Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

Price Statistics Department

5 Milana Rakića, Belgrade, Serbia

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

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

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

The prices are reported in national currencies per kWh and according to different bands of consumption.

For the household sector, these bands are:

• DA: customers consuming less than 1000 kWh.
• DB: customers consuming 1000 kWh or more but less than 2500 kWh.
• DC: customers consuming 2500 kWh or more but less than 5000 kWh.
• DD: customers consuming 5000 kWh or more but less than 15000 kWh.
• DE: customers consuming 15000 kWh or more.

For the final non-household sector, the bands are:

• IA: customers consuming less than 20 MWh.
• IB: customers consuming 20 MWh or more but less than 500 MWh.
• IC: customers consuming 500 MWh or more but less than 2000 MWh.
• ID: customers consuming 2000 MWh or more but less than 20000 MWh.
• IE: customers consuming 20000 MWh or more but less than 70000 MWh.
• IF: customers consuming 70000 MWh or more but less than 150000 MWh.
• IG: customers consuming 150000 MWh 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: generation, aggregation, balancing energy, supplied energy costs, customer services, after-sales management and other supply costs.
• 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 capacity payments, energy security and generation adequacy; taxes on coal industry restructuring; taxes on electricity 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.
• Nuclear taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the nuclear sector, including nuclear decommissioning, inspections and fees for nuclear installations.
• All other taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges not covered by any of the previous five 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 electricity prices (weighted averages for consumer bands IA-IG and DA-DE).

VAT is fully recoverable for non-households customers.

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

Household customers: Data coming from 1 suppliers out of 11 and representing 100% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 1 suppliers out of 11 and representing 97% 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.

Electricity prices data for Serbia are available since 2013.

Not applicable.

Prices are reported in national currency per kWh. However, Eurostat also calculates and publishes the prices in EURO and PPS (purchasing power parity).
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 Еurostat.

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 applicable

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.

Electricity 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.

Not available.

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

Not available.

No document related to quality exist.

The SORS quality management system is relied on the Serbian official statistics mission and vision, as well as on the European Statistics Code of Practice – CoP and the Total Quality Management – TQM principles, which together make the common quality framework of the European Statistical System (ESS).

For more information, please see the documents at http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom.

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 units.

Sampling error is not measured because a high percentage of the population is represented and considered as negligible.

Not applicable

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

Since to the high percentage of the covered population, all types of units are well represented.

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 all suppliers 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.

Not applicable.

Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price 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 electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

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

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

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

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 92 days after the reference period.

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

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

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

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

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

The first version of the electricity 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.

Not applicable

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.

Household electricty prices collection: 0

Non-household electricity prices collection: 0

The main method of collecting data is a half-yearly survey on electricity prices. The prices include electricity basic price, transmission, system services, distribution and other services.

For electricity prices: half yearly

For electricity price components: yearly

We send a questionnaire in excel format to reporting units.
Reporting units are companies which sell electricity to final household consumers or non-household consumers.
They 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. Electricity prices are also compared between different reporting units in the same period. We clarifies all significant changes with reporting units via the telephone and e-mail.

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

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.

None.