This report was co-ordinated and drafted by Ana Simion and Vincent van Langen, under the guidance of Anna Pietikainen. It was prepared under the leadership and with the encouragement and support of Elsa Pilichowski, Director, János Bertók, Deputy Director, OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV) and Nick Malyshev, Head of the Regulatory Policy Division, GOV. Substantive comments were provided by Nick Malyshev and Paul Davidson. Jennifer Stein co-ordinated the editorial process and Andrea Uhrhammer provided editorial support.
The report would not have been possible without the support of the PUC and its staff. The team would like to thank in particular the following colleagues for their assistance in collecting data and information, for their support and flexibility to organising and conducting the team’s mission remotely, as well as for providing feedback at different stages of the review: Intars Birziņš, Acting Chair of the Board of Commissioners, Gatis Ābele, Imants Mantiņš, Rota Šņuka, Board Members, Rolands Irklis, former Chair of the Board of Commissioners, Jānis Miķelsons, Executive Director, Lija Makare, Head of International Relations, and Maruta Purviņa, Deputy Director Economic Analysis Department. Interviews and comments from the various PUC departments, government, industry and civil society stakeholders during the review process contributed to the analysis presented in the report.