(AGI) - Athens, 19 Oct. - Strengthening collaboration, coordination, and international cooperation in the energy sector to better protect consumers, continually improving the safety, quality, and price of services also with respect for the environment. The International Confederation of Energy Regulation (ICER) was created with these objectives during the fourth World Forum of Energy Regulators and according to the commitments made with the "G8+ Regulators' Assembly" in May, which for the first time ever, gathered all of the energy regulation bodies in the world in Rome. The creation of this new body for international collaboration among regulators intends to promote increasingly harmonised and efficient initiatives and regulatory frameworks on a global level to proactively meet emerging global challenges and problems with solutions of a global nature. The creation of the new federation rewarded of the promotional efforts made by European regulatory bodies: Lord Mogg, who was the President of the Council of European Energy Regulators (CEER)was elected president of ICER, and Italy's President Ortis was elected president of the International Energy Regulation Network (IERN), which will set up the operational base of the global federation in Italy. In its first act, the ICER approved a unified statement (with eight concrete proposals of action) on "sustainable development", as a contribution for the imminent UN climate change conference which will be held in December in Copenhagen. "Cooperation between energy regulators should be intensified in order to offer more transparent, reliable, and internationally harmonised regulatory frameworks," said the President of the Energy Authority, Alessandro Ortis, "this will make it possible to better promote investments for sustainable infrastructure (especially valuable in increasing efforts to overcome the current international economic crisis), market efficiency, competitiveness, and the sustainability of energy systems and services, in order to benefit customers." The ICER joins 11 regulatory associations: AFUR (Africa), ARIAE (Latin America), CAMPUT (Canada), CEER (The Council of European Energy Regulators), EAPIRF (East Asia and the Pacific, ERRA (Central and Eastern Europe), MEDREG (The Mediterranean Regulators' Association, NARUC (The United States), OOCUR (the Caribbean), RERA (Southern Africa), and SAFIR (Southern Asia).