Z Board RREAH holds extraordinary meetings on the issue of compensation for the north

There's only one point on the agenda: Implorement of the Constitutional Court Act, concerning the compensation of citizens for the destiny they have been made for the current spent in the north.

Two days ago, Voice Board Chairman Ymer Fejzullahu said the possibility is that these vehicles will be returned within a six-year period -- from about 1 euros per month -- so that these citizens will pay 1 euro less in electricity bills for six years.

According to an estimate based on the amount of compensation per month and the period along which compensation is provided is carried out, the value that citizens will compensate for is 72 euros. The compensation is expected to benefit over 550 thousand consumers.

The “Those consumers who have paid in that period, only consumers will benefit from the Constitutional Court, not including consumers who are new consumers after 2017. In household consumers, it may be less than 1 euros if we extend this debt for the period in which it has accumulated about 6 years. For household consumers it is less than 1 euros a month. That debt has accumulated over the 6-year period”, Fyzulah said on KTV.

The right to ask citizens for compensation for the year's billing, citizens have been granted the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court's act has also been confirmed by the Constitutional Court.

According to the Supreme Court, citizens have the right to return these means. The claims regarding the reasoning of not running into these municipalities with security causes and not having access to the popularity reading 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 northern Kosovo, inhabited by Serb majority, have paid citizens and other parts of the country for 18 years.

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.

In a post made in February last year, Prime Minister Albin Kurti had 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.

“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.