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The Amendments To The Energy Law

Original Language Title: Grozījumi Enerģētikas likumā

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The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law of energy to make the Energy Act (Republic of Latvia Saeima and the Cabinet of Ministers rapporteur, 1998, nr. 20; 2000, no. 17; 2001, no. 12) the following amendments: 1. Replace the entire law, the word "realization" (fold) with the word "trade" (the fold).
2. Replace the entire law, except for the transitional provisions, the word "establishment" (appropriate number and fold) and the words "company (company)" (the number and fold) with the word "businessman" (the number and fold).
3. Replace the entire law, the word "company" (the number and fold) with the word "company" (the number and fold).
4. Replace the entire law, except for the transitional provisions, the word "entrepreneurship" (fold) with the word "business" (fold).
5. Article 1: expressions of paragraph 3 as follows: "3) energy trader — licensed merchant who deals with energy;"
Add to paragraph 12, after the words "low voltage networks or" with the word "high";
express the following paragraph 13: "13) energy trade, energy supply, which include power-buying and selling-sale energy users;"
Express 21, 22 and 23 of the following paragraph: "21) horizontal integration — one energy trader or group shall be at least one of the energy production, transmission, distribution, supply or storage of natural gas and the action functions not related to the energy supply;
22) vertical integration — one energy trader or group shall be at least one of the following types of energy: energy transmission or distribution, or storage of natural gas, and at least one of the following types of energy: energy production or trade;
23) system operator — power supply merchant serving energy transmission, distribution or storage of natural gas and the operation of the system is responsible for the maintenance of and, if necessary, — the development of a certain area, as well as the interconnection of the system with other systems and for ensuring the long-term ability of the system to provide a reasoned request for the transportation and storage of energy; "
Add to article 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 and 41 the following: "25) the users of the system, natural or legal person who uses the energy transmission or distribution system or natural gas storage services;
26) interconnected system — more connected among themselves;
27) fixed-fee contract — a contract that includes the buyer and the seller agreed that in the event the buyer does not want to receive all the goods specified in the contract, the amount it paid for all of the goods specified in the agreement;
28) direct line: a natural gas pipeline complementary to the interconnected natural gas transmission systems;
29) transmission system: the energy transmission network with all functions necessary for the energy trader's objects, which are used to transport energy;
30) distribution system, power distribution network to all of the distribution function requires the energy trader's objects, which are used for the transport and distribution of energy;
31) network — a collection of lines and equipment required to transport energy. Street lighting network is separate, with the accounting separation of the measuring technical equipment or a whole line, used Street, square or other public use areas intended to illuminate and which is not used for the transport and distribution of electricity for other energy users;
32) autonomous producer — merchant, the natural or legal person generating electricity or heat in order to consume their own needs;
33) independent producers — energy trader who generates electricity or heat, but not the distribution or transmission system, which includes;
34) system — all the transmission and distribution networks and storage facilities belonging to the supply of natural gas trader and which it operates, as well as this the operator-owned facilities that provide additional services and business operators whose services are required to ensure access to transmission and distribution;
35) extra services: all services necessary for access to the transmission and distribution networks and storage facilities or operate these networks and facilities, including balancing, except equipment used only by transmission system operators;
36) Balancing: continuous process that provides a constant balance between energy entered the system and energy consumption;
37) interconnection: power transmission line linking the country deployed to the transmission system;
38) the end user — the user who buys energy energy use for own needs (final);
39) household users — end users who buy and use energy in your household own needs (final), to the exclusion of commercial operations, or other activities;
40) related user, power user, who does not use the opportunity to become a market participant to freely choose the energy trader;
41) trader-user who buys and sells (delivered — selling means) energy for another power user. "
6. To make article 6 by the following: ' article 6 (1) the system operator the license area and period specified in the licence is perpetual obligation system users and applicants access to energy transmission or distribution systems or storage of natural gas in storage, if such access is permanently compatible with the relevant technical rules and safety requirements.
(2) the system operator obligations remain, a change in the Corporation's members (shareholders), the form of the business, the reorganization is carried out or in cases where the new license until you receive it.
(3) power supply merchant who supplied energy users, sell energy they required or specified quality and quantity of the requested regulator set tariffs or tariff determined by the service provider in accordance with the tariff set by regulators, the calculation methodology, if regulators permit. "
7. in article 8: Supplement to paragraph 1 the words "and the provision of necessary requirements";
make paragraph 4 by the following: "4) energy trader's obligation to provide and maintain their own energy supply of the necessary objects."
8. Article 9 shall be expressed as follows: "article 9 (1) of the power supply provides the energy merchant security requirements set out in the compliance and employee aptitude, as well as the technical regulations, regulatory and quality requirements laid down by the Treaty, the conditions of quality and energy of your object continuous operation and appropriate technical condition to the cross with energy users specified their nationality to the borders of the objects.
(2) energy users ensure property, possession, or use of the existing network, energy use and equipment technical crew and maintenance. "
9. in article 12: make the second and the third part as follows: "(2) the energy trader that works horizontally or vertically integrated, internal accounting, drawing up the balance sheet, the profit and loss statement and cash flow statement separately for each licensed kind of energy supply — as if with each licensed kind of deal certain energy merchants.
(3) in the second paragraph of this article in the order drawn up the balance sheet, the profit and loss account and cash flow statement submitted to the regulator of energy trader not later than one month after the approval of the annual report to the law "on the annual accounts of the company". ";
to supplement the article with the fourth paragraph as follows: "(4) the Governor shall determine the order in which the energy trader provides users with public access to the second part of this article in the order drawn up balance sheet, profit and loss statements, cash flow statements and other financial information."
10. Turn off article 13.
11. To make article 14 as follows: "article 14 (1) of the power supply operator can operate the transmission system in the distribution system or central heating system.
(2) in order to ensure that interconnected system secure and efficient energy supply, economic operators shall exchange the necessary information while ensuring the protection of their business secrets. '
12. in article 15: make the first part of the first part and 1.1 the following: "(1) the economic operators, which is in possession of the property or energy transmission, distribution or storage of natural gas facilities, shall designate the relevant transmission system, distribution system or natural gas storage system operators. Natural gas supply a merchant can create a joint natural gas transmission, distribution and storage system operator.

(11) the system operator shall provide for the transmission, distribution and storage of natural gas services for the Governor's table of charges or tariffs as determined by the service provider in accordance with the tariff set by regulators, the calculation methodology, if regulators permit has been obtained. Distribution, transmission and storage service tariffs before their entry in force shall be published in accordance with the procedure laid down in the Governor ".
to supplement the article with the fifth, sixth and seventh subparagraph by the following: "(5) the system operator that has received a request from users or applicants to provide information on access and use of the system, the following information is provided in writing within 30 days. The system operator has the right to request from the user system for applicants or the terms of use for the development of the necessary information.
(6) the system operator shall be responsible for the energy transmission or distribution system or natural gas storage operations, service and reliability, system management and development license area to connect to other systems, as well as on the long-term ability of the system to ensure energy transmission or distribution, or storage of natural gas, according to demand.
(7) The Governor approved the system drawn up by the terms of use or storage of natural gas in terms of use, which must be objectively justified, economically justified, fair, equitable, transparent and available to all system users and applicants that require access to the system. The system operator shall submit to the Governor proposals within the time regulator about the terms of use or storage of natural gas. "
13. Turn off the first part of article 16.
14. Turn off the article 17.
15. Article 19: Supplement to article 1.1 and 1.2 part as follows: "(11) the energy trader has an obligation to coordinate with landowners a new energy object installation conditions as well as the right to replace the conciliation procedure with the landowner to inform if the land is used for new energy merchant object — equipment, appliances, installations, network, and their accessories line installing, if you have joined at least one of the following conditions : 1) energy trader's installation of the designed object local authorities planning or detailed;
2) power supply's object is mounted in the red lines;
3) local authority is satisfied that the public interest new energy merchant installation or an existing object, the object or part thereof is not possible without the use of this land use;
4) in other cases laid down in the national law.
(12) the energy trader has the right to take any of your object's strukcij or upgrading, rekon timely informed the owner of the land. Land owner pay a lump sum due in accordance with article 24 of this law if the strukcij result in increased rekon energy merchant or a protection zone around the object, or the object borrowed the spirit land. ";
make the third paragraph as follows: "(3) the energy trader for new installations or existing object object extension notifies the property owner at least 30 days before the commencement of the work."
16. To supplement the law with article 19.1 the following: ' article 19.1 (1) energy trader is real estate easement rights to install, develop and operate energy supply company.
(2) the Easement rights disposed of by mutual agreement with the property owner. If the parties cannot agree, the servitude established by the judgment of the Court of law. "
17. Make a third part of article 23, the first sentence as follows: "(3) the property owner or possessor enables energy merchant's personnel have access to the relevant property, also liegumzon, closed area or in existing buildings energy merchant objects to perform the reconstruction, renovation of objects or with the operation of the related jobs."
18. Make article 24, first paragraph, 1.1 and 1.2 as the first part as follows: "(1) power supply the Merchant shall indemnify the owner of real property losses directly related to the energy trader's new installation of the object or the object operation and repair.
(11) Energy trader to pay the owner of the immovable property for land expropriation or use restriction, if: 1) property used in new energy merchant object installation or existing object reconstruction;
2 increase the energy trader's) object, or the protection zone along or around the object in the busy area of land.
(12) the calculation and payment of the remuneration order is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. "
19. Chapter VIII be expressed by the following: "chapter VIII. Gas supply system in article 42 (1) All natural gas users are free to choose natural gas trader.
(2) the end user that has access to the system have the right to change the dealer without restrictions, the notice to the merchant and the transmission system operator. The notification period shall be a trade agreement, and the merchant user agreement.
(3) the end user who is connected to the distribution system, has the right to change the dealer, subject to the following conditions: 1) for at least three months ' notice in writing to the marketer, announced that it has entered into an agreement for the trade of natural gas;
2) for at least three months ' notice in writing informing about change of the dealer system operator whose network end user's connection.
Article 42.1 (1) the supply of gas to power users provide the natural gas supply system energy merchants and liquefied gas supply company. The order in which energy traders and energy supply users used the gas determines the Cabinet.
(2) The natural gas supply system includes high pressure gas transmission system cord (with a working pressure of over 1.6 megapaskāl), helper objects, objects and other things needed for gas transmission, gas storage and gas distribution system network (with a working pressure of up to 1.6 megapaskāl), helper objects, objects and other things necessary for the distribution of gas to cross a specific energy users home.
(3) Natural gas distribution, transmission and storage system operator shall provide system users and applicants who request it, equal and open access to the system, giving them natural gas transmission, distribution or storage services.
(4) natural gas system operator has the right to refuse access to the incentive system to the law "on regulators of public services" in accordance with the procedure laid down in the following cases: 1) system capacity is not sufficient;
2) will not execute obligations and regulatory obligations;
3) will not be executed in the long-term (10 years or more) power supply contract obligations;
4) Governor of this Act in the cases laid down in article 45.3 decides on temporary derogations.
Article 26.2 (1) for the supply of natural gas energy user is entitled, at its own expense, to install and use of direct lines that do not fit in the natural gas supply system, from any of the interconnected system. Constructing and running a direct line to comply with the same requirements regarding safety and quality defined in article 15 of this law, the seventh part of the approved regulators referred to system access and terms of use or terms of use of the natural gas storage.
(2) power supply the merchant can take delivery of natural gas to all users except the user associated with a direct line. Criteria and procedures are installed and used in a direct line, determined by the regulator. Direct line deployments need a regulator.
Article 43 (1) natural gas transmission system operator in addition to this law, laid down in article 15 provides: 1) natural gas transmission system, its technical service and development;
2) the supply of natural gas distribution system, according to the natural gas distribution system operator based demand;
3) natural gas flow management in the natural gas transmission system according to the technical capabilities of the system and in accordance with the conditions of discrimination not discriminatory to receive natural gas from abroad and to foreign countries for the removal;
4) natural gas transmission system locale and winding system.
(2) If the natural gas transmission system operator is a vertically integrated energy merchants, this operator is a separate Corporation with independent legal personality and separate from natural gas sales or other commercial (not supply).
(3) referred to in the second paragraph of article natural gas transmission system operator to ensure considerable independence to the following conditions: 1) persons responsible for natural gas management of the transmission system operator may not participate in the integrated natural gas merchant structures that directly or indirectly are responsible for the distribution of natural gas and trade;
2) take appropriate measures to ensure that persons responsible for natural gas transmission system operator's management, capable of acting independently;

3) natural gas transmission system operator shall have the right to make decisions independent of vertically integrated energy supply the operator with respect to assets necessary transmission of natural gas to operate, maintain or develop the network. This does not prevent vertically integrated energy merchants to establish appropriate coordination mechanisms to ensure the ruling merchant economic rights relating to the individual merchant's return on assets;
4) natural gas transmission system operator shall establish a compliance programme, which sets out measures taken to prevent discriminatory conduct, and ensuring adequate control over its observance. The program provides for specific obligations of employees to meet this objective. Natural gas transmission system operator shall submit an annual report to regulators about the measures taken and the message to the public on their website.
Article 43.1 (1) natural gas transmission system operator prepares the transmission system delivery and conformity of consumption and supply of natural gas, the State safety assessment report for the period to 10. The evaluation report shall include at least the natural gas demand forecast for a 10-year period, delivery and assessment of conformity of consumption during the reporting period and a forecast for a 10-year period, information on compliance with the request of the transmission system and its maintenance of the quality, as well as information on the centres and planned transmission capacity and the measures taken in the event of the maximum request and one or more suppliers in case of shortages.
(2) The transmission system operator, an assessment report every year shall provide to the Ministry and the Governor. The order in which the transmission system operator shall develop and submit to the Ministry and regulator, assessment reports and requirements regarding the content of the evaluation report is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(3) The preparation of the assessment report to the natural gas transmission system operator is entitled to request and receive the necessary information from all system participants.
44. Article natural gas storage operator in addition to this law, laid down in article 15:1) provides natural gas storage activity, its technical operation and development to make natural gas accumulation, storage and issuance of appropriate technical capabilities;
2) separate energy users belonging to a natural gas reserve of this user, if it allows natural gas storage technical capabilities;
3 possible crash) organizes the localization and liquidation of natural gas storage.
Article 45 (1) of the natural gas distribution system operator in addition to this law, laid down in article 15 is responsible for: 1) natural gas distribution system, its technical service and development;
2) natural gas from natural gas transmission system operator and TRANS portēšan to energy users;
3) crash locale and winding-up of the natural gas distribution system and emergency services;
4) provision of information to users on the conditions of energy that must be followed in order to connect to the natural gas distribution system or apply it.
(2) If the natural gas distribution system operator is a vertically integrated energy merchants, this operator is a separate Corporation with independent legal personality and separate from natural gas sales or other commercial (not supply).
(3) this article referred to in the second paragraph of the natural gas distribution system operator independence for the following conditions: 1) persons responsible for natural gas management of the distribution system operator may not participate in the integrated natural gas merchant structures that directly or indirectly are responsible for the transmission of natural gas and trade;
2) take appropriate measures to ensure that persons responsible for natural gas management of the distribution system operator are capable of acting independently;
3) natural gas distribution system operator shall have the right to make decisions independent of vertically integrated energy supply the operator with respect to assets necessary natural gas distribution to operate, maintain or develop the network. This does not prevent vertically integrated energy merchants to establish appropriate coordination mechanisms to ensure the ruling merchant economic rights relating to the individual merchant's return on assets;
4) natural gas distribution system operator shall establish a compliance programme, which sets out measures taken to prevent discriminatory conduct, and ensuring adequate control over its observance. The program provides for specific obligations of employees to meet this objective. The natural gas distribution system operator shall provide an annual report to the Governor on the measures taken and the message to the public on their website.
(4) the second subparagraph of this article, the requirements do not apply to integrated natural gas distribution system operators that provide the system services less than 100000.
Article 43 this law 45.1. the second paragraph of article and article 45 of the second part shall prevent build a joint natural gas transmission, storage and distribution system operator, engaged in natural gas transmission, storage, distribution and legally separated from the merchant, dealing with the trade in natural gas, as well as meet the following criteria: 1) the persons responsible for the joint management of the natural gas system operator may not participate in the integrated natural gas merchant structures responsible, directly or indirectly, for the day-to-day operation of natural gas supply;
2) must take appropriate measures to ensure that the persons responsible for the joint management of the natural gas system operator, capable of acting independently;
3) the combined system operator natural gas decision-making rights, independent from the integrated gas undertaking, with respect to assets necessary to operate, maintain or develop the network. This does not prevent the set up appropriate coordination mechanisms to ensure the ruling merchant economic rights relating to the individual merchant's return on assets;
4) combined natural gas system operator shall establish a compliance programme, which sets out measures taken to prevent discriminatory conduct, and ensuring adequate control over its observance. The program provides for specific obligations of employees to meet this objective. The combined system operator natural gas regulator submitted an annual report on the measures taken and the message to the public on their website.
Article 45.2 (1) balance in the natural gas supply system provides natural gas transmission system operator. Power user who has direct access to the natural gas transmission system, and natural gas distribution system operator for balancing service provide natural gas transmission system operator. Energy users that have a direct connection to the natural gas distribution system, and other natural gas distribution system operator for balancing service provide the natural gas distribution system operator.
(2) every person who is a market, and the natural gas distribution system operator shall enter into an agreement with the system operator of the natural gas balansējoš natural gas delivery system, providing input and energy consumption balance at any time.
(3) the system operator shall carry out natural gas balancing calculations in accordance with the system operator and approved by the regulators developed rules transparent and non-discriminatory basis in respect of all the recipients of the service of balancing. Power user who is a member of the market and the distribution network operator is obliged to pay the balancing service delivery based on the determination of the amount of natural gas transmission and distribution operators.
(4) balancing calculations are made based on a certain period of time the gas supply transaction tracking to determine the balansējoš natural gas. Balancing calculations must be available to the business operators involved in the protection of their business secrets.
(5) the power user of natural gas system operator information reasonably necessary for the maintenance and balancing calculations.
(6) in order to ensure payment for the balancing services, natural gas system operator may request from users of energy guarantees in accordance with the system operator and approved by the regulators, laid down the criteria and procedures for requesting such guarantee.
28.1 article

(1) where a vertically integrated energy merchants have come or deems that end up in serious economic and financial difficulties due to the fixed payment amount for contractual obligations that it's undertaken in one or more gas-purchase contracts, he may submit an application for temporary NRA derogations from article 6 of this law, the first paragraph and the third paragraph of article 42.1 obligations. The application must be submitted immediately — immediately after the refusal of access. Merchant application shall be accompanied by all the necessary information to justify and describe the economic and financial difficulties due to the fixed payment amount for contractual obligations, as well as his efforts to resolve the problem. The Governor a validly assess the applications submitted by the operator and, if it is not possible for other solutions, granting a temporary derogation. The Governor cannot grant a temporary derogation, if merchant gas sales are less than the fixed payment amount to cover the contractual gas purchase volumes, or if you can adjust the gas buying fixed-fee contract. When deciding on the derogations, the regulator will take account of the following criteria: 1) the need to fulfil public-service obligations and to guarantee the security of gas supply;
2) the position of the operators in the gas market and the State of competition in this market;
3) the economic and financial difficulties, encountered by economic operators or users of energy;
4) fixed payment amount for one or more contracts of the dates of signature and terms and the extent to which they allow to anticipate changes in the gas market;
5) Merchant efforts to solve the problem;
6) whether and to what extent the merchant, having regard to all the circumstances and the existing situation, could provide serious financial and economic difficulties, taking a fixed payment amount of contractual commitments;
7) the degree of commitment of the system with other systems and the interoperability of these systems;
8) the effects the granting of a derogation would have on the European Union to the smooth functioning of the internal natural gas market and the promotion of competition in it, as well as the purchase of natural gas, an alternative to economic operators in the European Union's internal market in natural gas and outside it.
(2) the Governor may not recognize the operator's financial and economic difficulties of existence, where merchant gas sales are less than the fixed payment amount to cover the contractual gas purchase volumes, or if you can adjust the gas buying fixed-fee contract.
(3) power supply operator may submit an application for temporary NRA derogations from article 6 of this law, the first subparagraph of article trešajādaļ and 42.1 the obligations applying to: 1) new transnational connections and new natural gas storage;
2) existing interconnection and natural gas storage facilities, if their capacity is substantially increased, leading to the development of new sources of gas supply.
(4) the Governor may make a decision on the granting of a derogation, if: 1) investment improves the competitiveness and reliability of supply gas supply;
2) investment would not be performed if the derogation is not granted;
3) interconnection and natural gas storage is the property of a person who is at least legally separate from the system operators in whose systems they will be installed;
4) interconnection and natural gas storage users pay for their use. "
20. Expressing article 46, the first paragraph by the following: "(1) heating take energy merchants energy users with heat buildings and premises heating, ventilation (ventilation) and the preparation of hot water energy users optimal way, observing the economic, social, environmental and cultural monuments protection rules. The order in which energy traders and energy supply users use thermal energy, determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. "
21. the express article 51, second subparagraph by the following: "(2) a municipal administrative territory of their development plans, taking into account the protection of the environment and the cultural monuments protection rules, as well as the use of local energy resources and in assessing the long-term safety of heating and marginal cost, can detect heating development in coordination with the Governor."
22. Article 61 of the expression as follows: "article 61 system operators and supply operators that license area affect the municipal administrative territory, has the obligation to inform the relevant authorities of the city or District Council (Parish Council), of the energy supply disruption or opportunity."
23. To make the 62-second and third subparagraph by the following: "(2) the issue of local energy crisis — the municipality of the city or District Council (Parish Council), whose administrative area touches the energy crisis.
(3) the local energy crisis broke in the city or District Council (Parish Council), the Chairman shall immediately notify the local authorities and the responsible ministers on energy. "
24. Article 70 of the expression as follows: "article 70 (1) of the municipal energy crisis creates a city or District Council (Parish Council), and the person in the Centre shall be convened by the city or District Council (Parish Council) President no later than four hours after the local energy crisis broke.
(2) a number of municipalities, which affect the energy crisis at the same time, you can coordinate the local energy crisis or creating a single local energy crisis in which people convene within the municipality concerned, city or District Council (Parish Council) — Chairman, by common agreement, the responsibility of local government officials, environmental experts and representatives of energy trader. "
25. Article 71 of the supplement to the third part as follows: "(3) a national energy crisis, electricity transmission system operator shall have the right to give instructions to the producers of electricity generating capacity in technical capabilities, or full suspension."
26. Article 72 of the expression as follows: "article 72 Cabinet determines the order in which the economic operator to which the licences have been issued for commercial activities with oil (fuel), and merchants who imported petroleum products for their own consumption, create and store the oil and oil products reserve to energy crisis periods to ensure the supply of oil and oil products."
27. To supplement the law with article 72.1 of the following: ' article 72.1 cabinet down the State-owned stocks of petroleum products and the order in which they create, store and use energy crisis period. "
28. the express article 82, first paragraph, introductory part the following: "(1) power supply company, as well as the company, which does business, including heat and electricity production, transmission, distribution, or marketing, but which the conduct of the business in accordance with laws and the license is not required, the use of objects and energy equipment and guards the State technical supervision and control of the public energoinspekcij, which is responsible for the following :”.
29. To supplement the law with article 84.1 as follows: "article 84.1 (1) the Governor shall approve the natural gas system connection developed rules that must be objectively justified, economically justified, fair, equitable and transparent. The system operator shall submit in due time the regulator regulator proposals for natural gas system connection.
(2) for the supply of natural gas in addition to this law and the law "on regulators of public services" defined a regulator monitors: 1) the interconnection of power management and distribution rules in cooperation with the relevant authorities of the Member States or institutions that have such a transnational connections;
2) all activities and methods used by system operators system capacity overload management Latvia's natural gas supply systems;
3) system operator time connections and repairs;
4) system operators, information on published trans-national connections, networks and systems for power distribution between the interested parties;
5) accounting separation according to this law, the procedures laid down in article 12;
6) in this law for the transmission, distribution and storage of natural gas operator obligations;
7) natural gas market transparency and the level of competition;
8) in the first part of the system established in connection with the implementation of provisions.
(3) the controller shall publish annually a report for the second part of this article down the natural gas supply system in the aspects of performance monitoring. "
30. Article 88 of the expression as follows: "article 88 of the rights of energy consumers and interests take consumer protection Center. Public service Regulatory Commission hears disputes to the law "on regulators of public services". "
31. Article 89 of the turn.
32. the transitional provisions be supplemented with 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the following paragraph:

"10. The Cabinet of Ministers issued article 24 of this law in part, 42.1 1.2 in the first paragraph, in the second paragraph of article 43.1, article 46, first paragraph, and the provisions laid down in article 72.1 until January 1, 2006.
11. The Governor shall issue this law, article 12 provided for in the fourth paragraph the rules until January 1, 2006.
12. The Governor shall issue this law, in the second paragraph of article 42.2 of the provisions laid down within six months from the date of its entry into force.
13. This Act 84.1 referred to in the first subparagraph, the rules to be submitted to the regulator connection for approval within five months from the date of its entry into force.
14. Article 15 of this law, the seventh part of the system referred to in the terms of use and terms of use of the natural gas storage, article 45.2 in the third and sixth part balancing calculation referred to in the terms and the guarantee of the application criteria and procedures submitted to regulators for approval within five months from the date of entry into force of the rules.
15. Article 15 of this law, the fifth and the seventh, article 42, article 42.1 third and fourth subparagraphs, article 26.2, article 43 of the second and third subparagraphs, article 45 of the second, third and fourth subparagraphs of article 45.1, 45.2, the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth subparagraphs, article 45.3 of the entry into force of the time and procedures determined by the special law. "
33. To supplement the law with the informative reference to European Union directive: "Informative reference to European Union directive included provisions in the law arising from the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2003 of Directive 2003/55/EC on the natural gas market, common rules and Directive 98/30/EC. '
The Parliament adopted the law of 26 May 2005.
State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga, 15 June 2005, an editorial added: the law shall enter into force by 29 June 2005.