[en] Pursuant to the legislative proposal to amend the Bankruptcy Act, suppliers of energy can no longer terminate or suspend agreements for the supply of energy in case of bankruptcy of such customer. In addition, default under such an agreement relating to the period prior to bankruptcy is no ground to dissolve such an agreement. Furthermore, (a request for) bankruptcy or seizure of assets may no longer lead to termination by operation of law, unless approved by the receiver. The above applies as well to moratorium of payment. This legislative proposal will probably enter into force at some point during this year. The background of the legislative proposal is that suppliers of energy are 'essential suppliers' who should not be able to abuse their monopolistic position to suspend delivery of energy in order to force payment of unpaid bills relating to the period prior to bankruptcy. There is no justification for such a restriction to only apply to energy companies instead of to all 'essential suppliers'. If the regime were to apply to energy companies, it should only apply to network managers: these parties are the only energy-related parties who remain essential suppliers. In principle, the gas and electricity itself can also be obtained from other parties than the current supplier, although certain problems may arise in relation to switching supplier. In addition, the legislative proposal will probably lead to a situation where energy companies will require security or terminate the agreement in an earlier stage, as soon as they realise that there are problems with the payment of invoices for the supply/transport of electricity. The costs in relation thereto and in relation to the obligation to continue the supply during bankruptcy, may lead to higher costs of energy distribution companies which will probably be included in the terms for the supply of electricity