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European statistics on natural gas prices for household and final non-household customers.

Internal Eurostat classification system based on annual natural gas consumption bands and tax levels.

Household sector and final non-household sector (industry, services, offices, agriculture, etc).

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: meaning that generation, aggregation, balancing energy, supplied energy costs, customer services, after-sales management and other supply costs.
• Network cost: it refers to 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): Gas is subject to a reduce VAT rate (8%).
• Renewable taxes: Nothing to be reported at the moment
• Capacity taxes: Nothing to be reported at the moment
• Environmental taxes: it corresponds only to CO2 tax (entered into force in Luxembourg only in 2021)
• Nuclear taxes: Not applicable for Luxembourg
• All other taxes: it is a residual category covering all othes excises

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 used to calculated the single national electricity prices (weighted averages for consumer bands D1:D3 and I1:I6) and published. Confidentially issues apply to the consumption share for the bands I4 and I5, as result they are not disseminated.

VAT (TVA) for gas is refunded at 100% for purchases for commercial purposes in Luxembourg for the industrial sector (I1:I6).

Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.

Household customers: Data coming from five suppliers out of five and representing 100% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from six suppliers out of six and representing 100% of the final non-household customers.

Luxembourg

Natural gas prices data for Luxembourg are available since 2008.

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).

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 Decision (EU) 2018/1734 of 14 November 2018 granting derogations to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Spain, the Italian Republic and the Republic of Cyprus as regards the provision of statistics pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (notified under document C(2018) 7465) (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/XXXX (in progress) 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 of 10 juillet 2011 presenting STATEC and its missions. This law specifies, at art 13, the legal obligation to reply to STATEC surveys.

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 sent to eurostat.
• Aggregated data is sent to IEA
  

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:

• Law of 10 juillet 2011 presenting STATEC and its missions. This law specifies, at art 17, the principe of statistical confidentiality

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

Data is considered as confidential if:

• there is less than 4 suppliers for the band
• one supplier represents more than 75% of the market of the band

A release calendar is not available at STATEC but the price data are regularly disseminetd at an aggragated level just after the validation on the STATEC website.

no release calendar

no release policy

Natural gas prices in Luxembourg are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website.

Electricity prices in Luxembourg are published on a semestrial basis on Offical statistics portal: Natural gas market (reference table DF_A4501)

no press release

no specific publication

Data is available on Official statistics portal

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microdata are not accessible

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no documentation

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no quality report

no quality assurance framework for these statistics

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These statistics fullfill all EU legal requirements

The ratio of the number of data cells provided to the number of data cells required= 100%.

Everything is reported for Luxembourg

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Information is included in the sub-concepts S.13.3.1-S.13.3.5.

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100% of the data is covered by the survey

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Not Applicable.

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.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 91 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 91 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 92 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 91 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 91 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 92 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

Version 2 of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2017 was sent 100 days after the reference period, 9 days after the first version and 9 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

Version 2 of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2017 was sent 100 days after the reference period, 9 days after the first version and 9 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period.

All deadlines were respected.

no issue

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no break

20 periods without break

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Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

not estimated

Data revision policy foresees a revision of data when needed.

Revisions are applied in case of calculation errors or revision of the methodology

All the 2nd semester questionnaires from 2019 to 2021 were revised in 2022 due to a change of methodology.

Indeed, “the category environmental taxes now corresponds only to Co2 tax (entered into force in Luxembourg only in 2021) and all others taxes belong to the residual category. This change helps to better monitor the impact of this new tax on price statistics. For consistency reasons with the historical data, this revision applies to the gas annual questionnaires from 2017 to 2020.”

Households gas prices collection: 0

Non-households gas prices collection: 0

Suppliers survey

semestrial survey

exhaustive survey carried out by email and postal format

Verifications are carried out on basic data.

Data is compared to thresholds.

Variability with data reported during the previous campaign is checked

average prices are weigthed by volume for each band

no imputation

no adjustment

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.

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