ZRGE does not show how citizens who were billed for the north current will be compensated

The Supreme Court has granted citizens the right to seek compensation for the fate it has been made for years for the flow spent in the four northern municipalities, thus rejecting the ZERECE request.

According to the Supreme Court, they have the right to return these means. The claims regarding the reasoning of not running into these security-related municipalities and not having access to the standards in that section, the Supreme has seen them as unstable.

Therefore, claims about reasoning and not indicating in the four northern municipalities with security reasons are not sustainable, and do not have access to knowledge reading in that section, because it is not justified that other citizens for these reasons be charged with paying for spent electricity without a legal basis. Therefore, with this fate and payment has become the unfair treatment of Kosovo citizens, which conflicts with Article 55 per cent. 4, of the Constitution, inequitable treatment cited as in the courts of lower institutions, because it has become a restriction on human rights. So based on the 194th article of LMD, consumers, who without legal basis and without their knowledge are billed and paid for the energy spent in the north, were granted the right to return the paid amount as courts of lower institutions”, the Supreme announced.

The Energy Regulatory Office has shown they have accepted the Supreme Act.

Petit Pepaj of the ZRRE has told Gazeta Express that it is under way to assess this act and that according to the legal provisions in force, Z. RRE will take the necessary action.

From this institution, consumers have responded to the manner or sum that will be compensated for.

The Energy Regulatory Office has accepted the Supreme Court Act by April 3, 2023. The Energy Regulatory Office is in the process of assessing this act and, in line with the legal provisions at power, will take the necessary actions”, Pipate's response said.

Through an Action issued by Pristina Constitutional Court, Z. The RRE was tasked with taking action forcing KEDS to make compensation for the damage to consumers who are billed for spending electricity in the four northern municipalities of the Republic of Kosovo, worth 40 million and 855.480.00 euros.

Otherwise, in a post made a month ago, Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said that since 1999, because of Serbia's actions, Kosovo has lost over 300m euros in electricity and water bills that Serbs in the north have not paid.

Kurti said the non-paid bills in the north are not to blame for the Serbs living there, but he blamed <x0) parallel structures controlled by Serbia”.

“Since 1999, Kosovo has lost over 300m euros due to Serbia's actions, such as keeping tax fees and forcing businessmen to pay T VSH in Serbia for our electricity trade. Even now, Belgrade's refusal to allow Kosovo-Serbia trade costs Kosovo up to 10m euros a month”, Kurti wrote.

Citizens of these municipalities have not paid for energy spent since 1999. Over the years, their debt has been paid by citizens of other Kosovo municipalities and since 2017 by the Government of Kosovo.

Kosovo and Serbia, under the dialogue mediated by the European Union, have reached an energy agreement in 2013 aimed at regulating the issue of electricity supply and destiny in the four municipalities in the north, inhabited by Serb majority.

But, this agreement was not implemented, and in June 2022, the parties reached compliance with the implementation of the existing energy agreement through an energy guide.

However, neither this guide has been implemented, and during the past year, the EU has acknowledged that there are delays in its implementation, stressing that the ultimate responsibility for the implementation of the guides lies with Kosovo and Serbia.