Statistical Office of Montenegro - MONSTAT

Business Statistics, Foreign Affilliates Statistics and Structural Bussines Statistics Department

IV Proleterske No. 2

81000 Podgorica

MONTENEGRO

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 EUR 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-IF and DA-DE) but not published because some confidential values.

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 6 and representing 100% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 2 suppliers out of 6 and representing 100% of the final non-household customers.

The whole country.

Electricity prices data for Montenegro are available since 2011.

Not applicable.

Prices are reported in euro 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:

• Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 018/12 from 30 March 2012, 047/19 from 12 August 2019)
• The Programme of Official Statistics for the 2019-2023
• Annual Plan of Official Statistics for 2022

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:

• Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 018/12 from 30 March 2012, 047/19 from 12 August 2019)

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

Law on Official Statistics (Official Gazette of Montenegro No 018/12 from 30 March 2012, 047/19 from 12 August 2019). Law on Official Statistics and Official Statistical System of Montenegro stipulates the confidentiality of individual data through the chapter XIII Confidentiality and protection of data for needs of official statistics (Articles 54-61).

According to this Law, individual data on natural, legal persons and households shall be confidential and represent official secret (Article 56).

Data not published by Statistical Office of Montenegro. The precise date of data release is disseminated on Eurostat's website.

Data not published by Statistical Office of Montenegro. The precise date of data release is disseminated on Eurostat's website.

In line with the Community legal framework and the European Statistics Code of Practice Eurostat disseminates European statistics on Eurostat's website (see point 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 Montenegro are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website.

Not published.

Not published.

Not available. 

Not available. 

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

The definitions and methodology of Eurostat’s Compilers guide on European Statistics on natural gas and electricity prices have been followed.  In-depth documentation on methodology used is being provided in various sections of this report.

Not applicable.

Not available.

Quality Management Strategy, the Guidebook to the Implementation of the Quality Management Strategy, as well as the Plan for the Implementation of the Quality Policy.

Statistical Office has chosen the TQM implementation through the following objectives: 1. Strong commitment to users and other interested parties, 2. Quality statistical processes and products, 3. Professional orientation of staff members, 4. Constant improvements, 5. Reduction of overburden of reporting units.

Collected price data are checked in several steps. After detailed control and data analysis, the final data are prepared for final verification.

On a national level, electricity prices data are not published. This data is only sent to Eurostat on a semestrial basis.

The Statistical Office has adopted the Quality Management Strategy, the Guidebook to the Implementation of the Quality Management Strategy, as well as the Plan for the Implementation of the Quality Policy. In order to measure the degree to which fulfills obligations towards users and within the new quality policy, the Statistical Office conducted User satisfaction survey. Data collection was carried out through a web survey, in the period from 6 March to 27 April, 2020. The results of the survey are available on the Statistical Office website, link: https://www.monstat.org/userfiles/file/KVALITET/2020/2_%20Izvjestaj%20o%20zadovoljstvu%20korisnika.pdf 

In compliance with the rules (regulations).

100%

Most common errors for this survey is measurement errors and processing errors.

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

Not aplicable.

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

Montenegro is not aware of any coverage issues in the samples.

Montenegro is not aware of any coverage issues in the samples.

100% of the data is covered by the survey.

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.

Response rate is 100%.

Respondents provide all required data.

No processing errors were found

Not applicable.

Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within tree/four months 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 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 128 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 128days 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 87 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 90 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 128 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 128 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 128 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 87 days after the reference period.

First results are final.

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

67% of questionaires delivered on time for period 2019-2021.

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

67% of questionaires delivered on time for period 2019-2021. Reason of delays were staff lack.

The data are internationally comparable.

Not applicable.

The data are comparable over time.

The data is comparable since 2011.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

Cost of statistical activity 4,1 thousand euros (data for 2021).

Statistical Office has adopted the revision policy and it is available on the website: http://www.monstat.org/eng/page.php?id=1411&pageid=1411

The data may be revised if the methodology is modified, errors are discovered, new or better data become available.

Household electricty prices collection: 11.97580645

Non-household electricity prices collection: 6.331395349

Data on electricity prices are collected from all enterprises which have the licence for the sale of electricity and network services.

Prices are collected twice a year, at the beginning of each six-month period. Prices are calculated on the basis of weighted average prices paid by end-users for electricity over the previous six months. Electricity consumption is used for weights.

Prices are communicated only when there are at least three end-users in each range of consumption. 

Half-yearly

The questionnaire is sent to statistical unit, which fill the form and sent it back to us via e-mail. There are a built-in controls (logical and accounting controls) so the unit can fix an error by itself. Non-response is monitored on a regular basis and we inform the units when the deadline is approaching and ask them to fill the questionnaire and send it.

The statistical data on electricity 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 electricity prices for household consumers are provided according to five, for non-household consumers – according to seven consumer groups. Each electricity consumer group is defined in relation to the lowest and the highest amount of electricity consumed per year. The arithmetic weighted mean formula is used to calculate the average electricity price for each consumer group; electricity consumption in kWh (for household consumers) or MWh (for non-household consumers) during the reference calendar half-year is used as weights.

The average 1 kWh electricity 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.

No data imputed.

Not applicable.

Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.