Electricity Prices

The publication Electricity prices. Price systems 2006 describes the electricity markets in the 27 EU member states, Croatia and Norway. Details for the general market situation in each country are given as well as a description of the taxes and levies applied to electricity, both for domestic and industrial consumers. Since 1 July 1991, a Community procedure has been in force, under Council Directive 90/377/EEC, for improving the transparency of gas and electricity prices charged to industrial end-users. In accordance with Article 1(2) of that Directive, this note sets out a summary of the price systems applying in 2006 and supplements the information provided in the half-yearly Statistics in Focus .