Electricity
By the adoption of the new Energy Law (“Official Gazette of RS”, No. 145/14 and 95/18 –another law) in the end of 2014, the energy field in the local legislation was harmonised with the provisions of the Third Energy Legislation Package of the European Union and, thereby, the process of introduction of competition in the energy sector in Serbia was continued in order to increase the efficiency of the sector via market mechanisms in electricity production and supply, while economic regulation of electricity transmission and distribution as natural monopolies still remained.
guaranteed supply Guaranteed supply (electricity) Guaranteed electricity supply implies sales in electricity to households and small customers at regulated prices.
of electricity were modified. In line with this, as of January 1, 2015, the right to guaranteed supply at prices regulated by the Energy Agency is exercised only by households andsmall customers . Small customers (electricity) Small electricity customers imply final customers (legal persons and entrepreneurs) with all their facilities connected to the electricity distribution system of voltage below 1kV and who comply with one of the following conditions: they have less than 50 employees, total annual revenue of 10 million Euros in RSD countervalue or with electricity consumption in the previous calendar year amounting to up to 30,000kWh.
Households and small customers may stick to guaranteed supply and be supplied in line with existing contracts, but they also have a possibility (not an obligation) to contract their supply with any licenced electricity supplier in the open market.
If a household or a small customer select a supplier in the open market, and, some time later, for any reason, they lose the supplier, they can always go back to regulated guaranteed supply. All other final customers have to have a supply contract in line with market conditions.
reason
The right to the supply of the last resort may be exercised by a final electricity customer who is not entitled to guaranteed supply in line with the provisions of this law, in case of:
bankruptcy or liquidation of the supplier who has supplied the customer so far;
termination or withdrawal of licence of the supplier who has supplied the customer so far;
the customer has not found a new supplier after the termination of the supply contract with the prior supplier, unless the termination of the contract is caused by unsettled liabilities by the customer;
the customer has not found a new supplier after the termination of the supply contract with the prior supplier and the customer belongs to the customer category which cannot have their electricity delivery suspended in case liabilities are not settled, in line with this law.
Transmission Network Code
Cross-border transmission capacity allocation
Ten-Year Transmission System Development Plans
Exemptions for new interconnectors in the field of electricity
Distribution system development plan
Compliance programme of the distribution system operator