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Electricity · Lebanon

Decree No. 4517/1972 - Électricité du Liban Public-Establishment Framework

The public-establishment framework assigns EDL the central mandate and historic exclusivity for electricity generation, transmission and distribution.

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Official recordDecree No. 4517/1972 - Électricité du Liban Public-Establishment Framework
Legal characterPublic-establishment and sector-exclusivity decree
Current readingOperative
Scope and applicability

EDL’s legal mandate and the baseline organization of public electricity service.

Why it matters

It is the institutional baseline against which private generation, unbundling, licensing, wheeling and Law 462 reform must be interpreted.

Core provisions

The operative ideas to understand before reading the full text.

  1. 01

    Defines EDL’s public-service mandate.

  2. 02

    Provides the historic legal basis for EDL’s central role in generation, transmission and distribution.

  3. 03

    Forms the monopoly baseline later addressed by Law 462 restructuring and temporary private-generation exceptions.

Engineering lens

  • Centralises system and network responsibility in EDL.
  • Provides the asset and operational baseline for later unbundling.

Economic and investment lens

  • Defines the incumbent public-service and revenue context.
  • Reform changes monopoly, concession and regulated-asset assumptions.

From text to operation

Implementation gates

These conditions must be evidenced before treating the instrument as operational for a project, tariff or market transaction.

  1. 1Read with current EDL statutes and concessions
  2. 2Reconcile with Law 462 and ERA rules
  3. 3Map assets, obligations and transition rights

Documented relationships

  • This instrument defines the monopoly baseline reformed by Law 462
  • Linked instrument regulates de facto supply outside the public monopoly Generator rules

Primary sources

  1. National Renewable Energy Action Plan 2025-2030 Lebanese Center for Energy Conservation · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
  2. Cost Recovery Plan Addendum Électricité du Liban · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026
  3. Law No. 462/2002 - Regulation of the Electricity Sector Ministry of Energy and Water · Published · Arabic · Accessed 16 August 2026Official Arabic text and publication details.
  4. Measures to control private-generator tariffs and compulsory metering Ministry of Economy and Trade · Published · English · Accessed 16 August 2026