Annexes to COM(2016)864 - Common rules for the internal market in electricity (recast) - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2016)864 - Common rules for the internal market in electricity (recast). |
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| document | COM(2016)864  |
| date | June 5, 2019 |
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR BILLING AND BILLING INFORMATION
1. Minimum information to be contained on the bill and in the billing information
| 1.1. | The following key information shall be prominently displayed to final customers in their bills, distinctly separate from other parts of the bill:
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| 1.2. | The following key information shall be prominently displayed to final customers in their bills and billing information, distinctly separate from other parts of the bill and billing information:
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| 1.3. | Where bills are based on actual consumption or remote reading by the operator, the following information shall be made available to final customers in, with or signposted to within their bills and periodic settlement bills:
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2. Frequency of billing and the provision of billing information:
| (a) | billing on the basis of actual consumption shall take place at least once a year; |
| (b) | where the final customer does not have a meter that allows remote reading by the operator, or where the final customer has actively chosen to disable remote reading in accordance with national law, accurate billing information based on actual consumption shall be made available to the final customer at least every six months, or once every three months, if requested or where the final customer has opted to receive electronic billing; |
| (c) | where the final customer does not have a meter that allows remote reading by the operator, or where the final customer has actively chosen to disable remote reading in accordance with national law, the obligations in points (a) and (b) may be fulfilled by means of a system of regular self-reading by the final customer, whereby the final customer communicates readings from the meter to the operator; billing or billing information may be based on estimated consumption or a flat rate only where the final customer has not provided a meter reading for a given billing interval; |
| (d) | where the final customer has a meter that allows remote reading by the operator, accurate billing information based on actual consumption shall be provided at least every month; such information may also be made available via the internet, and shall be updated as frequently as allowed by the measurement devices and systems used. |
3. Breakdown of the final customer's price
The customer's price is the sum of the following three components: the energy and supply component, the network component (transmission and distribution) and the component comprising taxes, levies, fees and charges.
Where a breakdown of the final customer's price is presented in bills, the common definitions of the three components in that breakdown established under Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1) shall be used throughout the Union.
4. Access to complementary information on historical consumption
Member States shall require that, to the extent that complementary information on historical consumption is available, such information is made available, at the request of the final customer, to the supplier or service provider designated by the final customer.
Where the final customer has a meter that allows remote reading by the operator installed, the final customer shall have easy access to complementary information on historical consumption allowing detailed self-checks.
Complementary information on historical consumption shall include:
| (a) | cumulative data for at least the three previous years or the period since the start of the electricity supply contract, if that period is shorter. The data shall correspond to the intervals for which frequent billing information has been produced; and |
| (b) | detailed data according to the time of use for any day, week, month and year, which is made available to the final customer without undue delay via the internet or the meter interface, covering the period of at least the previous 24 months or the period since the start of the electricity supply contract, if that period is shorter. |
5. Disclosure of energy sources
Suppliers shall specify in bills the contribution of each energy source to the electricity purchased by the final customer in accordance with the electricity supply contract (product level disclosure).
The following information shall be made available to final customers in, with, or signposted to within their bills and billing information:
| (a) | the contribution of each energy source to the overall energy mix of the supplier (at national level, namely in the Member State in which the electricity supply contract has been concluded, as well as at the level of the supplier if the supplier is active in several Member States) over the preceding year in a comprehensible and clearly comparable manner; |
| (b) | information on the environmental impact, in at least terms of CO2 emissions and the radioactive waste resulting from the electricity produced by the overall energy mix of the supplier over the preceding year. |
As regards point (a) of the second subparagraph, with respect to electricity obtained via an electricity exchange or imported from an undertaking situated outside the Union, aggregate figures provided by the exchange or the undertaking in question over the preceding year may be used.
For the disclosure of electricity from high efficiency cogeneration, guarantees of origin issued under Article 14(10) of Directive 2012/27/EU may be used. The disclosure of electricity from renewable sources shall be done by using guarantees of origin, except in the cases referred to in points (a) and (b) of Article 19(8) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001.
The regulatory authority or another competent national authority shall take the necessary steps to ensure that the information provided by suppliers to final customers pursuant to this point is reliable and is provided at a national level in a clearly comparable manner.
(1) Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC (OJ L 311, 17.11.2016, p. 1).
ANNEX II
SMART METERING SYSTEMS
| 1. | Member States shall ensure the deployment of smart metering systems in their territories that may be subject to an economic assessment of all of the long-term costs and benefits to the market and the individual consumer or which form of smart metering is economically reasonable and cost-effective and which time frame is feasible for their distribution. |
| 2. | Such assessment shall take into consideration the methodology for the cost-benefit analysis and the minimum functionalities for smart metering systems provided for in Commission Recommendation 2012/148/EU (1) as well as the best available techniques for ensuring the highest level of cybersecurity and data protection. |
| 3. | Subject to that assessment, Member States or, where a Member State has so provided, the designated competent authority, shall prepare a timetable with a target of up to ten years for the deployment of smart metering systems. Where the deployment of smart metering systems is assessed positively, at least 80 % of final customers shall be equipped with smart meters either within seven years of the date of the positive assessment or by 2024 for those Member States that have initiated the systematic deployment of smart metering systems before 4 July 2019. |
(1) Commission Recommendation 2012/148/EU of 9 March 2012 on preparations for the roll-out of smart metering systems (OJ L 73, 13.3.2012, p. 9).
ANNEX III
TIME-LIMIT FOR TRANSPOSITION INTO NATIONAL LAW AND DATE OF APPLICATION
(REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 72)
| Directive | Time-limit for transposition | Date of application |
| Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 211, 14.8.2009, p. 55) | 3 March 2011 | 3 September 2009 |
ANNEX IV
CORRELATION TABLE
| Directive 2009/72/EC | This Directive |
| Article 1 | Article 1 |
| Article 2 | Article 2 |
| — | Article 3 |
| Articles 33 and 41 | Article 4 |
| — | Article 5 |
| Article 32 | Article 6 |
| Article 34 | Article 7 |
| Article 7 | Article 8 |
| Article 8 | — |
| Article 3(1) | Article 9(1) |
| Article 3(2) | Article 9(2) |
| Article 3(6) | Article 9(3) |
| Article 3(15) | Article 9(4) |
| Article 3(14) | Article 9(5) |
| Article 3(16) | — |
| Article 3(4) | Article 10(1) |
| Annex I. 1(a) | Article 10(2) and (3) |
| Annex I. 1(b) | Article 10(4) |
| Annex I. 1(c) | Article 10(5) |
| Annex I. 1(d) | Article 10(6) and (8) |
| — | Article 10(7) |
| Annex I. 1(f) | Article 10(9) |
| Annex I. 1(g) | Article 10(10) |
| Article 3(7) | Article 10(11) |
| Annex I. 1(j) | Article 10(12) |
| Article 3(10) | — |
| Article 4 | — |
| Article 5 | — |
| Article 6 | — |
| — | Article 11 |
| Article 3(5)(a) and Annex I. 1(e) | Article 12 |
| — | Article 13 |
| — | Article 14 |
| — | Article 15 |
| — | Article 16 |
| — | Article 17 |
| — | Article 18 |
| Article 3(11) | Article 19(1) |
| — | Article 19(2) to (6) |
| — | Article 20 |
| — | Article 21 |
| — | Article 22 |
| — | Article 23 |
| — | Article 24 |
| Article 3(12) | Article 25 |
| Article 3(13) | Article 26 |
| Article 3(3) | Article 27 |
| Article 3(7) | Article 28(1) |
| Article 3(8) | Article 28(2) |
| — | Article 29 |
| Article 24 | Article 30 |
| Article 25 | Article 31 |
| — | Article 32 |
| — | Article 33 |
| — | Article 34 |
| Article 26 | Article 35 |
| — | Article 36 |
| Article 27 | Article 37 |
| Article 28 | Article 38 |
| Article 29 | Article 39 |
| Article 12 | Article 40(1) |
| — | Article 40(2) to (8) |
| Article 16 | Article 41 |
| Article 23 | Article 42 |
| Article 9 | Article 43 |
| Article 13 | Article 44 |
| Article 14 | Article 45 |
| Article 17 | Article 46 |
| Article 18 | Article 47 |
| Article 19 | Article 48 |
| Article 20 | Article 49 |
| Article 21 | Article 50 |
| Article 22 | Article 51 |
| Article 10 | Article 52 |
| Article 11 | Article 53 |
| — | Article 54 |
| Article 30 | Article 55 |
| Article 31 | Article 56 |
| Article 35 | Article 57 |
| Article 36 | Article 58 |
| Article 37(1) | Article 59(1) |
| Article 37(2) | Article 59(2) |
| Article 37(4) | Article 59(3) |
| — | Article 59(4) |
| Article 37(3) | Article 59(5) |
| Article 37(5) | Article 59(6) |
| Article 37(6) | Article 59(7) |
| Article 37(8) | — |
| Article 37(7) | Article 59(8) |
| — | Article 59(9) |
| Article 37(9) | Article 59(10) |
| Article 37(10) | Article 60(1) |
| Article 37(11) | Article 60(2) |
| Article 37(12) | Article 60(3) |
| Article 37(13) | Article 60(4) |
| Article 37(14) | Article 60(5) |
| Article 37(15) | Article 60(6) |
| Article 37(16) | Article 60(7) |
| Article 37(17) | Article 60(8) |
| Article 38 | Article 61 |
| — | Article 62 |
| Article 39 | Article 63 |
| Article 40 | Article 64 |
| Article 42 | — |
| Article 43 | Article 65 |
| Article 44 | Article 66 |
| Article 45 | — |
| — | Article 67 |
| Article 46 | Article 68 |
| Article 47 | Article 69 |
| — | Article 70 |
| Article 49 | Article 71 |
| Article 48 | Article 72 |
| Article 50 | Article 73 |
| Article 51 | Article 74 |
| — | Annex I, points 1 to 4 |
| Article 3(9) | Annex I. 5 |
| Annex I. 2 | Annex II |
| — | Annex III |
| — | Annex IV |