This report provides a summary of the work carried out by the Italian team, led by RSE, in the FlexPlan project during the year 2022/2023. This work mainly consisted of three lines of activity:

• Analyse the results of the 6 regional cases to have an overall picture of the role flexibility can play as a support to congestion management from the short term (2030) till the medium term (2040) and the long term (2050). Analyse the state-of-art of regulation by means of a comprehensive assessment of the Pan-European regulatory framework.
• Clarify which aspects prevent the present regulation to attain the optimal situation shown by the results of the 6 regional cases: which barriers and which regulatory gaps are at the base of them. Stakeholders’ opinions have been also analysed so to ensure integration and analysis of all possible aspects and point of views. The analysis is organized according to the definition of ten key aspects (or factors) considered relevant to promote flexibility integration.
• Formulation of regulatory guidelines for regulators and planning offices of system operators, capitalizing the results in terms of the role flexible resources could play in the future, analysing present barriers for the correct deployment of such resources.

However, this report will concentrate only on the regulatory activities (bullets 2 and 3), since point 1 was already treated by a report published in the previous reference period.