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1.1. Contact organisation | Hungarian Energy and Public-utility Regulatory Authority |
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1.2. Contact organisation unit | Department of Analysis and Statistics |
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1.5. Contact mail address | Hungary 1388 Budapest, Pf. 88 |
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2.1. Metadata last certified | 22/07/2022 | ||
2.2. Metadata last posted | 15/06/2022 | ||
2.3. Metadata last update | 15/06/2022 |
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3.1. Data description | |||
European statistics on natural gas prices for household and final non-household customers. |
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3.2. Classification system | |||
Internal Eurostat classification system based on annual natural gas consumption bands and tax levels. |
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3.3. Coverage - sector | |||
Household sector and final non-household sector (industry, services, offices, agriculture, etc). |
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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. For the final non-households sector, the bands are: I1: Customers consuming less than 1000 GJ. There exist 2 different levels of disagregation for semestrial and annual prices: Semestrial prices: These prices are reported twice a year and are divided in 3 levels: Level 1 prices: Prices excluding taxes and levies. 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 CO2or 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 I1-I6 and D1-D3 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: I1-I6 VAT Value added taxes (VAT) 100% |
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3.5. Statistical unit | |||
Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands. |
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3.6. Statistical population | |||
Household customers: Data coming from 4 suppliers out of 4 and representing 100% of the household customers. Final non-household customers: Data coming from 24 suppliers out of 24 and representing 100% of the final non-household customers. |
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3.7. Reference area | |||
National Territory |
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3.8. Coverage - Time | |||
Natural gas prices data for Hungary are available since 1992. |
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3.9. Base period | |||
Not applicable. |
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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. |
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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 aperiod is the whole calendar year (from January to December). |
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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). At national level: https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z 11/2017. decree of the Hungarian Energy and Public-utility Regulatory Authority’s President on the data reporting obligations of Hungarian Energy and Public-utility Regulatory Authority’s licensees |
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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 sent to eurostat. |
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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: https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2011-112-00-00 Act CXII of 2011 on Informational Self-determination and Freedom of Information |
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7.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |||
Published data should not allow identification of single consumers. |
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8.1. Release calendar | |||
No release calendar is published. |
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8.2. Release calendar access | |||
There is no calendar. |
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8.3. Release policy - user access | |||
Not published |
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Natural gas prices in Hungary are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website. |
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10.1. Dissemination format - News release | |||
On an ad-hoc basis |
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10.2. Dissemination format - Publications | |||
Data of the Hungarian natural gas system – annual publication |
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10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |||
There is no online database, data are available at Eurostat website. |
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10.3.1. Data tables - consultations | |||
Not applicable. |
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10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |||
We don't give access to microdata. |
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10.5. Dissemination format - other | |||
No other ways for disseminating the data. |
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10.5.1. Metadata - consultations | |||
Not applicable |
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10.6. Documentation on methodology | |||
Internal national documenation: these documents contain the approved methodology for the reports, which is in line with EUROSTAT guidelines,as well as the approved explanatory texts for the actual reports, guiding the data providers. These documents did not change since 2014, as the changes of the EUROSTAT guidelines in 2017 only changed the compilaton methods of the Authority. Eurostat Guidelines. |
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10.6.1. Metadata completeness - rate | |||
Not assessed. |
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10.7. Quality management - documentation | |||
Partially available for internal users |
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11.1. Quality assurance | |||
No formal QA system in place. |
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11.2. Quality management - assessment | |||
The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees, which provide high quality outputs. There was a complete methodology supervision in 2013, since then the forms have guidelines for completing. This guidelines were discussed with the data suppliers. |
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12.1. Relevance - User Needs | |||
There are several users of this output, including the governance, general public, the different departments of HEA (market monitoring, analysis purposes), different stakeholders of the electricity markets and non-household users. The most important aspect for them is the comparability (geographical and over time). |
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12.2. Relevance - User Satisfaction | |||
We don't have any method in place for measuring the satisfaction of the users. |
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12.3. Completeness | |||
The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees. |
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12.3.1. Data completeness - rate | |||
100% |
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13.1. Accuracy - overall | |||
The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees, which provide high quality outputs, however random errors can occure. Most common issue is the misinterpretation of the measurements (data imputed in MJ/TJ instead of GJ, HUF instead of thousand HUF, etc…) A price element is not reported, and no valid reason is given for the omission of said price element. Timeline analysis shows, that a given trader/universal service provider/DSO/TSO did not report an element that they reported before (missing value). |
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13.2. Sampling error | |||
None, using full-scale administrative data |
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13.2.1. Sampling error - indicators | |||
None, using full-scale administrative data |
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13.3. Non-sampling error | |||
Information is included in the sub-concepts S.13.3.1-S.13.3.5. |
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13.3.1. Coverage error | |||
None, using full-scale administrative data without systematic non-response. |
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13.3.1.1. Over-coverage - rate | |||
No information about over-coverage. |
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13.3.1.2. Common units - proportion | |||
Using full-scale administrative data. |
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13.3.2. Measurement error | |||
Erroneous reporting, reporting wrong units. To prevent errors, HEA communicate with data providers, make guidance for completing. The random errors detected through validation. |
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13.3.3. Non response error | |||
No systematic non response error, all data is available by the time the report is produced. |
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13.3.3.1. Unit non-response - rate | |||
No systematic non response error, all data is available by the time the report is produced. |
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13.3.3.2. Item non-response - rate | |||
No systematic non response error, all data is available by the time the report is produced. |
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13.3.4. Processing error | |||
No known systematic processing error. |
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13.3.5. Model assumption error | |||
Not Applicable. |
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14.1. Timeliness | |||
Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the (monthly) natural gas price data within [30 days] after the reference period. After arrival, the HEA 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. |
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14.1.1. Time lag - first result | |||
The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent in time. The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent in time. The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent in time. The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent in time. |
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14.1.2. Time lag - final result | |||
All data were submitted on time. |
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14.2. Punctuality | |||
The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period. |
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14.2.1. Punctuality - delivery and publication | |||
All data were submitted on time. |
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15.1. Comparability - geographical | |||
The reference area is Hungary, and there is no problem of comparability between regions, data collections have the same reference area. The storage system usage fees are reported under [network costs], as In Hungary, the usage of the storages are considered as a network usage fee. |
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15.1.1. Asymmetry for mirror flow statistics - coefficient | |||
Not applicable |
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15.2. Comparability - over time | |||
The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees, which provide high quality outputs. There was a complete methodology supervision in 2013, since then the forms have guidelines for completing. This guidelines were discussed with the data suppliers. |
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15.2.1. Length of comparable time series | |||
18 semesters by the date of the publication |
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15.3. Coherence - cross domain | |||
Not applicable |
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15.3.1. Coherence - sub annual and annual statistics | |||
Not applicable |
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15.3.2. Coherence - National Accounts | |||
Not applicable |
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15.4. Coherence - internal | |||
Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices. |
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Not assessed, it is not a significant cost for HEA. The current method is the best solution to reach high quality data, but minimalize burden of the respondents. The current respondents register the collected data in their system for business purposes, therefore data collection implies only limited additional costs. |
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17.1. Data revision - policy | |||
There is no systematic revision, if needed, data is updated with the next upload cycle. |
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |||
The HEA collects full-scale administrative data from its licensees, which provide high quality outputs. There was a complete methodology supervision in 2013, since then the forms have guidelines for completing. This guidelines were discussed with the data suppliers. So, there are 2 time series, which are partially comparable: - before 2013 (not validated data) - 2013-2022 (fixed methodology) The settlements between the participants of the electricity market can be done up to after two months of the reference period, they can initiate self-revision on their reports. The provided data is used several parts of HEA, more colleagues check the data and that is why the clarification takes time. In every reporting period HEA check the previous data sets if there is any changes and updates the reports. |
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17.2.1. Data revision - average size | |||
Households gas prices collection: 0.000657412 Non-households gas prices collection: 0.021910519 |
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18.1. Source data | |||
Sources are of administrative reports as followed (natural gas) G630 Natural gas trading licensees sales to end-users by category, population: 42/42 (all natural gas traders that have a license to supply end-users) G730 Universal natural gas service provider licensees sales to end-users by category, population: 1/1 (all universal natural gas service providers that have a license to supply end-users) G541 The settlement of invoiced natural gas distribution fees of the partners obliged to pay said fee, population 11/11, all natural gas DSOs G441 The settlement of invoiced natural gas transmission fees of the partners obliged to pay said fee, population: 1/1, all TSOs |
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18.2. Frequency of data collection | |||
Monthly |
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18.3. Data collection | |||
Data collection is organized through the Authority’s data collector system called EIA. The reports are designed in Excel and tested by other colleagues. Some data collections made by connected servers automatically. There is 0% non response rate. The questionnaires can be found here: TSO (G441): https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 19 DSO (G541): https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 20 Natural gas traders (G630): https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 23 Universal service providers (G730): https://njt.hu/jogszabaly/2017-11-20-5Z appendix 25 |
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18.4. Data validation | |||
Comparison to T-1 and T-2 data Timeline analysis Outlier detection Investigating inconsistencies in the statistics Reconciliation of the statistics with other relevant data sources (e.g. organised electricity market prices) |
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18.5. Data compilation | |||
Aggregation of the reports. |
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18.5.1. Imputation - rate | |||
0 % |
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18.6. Adjustment | |||
None |
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18.6.1. Seasonal adjustment | |||
Seasonable adjustments are not carried out. |
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The storage system usage fees are reported under [network costs], as In Hungary, the use of the storages are considered as a network usage fee. |
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