Statistics Poland

Enterprises Department

00-950 Warszawa, Aleja Niepodleglosci 208

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"

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

2019:

Household customers: Data coming from 73 suppliers out of 79 and representing  92,40% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 73 suppliers out of 79 and representing  92,40% of the final non-household customers.

2020:

Household customers: Data coming from 94 suppliers out of 86 and representing  91,50% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 94 suppliers out of 86 and representing  91,50% of the non-household customers.

2021:

Household customers: Data coming from 88 suppliers out of 79 and representing  89,77 % of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 88 suppliers out of 79 and representing  89,77 % of the non-household customers.

The reference area is the whole country. There is no regions excluded from the surveys.

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.

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) 2019/823 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 Surveyes of Public Statistics:https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20180002103  (for 2019) https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20190002366 (for 2020), https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200002062 (for 2021).

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.
• We don't share data with other organisations
• Part of the data is published in: "Energia 2020" - "Energy 2020"  (is available online): https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/energia/energia-2020-folder,1,8.html and in "Energia 2021" - "Energy 2021"  (is available online): https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/energia/energia-2021-folder,1,9.html

At EU level:

• 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

At national level:

Law on official statistics 29th June 1995 : 

https://bip.stat.gov.pl/en/law/law-on-public-statistics/

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 - https://bip.stat.gov.pl/en/law/law-on-public-statistics/, art. 10 and art. 38).

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

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 publication “Energia 2020“ - “Energy 2020“ and “Energia 2021“ - “Energy 2021“ (in which data relating to electricity prices are published) are set out in the Statistical Survey Program of Public Statistics and are submitted to Statistics Poland for inclusion in a calendar posted on Statistics Poland website.

Statistics Poland release calendar:

For 2020: https://stat.gov.pl/kalendarium/12-2020.html

For 2021: https://stat.gov.pl/kalendarium/12-2021.html

The scope and dates regarding the release of statistics are included in the annual Programme of Statistical Surveyes of Public Statistics.

https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20200002062 (for 2021).

Natural gas prices in Poland are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website and in annual publication (folder).

No news release on national data.

"Energia 2020" - "Energy 2020"  (is available online): https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/energia/energia-2020-folder,1,8.htmland in "Energia 2021" - "Energy 2021"  (is available online): https://stat.gov.pl/obszary-tematyczne/srodowisko-energia/energia/energia-2021-folder,1,9.html

No national database related to the data.

Not applicable.

No access to microdata is given.

It is possible to prepare a data set for an individual user's order.

Two documents have been developed: questionnaire and instruction, which are consulted with respondents each year.

Public methodological instructions for statistical surveys have been developed and every year are updated and supplemented.

Questionnaires and instructions are available on websites:

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2019/G-11g-for-2019.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2019/G-11g-obj-2019.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2020/G-11g-for-2020.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2020/G-11g-obj-2020.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2021/G-11g-for-2021.pdf

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2021/G-11g-obj-2021.pdf

and on the Statistics Poland website:  http://form.stat.gov.pl/formaty/zestaw.php?rok-pbssp=2019&idzst=99

100%

There is no quality related documents on national level.

Telephone consultations with respondents of statistical surveys.

Development of supplementary information to methodological instruction for statistical surveys.

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.

The main user of the collected data is Eurostat. We do not take into account the needs of other users.

We do not have a survey on the level of user satisfaction.

Basically data is complete.

100%

Generally, we have no random and systematic errors in statistical results.

Sampling errors are negligible because of the high percentage of the population that is covered by the surveys.

Negligible

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

Poland is not aware of any coverage error.

Poland is not aware of any over-coverage error.

Administrative sources are not used. 100% data is covered by surveys.

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.

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.

2019:

0,088 - this rate concerns units did not deliver any data,

2020:

0,085 - this rate concerns units did not deliver any data,

2021:

0,102 - this rate concerns units did not deliver any data,

0 - data from units which filled up survey were complete.

Errors are eliminated at the level of survey.

Not applicable.

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 first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent  79 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and 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 households and non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 71 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 81 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 2021 was sent 76 days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-householdsand non-households  for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 89 days after the reference period.

First version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1nd semester of 2019 was final version.

Final version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 387 days after the reference period, 356 days after the first version and 355 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

Final version of the natural gas price questionnaire for non-households for the 1nd semester of 2020 was sent 259 days after the reference period, 189 days after the first version and 167 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

Final version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 105 days after the reference period, 23 days after the first version and 15 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

 Final version of the natural gas price questionnaire for for households and for non-households for the 1nd semester of 2021 was sent 273 days after the reference period, 197 days after the first version and 181 day(s) after the mandatory deadline.

First version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 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.

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

100% of questionnaires (1st version) were delivered on time.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households and non-households for the 1st ad 2nd semester of 2019-2021 were sent on time .

The data is consistent at the country level.

Not applicable.

Data in subsequent reporting periods are comparable.

The data is comparable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

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: 102 040 PLN in 2019 and 122 040 PLN in 2020 and 126 138 PLN in 2021. 

The average time load of one respondent of main survey (G-11g) was 1103 min in 2019 and 1576 min in 2020 and 1334 min in 2021.

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.

1. Revision data by comparing with data from previous reference period,

2. Revision data to ensure consistency of annual data with data from both semesters,

3. Revision data in case of some changes (in source data, in methodology of calculation).

Final version (1 revision) of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent356 days after the first version

Final version (1 revision) of the natural gas price questionnaire  for non-households for the 1nd semester of 2020 was sent 189 days after the first version

Final version (1 revision) of the natural gas price questionnaire for households and for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 23 days after the first version

 Final version (1 revision) of the natural gas price questionnaire for for households and for non-households for the 1nd semester of 2021 was sent 197 days after the first version

For other periods final versions was the same as first's.

Households gas prices collection: 28.39981267

Non-households gas prices collection: 0.003855769

Statistical surveys: G-11g and GAZ-3.

Annaul, Semiannually, monthly increasing.

On-line survey:

https://www.are.waw.pl/images/badania-statystyczne/2021/G-11g-for-2021.pdf

Comparing year to year, comparing with data from other sources - for example other questionnaires.

Weighted average national gas prices are calculated, using the market shares of gas suppliers surveyed, as weighting factors.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.