On January 18, 2021, the Energy Regulatory Commission ("CRE") published the Decree A/001/2021 (the “Decree”) in the Federal Official Gazette, by means of which the CRE suspended its legal deadlines for responding to submissions or requests, as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This decree established that the suspension would not apply to those cases that the CRE considered to be "urgent", which was used as a mechanism for delaying the processing of such submissions and was therefore widely challenged.
However, on February 28, 2023, the CRE published a decree in the Federal Official Gazette lifting the suspension of legal deadlines, which took effect on March 1, 2023 (the “Lifting Decree”).
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