Romania’s Govt. resists ruling on illegal surcharges obtained by power generators in court

Romania’s government will return the surcharges illegally collected only to the energy producers who challenged in court the relevant provisions, the Ministry of Energy said after a Constitutional Court invalidated some parts of the system of surcharges and compensations enforced in 2022 to keep the end-user prices under control, Economedia.ro reported.

At this moment, the financial impact of the Constitutional Court’s ruling is not clear, but the sum circulated by media (RON 27 billion) is wrong, the ministry said in a response, while admitting that it collected RON 27 billion (EUR 5.5 billion) under the system over the past two years.