Recent months have shown that the issue of price changes in electricity supply contracts has long gone beyond a purely legal topic. The retrospective application of new approaches to judicial practice to contracts of past years, mass lawsuits by the prosecutor’s office, different interpretations of the norms of the Law “On Public Procurement” and Resolution No. 1178, as well as the actual ignoring of the nature of electricity as an exchangeable commodity have created a systemic crisis for suppliers, customers and the entire infrastructure of the public sector.
It is not only about disputes over additional agreements. It is about much more: about the limits of permissible retrospectivity in law enforcement, about legal certainty for business, about the ability of the state to be predictable, as well as about the risks to the stable energy supply of hospitals, water utilities, heat and power utilities and other critical infrastructure facilities.
Energy Club is already systematically working on this topic: holding closed working meetings with lawyers and market participants, formulating proposals for draft law No. 11520, initiating legal protection for suppliers, conducting a dialogue with the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Justice, the Office of the President, the National Security and Defense Council and other state institutions. That is why we consider it important to bring this discussion to a face-to-face public format and gather representatives of the market, government, parliament, lawyers, judicial experts, customers and the professional community on one platform.
