Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

Price Statistics Department

5 Milana Rakića, Belgrade, Serbia

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: 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.

VAT is fully recoverable for non-households customers.

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

Household customers: Data coming from 1 supplier out of 31 and representing 40% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 1 supplier out of 34 and representing 85% of the final non-household customers.

Republic of Serbia. Starting from 1999 the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has not at disposal and may not provide available certain data relative to Kosovo and Metohia and therefore these data are not included in the coverage for the Republic of Serbia.

Natural gas prices data for Serbia are available since 2013.

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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 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:-

-Official Statistics Law.

- Resolution on the Programme of official statistics.

- Regulation on the Plan of official statistics for the current year.

* The above documents are available at SORS website:  www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/dokumenti

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.

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:

- Official Statistics Law (Official Gazette of RS, number 104/2009), Articles 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, and 49. (www.stat.gov.rs/media/2322/zakon_o_statisticie.pdf)

- Rulebook on statistical data protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (www.stat.gov.rs/media/2343/rulebook-on-statistical-data-protection-in-sors.doc ) 

- Guidelines on measures of data and information protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (www.stat.gov.rs/media/2341/guidelines-on-measures-of-data-and-information-protection-in-the-sors.doc

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

The precise date of data release is disseminated on Eurostat's website (select language and release calendar).

Not aplicable

In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website (see item 10 - 'Accessibility and clarity') respecting professional independence and in an objective, professional and transparent manner in which all users are treated equitably. The detailed arrangements are governed by the Eurostat protocol on impartial access to Eurostat data for users.

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

No national press release related to the data.

No other national publications related to the data.

No national database related to these data.

No national database related to the number of consultations of these data.

No micro data is available for dissemination.

No other ways for disseminating the data.

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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) - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/1952/oj

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No document related to quality exist.

Not applicable

The data are relevant according by European legislation.

The main user is Eurostat. Other users are directed to the Eurostat database.

No special needs for this data have been identify at national level.

On biennial basis (once in two years), by the means of web interview, implemented is the User Satisfaction Survey. The survey results are available at SORS website: http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom.

Completeness according to the relevant European regulations is complete.

Data sets completeness is 100%.

The overal accuracy is monitored by assessing and implementing all the methodological recommendations.
Data checks are realised in the process of data entry and on the outputs. The еrrors are corrected in direct contact with reporting unit.

Sampling error is not measured but considered as negligible.

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

The samples cover all types of household and non-household consumers well.

The over-coverage is cosidered negligible.

Serbia no administrative sources are used, 100% of the data is covered by the survey.

All data are fully controlled. Possible errors are checked and corrected manually.

There is no non-response errror as supplier responded fully to the surveys.

Unit non-response does not exist.

Item non-response does not exist.

Process of calculation is not fully automated. There is a risk of human error.

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Natural gas provider wich participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas prices data within 10 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 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 89 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 92 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd 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 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 89 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 90 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 92 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 90 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 92 days after the reference period.

The first version of the questionnaire is usually also final version.

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

All questionnaires are submitted on time.

The same concepts are used within the whole country. The data are fully comparable on international level.

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The data are comparable throughout the period since we submit data to Eurostat.

The data are comparable from 2013.

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The annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

Total cost and burden are not possible to be calculated.

If necessary, the data is updated with the next upload cycle. The semester 1 data are revised when submitting the semester 2 data for consistency reason between semestrial and annual prices.

The data are final when first released and are not subject to revision.

Households gas prices collection: 0

Non-households gas prices collection: 0

The main method of collecting data is a half-yearly survey on gas prices.

The prices include gas basic price, transmission, system services, distribution and other services.

Gas prices are collected and published considering three level of taxation.

For gas prices: half yearly

For gas price components: yearly

We send a questionnaire in excel format to reporting unit.
Reporting unit is bigest companie which sell gas to final household consumers or non-household consumers.
Companie fill out a form and send it back to us by e-mail.

The staff of the Price Statistics Department performs checking of prices on questionnaires and control of data entry by comparing the data between the current and the previous period. We clarifies all significant changes with reporting units via the telephone and e-mail.

Data are obtained from bigest national supplier.  No special data compilation process is required (ie weighting, imputation, non-response adjustment, calibration, etc.).

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Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.

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