In accordance with paragraph 1(4A) of Schedule 1 to the Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority Ordinance, 2012, as amended, the following re-appointment by the Committee for Economic Development, to the Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority (GCRA), is laid before the States of Deliberation:
Mr. Michael Byrne as an Ordinary Member from the 16th September 2025 to the 25th July 2026.
Mr Byne is the Chief Executive Officer of the GCRA and recently completed a four-year term as an Ordinary Member of the GCRA Board.
Mr Byrne has extensive experience in the UK and Channel Islands of utility regulation in the energy, ports and telecoms sectors. He also has over 25 years of experience in the field of competition law in a range of industries in the UK and the Channel Islands, having worked as Head of Economic Assessment at the Office for National Statistics and Head of Retail Energy Markets at the UK’s energy regulator, Ofgem.
The Committee for Economic Development concluded that Mr. Byrne is suitable to be re-appointed as an Ordinary Member of the Guernsey Competition and Regulatory Authority for a further term of ten months.
The States of Deliberation have the power to annul this appointment.