Descrizione: We are a State, autonomous and decentralized entity, which enjoys functional autonomy, its own assets, legal personality and full capacity to acquire rights and contract obligations in matters of its competence.The INDE was created on May 27, 1959, under Decree number 1,287 of the Congress of the Republic.It is currently governed by its Organic Law, Decree 64- 94, and by the General Electricity Law, regulations that served as the basis for the separation of functions: Electric Power Generation Company -EGEE-, Electric Power Transmission and Control Company -ETCEE- Electric Power Commercialization Company -ECOE-, Corporate Entity and Electric Power Distribution Company of East and West. The latter were disestablished from the Institution in 1999.