On 26 June 2017 the AER published its draft Revised Stakeholder Engagement Framework for consultation.

Effective and meaningful engagement with stakeholders across all our functions is essential to fulfilling our role. It helps us to make better decisions, enhances the transparency and predictability of our regulatory activities and processes and builds stakeholders' trust and confidence in the regulatory regime.

The Framework sets out the principles that guide our public engagement with consumers, energy businesses and other stakeholders affected by our activities. It provides a structure that allows stakeholders’ needs and interests to be consistently, transparently and meaningfully considered in our activities.

We invited interested parties to make submissions on the draft Revised Stakeholder Engagement Framework by 28 July 2017.

The feedback received in response to the consultation paper will inform our final revised Stakeholder Engagement Framework which we expect to publish in September 2017.