Oil expected to be expensive for 5 cents in Kosovo

Freedom of the price of derivatives up to 80 cents had taken place a year earlier when the first cases with COVID-19 were marked in Kosovo.

While acknowledging that there are increases in derivative prices in recent days, Kosovo Oil Association Chairman Fadil Behrani says that it affects Beza and the production organisation O The PEK, but again points out that the cheaper prices in the region are at home.

The “on international markets has price increases and this will reflect on us in Kosovo the following days. These days of prices are almost rising we can freely say a very easy increase of 1 cents a day, but in retail prices these prices are not moving. Approximately, there will be an increase of up to 5 cents. This affects automatically, so the price is today an average 98 cents, means we will have over 1 euro price on our Kosovo market”, he says.

In the increase in the price of derivatives, Berjan says it is affecting the lowest production being made as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just the pandemic says that it had affected the release of these derivatives a year earlier.

<x) The PEC, so there has been smaller production and when there is lower production it always increases the price. But in Kosovo today prices behave approximately 0.098 cents, gasoline is 1 euro, so prices in Kosovo are the cheapest in the region. It is known that the pandemic has influenced the prize, and today it is affecting, that circulation has not been in the pandemic the way it should be. While the prices today are brought into soas of normal and the price at the moment is the freest in the region, citizens of our Republic are serving at the cheapest prices in the region except for Macedonia, which has 20 cents cheaper”, he says.

Despite the warning that there will be an increase in the price of derivatives, he says Kosovo citizens are being supplied with quality derivatives.

And what about the quality of oil derivatives I believe citizens have shown reality, because there are no complaints. It's the department at the Ministry of Commerce since there's quality oil citizens have to announce, so citizens are serving with qualitative derivatives such as countries in the region. It means this year we haven't had any problems and there have been no complaints”, he says.

Oilmen in the country, Berjan says they have faced numerous problems as a result of administrative guidelines for cleaning reservoirs and for controlling the quality of derivatives.

“We have had two problems with administrative guidelines, cleaning the reservoirs which the prime minister cancelled, and now we have the quality control in the Ministry of Commerce, or will be under the jurisdiction of Kosovo Customs. We as an association have had a meeting with the prime minister, we have had a meeting with Minister Vesel Krasniqi. The prime minister said a few days ago that this administrative instruction would be annulled, because it is contrary to all legal provisions and we appeal that as soon as this instruction has to be annulled, when it is known that Customs of the Republic of Kosovo has done as it is best (the same work) and that all states in the region and in Europe did the job. The pigmentation, or color, that he authorizes at another company, I think is a mistake. The customs of the Republic of Kosovo should not cost businesses this job, otherwise if allowed in private company this price will increase, the citizen will surely pay for 5 cents more than 1 litre of diesel”, Berjan says.

In addition, he says this sector has been hit by the COVID-19, where he says there have been numerous problems.