ANRE is making every effort so that the new Pricing Methodology for petroleum products is reviewed and approved by June 14.
The National Energy Regulatory Agency stated this while commenting on a declaration in which the National Federation of Agricultural and Food Patronages, together with the National Federation of Agricultural and Food Trade Unions, Agroindsind, demanded that maximum fuel prices be set within 10 days. ANRE recalled that the procedure for developing the new Pricing Methodology for petroleum products was initiated on May 12. As part of this process, ANRE organized on 20 and 26 May, as well as on 2 June, meetings, including public ones, during which it presented the new methodology for consultations so that all interested parties could submit constructive proposals on the new normative act. As the energy regulator emphasized, at this stage, in accordance with the provisions of the law, the draft methodology is at the mandatory stage of examination / approval by the competent institutions, and within the next week the exact date of the public meeting for the approval of this document will become known. In this regard, ANRE repeated the request addressed to the relevant structures to submit relevant conclusions as soon as possible in order to include their proposals in the text of the developed document in order to improve its content. The National Energy Regulatory Agency clarified that in accordance with the recent amendments to the Law on the Oil Products Market, published on May 14, 2021, the new Pricing Methodology for petroleum prices should be developed and approved within one month from the date of publication of the law in Monitorul Oficial (the Official Journal of Moldova). “Thus, in order to accurately comply with the provisions of the legislation, ANRE is making every effort to ensure that the new Methodology is reviewed and approved by the Agency's Management Board by June 14, 2021,” the energy regulator said in a statement. // 04.06.2021 – InfoMarket
