Regulative recommendations referring to the power industry, Part II

The Energy Act, while indicating the category of justified costs as the basis for the formation of prices and fee rates, does not prejudge the very technique of tariff regulation, which is provided for in the implementing regulations to the Act, primarily the so-called tariff ordinances and, to some extent, the so-called connection ordinances. In contrast to the Act, and this was undoubtedly its great merit , these ordinances are eminently sector-specific. This would not be surprising (after all, each of the energy subsectors in the broad sense of the term has its own specifics worth and necessary to take into account), were it not for one small -but. Under pressure from the energy companies concerned, different regulatory solutions were adopted, making it impossible to use the same measures, categories, etc. even for the same company, producing e.g. both heat and electricity. As a result -regulation, in the wake of detailed regulations, has become something eclectic and incoherent. And the regulator, instead of focusing its attention on the most important matters, i.e. realising the main message of the regulation, which is undoubtedly to promote competition and act as a substitute for the market, wastes time on essentially sterile interpretations of intricate and industry-different regulations.