Compensation for the current in the north, the Constitution is considering ZRE's request no deadline for decision making

The Constitutional Court is considering the request of the Energy Regulatory Office for clarifications concerning the Supreme Court's act, through which it was granted the right to citizens to ask for compensation for the fate it has been made for years for the flow spent in the four northern municipalities. But when the court will emerge, there is no known reason to decide.

In late May of this year, the Energy Regulatory Office was addressed to the Constitutional Court with a request for clarification. Z The RRE had asked the Constitution how to act in terms of the Supreme Court's act of compensating citizens for what has been done for years for the current spent in the north.

Exactly, sir. RRE had uncertainty about how to act in this case, since it is only required in the Act of Action that it take action to force the distribution system operator to do the return of the billed sum, but is not specified forms and ways.

So far, there is no decision by the Constitution in this case. The matter is still under consideration.

Constitutional spokesman Veton Dula has said that the Court does not have any decision-making deadlines in this case, but that once the decision is made, all will be announced.

This subject is currently under consideration. Once the decision is made, all interest and opinion sides will be announced on time. The court does not have any decision-making terms in this case”, Dula's response to the Journal Express says.

In a response, the Energy Regulatory Office had said that once the decision is made by the Constitution, it would implement the legal and constitutional obligations in all, according to the Act.

They had also clarified that implementation of this decision was initially KEK's obligation, but that, in the case of privatisation, this obligation has been passed on to KEDS. 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's Act of”, they had declared by the ERE.

According to the Supreme Court, citizens 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.