S.L. 545.34 Art. 15ASupplier risk management. 

(1) The Regulator shall, whilst taking into account the size of the supplier or the market structure and including, if relevant, by carrying out stress tests, ensure that suppliers:

(a) have in place and implement appropriate hedging strategies, to limit the risk of changes in wholesale electricity supply to the economic viability of their contracts with customers, while maintaining liquidity on and price signals from such short-term markets;

(b) take all reasonable steps to limit their risk of supply failure.

(2) Supplier hedging strategies may include the use of power purchase agreements as defined in Article 2(77) of Regulation (EU) 2019/943 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on the internal market for electricity or other appropriate instruments, such as forward contracts.

(3) Citizen energy communities and renewable energy communities may request the Regulator to assess their accessibility to hedging products:

Provided that the Regulator, based on the outcome of such assessment, if and where deemed necessary, shall make recommendations to the Minister regarding the need to put in place enabling conditions to enhance the availability of such hedging products for citizen energy communities and renewable energy communities.