GREE in doubt, questions Constitutional for citizens' compensation for the current spent in the north

The Energy Regulatory Office has been addressed to the Constitutional Court regarding the Supreme Court's justice, through which it was granted rights to citizens to seek compensation for the billing they have been given for several years for the flow spent in the four northern municipalities. From this institution, they say they are expecting clarifications from the Constitutional on how to act, precisely on how citizens will be compensated.

The Energy Regulatory Office is not clear on how to impose on the Transmission System Operator, to compensate citizens for the hope they have been given for years for the flow spent in the country's four northern municipalities.

For the Supreme Court Act, which granted citizens the right to seek compensation, Mr. The RRE is addressed to the Constitutional Court of Kosovo.

The ZRER has told Gazeta Express that they have requested from the Constitutional clarification on how it should be done in this case, since it is only required by Z. THE HR to take action to force the Transmission System Operator to make the return of the billed sum, but no shapes and ways are specified.

“Z THRE, following the Supreme Court's acceptance of the verdict, within legal terms has filed a request to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo by date. 24.05.23, asking the Court to provide clarifications on how to take place in the concrete case, according to the ruling in question, is required by the ERE to take action (without specifying the form, nor the way), to impose the operator of the Distraction System, to make the return of the billed sum”, have stated by this institution.

This institution says it has been announced by the Constitution in June that the case has been recorded and that they are pending review by the Court. As soon as the decision is made by the Constitution, sir. The RRE says it will implement legal and constitutional obligations in all, according to the Constitutional Court's Act.

Implementation of this decision say it was initially KEK's obligation, but that, in the case of privatisation, this obligation has been passed to KED. After changing energy sector legislation, Z. RRE says now this obligation has been passed to COST.

We also inform you that the implementation of the V 399 2012 verdict was originally binding KEK sh. with the activity of the Transmission System Operator, then in the case of privatisation this obligation has been passed on to KEDS, as well as the legal changes of energy sector legislation this obligation has been passed to COST. Therefore, all that we highlighted above require legal and procedural clarification to take legal action, and in the case of making the Constitutional Court's ruling, sir. The RRE will fully implement the legal and constitutional obligations under the Constitutional Court Act”, said in Z's response. Six for Express.

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 Act, 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.

Otherwise, the current that citizens in the northern part of Kosovo -- inhabited by Serb majority -- has paid citizens and other parts of the country for 18 years.

The refusal to pay the current has resulted from civic disobedience, but also the impact of various structures in the north, which have operated under Serbia's correction.

To pay off these debts, citizens of other parts of Kosovo have paid bills for 3.5 per cent more expensive.

From 2017 onward, due to numerous citizens' complaints, Kosovo's Constitutional Court has passed the payment responsibility to the country's institutions. That same year, the Court of Appeals has demanded that consumers who have paid the current spent in the north for 18 years be compensated.

On April 18th, the Supreme Court has refused ZEREA's request to rescind the Appeal Act, saying consumers must return the means.

In a post made in February of this year, 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 had written.