National institute for Statistics (NIS)

Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE)

NIS - Department of Short Term Business Statistics

ANRE - Gas Market Monitoring Service (SMPG)

NIS    16, Libertatii avenue, District 5 Bucharest RO 050706 Romania

ANRE   Cotroceni Street, No. 4 Bucharest  Romania

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.
• The VAT is recoverable for non-households.

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.

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

Household customers: Data coming from 66 suppliers out of 66 and representing 100% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 74 suppliers out of 74 and representing100% of the final non-household customers.

The whole country.

Natural gas prices data for Romania are available since 2004.

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)

At national level:

• Cooperation Agreement signed between National Institute of Statistics and ANRE for providing data/information related to natural gas prices. The cooperation agreement is not public available.

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:

• The statistical law no 226/2009 regarding the organisation of official statistics.

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

Romania does not publish the data.

Romania does not publish the data.

Romania does not publish the data.

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

Romania does not produce press release.

Romania does not produce publication for this statistical domain.

Romania does not have online data base for this subject.

Romania does not produce any data tables.

Acces to microdata are not available.

Romania does not produce other dissemination format for this statistical domain.

Not applicable.

Romania does not have public available documentation on methodology for this statistical domain.

Not applicable

The quality declaration available on NIS site:http://www.insse.ro/cms/en/content/quality-national-statistical-system

The system of official statistics follows international and European quality standards http://www.insse.ro/cms/en/content/quality-national-statistical-system

NIS Romania has adopted the UN Fundamental Principles for official Statistics as well as the European Code of Practice.

As 100% of the population is covered and that there is no errors due to non-response rate, the quality of the data is considered as very high.

The data are relevant because are required by European legislation.

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

We conduct a user satisfaction survey every three years. The latest one was in 2018.The publication can be found at the following link: http://www.insse.ro/cms/sites/default/files/field/publicatii/analiza_gradului_de_satisfactie_al_utilizatorilor_2018.pdf. This publication presents the way in which the statistical data produced and the methodological information of the INS meet the information needs of the various user categories. It includes a presentation of the main results of the statistical survey on the "Satisfaction of statistical data users”, respectively the profile of INS statistical data users, the confidence in the INS and the statistical data produced by INS, the assessment of the quality of the data produced by INS.

Data are compliant with european legislation and Eurostat requirments.

All breakdowns and variable are provided, according to the EU Regulation in force.

All data required are provided.

100% of the population is covered.

Not applicable as no sampling is performed (100% of the population covered).

Not applicable

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

There is no coverage error. All type of users are well represented as 100% of the population is covered.

We are not aware of any over-coverage.

The data is coming 100% from the survey conducted by ANRE.

The ANRE/NSI ere not doing measurement as it get the data from the suppliers but the suppliers might have some measurement errors. These errors are not assessed. However, most of them are detected by the means of outlier detections, time series coherence, etc., and double checked with the suppliers concerned

There is no non-response error as all suppliers respond fully to the survey.

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not Applicable.

Natural gas providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the natural gas price data within 6 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 [78] days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gasprice questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent [86] 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 [62] days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gas price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 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 2019 was sent [78] days after the reference period.

The first version of the natural gasprice questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 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 2020 was sent [86] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent [62] days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

Not applicable.

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

 The natural gas price questionnaire for households for and non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent [78] days after the reference period.

 The natural gas price questionnaire for households and for and non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent [76] days after the reference period.

 The natural gas price questionnaire for households and for and non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent [86] days after the reference period.

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

 The natural gas price questionnaire for households and for and non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent [62] days after the reference period.

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

The date is comparable between countries and region.

Not applicable

There have been no changes.

The data is comarable since 2004 for industrial consumers and 2005 for households.

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Annual prices is coherent with the semestrial prices.

Collecting extra data creates additional administrative burden for suppliers that can’t be quantified. Data collected is limited to what is necessary and electronic means are used to facilitate data collection.

It is difficult, almost impossible to estimate the time necessary for the suppliers to collect, validate and submit the data to ANRE. The reason is that each supplier has a different type and number of clients, have their own internal organisation of the data related to their clients and different number of staff involved in this specific task.

From the ANRE perspective, 10-11 weeks are necessary to collect, validate and submit the data to NSI (equivalent of 1 person worked 20 days).

From NSi perspective, 1 person worked 1 day, twice a year, to prepare and submit the data to Eurostat.

Data revision policy follow the Revision Policy of the NIS Romania, wihich represent one of the key documentsof the office. The same revision policy is applied to all data released nationally and transmitted to Eurostat.

We do not plan any revision.

Households gas prices collection (PRGAH): 2.744265545

Non-households gas prices collection (PRGAI): 0.000301832

Reports from natural gas suppliers that have final customers.

Monthly

Natural gas suppliers enter / send data to ANRE through an online IT application. After this collection, ANRE processes these data in order to transmit them in the form requested by National Institute of Statistics.

ANRE verified the data reported by suppliers. Several processing reports are used to check the data, respectively: using the correct measurement units, reporting natural gas prices in the estimated ranges. If inconsistences are identified, ANRE notifies suppliers to check the data and correct it. The process is repeated until ANRE validates the data received.

In the compilation process no imputation were made but we are performing weighted averages.

Not the case.

Not applicable.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.