The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (“URCA”) is pleased to publish its Draft Annual Plan and Budget for 2022 (URCA/2022). This document outlines:
- A brief review of URCA’s achievements in 2021:
- URCA’s focus areas and key priorities for 2022;
- URCA’s key projects for 2022, including its planned consultation schedule for the year;
- A series of the key performance indicators which URCA shall use to measure its performance during the year; and
- URCA’s budget for the upcoming financial year.
URCA invites and welcomes comments and submissions from members of the public, licensees and other interested parties on the matters contained in this Draft Annual Plan.
The timeline and steps for responses to this Draft Annual Plan are as follows:
- All submissions to this consultation should be submitted by 5pm on 4 February 2022;
- URCA endeavours to publish these responses by 5pm on 25 February 2022; and,
- Comments on the responses published in step 2 may be submitted 18 March 2022; and,
- URCA intends to publish the final version of its annual plan by 30 April 2022.
Written submissions or comments on the Draft Annual Plan should be addressed to URCA’s Chief Executive Officer with the subject line, “URCA draft Annual Plan”. Submission can be made by:
- hand, to URCA’s office at Frederick House, Frederick Street, Nassau;
- mail, to P.O. Box N-4860, Nassau, Bahamas; or
- fax, to 242 393 0237; or
- email, to info@urcabahamas.bs