title: COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to paying agencies and other bodies, financial management, clearance of accounts, rules on checks, securities and transparency

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               COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/...

               of 12.1.2018

               amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to paying agencies and other bodies, financial management, clearance of accounts, rules on checks, securities and transparency

               THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

               Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

               Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/2008
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               , and in particular Articles 9(2), 36(6), 53(1) and 57(2) and Articles 104 and 114 thereof,

               Whereas:

               (1)In accordance with Article 7(3) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014
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               , the certification body may use an integrated sampling approach when performing substantive testing of expenditure. Following the experience with the application of that Article in the first two years, it is appropriate to clarify what it is meant by an integrated sampling approach when pursuing the different audit objectives as referred to in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.

               (2)Article 41 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council
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                sets the limit for each declaration of expenditure of the paying agencies containing payment requests related to financial instruments at maximum of 25% of the total amount of programme contributions committed to the financial instrument. Article 22(1)(a) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 provides that the quarterly declaration is to specify the amount of eligible public expenditure actually paid by the paying agency during each quarter in accordance with  paragraph 2 of that Article. The amounts paid by the paying agency in the framework of financial instruments should be declared to the Commission respecting the limit of 25% and provided that the corresponding implementation milestone has been achieved. The first declaration to the Commission within the 25% limit is to be initiated by the signature of the funding agreement and the subsequent payment to the financial instrument. Subsequent tranches are to be declared to the Commission upon achievement of the corresponding disbursement rate, in accordance with Article 41 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013. In the case of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development ('EAFRD') that means that the paying agency can only declare 25% of the total planned contribution per quarter. It therefore appears that the rules laid down in Article 22(1) and (2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 are not suitable for the way the financial instruments are to be managed between the Member States and the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 and need to be amended accordingly.

               (3)In order to alleviate the administrative burden of the Member States when pursuing recoveries, experience shows that a threshold for not recovering interest should be established.

               (4)Article 30(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 provides that the documents and accounting information used for the purpose of the clearance of accounts are to be sent to the Commission both in hard copy together with an electronic copy. In order to ease the administrative burden for the Member States and the Commission, to streamline the analysis of the documents and to mitigate the risk of inconsistencies in the data used, Member States should be required to submit electronic documents only, with the use of the electronic signature. That requirement should be also reflected in the text of the management declaration set out in Annex I to that Implementing Regulation. In order to avoid any delays in the transmission of the documents in case of technical difficulties related to the implementation of the electronic signature, it should be possible, for the first year of application of the new requirement, to allow the possibility to submit signed documents transmitted in electronic form.

               (5)In accordance with Article 31(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014, the form and content of the accounting information referred to in Article 30(1)(c) of that Implementing Regulation and the way it is to be forwarded to the Commission are to be those provided in accordance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1758
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               . Experience shows that the form and content of the accounting information need to be amended every year with the related administrative burden and risk of delays. For reasons of simplification and in order to allow for the timely fixing of the related technical specifications, it is therefore appropriate to allow that, as of financial year 2019, the models and related technical specifications for the accounting information should be made available, and updated by the Commission, after having informed the Committee on the Agricultural Funds prior to the beginning of each financial year. It is also appropriate to lay down the general requirements for those technical specifications.

               (6)Article 34(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 provides that, when the Commission considers that expenditure was not effected in accordance with the Union rules, it is to communicate the findings to the Member State concerned and the communication schedules also a bilateral meeting within four months after expiry of the period for reply by the Member State. During this time period certain administrative steps are necessary, such as translation of the reply from the Member State, Commission analysis of the elements put forward by the Member State, preparation of the invitation to the bilateral meeting in the national language of the Member State and preparation of the meeting. Experience of the last two years shows that the four months period is in most cases insufficient to lead to effective meetings. In order to allow for a better preparation of the bilateral meeting, the time period within which the meeting should be held should be prolonged to five months. Such prolongation will be applicable only to enquiries for which the communication pursuant to that Article 34(2) has not yet been sent at the moment of entry into force of this Regulation to avoid any disruption to on-going enquiries.

               (7)The third subparagraph of Article 34(3) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 requires the Commission to communicate its conclusions to the Member State within six months after sending the minutes of the bilateral meeting. The deadline is specified only in relation to the minutes of the bilateral meeting meaning that a bilateral meeting has taken place. That Implementing Regulation does not explicitly define a deadline for sending the communication in case a Member State considered that a bilateral meeting is not required. That provision should therefore be clarified in this regard and fix a starting point for the six months period when no bilateral meeting was required.

               (8)Article 34(9) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 provides that in duly justified cases the time period referred to in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of that Article, may be extended. Article 34(2) of that Implementing Regulation provides for a time period for the bilateral meeting to take place and it may happen that in duly justified cases, a need exists to extend that time period. Article 34(9) of that Implementing Regulation should therefore be amended accordingly.

               (9)Pursuant to Article 111(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, Member States are to publish information on the beneficiaries of the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund ('EAGF') and EAFRD, including, inter alia, the amount of the payment received for each measure financed by those funds in the financial year concerned and the nature and the description of each measure. Article 57 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 specifies the details that are to be published in relation to those measures and refers to Annex XIII to that Implementing Regulation, which contains a list of the measures concerned.

               (10)Annex XIII to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 should be amended in order to take into consideration that also the exceptional measures necessary to address the market situation on the basis of Articles 220(1) and 221(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council
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                should be included among the measures listed in that Annex. Those exceptional measures are considered as measures supporting agricultural markets in accordance with Article 4(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013. Therefore, it is appropriate to amend point 10 of Annex XIII to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014. Moreover, the aid to the silkworm sector mentioned in point 3 in the list of that Annex is no longer applicable taking into consideration that Article 111 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
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                has been repealed by Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 with effect from 1 January 2014 and that all related financial commitments and payments to beneficiaries have now ended. The reference to the aid to the silkworm sector should be therefore deleted from that list.

               (11)Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 should therefore be amended accordingly.

               (12)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on the Agricultural Funds,

               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

               Article 1

               Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 is amended as follows:

               (1)in Article 7(3), the fourth sentence is replaced by the following:

               "As regards substantive testing, including the sampling methods, the certification bodies may apply dual-purpose testing between audit objectives.";

               (2)in Article 22(2), the following third subparagraph is added:

               "As regards financial instruments set up in accordance with Article 38(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, the expenditure shall be declared in respect of the reference periods referred to in the first subparagraph once the conditions for each subsequent application for interim payment as laid down in Article 41(1) of that Regulation are met.";

               (3)in Article 27(1), the following sentence is added:

               "Member States may decide not to recover the interest when the amount of interest does not exceed 5 euros.";

               (4)in Article 30, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

               "2.
                     The documents and the accounting information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be sent to the Commission by 15 February at the latest of the year following the end of the financial year to which they relate. The documents referred to in points (a), (b) and (d) of that paragraph shall be submitted electronically in accordance with the format and under the conditions established by the Commission pursuant to Article 24.

                  Those documents shall bear a compulsory electronic signature within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council*. For the documents related to financial year 2017, the Commission may accept signed documents transmitted in electronic form."

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                     Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC (OJ L 257, 28.8.2014, p. 73).;

               (5)in Article 31, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

               "1.
                     The form and content of the accounting information referred to in Article 30(1)(c) shall be made available by the Commission to Member States by way of models through information systems.

               The models and the related technical specifications for the accounting information shall be made available, and updated by the Commission, after having informed the Committee on the Agricultural Funds, prior to the beginning of each financial year.

               The technical specifications shall include:

               (a)
                     the yearly data requirements for the individual accounting information (X Table);

               (b)
                     the specification for the transfer of the computer files concerning EAGF and EAFRD expenditure;

               (c)
                     the data field descriptions (aide-memoire);

               (d)
                     the structure of the EAFRD budget codes.";

               (6)Article 34 is amended as follows:

               (a)In paragraph 2, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:

               "When, as a result of any inquiry, the Commission considers that expenditure was not effected in compliance with Union rules, it shall communicate its findings to the Member State concerned, specifying the corrective measures needed to ensure future compliance with those rules, and indicating the provisional level of financial correction which at that stage of the procedure it considers corresponds to its findings. That communication shall also schedule a bilateral meeting within five months after expiry of the period for reply by the Member State. The communication shall make reference to this Article.";

               (b)in paragraph 3, the following fourth subparagraph is added:

               "If a Member State notifies the Commission that a bilateral meeting is not required, the six month period starts from the date of receipt by the Commission of the notification.";

               (c)paragraph 9 is replaced by the following:

               "9.
                     In duly justified cases to be notified to the Member State concerned, the Commission may extend the time periods set out in paragraphs 2 to 5.";

               (7)Annex I is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation;

               (8)Annex XIII is amended as follows:

               (a)point 3 is deleted;

               (b)point 10 is replaced by the following:

               "10.
                     The measures granted under Articles 219(1), 220(1) and 221(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 as measures supporting agricultural markets in accordance with Article 4(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013."

               Article 2

               This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

               Done at Brussels, 12.1.2018

                     For the Commission

                     The President
                     Jean-Claude JUNCKER

                     (1)

                        OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 549.

                     (2)

                        Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 of 6 August 2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to paying agencies and other bodies, financial management, clearance of accounts, rules on checks, securities and transparency (OJ L 255, 28.8.2014, p. 59).

                     (3)

                        Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 320).

                     (4)

                        OJ L 250, 28.9.2017, p. 1.

                     (5)

                        Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 347 20.12.2013, p. 671).

                     (6)

                        Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1).

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               EN

               ANNEX

               "ANNEX I
               MANAGEMENT DECLARATION
                  (Article 3)

               I, …, Director of the … Paying Agency, present the accounts for this Paying Agency for the financial year 16/10/xx to 15/10/xx+1.

               I declare, based on my own judgement and on the information at my disposal, including, inter alia, the results of work of the internal audit service, that:

               — the accounts presented and submitted in electronic format give, to the best of my knowledge, a true, complete and accurate view of the expenditure and receipts for the financial year referred to above. In particular, all debts, advances, guarantees and stocks known to me have been recorded in the accounts, and all receipts collected relating to the EAGF and the EAFRD have been properly credited to the appropriate funds;

               — I have put in place a system which provides reasonable assurance on the legality and regularity of the underlying transactions, including that the eligibility of demands and, for rural development, the procedure for attributing aid, are managed, controlled and documented in conformity with Union rules;

               The expenditure entered in the accounts was used for its intended purpose, as defined in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.

               Furthermore, I confirm that effective and proportionate anti-fraud measures under Article 58 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 are in place and take account of the risks identified.

               That assurance is, however, subject to the following reservations:

               Finally, I confirm that I am not aware of any undisclosed matter which could be damaging to the financial interest of the Union.

               Signature"


title: COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/... concerning the format and arrangements for the transmission of European Statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council

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               COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) …/...

               of 21.11.2017

               concerning the format and arrangements for the transmission of European Statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council

               (Text with EEA relevance)

               THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

               Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

               Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 concerning European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC
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               , and in particular Article 5(2) thereof

               Whereas:

               (1)Regulation (EU) No 2016/1952 establishes the common framework for producing comparable European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices for household and final non-household customers in the Union.

               (2) In accordance with Article 5(2) of Regulation (EU) No 2016/1952 Member States should transmit the statistical data in electronic form, in order to conform to an appropriate technical format to be laid down by the Commission.

               (3)The Statistical Data and Metadata exchange (SDMX) provides statistical and technical standards for the exchange of official statistics. A technical format in accordance with these standards should therefore be established by the Commission (Eurostat) within the European Statistical System in close cooperation with Member States.

               (4)The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the European Statistical System Committee,

               HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

               Article 1

               The data on natural gas and electricity prices for household and final non-household customers in the Union shall be provided to Eurostat through the single entry point to enable the Commission (Eurostat) to retrieve those data by electronic means.

               Article 2

               The structure used for transmitting data to the Commission (Eurostat) is set out in the Annexes.

               Article 3

               This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

               Done at Brussels, 21.11.2017

                     For the Commission

                     The President
                     Jean-Claude JUNCKER

                     (1)

                        OJ L 311, 17.11.2016, p. 1.

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               ANNEX I

               The structure for transmitting statistical data on natural gas price

               Information to be included in the transmission files:

               General Information

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Country

                        Name of the reporting country

                        Semester

                        Organisation

                        Name of the reporting organisation

                        Semester

                        Contact person

                        Name of the reporting officer

                        Semester

                        E-mail address

                        E-mail address of the reporting officer

                        Semester

                        Year

                        Reference year for the data (2017, 2018 etc.)

                        Semester

                        Semester

                        1 or 2

                        Semester

               For every consumption band the fields in Tables 1, 2 and 4 are to be transmitted.

               The bands for the household consumers are:

               Band-D1 (small): annual consumption below 20 GJ;

               Band-D2 (medium): annual consumption 20 or more but less than 200 GJ;

               Band-D3 (large): annual consumption 200 GJ or more.

               The bands for the non-household consumers are

               Band-I1: annual consumption below 1 000 GJ;

               Band-I2: annual consumption 1 000 or more but less than 10 000 GJ;

               Band-I3: annual consumption 10 000 or more but less than 100 000 GJ;

               Band-I4: annual consumption 100 000 or more but less than 1 000 000 GJ;

               Band-I5: annual consumption 1 000 000 or more but less than 4 000 000 GJ;

               Band-I6: annual consumption 4 000 000 GJ or more.

               Data in Table 3 are to be specified as averages covering all consumption bands together.

               Table 1: Main price levels

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Confidentiality Status

                        Semester

                        Price without taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        This price level shall include only the energy and supply component and the network component.

                        Semester

                        Price excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        This price level shall include the energy and supply component, the network component and taxes, fees, levies and charges considered as non-recoverable for final non-household customers. For household customers this price level shall include the energy and network components and taxes, fees, levies and charges but excludes VAT.

                        Semester

                        Price including all taxes and VAT (recoverable and non-recoverable)

                        value

                        observation status

                        This price level shall include the energy and supply component, the network component, and all recoverable and non-recoverable taxes, fees, levies and charges, including VAT.

                        Semester

               Values are specified in national currency per gigajoule (gross calorific value).
                  Confidentiality and observation status are set using standard code lists.

               Table 2: Detailed breakdown of prices in components and sub-components

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Confidentiality status

                        Energy and supply price

                        value

                        observation status

                        This component shall include the commodity price for natural gas paid by the supplier or the price of natural gas at the point of entry into the transmission system, including, if applicable, the following end-user costs: storage costs plus costs relating to the sale of natural gas to final customers.

                        Annual

                        Network price

                        value

                        observation status

                        The network price shall include the following end-user costs: transmission and distribution tariffs, transmission and distribution losses, network costs, after-sale service costs, system service costs and meter rental and metering costs.

                        Annual

                        Value added tax

                        value

                        observation status

                        Value added tax as defined in Council Directive 2006/112/ EC
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                        Annual

                        Renewable taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and CHP (combined heat and power) generation.

                        Annual

                        Capacity taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to strategic stockpiles, capacity payments and energy security; taxes on natural gas distribution; stranded costs and levies on financing energy regulatory authorities or market and system operators.

                        Annual

                        Environmental taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to air quality and for other environmental purposes; taxes on emissions of CO2 or other greenhouse gases.

                        Annual

                        Other taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        All other taxes, fees, levies or charges not covered by any of the previous four categories: support for district heating; local or regional fiscal charges; island compensation; concession fees relating to licences and fees for the occupation of land and public or private property by networks or other devices.

                        Annual

               The reference period for all components and all sub-components is annual.
                  Values are specified in national currency per gigajoule (GJ), based on gross calorific value (GCV).
                  Confidentiality and observation status are set using standard code lists.

               Table 3: Network costs

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Confidentiality status

                        Transmission costs

                        percentage

                        observation status

                        Average relative share of transmission costs for household customers and average relative share of transmission costs for final non-household customers, expressed as a percentage of total network costs.

                        Annual

                        Distribution costs

                        percentage

                        observation status

                        Average relative share of distribution costs for household customers and average relative share of distribution costs for final non-household customers, expressed as a percentage of total network costs.

                        Annual

               The reference period for the transmission and distribution costs is annual.
                  Values are specified in percentages.
                  Confidentiality and observation status are set using standard code lists.

               Table 4: Consumption volumes

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Confidentiality status

                        Consumption volumes

                        percentage

                        observation status

                        Relative share of natural gas in each consumption band based on the total volume to which the prices refer.

                        Annual

               The reference period for the consumption volumes is annual.
                  Values are specified in percentages.
                  Confidentiality and observation status are set using standard code lists.

               ANNEX II

               The structure for transmitting statistical data on electricity price

               Information to be included in the transmission files:

               General Information

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Country

                        Name of the reporting country

                        Semester

                        Organisation

                        Name of the reporting organisation

                        Semester

                        Contact person

                        Name of the reporting officer

                        Semester

                        E-mail address

                        E-mail address of the reporting officer

                        Semester

                        Year

                        Reference year for the data (2017, 2018 etc.)

                        Semester

                        Semester

                        1 or 2

                        Semester

               For every consumption band, the fields in Tables 1, 2 and 4 are to be transmitted.

               The bands for the household consumers are:

               Band-DA (very small): annual consumption below 1 000 kWh;

               Band-DB (small): annual consumption 1 000 or more but less than 2 500 kWh;

               Band-DC (medium): annual consumption 2 500 or more but less than 5 000 kWh;

               Band-DD (large): annual consumption 5 000 or more but less than 15 000 kWh;

               Band-DE (very large): annual consumption 15 000 kWh or more.

               The bands for the non-household consumers are:

               Band-IA: annual consumption below 20 MWh;

               Band-IB: annual consumption 20 or more but less than 500 MWh;

               Band-IC: annual consumption 500 or more but less than 2 000 MWh;

               Band-ID: annual consumption 2 000 or more but less than 20 000 MWh;

               Band-IE: annual consumption 20 000 or more but less than 70 000 MWh;

               Band-IF: annual consumption 70 000 or more but less than 150 000 MWh;

               Band-IG: annual consumption 150 000 MWh or more.

               Data in Table 3 are to be specified as averages covering all consumption bands.

               Table 1: Main price levels

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Confidentiality Status

                        Semester

                        Price without taxes:

                        value

                        observation status

                        This price level shall include only the energy and supply component and the network component.

                        Semester

                        Price excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        This price level shall include the energy and supply component, the network component and taxes, fees, levies and charges considered as non-recoverable for final non-household customers. For household customers this price level shall include the energy and the network components and taxes, fees, levies and charges but excludes VAT.

                        Semester

                        Price including all taxes and VAT (recoverable and non-recoverable)

                        value

                        observation status

                        This price level shall include the energy and supply component, the network component, and all recoverable and non-recoverable taxes, fees, levies and charges, including VAT.

                        Semester

               Values are specified in national currency per kilowatt-hour.
                  Confidentiality and observation statuses are set using standard code lists.

               Table 2: Detailed breakdown of prices in components and sub-components

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Confidentiality status

                        Energy and supply price

                        value

                        observation status

                        The component of the total price that deals with energy and supply, excluding taxes.
                           This component shall include the following end-user costs: generation, aggregation, balancing energy, supplied energy costs, customer services, after-sales management and other supply costs.

                        Annual

                        Network price

                        value

                        observation status

                        The component of the total price that deals with network prices, excluding taxes.
                           The network price shall include the following end-user costs: transmission and distribution tariffs, transmission and distribution losses, network costs, after-sale service costs, system service costs, and meter rental and metering costs.

                        Annual

                        Value added tax

                        value

                        observation status

                        Value added tax as defined in Directive 2006/112/EC.

                        Annual

                        Renewable taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and CHP generation.

                        Annual

                        Capacity taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to capacity payments, energy security and generation adequacy; taxes on coal industry restructuring; taxes on electricity distribution; stranded costs and levies on financing energy regulatory authorities or market and system operators.

                        Annual

                        Environmental taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to air quality and for other environmental purposes; taxes on emissions of CO 2 or other greenhouse gases.

                        Annual

                        Nuclear taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the nuclear sector, including nuclear decommissioning, inspections and fees for nuclear installations.

                        Annual

                        Other taxes

                        value

                        observation status

                        All other taxes, fees, levies or charges not covered by any of the previous five categories: support for district heating; local or regional fiscal charges; island compensation; concession fees relating to licences and fees for the occupation of land and public or private property by networks or other devices.

                        Annual

               The reference period for all components and all sub-components is annual.
                  Values are specified in national currency per kilowatt-hour.
                  Confidentiality and observation statuses are set using standard code lists.

               Table 3: Network costs

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Confidentiality status

                        Transmission costs

                        percentage

                        observation status

                        Average relative share of transmission costs for household customers and average relative share of transmission costs for final non-household customers, expressed as a percentage of total network costs.

                        Annual

                        Distribution costs

                        percentage

                        observation status

                        Average relative share of distribution costs for household customers and average relative share of distribution costs for final non-household customers, expressed as a percentage of total network costs.

                        Annual

               The reference period for the transmission and distribution costs is annual.
                  Values are specified in percentages.
                  Confidentiality and observation statuses are set using standard code lists.

               Table 4: Consumption volumes

                        Field

                        Remarks

                        Reporting Frequency

                        Confidentiality status

                        Consumption volumes

                        percentage

                        observation status

                        Relative share of electricity in each consumption band based on the total volume to which the prices refer.

                        Annual

               The reference period for the consumption volumes is annual.
                  Values are specified in percentages.
                  Confidentiality and observation statuses are set using standard code lists.

                     (1)

                        Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (OJ L 347, 11.12.2006, p. 1).