Slovak electro-energy companies require changes in legislation
CASE: Slovak electro-energy companies require changes in legislation Companies from the electro-energy sector in Slovakia would welcome few changes within the process of implementing the 3rd liberalisation package, including a 4-years regulatory period. The common position was presented by Štefan Badík from the company Stredoslovenská energetika at the SPX conference. The third liberalisation package caused a need for a complex amendment of the energy legislative in Slovakia so that it would strengthen competition on the market with electricity and natural gas and also to reach the goals in the field of renewable energy use in order to achieve the climate targets and at the same time strengthen the position of customers. Therefore both the Law on Energy and Law on RES and VKVET will be subjects to a complex amendment under the heading of the Ministry of Economy and Construction SR, stated Jaroslav Hrušč from the company Východoslovenská distribučná on Thursday at the conference. Common position of 5 companies With this regard five companies that operate in the field of electro-energy (EPS, Slovenské elektrárne, ZSE, SSE and VSE) joined their forces, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy and Construction (Steering committee) and the Regulatory Office for Network Industries as the observer presented consolidated common stances on the 3rd liberalisation package. The consensual approach of the 5 companies is only one of the documents which the MEC SR will take into consideration when implementing the 3rd liberalisation package, said Štefan Badík from the section „Regulation, strategy and development of trading” from the company Stredoslovenská energetika. Independent regulator and 4-years regulatory period It is open up for a discussion whether currently there exists an independent regulator, said Badík. According to him, companies that operate in Slovakia are demanding from the Ministry of Economy not to interfere in the price setting (Zobraziť celý článok)
