What does VCCI say about the proposal to adjust average electricity prices every two months?

ANTD.VN - The Vietnam Federation of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) believes that adjusting the average electricity price every three months would be more reasonable than every two months.

Considering the timeframe for adjusting the average electricity price

In the draft Decision of the Prime Minister regulating the structure of retail electricity prices, the Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed the option "The minimum time to adjust the average electricity price is 02 months from the most recent electricity price adjustment."

However, VCCI believes that Article 6.1, which regulates the mechanism for adjusting the average electricity price in the year, is based on quarterly data, meaning that data is compiled every three months. This quarterly data compilation is also consistent with accounting practices.

Therefore, VCCI recommends that the drafting agency reconsider the time to adjust the average electricity price to at least 03 months to match the time of data synthesis.

Regarding the public announcement of annual electricity production and business costs, according to Article 7.1 of the draft, every year EVN prepares an audited report on electricity production and business costs, then publicly posts it on EVN's website and sends it to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

This provision is different from Decision 05/2024/QD-TTg in which EVN sends it to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, which is then responsible for public posting. However, Article 7.1 of the draft does not clearly specify the time for public announcement.

Therefore, VCCI requests the drafting agency to supplement the time of this public posting.

In addition, the contents that must be publicly disclosed are listed in Article 7.2, similar to the contents already in Article 7.1.c of Decision 05/2024/QD-TTg. However, over time, it has been shown that this information is relatively difficult to track because it is not presented in a unified accounting format.

Therefore, VCCI also proposed that the drafting agency adjust Article 7.2 in the direction of publicly posting the content of the Electricity Production and Business Cost Report and the Independent Audit Report.

Source: https://www.anninhthudo.vn/vcci-noi-gi-ve-de-xuat-dieu-chinh-gia-dien-binh-quan-2-thang-mot-lan-post601359.antd