Marco Benacchio
Remedies and Market Monitoring Working Group
The Remedies and Market Monitoring Working Group guides the effective and consistent implementation of remedies foreseen in the EECC and creates transparency through market monitoring. Therefore, it develops best regulatory practices, ensuring national regulators take a consistent approach to further developing the internal telecommunications market in Europe and national markets that are effectively competitive. The Working Group monitors the application of EU-wide regulations and works on data collection methodologies, such as KPIs to measure the progress towards the DDPP targets. The Working Group calculates the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) parameters to incentivise efficient investments into high-speed broadband networks with quality coverage, promote, and serve consumer interests to use fast internet access.
Marco Benacchio is Head of Unit of Wholesale Regulation in the electronic communications markets (covering market analysis, bottom-up cost modelling and approval of Reference Offers) at AGCOM, the regulator for electronic communication, media and postal services in Italy.
He joined AGCOM in 2009. Previously he worked at the Italian Competition Authority (2002-2009), after an experience in applied research in economics at the University of Genoa.
In BEREC, he was Co-Chair of the former Regulatory Accounting (RA) Working Group (2016-2018). Since 2019, he has been drafting leader for the Regulatory Accounting workstream within the Remedies Working Group, including co-drafting BEREC Reports on WACC parameters calculation according to the European Commission’s WACC Notice of 6 November 2019.
Marco holds a degree in Economics and a PhD in Transport Economics from the University of Genoa. He was visiting scholar at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2020) and at Universitè de Nantes (2002).
