with regard to adopting new contractual relations between owners of blocks of flats and resource suppliers as well as drafting legal regulations in furtherance of the above law; - Improving legislation on connection to heat supply systems; - Continuing the work on the draft Federal Law On the Fundamentals of State Price (Tariff) Regulation; - Building the concept for a new heat supply regulation method based on benchmarks and supporting legal acts; - Drafting the Guidelines on Developing Heat Supply Plans; - Participating in the development of the Utilities Development Strategy to 2035; - Determining the legal framework for recovering overdue debt from individuals; - Drafting and facilitating an Action Plan to streamline the policies for assessing and applying hot water tariffs; - Preparing the positions on legal frameworks developed by federal executive authorities as part of the Regulatory Guillotine administrative legal reform.