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Centre for Materials and Fuel Energy Market Statistics
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3.1. Data description
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, services, offices, agriculture, 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.
Some of the taxes are refundable. Here is a description of them:
Band
Name of the tax
component in which it is reported
Recoverable portion of the component
I1-I5
Value Added Tax (VAT)
Value Added Tax
Fully recoverable for industrial users
In the table below are the taxes reported in "All other taxes"
Band
Name of the tax
All bands
mainly concession fees relating to licences and fees for occupation of land
3.5. Statistical unit
Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.
3.6. Statistical population
2022:
Household customers: Data coming from 73 suppliers out of 89 and representing 82,02% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 73 suppliers out of 89 and representing 82,02% of the final non-household customers.
2023:
Household customers: Data coming from 66 suppliers out of 75 and representing 88,00% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 66 suppliers out of 75 and representing 88,00% of the non-household customers.
2024:
Household customers: Data coming from 70 suppliers out of 77 and representing 90,90 % of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 70 suppliers out of 77 and representing 90,90 % of the non-household customers.
3.7. Reference area
The reference area is the whole country. There is no regions excluded from the surveys.
3.8. Coverage - Time
Generally natural gas prices data for Poland in form defined by Eurostat are available since 2000. Data collected in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 are available from 2017.
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 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) 2019/823 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:
Annual Regulation of the Council of Ministers regarding Programme of Statistical Surveys of Pubic Statistics: (for 2022) , (for 2023) , (for 2024)
Continuation of the government's Anti-Inflation Shield 2.0 extending, among other things, a 0% VAT reduction on natural gas (for 2022)
ACT of December 15, 2022 on special protection of certain consumers of gaseous fuels in 2023 and 2024 in connection with the gas market situation:(for 2023), (for 2024)
Law of May 23, 2024 on the energy voucher and on amending certain laws to reduce the price of electricity, natural gas and system heat (for 2024)
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.
We don't share data with other organisations
Part of the data is published in: "Energia 2023" - "Energy 2023" (for 2022) , in "Energia 2024" - "Energy 2024" (for 2023) and "Energia 2025" - "Energy 2025" (for 2024)
Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 March 2009 on European statistics and repealing Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1101/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities, Council Regulation (EC) No 322/97 on Community Statistics, and Council Decision 89/382/EEC, Euratom establishing a Committee on the Statistical Programmes of the European Communities
Statistical data obtained in statistical surveys that can be linked and identified as data concerning a specific natural person, as well as information and statistical data characterising economic and financial results of national economy entities conducting economic activity, may not be published nor made available if the given aggregation consists of fewer than three entities or the share of one entity in a given compilation is greater than three-fourths of the whole.
The data shall be used exclusively for statistical calculations, compilations and analyses (statistical confidentiality - Law on official statistics 29th June 1995, art. 10 and art. 38).
Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.
In addition, the new file developed by Eurostat PRICES -GAS-NONHOUSEHOLDS-PL and PRICES -GAS-NONHOUSEHOLDS-PL for prices from S12024 allows the assignment of the “C” flag. This allows us to influence the content and consequences of the exchanged SDMX data and its publication in Eurostat databases.
8.1. Release calendar
Data are available for internal use of the Department of Petroleum and Transport Fuels in the Ministry of Climate and Environment.
Deadlines for the provision of belllow publication (in which data relating to gas prices are published) are sent out in the Ststistical Survey Program of Public Statistics and are submitted to Statistic Poland for inclusion in a calndar posted on Statistic Poland website.
"Energy 2023"-Folder containing basic information on the production and use of fuel, heat and electricity in 2022 in Poland.
"Energy 2024"-Folder containing basic information on the production and use of fuel, heat and electricity in 2023 in Poland.
"Energy 2025"-Folder containing basic information on the production and use of fuel, heat and electricity in 2024 in Poland.
The scope and dates regarding the release of statistics are included in the annual Programme of Statistical Surveyes of Public Statistics: (for 2022) , (for 2023), (for 2024)
There is no quality related documents on national level.
11.1. Quality assurance
Telephone consultations with respondents of statistical surveys.
Development of supplementary information to methodological instruction for statistical surveys.
11.2. Quality management - assessment
Summary data collected in the surveys is of good quality. Data quality has been improved due to the introduction of an additional obligation to report annual data (from 2019).
From 2019, the quality of the semi-annual data improved due to the introduction of a more detailed breakdown of prices into components.
12.1. Relevance - User Needs
The main user of the collected data is Eurostat. We do not take into account the needs of other users.
12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction
We do not have a survey on the level of user satisfaction.
12.3. Completeness
Basically data is complete.
12.3.1. Data completeness - rate
100%
13.1. Accuracy - overall
Generally, we have no random and systematic errors in statistical results.
13.2. Sampling error
Sampling errors are negligible because of the high percentage of the population that is covered by the surveys.
13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators
Negligible
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
Poland is not aware of any coverage error.
13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate
Poland is not aware of any over-coverage error.
13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion
Administrative sources are not used. 100% data is covered by surveys.
13.3.2. Measurement error
Measurement errors may result from the fact, that sometimes respondents have problems with classifying the end user to the appropriate band defined by range of annually consumption.
After analyzing the errors provided by the verification algorithms, problems are solved by phone consultations with reporting units.
In the calculation of S2, there may be adjustments to the S1 period..The data for S1 comes from the data providers (billing system), unfortunately, the data given to us for S1 is sometimes projected by the vendors and adjustments may happen after the full billing is obtained.
13.3.3. Non response error
Frequently respondents have problems:
with classifying the end user to appropriate band defined by range of annual consumption
with separation of taxes
with consistency between annual and semestrial prices.
13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate
2022:
0,180 - this rate concerns units did not deliver any data,
2023:
0,120 - this rate concerns units did not deliver any data,
2024:
0,091 - this rate concerns units did not deliver any data,
13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate
0 - data from units which filled up survey were complete.
13.3.4. Processing error
Errors are eliminated at the level of survey.
13.3.5. Model assumption error
Not applicable.
14.1. Timeliness
For I semester:
Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas price data within 3 weeks after the reference period.
For II semester and whole year:
Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas price data within 4 weeks 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
The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2022 was sent 90 days after the reference period.
The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2022 was sent 88 days after the reference period.
The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 87 days after the reference period.
The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2023 was sent 86 days after the reference period.
The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2024 was sent 88 days after the reference period.
The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-householdsand non-households for the 2nd semester of 2024 was sent 91 days after the reference period.
14.1.2. Time lag - final result
First version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2022 was final version.
First version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2022 was final version.
Final version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 270 days after the reference period, 183 days after the first version and 179 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.
Final version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2023 was sent 452 days after the reference period, 353 days after the first version and 362 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.
Final version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 1st semester of 2024 was sent 275 days after the reference period, 187 days after the first version and 184 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.
First version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2024 was final version.
The time lag for final results happens when a large reporting unit introduces a correction of data (frequently these data was correct from the point of view of verification algorithms).
If a large important unit does it, we decide to recalculate data and send them as next version to Eurostat.
14.2. Punctuality
The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period.
100% of questionnaires (1st version) were delivered on time.
14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication
The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st ad 2nd semester of 2022-2024 were sent on time except 2nd semester 2024 for households and non-hauseholds which was send 2 days after the deadline.
The delay is the time between completion the questionnaire and sending them to Eurostat.
The new version of the form natural gas prices with CSV-SDMX file transfer does not allow simultaneous transfer of multiple data series. As we were sending data for S22024 at the same time updating other periods we received a lot of feedback from EDAMIS (Feedback delivery for ENERGY_PRGAI_S - EN - 2024/2). After e-mail contact with Eurostat, a solution was proposed to put each series ready for transfer in a separate form. The delay was 2 days (eventually the data went through EDAMIS).
15.1. Comparability - geographical
The data is consistent at the country level.
15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient
Not applicable.
15.2. Comparability - over time
Data in subsequent reporting periods are comparable.
15.2.1. Length of comparable time series
The data is comparable.
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 consistent with semi-annual data.
Possible exceptions may result from errors overlooked or not detected by the verification algorithm in surveys delivered.
Cost for production of Statistical data was: 144 302 PLN in 2022 and 160 752 PLN in 2023 and 166 539 PLN in 2024.
The average time load of one respondent of main survey (G-11g) was 1120 min in 2022 and 1263 min in 2023 and 1065 min in 2024.
17.1. Data revision - policy
The semester 1 data are revised when submitting the semester 2 data for consistency reason between semestrial and annual prices.
The collected annual data make it possible to verify the data for the 1st and 2nd semester.
Annual prices calculated as a weighted average of prices derived from the semi-annual reports are compared with the prices reported in the annual report.
17.2. Data revision - practice
Revision data by comparing with data from previous reference period,
Revision data to ensure consistency of annual data with data from both semesters,
Revision data in case of some changes (in source data, in methodology of calculation).
17.2.1. Data revision - average size
Final version (1 revision) of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 1st semester of 2023 was sent 183 days after the first version
Final version (1 revision) of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2023 was sent 353 days after the first version
Final version (1 revision) of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 1st semester of 2024 was sent 187 days after the first version
For other periods final versions was the same as first's.
18.1. Source data
Statistical surveys: G-11g and GAZ-3.
18.2. Frequency of data collection
Annaul, Semiannually, monthly increasing.
18.3. Data collection
On-line survey:
Report on natural gas prices by category of standard and-users form: (for 2023), (for 2024)
Comparing year to year, comparing with data from other sources - for example other questionnaires.
18.5. Data compilation
Weighted average national gas prices are calculated, using the market shares of gas suppliers surveyed, as weighting factors.
18.5.1. Imputation - rate
Not applicable.
18.6. Adjustment
Not applicable.
18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment
Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.
European statistics on natural gas prices for household and final non-household customers.
26 June 2025
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.
Some of the taxes are refundable. Here is a description of them:
Band
Name of the tax
component in which it is reported
Recoverable portion of the component
I1-I5
Value Added Tax (VAT)
Value Added Tax
Fully recoverable for industrial users
In the table below are the taxes reported in "All other taxes"
Band
Name of the tax
All bands
mainly concession fees relating to licences and fees for occupation of land
Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.
2022:
Household customers: Data coming from 73 suppliers out of 89 and representing 82,02% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 73 suppliers out of 89 and representing 82,02% of the final non-household customers.
2023:
Household customers: Data coming from 66 suppliers out of 75 and representing 88,00% of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 66 suppliers out of 75 and representing 88,00% of the non-household customers.
2024:
Household customers: Data coming from 70 suppliers out of 77 and representing 90,90 % of the household customers.
Final non-household customers: Data coming from 70 suppliers out of 77 and representing 90,90 % of the non-household customers.
The reference area is the whole country. There is no regions excluded from the surveys.
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).
Generally, we have no random and systematic errors in statistical results.
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.
Weighted average national gas prices are calculated, using the market shares of gas suppliers surveyed, as weighting factors.
Statistical surveys: G-11g and GAZ-3.
Natural gas prices in Poland are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website and in annual publication (folder).
For I semester:
Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas price data within 3 weeks after the reference period.
For II semester and whole year:
Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas price data within 4 weeks 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 data is consistent at the country level.
Data in subsequent reporting periods are comparable.
