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NEW DISPUTES RESOLUTION RULES IN THE ENERGY SECTOR
The new procedural rules are meant to complement the already existing procedures regulating the settlement of other types of disputes, such as the complaints against the transmission and distribution operators, the disputes occurred between participants on the wholesale and retail markets, disputes occurred in the execution of energy sector contracts, complaints regarding the grid access and those regarding the investigations conducted by ANRE.
The application for this dispute resolution procedure may be filed whenever:
- the applicant deems that its legal right or legitimate interest was breached by the Provider through the issuance of a document or through a response received to its request;
- the Provider did not respond to the applicant’s request during the applicable legal timeline;
- the Provider unjustifiably refused to perform an operation necessary for preserving the applicant’s right or legitimate interest.
- complaints having as object matters older than 36 months;
- complaints which were already submitted for settlement by the courts or for out of court settlement.
- the complaint must contain at least the identification data of the applicant and of the Provider, the description of the subject matter and indication of the legal ground justifying the application;
- all documents must be drafted in Romanian or must be accompanied by a translation into Romanian certified by an authorized translator;
- the complaint must be sent to ANRE by post office, by delivery at ANRE’s registry office, by filling in the dedicated form available on ANRE’s website, by e-mail or fax.