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Member States shall provide an enabling framework to promote and facilitate the development of renewable energy communities. That framework shall ensure, inter alia, that: unjustified regulatory and administrative barriers to renewable energy communities are removed; renewable energy communities that supply energy or provide aggregation or other commercial energy services are subject to the provisions relevant for such activities; the relevant distribution system operator cooperates with renewable energy communities to facilitate energy transfers within renewable energy communities; renewable energy communities are subject to fair, proportionate and transparent procedures, including registration and licensing procedures, and cost-reflective network charges, as well as relevant charges, levies and taxes, ensuring that they contribute, in an adequate, fair and balanced way, to the overall cost sharing of the system in line with a transparent cost-benefit analysis of distributed energy sources developed by the national competent authorities; renewable energy communities are not subject to discriminatory treatment with regard to their activities, rights and obligations as final customers, producers, suppliers, distribution system operators, or as other market participants; the participation in the renewable energy communities is accessible to all consumers, including those in low-income or vulnerable households; tools to facilitate access to finance and information are available; regulatory and capacity-building support is provided to public authorities in enabling and setting up renewable energy communities, and in helping authorities to participate directly; rules to secure the equal and non-discriminatory treatment of consumers that participate in the renewable energy community are in place.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-28 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.