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In connection with a letter received in the Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (CEWR) from His Holiness Neophyte, Patriarch of Bulgaria and Metropolitan of Sofia, Chairman of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC), the Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Ivan Ivanov, sent a written response regarding the possibilities the sites of BOC to be supplied with electricity at prices approved by KEVR for final household customers.

The KEVR letter explains in detail the possibilities for concluding a contract for the supply of electricity for individual sites, meeting the legal requirements and judicial practice. 

It is indicated that the supply of electricity to the premises of domestic final customers connected to a low-voltage power distribution network, when these customers have not chosen another supplier, is carried out by a licensed final supplier company in the licensed territory, where the relevant customer is located site at prices approved by the Commission.

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A "household customer" is one who buys electricity for his own household needs.

The judicial practice formed so far, fully adopted in the practice of KEVR, states that the assessment of whether a given customer is domestic or non-domestic should be made on the plane of the different needs that they will satisfy with the purchased energy, and not on depending on the purpose of the objects for which they will purchase it.  

Under the currently effective legislation, if BOC considers that some of its sites meet the criteria for a "household customer" and wishes them to be supplied with electricity at prices approved by KEVR, from the relevant final supplier ("Electrohold Sales" EAD, EVN Bulgaria Electric Supply", EAD, "ENERGO-PRO Sales" AD and "ESP Golden Sands" OOD), the conclusion of a contract for the supply of electrical energy for the selected sites should be requested.

In the event that the final supplier refuses to deliver electricity to these sites, the BOC has the option of filing a complaint with the Commission.

If, in the appeal proceedings, it is established that the energy supplied to the specific object is used only for household needs, the regulator has the right to oblige the final supplier to conclude a contract with BOC for this specific object.

At the present moment, without changes in the legislation and specifically in the ZE, there is no other legal possibility for the sites of the BOC to be automatically supplied at prices regulated by the Commission for final household customers, states the letter of the chairman of KEVR to His Holiness Neophyte.

Commission for Energy and Water Regulation /KEVR/

Bulgarian Orthodox Church

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