Management of the Hungarian Energy Office - Magyar Energia Hivatal

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Published by: Magyar Energia Hivatal (Hungarian Energy Offi ce) H-1081 Budapest, Köztársaság tér 7. Telefon: +36-1-459-7777 www.eh.gov.hu Responsible Publisher: Péter Horváth President Editors: Ernő Barka Tibor Bartha Orsolya Halmai Tamás Szabó Csaba Vigassy Editorial Board: dr. Ilona Ábrahám Mariann Berg Zsolt Birinyi Ágnes Fuchs Lajos Kerekes Anikó Kertészné Tóth Tibor Kovács Tamás Kőrösi Andrea Mörcz Csaba Oberczán Tamás Tóth Árpád Vajdovich Printed by: e-Print Magyarország Zrt. Manager: Ákos Oravecz Budapest, 2010 ISSN 1418-7299
Dear Reader, The regulation of the energy sector has undergone signifi cant changes and yielded many results during the past fi fteen years. The Hungarian Energy Offi ce (hereinafter HEO), established in 1994, is one of Europe’s oldest regulator offi ces and is a defi ning strategic character of the gradual market opening process leading from a regulated market through a hybrid market – where the public utility and the free market segment operated simultaneously – to the full market opening. The gradual liberalization was launched on 1 January 2003 for the electricity market and on 1 January 2004 for the natural gas market, the laws on the complete market opening came into force on 1 January 2008 for the electricity industry and on 1 July 2009 for the natural gas industry. After the full market opening residential consumers who do not wish to take advantage of the possibility of trader switching may stay with the universal service provider at an administrative price containing a maximum margin. During the past one and a half decade the HEO has been continuously performing its main tasks, namely the regulation of national electricity and gas companies as well as of companies generating electricity by cogeneration, the protection of consumers’ interests and the informing of stakeholders and the public. It also cooperated in the development of the legal framework – acts and secondary legislation – of the energy sector. In the fi rst period of its operation development and supervision of the regulated market, price regulation, price application and consumer protection were the primary tasks of the HEO. In the years after the opening of the energy markets supporting consumers to enter the free market, analyzing market operation and refi ning legal and economic regulation were of high priority for the HEO. Later market surveillance, market monitoring, supporting a more effective and clear competition and ensuring a non-discriminatory network access to the monopoly pipeline infrastructure came into the limelight. The new regulation regime, the attendance of the competitive market and later the full market opening has signifi cantly increased the number of tasks of the HEO. From 2009 new tasks arose in the HEO’s activity, namely issuing the documents of origin for electricity generated from renewable energy sources or waste, and from 1 July 2009 the consideration of initiatives of district heat suppliers for price modifi cation requests regarding residential district heat prices. On the other hand, a signifi cant part of consumer protection tasks – all consumer complaints on accounting, billing, payments or measuring, disconnection and reconnection of electricity supply and district heat supply – were remitted to the authority of the Nemzeti Fogyasztóvédelmi Hatóság (Hungarian Authority for Consumer Protection).
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