UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16 UNDER

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of November, 2019

EMPRESA DISTRIBUIDORA Y COMERCIALIZADORA NORTE S.A. (EDENOR)

(DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING COMPANY OF THE NORTH )

(Translation of Registrant's Name Into English)

Argentina

(Jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

Av. del Libertador 6363,

12th Floor,

City of Buenos Aires (A1428ARG),

Tel: 54-11-4346-5000

(Address of principal executive offices)

(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.)

Form 20-F  X     Form 40-F        

(Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this form is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.)

Yes          No  X  

(If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82-             .)

City of Buenos Aires, November 7, 2019

Messrs.

BUENOS AIRES STOCK EXCHANGE

Messrs.

NATIONAL SECURITIES COMMISSION

Issuers Division

Dear Sirs,

In compliance with the provisions of section 63 of the Listing Regulations of Bolsas y Mercados Argentinos S.A., I hereby inform you that this Company’s Board of Directors, at its meeting held today, approved the Condensed Interim Financial Statements, Statement of Financial Position, Statement of Comprehensive Income, Statement of Changes in Equity, Statement of Cash Flows, Notes to the Financial Statements, Informative Summary and the information required by section 12 of General Resolution No. 622 of the National Securities Commission, relating to the nine-month interim period ended September 30, 2019.

The amounts disclosed below are stated in thousands of Argentine pesos and arise from the Condensed Interim Financial Statements:

Nine-month interim period

ended September 30, 2019

Profit for the period

Other comprehensive income for the period

Total comprehensive income for the period

The profit for the period includes a one-time-only extraordinary profit as a result of the Agreement on the Regularization of Obligations entered into by and between the Company and the Governmental Secretariat of Energy within the framework of the Agreement on the Implementation of the transfer of jurisdiction of the public service of electricity distribution from the Federal Government to the Province of Buenos Aires and the City of Buenos Aires.

The implementation of the aforementioned agreement implied the partial recognition of the claim made by the Company as compensation for the Federal Government’s failure to comply with obligations for 10 years during the Transitional Tariff Period, as well as the adjustment of the recorded liabilities at the time of the agreement, replicating the conditions applied to all the sector’s distributors, as described in the Financial Statements as of September 30, 2019. Although these effects are included in the profit for the period, they do not imply any inflow of funds whatsoever for the Company; on the contrary, the Company must comply in the next 5 years with an investment plan, aimed at contributing to the improvement of the reliability and/or safety of the service as a whole, in addition to that provided for in the RTI, which together with the penalties payable to users and the payment of the generated income tax amount implies an actual disbursement of funds for a total approximate amount of $ 7,600 million, in a 5-year term.

The profit for the period, without taking into consideration the effects described in the preceding paragraphs, relating to the Agreement on the Regularization of Obligations, would have amounted to a profit of ARS 1,223 million.

The Financial Statements as of September 30, 2019 reflect the Company’s still deteriorated economic and financial equation, mainly as a consequence of the constant increase in operating costs, the fall in demand due to the economic downturn and the Electricity rate schedules maintenance agreement recently entered into with the Federal Government. In this regard, and taking into consideration that the economic and political context in which the Company operates is currently being affected by different changes and measures that have a direct impact on its financial situation, the Company’s Board of Directors is assessing different scenarios that will allow the Company to focus on the improvement of service quality, the carrying out of planned investments and meeting its customer demand.

In spite of this situation, the Company has maintained the high level of investments developed in the last years totaling ARS 7,708 million, which is a reflection of its shareholders’ commitment to the improvement of the public service under concession.

Furthermore, and as required by sub-sections 6), 7) and 8) of section 62, we inform the following:

The class “A” shares are owned by Pampa Energía S.A. (PAMPA), domiciled at Maipú 1 of the City of Buenos Aires. The class “B” shares are currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange (through American Depositary Shares –“ADSs”) and the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. As of September 30, 2019, the Company has 31,380,871 treasury shares.

An amount of 1,952,604 class “C” shares, which are held by Banco de la Nación Argentina as trustee of the Company Employee Stock Ownership Program, remains outstanding.

The Company does not have debt securities convertible into shares, nor there exist stock options of the Company’s shares.

Yours sincerely,

(1)   Includes 31,381 relating to treasury shares.

(2)   Includes 520,003 relating to treasury shares.

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