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This Law shall govern energy policy objectives and the method of its implementation, conditions for reliable, secure and quality supply of energy and energy-generating products and conditions for safe supply to the customers, conditions for the protection of energy and energy-generating product customers, conditions and manner of performing energy-related activities, conditions for the construction of new energy facilities, the status and scope of activities of the Energy Agency of the Republic of Serbia (hereinafter: the Agency), * the manner of organising and functioning of the electricity, natural gas and oil and oil derivatives market, rights and obligations of market participants, establishment of ownership over system operator networks, as well as monitoring the implementation of this Law.

The provisions of this Law, relating to the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, shall be interpreted and applied in accordance with the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and the Law on the Ratification of the Treaty establishing the Energy Community.

This Law shall govern generation, distribution and supply of thermal energy as an energy-related activity.

 

Individual terms used in this Law shall have the following meaning:

1)  aggregation implies consolidation of electricity consumption and/or generation for the purpose of purchasing, selling or auctioning on electricity markets;

1а) aggregator is a legal entity or natural person that provides the service of consolidating electricity consumption and/or generation for the purpose of further sale, purchase or auctions in electricity markets;

1b) base oil is a basic oil of mineral, synthetic or vegetable origin used for the manufacture of lubricants and for industrial purposes;

2) balance responsibility in the electricity market is the obligation of market participants to balance the generation, consumption and agreed purchase and sale of electricity within the period for which balance deviation is established, and to take financial responsibility for any deviation;

3) balance responsibility in the natural gas market is the obligation of market participants to balance the amount of natural gas entering the system and leaving the system within a period for which balance deviation is established, and to take financial responsibility for any deviation;

4) system operations safety implies the maintenance and utilisation of the system in a manner that will not jeopardise the lives and health of people and material goods;

5) biofuels are liquid or gaseous fuels for transport, produced from biomass;

6) biomass is a biodegradable part of products, waste and remains of biological origin from agriculture (including plant and animal matters), forestry and related industries, as well as a biodegradable part of industrial and municipal waste;

7) bioliquid is a liquid fuel made from biomass and used for energy purposes other than transport, including electricity generation and heating and cooling energy;

8) gross final energy consumption is the total final energy consumed for energy purposes in industry, transport, households, public and commercial activities, agriculture, forestry and fishing industry, including the own consumption of electricity and thermal energy in the field of electricity and thermal energy generation, and losses in the transmission and distribution of electricity and thermal energy;

9) vertically integrated enterprise is an energy entity or a group of energy entities where the same person is entitled, directly or indirectly, to exercise control, and where the energy entity or the group, in addition to one of the following activities: electricity transmission and transmission system management or natural gas transport and transport system management, electricity distribution and distribution system management, natural gas distribution and natural gas distribution system management, natural gas warehousing and natural gas warehouse management, also performs at least one of the following activities: electricity or natural gas generation, electricity or natural gas supply, or public natural gas supply;

10) guaranteed supplier is the supplier that provides the public service of guaranteed supply *;

11) guaranteed supply is a public service ensuring the right of households and small customers to the supply of electricity having prescribed characteristics in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, at reasonable, clearly comparable, transparent and non-discriminatory prices;

12) (deleted)

13) oil derivatives are unleaded gasoline fuels, aviation gasoline fuels, jet fuels, gas oils, heating oils, marine fuels, liquid petroleum gas, etc.;

14) direct gas pipeline is a pipeline that connects a producer of natural gas, and/or biogas to a facility of an isolated customer and is not a part of the transport, and/or distribution system;

15) direct transmission line is a transmission line that connects either an isolated generation point with an isolated customer, or a facility of an electricity producer with a supplier that directly supplies electricity to its own premises, subsidiary companies and end customers;

16) electricity distribution is the transfer of electricity via a distribution system for the purpose of delivering electricity to end customers, and it does not comprise electricity supply;

17) natural gas distribution is the transfer of natural gas via a distribution system for the purpose of delivering natural gas to end customers, and/or another distribution system, and it does not comprise natural gas supply;

18) thermal energy distribution is the transfer of thermal energy for distance heating and/or distance cooling or industrial use by steam, hot water or cooling fluid through distribution systems;

19) upstream gas pipeline is a pipeline connecting the facilities for oil or natural gas production with the facilities for natural gas processing;

20) energy-generating products are coal, natural gas, oil, oil derivatives, oil shale, renewable and other energy sources;

21) energy system is an electricity system, a natural gas, oil or oil derivatives system, and distance heating and cooling system comprising energy facilities interlinked into a single technical and technological system;

22) energy entity is a legal entity, and/or entrepreneur performing one or more energy-related activities referred to in Article 16 of this Law;

23) vulnerable energy customer is a household that is entitled to the supply under special conditions, due to its social status or the health of its members, in accordance with this Law;

24) energy means electricity and thermal energy;

24а) bidding zone is the largest geographical area within which market participants are able to exchange energy without transmission capacity allocation;

24b) interconnection transmission line is a transmission line that links two control areas or bidding zones;

25) interconnector is an electricity transmission line, gas pipeline, oil pipeline, and/or oil derivatives pipeline that crosses borders between countries for the purpose of connecting their systems, as well as the equipment used for the connection of energy systems;

26) delivery implies the physical delivery of energy, and/or an energy generating product from the facilities of an energy entity or natural gas, and/or biogas producer to the facilities of another energy entity or end customer;

27) public natural gas supplier is an energy entity performing the energy-related activity of public natural gas supply;

28) public natural gas supply is the sale of natural gas to households and small customers at regulated prices;

29) energy entity control implies the right or capability of an entity to exert decisive influence on business activities of another entity, independently or with other cooperating entities, by means of a) the participation in share capital or the right to use the entire property or a part of it, b) an agreement or the right to appoint the majority of directors, and/or supervisory board members or voting and decisions of such bodies;

29а) control area is the area managed by the transmission system operator;

30) system user means a producer of electricity and natural gas, an end customer whose facility is connected to the system, a customer-producer, an electricity storage facility, an aggregator, a supplier, a public natural gas supplier, a wholesale electricity, and/or natural gas supplier or another system operator;

31) end customer is a legal or natural person or entrepreneur purchasing electricity or natural gas for its own needs;

32) end user of thermal energy is a legal or natural person or entrepreneur purchasing thermal energy for its own needs;

33) household category customer is an end customer purchasing electricity or natural gas for the needs of its household and for joint household consumption, except for the purpose of performing commercial or professional activities;

34) customer is a legal or natural person or entrepreneur purchasing energy or energy-generating products for its own needs or for reselling purposes;

34а) customer-producer is an end customer who has connected its own facility for the production of electricity from renewable energy sources to the internal installations, whereby the produced electricity is used to supply its own consumption, and the surplus produced electricity quantity is handed over to the transmission system, distribution system, and/or closed distribution system;

35) line-pack is the actual quantity of natural gas stored under pressure in the gas pipeline (transport, and/or distribution system), which may be used, over a short term, to maintain the safety of operations and to balance the system within the permissible pressure change range;

36) licence is a document establishing the fulfilment of conditions for performing energy-related activities envisaged by this Law;

37) small electricity customers are end customers (legal entities and entrepreneurs) with fewer than 50 employees and a total annual revenue of up to EUR 10 million in dinar counter value, whose all facilities are connected to the electricity distribution system with the voltage level lower than 1 kV, and whose electricity consumption in the previous year was not higher than 30,000 kWh;

38) small natural gas customers are end customers whose annual natural gas consumption does not exceed 100,000 m³, and whose all facilities are connected to the natural gas distribution system;

39) electricity metering devices are electricity meters, voltage and electricity measuring transformers and other auxiliary equipment used for measuring electricity;

39а) linking point of the connection is the point where the connection is linked to the existing or future electric power facility in the system;

39b) connecting point of the system user facility is the point of demarcation between the installations of the user facility and the installations of the electric power facility of the system operator;

40) (deleted)

41) motor fuels are unleaded gasoline fuels, aviation gasoline fuels, jet fuels, gas oils, marine fuels, auto gas, biofuels, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, hydrogen etc., pursuant to regulations defining their technical and other requirements and purpose;

42) competent body, in accordance with obligations arising from confirmed international agreements, is the body defined in the Treaty establishing the Energy Community between the European Community and the Republic of Albania, Republic of Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Montenegro, Romania, Republic of Serbia, and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, in accordance with Resolution 1244 of the United Nations Security Council (Službeni glasnik RS, No. 62/06) and decisions issued by the Ministerial Council of the Energy Community, until the accession of the Republic of Serbia to the European Union;

43) biofuels blending means adding a prescribed quantity of biofuels to fuels of oil origin;

43а) bioliquids blending means adding a prescribed quantity of bioliquids to fuels of oil origin;

43b) smart metering system is an electronic system that includes smart metering devices for measuring the flow of energy and natural gas, subsystems for transmission, storage, processing and analysis of energy or natural gas data, as well as a central control subsystem that allows two-way communication with smart metering devices using certain form of electronic communication;

43c) missing infrastructure is infrastructure which has not been built, and which is a part of the system to which the facilities for electricity generation and for electricity storage are connected and whose construction is necessary for the purpose of connecting it next to the connection, for the approved power required by the system user;

44) uninterrupted capacity is the capacity of natural gas guaranteed to the system user by the transport system operator, in an agreed volume;

45) non-standard system operator services are services provided by the operator upon the request of a customer, and/or a system user, or services aiming at the remedy of consequences of actions of a customer, and/or system user in violation of regulations, which are not included in the price of access to the system or in the costs of connection;

46) new infrastructural facilities are the facilities that have not been constructed by the date of entry into force of this Law;

46а) nominated electricity market operator means an entity designated by the competent authority to perform tasks related to single day-ahead or single intraday coupling of electricity markets;

47) (deleted)

48) electricity distribution system operator is an energy entity dealing with electricity distribution and electricity distribution system management, and is responsible for the distribution system operation, maintenance and development in a certain area, its connection with other systems and for ensuring a long-term capacity of the system to meet electricity distribution needs in an economically justifiable manner;

49) natural gas distribution system operator is an energy entity dealing with natural gas distribution and natural gas distribution system management, and is responsible for the distribution system operation, maintenance and development in a certain area, its connection with other systems and for ensuring a long-term capacity of the system to meet natural gas distribution needs in an economically justifiable manner;

50) electricity transmission system operator is an energy entity dealing with electricity transmission and electricity transmission system management, and is responsible for the transmission system operation, maintenance and development in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, its connection with other systems, and for ensuring a long-term capacity of the system to meet electricity transmission needs in an economically justifiable manner;

51) system operator is an electricity transmission system operator, electricity distribution system operator, closed electricity distribution system operator, natural gas transport system operator, natural gas distribution system operator, and natural gas storage facility operator;

52) natural gas storage facility operator is an energy entity dealing with natural gas storage and natural gas storage facility management, and is responsible for the natural gas storage facility operation, maintenance and development;

53) natural gas transport system operator is an energy entity dealing with natural gas transport and natural gas transport system management, and is responsible for the transport system operation, management and development in a certain area, its connection with other systems, and for ensuring a long-term capacity of the system to meet natural gas transport needs in an economically justifiable manner;

54) pressurised equipment means gas pipelines, oil pipelines, oil derivatives pipelines, steam and hot water boilers, pressurised containers and other pressurised equipment determined by special technical regulations;

55) organised electricity market is an institutionally regulated relationship between supply and demand of the electricity market participants with predefined standardised products and physical delivery, on a time-scale of one day in advance and within a day;

56) (deleted)

57) (deleted)

58) ancillary services are services provided by users of electricity transmission, distribution and closed distribution systems to the transmission and distribution system operator, as well as the services provided by distribution and closed distribution system operators to the transmission system operator for the provision of system services;

59) full supply is the sale of electricity or natural gas where the quantity of electricity or natural gas for the accounting period is not determined by the supply agreement, but the end customer is entitled to determine the quantity on the basis of consumption realised at the point of handover;

60) interrupted capacity is the capacity that may be interrupted by the transport system operator pursuant to the terms envisaged in the transport agreement;

61) electricity transmission is the transfer of electricity via connected high voltage systems for the purpose of its delivery to end customers or distribution systems, but it does not comprise electricity supply;

62) (deleted)

63) connection to the system is a set of lines, equipment and devices, including metering equipment and the metering point, by which the installation of a facility of an energy entity, producer or end customer is physically linked to the electricity transmission, and/or distribution system from the connecting point to the linking point;

63а) connection to the natural gas transport or distribution system is a set of pipelines, equipment and devices, including metering equipment and the metering point, by which the installation of a facility of an energy entity, producer or end customer is physically linked to the natural gas transport or distribution system;

64) access to the system is the right to use the system for the purpose of transmission, and/or transport, distribution, takeover and delivery of an agreed quantity of electricity, natural gas, oil and oil derivatives at the agreed time, under prescribed and publicly announced conditions, according to the non-discriminatory principle;

64а) electricity producer is a natural person or legal entity who produces electricity;

65) regional coordination centre is a body in charge of coordinating the activities of transmission system operators in a particular European region in order to improve the security and coordination of the operation of transmission systems;

66) safety of electricity and natural gas supply means providing the needed quantities of electricity and natural gas to end customers, as well as the technical capacity of the transmission, transport and distribution systems to ensure the supply to end customers;

67) system services are the services provided by the system operator, which are necessary for ensuring safe, reliable and stable operation of the energy system;

67а) electricity storage facilities are facilities for the deferral of the use of electricity in relation to the moment in which electricity is generated, and/or facilities for the conversion of electricity into other forms of energy and the storage of such energy for its subsequent reconversion into electricity;

68) electricity supply is the sale of electricity to customers for their own needs or for the purpose of resale;

69) wholesale electricity supply is the sale of electricity to customers, including resale, except for the sale to end customers;

70) natural gas supply is the sale of natural gas to customers for their own needs or for the purpose of resale;

70a) wholesale natural gas supply is the sale of natural gas to customers, including resale, except for the sale to end customers;

71) thermal energy supply is the sale of thermal energy to end customers at the prices determined in accordance with the methodology set out in Article 362 of this Law;

72) own consumption of transmission, transport, distribution, closed distribution system and natural gas storage facility operator means the consumption of electricity, and/or natural gas, necessary for the system operation;

73) own needs for oil derivatives means the needs or activities that in any step of their realisation are not intended for the sale of oil derivatives or for providing services to any third parties, but rather for one's own consumption;

74) standard system operator services are services provided by the operator to customers and system users, which are charged through the price of access to the system or through the costs of connection;

74а) thermal energy is the internal (thermal) energy of hot water, warm water or steam or cooling fluid, which is used for space heating or cooling, domestic hot water heating or for the needs of technological processes;

75) transport of oil and oil derivatives by other transport means implies the transport of oil, and/or oil derivatives by all means of transport other than oil pipelines, and/or oil derivatives pipelines;

76) transport of oil by oil pipelines and oil derivatives by oil derivative pipelines means the takeover, pipeline transport and delivery of an agreed quantity of oil and oil derivatives, under prescribed and publicly announced conditions, according to the non-discriminatory principle;

77) natural gas transport is the transfer of natural gas by the transport system to end customers or another transport system, distribution systems or natural gas warehouses, but does not include the supply;

78) third countries are countries which are not members of the European Union nor are signatories of the Treaty establishing the Energy Community between the European Community and the Republic of Albania, Republic of Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Montenegro, Romania, Republic of Serbia, and the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, pursuant to Resolution 1244 of the United Nations Security Council (Službeni glasnik RS, No. 62/06 - hereinafter: Treaty establishing the Energy Community);

79) trade outside stations for the supply of vehicles with heating oils, bioliquids, liquid petroleum oil, compressed and liquefied natural gas used as energy fuels, and fuels for the supply of sports aircrafts is considered retail trade;

80) vessel fuel trade is the wholesale trade and it comprises the supply of liquid fuels to ships and technical vessels pursuant to regulations dealing with inland navigation and ports, and regulations referring to the transport of hazardous goods;

81) trade in motor and other fuels at supply stations for vehicle is considered retail trade;

82) trade in oil, oil derivatives, biofuels, bioliquids, compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas and hydrogen is wholesale trade and includes purchase, and/or import for the purpose of further sale, and/or export, or the use for business purposes;

83) "take or pay" contract is an agreement by which the supplier is obliged to supply the agreed quantities of natural gas, and the customer is obliged to pay for such quantities regardless of whether they have been taken over; to pay for a part of them within the agreed accounting period with the right to take them over within a subsequent accounting period and the obligation to pay the balance upon the takeover;

84) contracted congestion is the situation in the transport system when the scale of demand for uninterrupted capacities exceeds the capacity of the natural gas transport system;

84a) physical congestion is the situation when the level of demand for the actual natural gas delivery exceeds the capacity of the natural gas system at a certain point in time;

85) horizontally integrated enterprise is an energy entity that in addition to one of the energy related activities in the area of electricity, and/or natural gas also performs at least one activity in an area that is not related to electricity, and/or natural gas;

86) central registry of pressurised equipment is a single electronic information system of the Ministry in charge of the energy sector activities, containing the data on individual high-risk pressurised equipment.

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