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European statistics on natural gas prices for household and final non-household customers.
3.2. Classification system
Internal Eurostat classification system based on annual natural gas consumption bands and tax levels.
3.3. Coverage - sector
Household sector and final non-household sector (industry, etc).
3.4. Statistical concepts and definitions
The prices are collected in national currencies per GJ and according to different bands of consumption.
For the households sector, these bands are:
D1: Customers consuming less than 20 GJ.
D2: Customers consuming 20 GJ or more but less than 200 GJ.
D3: Customers consuming 200 GJ or more.
For the final non-households sector, the bands are:
I1: Customers consuming less than 1000 GJ.
I2: Customers consuming 1000 GJ or more but less than 10000 GJ.
I3: Customers consuming 10000 GJ or more but less than 100000 GJ.
I4: Customers consuming 100000 GJ or more but less than 1000000 GJ.
I5: Customers consuming 1000000 GJ or more but less than 4000000 GJ.
I6: Customers consuming 4000000 GJ or more.
There exist 2 different levels of disagregation for semestrial and annual prices:
1- Semestrial prices:
These prices are reported twice a year and are divided in 3 levels:
Level 1 prices: Prices excluding taxes and levies.
Level 2 prices: Prices excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes and levies.
Level 3 prices: Prices including all taxes and levies.
2- Annual prices:
These prices are reported once a year together with the data for the second semester and are divided into the following components and taxes:
Energy and supply: 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.
Network cost: transmission and distribution tariffs, transmission and distribution losses, network costs, after-sale service costs, system service costs and meter rental and metering costs.
Value added taxes (VAT): as defined in Council Directive 2006/112/EC.
Renewable taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and CHP generation.
Capacity taxes: 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.
Environmental taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to air quality and for other environmental purposes; taxes on emissions of CO2 or other greenhouse gases. This component includes the excise duties.
All other taxes: 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.
In addition to these elements, the network cost is split into the respective shares of transmission and distribution. The relative share of consumption in the different consumption bands is reported by the countries and used to calculated the single national natural gas prices (weighted averages for consumer bands IA-IF and DA-DE) but not published because it could be used to re-calculate some confidential values.
There aren't refundable taxes.
There isn't any state subsidy scheme that is in place.
3.5. Statistical unit
Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.
3.6. Statistical population
Household customers: Data coming from 1 (one) suppliers out of 1 and representing 100 % of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 1 suppliers and representing 100% of the final non-household customers.
3.7. Reference area
Whole country (Albania)
3.8. Coverage - Time
Natural gas prices data for North Macedonia are available since 2007
3.9. Base period
Not applicable.
Prices are reported in national currency per GJ. However, Eurostat also calculates and publishes the prices in EURO and PPS (purchasing power parity) and do the conversion to kWh. Relative shares of sub-component of the network component and consumption volumes are reported in percentages.
For semestrial prices, the reference periods are from January to June for semester 1 and from July to December for semester 2.
For annual prices, the reference period is the whole calendar year (from January to December).
6.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements
At EU level:
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 (Text with EEA relevance).
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2169 of 21 November 2017 concerning the format and arrangements for the transmission of European Statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/803 concerning the content of quality reports on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).
At national level:
Law on state statistics of Albania.
Five-Year Statistical Programme, 2022-2026.
6.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing
At EU level:
Eurostat does not share the data collected with other organisation appart from its usual dissemination chanel (Eurostat's database, statistic explained articles and press or news release) .
At national level:
Data is shared with Statistic Energy Sector, National Agency of Natural Resources (NANR) (based on Degree of Government of Albania for NANR)
Data is sent to INSTAT and after EUROSTAT.
Data is shared with other organizations (IEA, UN and Energy Community)
7.1. Confidentiality - policy
At EU level:
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 March 2009, on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities.
At national level:
Albania Natuinal Statisic Law.
7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment
Published data should not allow identification of single consumers. The method applied to confidential data on a national level is cell suppression (instead of number the cell contains z). For the reporting to Eurostat confidential data are flagged with c.
8.1. Release calendar
Statistical results and services are available free of charge, in the same way they are accessible to every user and are published according to a pre-announced release calendar. They are also available in English. Data are published on Energy Regulatory Entity's website and INSTAT database on T+2 months basis every quarter. Half yearly data are published in March and September, along with quarterly data. In March annual data are also published. Release calendar is released at the end of every year for the next reporting year and is publicly available on ERE's website.
8.2. Release calendar access
Release calendar is available via the following website: (Ere gov).
8.3. Release policy - user access
All data that are published in Energy Regulatory Entity (ERE) are available on ERE's web site, as publications, news releases, etc,
Gas prices in Albania are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website.
Data is also published in:
ERE portal- annualy, half-yearly and quarerly level.
IEA - quraterly and annual level.
10.1. Dissemination format - News release
First Releases are published on a ERE’s website according to a pre-announced release calendar and at the same time data are published in a publicly accessible data base (INSTAT database).
10.2. Dissemination format - Publications
Data is also disseminated (published) in annual national Energy statistical publications:
Annually printed ERE's publication, available also online in PDF format).
Published in non-statistical publications:
Annual Energy Balance Statistical in Albania (The National Agency of Natural Resources).
Methodological explanation for the news release: Electricity and natural gas prices.
Available on web site of Energy Regulatory Entity of Albania.
10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate
Not applicable.
10.7. Quality management - documentation
Annual quality report for the survey in Albania.
11.1. Quality assurance
The quality of the processes and products in the INSTAT is ensured by adhering to the European Statistics Code of Practice and the Quality Assurance Framework within the European Statistical System. The quality criteria are also determined in the Law on State Statistics.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
The current statistical outputs are estimated as optimal. Data collecting, processing and the dissemination process are verified. No quality improvements are planned in the near future.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
Wide variaty of users, we don't have specific information.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
Ser satisfaction surveys are being carried out on an institutional level and not for certain survey.
12.3. Completeness
All produced data are harmonized with 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.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
Data are sent regularly to Eurostat. This rate is not calculated by NANR.
13.1. Accuracy - overall
The survey methodology and the data collection method ensure good coverage and accuracy of the data.
13.2. Sampling error
Not aplicable.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Not aplicable.
13.3. Non-sampling error
Information is included in the sub-concepts S.13.3.1-S.13.3.5.
13.3.1. Coverage error
There is no coverage error.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate
In accordance with 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 is not foreseen calculation of this indicator.
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion
100% of the data is covered by the survey.
13.3.2. Measurement error
Data are collected from web platphorme on total target popilation, there aren't noticed any measurement errors.
13.3.3. Non response error
Not aplicable. Coverage is 100%.
13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate
Not aplicable. Coverage is 100%.
13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate
There is no coverage error.
13.3.4. Processing error
During procesing of data an analysis is performered with final goal to avoid any processing error.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not Applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas price data within 2 Months after the reference period. After arrival, the statistical office checks the micro-data for correctness, consistency and completeness and national averages are calculated and reported to Eurostat during the third month after the reference period.
14.1.1. Time lag - first result
Natural gas prices are published only as final data.
14.1.2. Time lag - final result
Natural gas prices are published 90 days after referent period in accordance with Regulation on electricty and natural gas prices.
14.2. Punctuality
Gas prices are published on ERE'web site, prepare questionnaire by NANR and its INSTAT database as final data and reported to Eurostat by end of third months after the reference period.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
All data have been submitted on time.
15.1. Comparability - geographical
Gas data are processed in accordance with Regulation on national level and we do not expect any discrepancies with data when geographically compared.
15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient
Not applicable.
15.2. Comparability - over time
There have been no changes.
15.2.1. Length of comparable time series
Half-yearly data, (time series since 2nd semester of 2018) reported to Eurostat are fully comparable with no breaks in time series. No changes were made in the underlying statistical process in that period of time.
15.3. Coherence - cross domain
Not applicable.
15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics
Not applicable.
15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts
Not applicable.
15.4. Coherence - internal
Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.
Electricity and Natural gas data are collected and processed in Energy Regulatory Entity. Data are published by INSTAT, questionnaire prepare by NANR. Collection of data in Regulatory body is done via web platform where all surveys are presented for the purposes of Regulatory body and survey for electricity and natural gas prices. Calculation of costs for production and burden on respondents is not performed.
17.1. Data revision - policy
Data on Gas prices are considered as final when reported and published. There are no planned revisions.
17.2. Data revision - practice
Electricity and Natural gas data are published as final data, so, it is not envisaged revision of data.
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Households gas prices collection: 0.
Non-households gas prices collection: 0.
18.1. Source data
Data source is admninistrative database (Regulatory Energy Entity). Data are received in agregated form via e-mail.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Semestrial.
18.3. Data collection
Data are being collected in admininistrative database (online form). Data are being reported to ERE by the admininistrative database operator via e-mail in aggregated form.
18.4. Data validation
Data are collected on total population, analyze for received data are done based on expected data, historical data and any other comaprission that could be performed.
18.5. Data compilation
There is no use of imputation, whole data are received from respondent units.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate
Not applicable
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment
Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.
No further comments.
European statistics on natural gas prices for household and final non-household customers.
7 October 2024
The prices are collected in national currencies per GJ and according to different bands of consumption.
For the households sector, these bands are:
D1: Customers consuming less than 20 GJ.
D2: Customers consuming 20 GJ or more but less than 200 GJ.
D3: Customers consuming 200 GJ or more.
For the final non-households sector, the bands are:
I1: Customers consuming less than 1000 GJ.
I2: Customers consuming 1000 GJ or more but less than 10000 GJ.
I3: Customers consuming 10000 GJ or more but less than 100000 GJ.
I4: Customers consuming 100000 GJ or more but less than 1000000 GJ.
I5: Customers consuming 1000000 GJ or more but less than 4000000 GJ.
I6: Customers consuming 4000000 GJ or more.
There exist 2 different levels of disagregation for semestrial and annual prices:
1- Semestrial prices:
These prices are reported twice a year and are divided in 3 levels:
Level 1 prices: Prices excluding taxes and levies.
Level 2 prices: Prices excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes and levies.
Level 3 prices: Prices including all taxes and levies.
2- Annual prices:
These prices are reported once a year together with the data for the second semester and are divided into the following components and taxes:
Energy and supply: 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.
Network cost: transmission and distribution tariffs, transmission and distribution losses, network costs, after-sale service costs, system service costs and meter rental and metering costs.
Value added taxes (VAT): as defined in Council Directive 2006/112/EC.
Renewable taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and CHP generation.
Capacity taxes: 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.
Environmental taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to air quality and for other environmental purposes; taxes on emissions of CO2 or other greenhouse gases. This component includes the excise duties.
All other taxes: 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.
In addition to these elements, the network cost is split into the respective shares of transmission and distribution. The relative share of consumption in the different consumption bands is reported by the countries and used to calculated the single national natural gas prices (weighted averages for consumer bands IA-IF and DA-DE) but not published because it could be used to re-calculate some confidential values.
There aren't refundable taxes.
There isn't any state subsidy scheme that is in place.
Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.
Household customers: Data coming from 1 (one) suppliers out of 1 and representing 100 % of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 1 suppliers and representing 100% of the final non-household customers.
Whole country (Albania)
For semestrial prices, the reference periods are from January to June for semester 1 and from July to December for semester 2.
For annual prices, the reference period is the whole calendar year (from January to December).
The survey methodology and the data collection method ensure good coverage and accuracy of the data.
Prices are reported in national currency per GJ. However, Eurostat also calculates and publishes the prices in EURO and PPS (purchasing power parity) and do the conversion to kWh. Relative shares of sub-component of the network component and consumption volumes are reported in percentages.
There is no use of imputation, whole data are received from respondent units.
Data source is admninistrative database (Regulatory Energy Entity). Data are received in agregated form via e-mail.
Gas prices in Albania are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website.
Data is also published in:
ERE portal- annualy, half-yearly and quarerly level.
IEA - quraterly and annual level.
Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas price data within 2 Months after the reference period. After arrival, the statistical office checks the micro-data for correctness, consistency and completeness and national averages are calculated and reported to Eurostat during the third month after the reference period.
Gas data are processed in accordance with Regulation on national level and we do not expect any discrepancies with data when geographically compared.
