Statistics Lithuania (SL)

Price Statistics Division

29 Gedimino Ave., LT-01500 Vilnius, Lithuania

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.

Some of the taxes are refundable. Here is a description of them: 

In the table below are the taxes reported in "All other taxes":

In the table below are the taxes reported in "environmental taxes":

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

Household customers: data coming from 1 suppliers out of 2 and representing about 99% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: data coming from 2 suppliers out of 5 main suppliers and representing about 90% of the final non-household customers.

The whole country

Natural gas prices data for Lithuania are available since 2003. 

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) 2019/803 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).

There is no national legislation

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 and Internationa Energy Agency.

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 on Official Statistics.

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers. Confidential data are not published.

In the process of statistical data collection, processing and analysis and dissemination of statistical information, Statistics Lithuania fully guarantees the confidentiality of the data submitted by respondents (households, enterprises, institutions, organisations and other statistical units), as defined in the Confidentiality Policy Guidelines of Statistics Lithuania.

The State Data Governance Information System Data Security Regulations and Rules for the Secure Management of Electronic Information in the State Data Governance Information System, approved by Order No DĮ-202 of 27 August 2021 of the Director General of Statistics Lithuania.

Statistical information is published in accordance with an Official Statistics Calendar.

Official Statistics Calendar

Statistical information is published on the Official Statistics Portal according to an Official Statistics Calendar, following the Official Statistics Dissemination Policy Guidelines and Statistical Information Preparation and Dissemination Rules. The data are released simultaneously to all interested parties.

Natural gas prices in Lithuania are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website and on Nationnal Official Statistics Portal.

Lithuania does not publish any news release.

Lithuania does not publish any publications.

Database of Indicators (Economy and finance -> Price indices and prices -> Natural gas prices)

Lithuania does not record the number of views on the online database.

Microdata are available and provided for scientific purposes according to the provisions set in the Description of Procedures for the Provision of Confidential Statistical Data for Scientific Purposes. More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, at Data for scientific purposes.

Public data files: users are also provided with opportunity to access public files with statistical data on observation units. More information is available on the Official Statistics Portal, at Public data files.

There is no other ways of dissemination.

Not applicable.

The statistical survey on gas prices is based on the Directive 2008/92EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 concerning Community procedure to improve the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users (recast).

A complete description of the methodology used to compile the Natural gas prices is published on the Official Statistics Portal:Methodological documentation (only in Lithuanian).

73.1 per cent.

Lithuania does not have any documentation on the datasets.

The quality of statistical information and its production process is ensured by the provisions of the European Statistics Code of Practice and ESS Quality Assurance Framework. 

In 2007, a quality management system, conforming to the requirements of the international quality management system standard ISO 9001, was introduced at Statistics Lithuania. The main trends in activity of Statistics Lithuania aimed at quality management and continuous development in the institution are established in the Quality Policy. Monitoring of the quality indicators of statistical processes and their results and self-evaluation of statistical survey managers is regularly carried out in order to identify the areas which need improvement and to promptly eliminate the shortcomings.

Statistical data on average natural gas prices for end-users are compiled in accordance with the requirements set in Regulation (EU) 2016/1952. To assess statistical survey quality, a self-assessment of the survey leader and statistical questionnaire control testing is performed regularly.

The publication of average gas prices for end-users helps to ensure the transparency of information on gas prices. The main users of statistical information are the European Commission, national authorities, enterprises, International Energy Agency, other international organisations.

From 2005, user opinion surveys have been conducted on a regular basis. Official Statistics Portal traffic is monitored, website visitor opinion polls, general opinion poll on the products and services of Statistics Lithuania, target user group opinion polls and other surveys are conducted. In 2007, the compilation of a user satisfaction index was launched. The said surveys are aimed at the assessment of the overall demand for and necessity of statistical information in general and specific statistical indicators in particular.

For more information on user surveys and their results, see section User surveys on the Statistics Lithuania website (only in Lithuanian).

Statistical information on 1 GJ gas prices for end-users– enterprises and households – for the reference calendar half-year is calculated and presented according to standard consumer groups at the national level.

100 per cent of information produced in accordance with the Official Statistics Programme  (only in Lithuanian) is published.

Due to the high percentage of the population represented by the suppliers responding to the surveys and the absence of errors, the accuracy of the data is deemed very high.

Due to the high percentage of the population represented, the error is considered minimum.

Negligible

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

Lithuania is not aware of any coverage issues in the samples

Lithuania is not aware of any over-coverage issues in the samples

100% of the data is covered by the survey.

No measurement errors were found. The questionnaire was tested with the respondents to avoid any programmig mistakes.

All respondents included in the statistical survey reported on-time and provided all the required statics data and information. This was achieved through collaboration with respondents, and a working group was set up to implement the provisions of the new regulation, which included experts from key reporting companies.

The response rate is 100 per cent.

Respondents provide all required data. 

No processing errors were found. Statistics Lithuania consults on final aggregates with National Commision for Energy Control and Prices.

Not applicable.

Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas price data within 1 month and 15 days 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 92 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 91 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 92 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 76 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 78 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 66 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 92 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 91 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 92 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 76 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 78 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 66 days after the reference period.

First results are final.

The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period. All questionnaires are delivered on time.

Statistical information is published in accordance with an Official Statistics Calendar. In case of delay, users are notified in advance by indicating the reason and a new date of publication.

Percentage of statistical information released on time is 100 per cent.

There are no issue in the comparability between countries / regions.

Not applicable

Since 1 January 2008

Natural gas prices as of January 1 and July 1 for medium and large users – from 1 January 2003 to 1 January 2008, for small users – from 1 January 2004 to 1 January 2008. Average natural gas prices for the reference calendar half-year by all standard consumer groups – from 1 January 2008.

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

Time spent by respondents on the filling in of questionnaire KA-06 makes, on average, 4 hours 20 min.

In 2021 the costs of the NSI where 197 hours per year, burden of respondents - 16 hours and 40 min per year.

Statistics Lithuania’s revision policy is provided in the document General Principles behind the Performance, Analysis and Announcement of Revisions of Statistical Indicators.

The results published are final and not revised later.

Households gas prices collection: 0.00133633

Non-households gas prices collection: 0.000350263

The main statistical data source – statistical data on natural gas prices (statistical questionnaire on enterprises supplying natural gas to households and final non-household consumers KA-06 (biannual).

Respondents submit the filled-in statistical questionnaire on a biannual basis: by August 15 – for the first half-year of the reference year, by February 15 – for the second half-year of the previous year.

Statistical data are provided in a statistical questionnaire KA-06. Reporting methods: electronic statistical data preparation and transfer system e-Statistics, e-mail.

The statistical data on natural gas prices collected are compared with statistical data from the previous period and respective period of the previous year; reasons for price changes are analysed. Questionable prices and reasons for their changes are clarified with the responsible company personnel.

Average natural gas prices for household consumers are provided according to three, for non-household consumers – according to six consumer groups. Each natural gas consumer group is defined in relation to the lowest and the highest amount of natural gas consumed per year. The arithmetic weighted mean formula is used to calculate the average natural gas price for each consumer group; natural gas consumption in GJ during the reference calendar half-year is used as weights.

The average 1 GJ natural gas price expressed in national currency is calculated: price excluding taxes, fees, levies and charges; price excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes; price including all taxes, fees, levies and charges.  

Imputations are not performed.

Adjustments are not performed.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.

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