How Albanian electricity law sits above the market

A nomination error is operational. A missing license or a rule the desk never read is structural. The stack tells you which text actually binds the hour you are about to lock.

Law 59/2026 is the sector parent. Law 24/2023 sits next to it for renewables. ERE turns those acts into licenses and dated board decisions. Market rules and balancing rules tell ALPEX and OST how to run the day. Exchange and TSO procedures then give the clocks and the file formats.

If the desk jumps straight to an ALPEX price without knowing which layer moved last, it will treat a board decision like a rumour.

Official source: the Albanian texts. TradingDesk explanation: read top-down only when something changes.

1. Sector law, who may generate, supply, transmit, distribute, trade or aggregate, and that ERE is the regulator.

2. Renewable-energy law, support and RES-specific duties. It does not replace ALPEX trading rules.

3. ERE board decisions, dated changes: go-live, price limits, NEMO tasks, rule additions.

4. Electricity Market Rules and Electricity Balancing Rules, the operational constitution of trading and imbalance.

5. ALPEX rules and OST procedures, membership, nomination, scheduling, metering data.

This page does not quote articles. Attach PDFs on the child pages before anyone treats a sentence as a clause.

When a customer asks why a portfolio must sit on ALPEX or who pays imbalance, start here, then open the child law, the ERE decision and the rulebook. TradingDesk does not replace any of those texts.