(Finance) – Thanks to the joint controls between Guardia di Finanza and Arera in 2021, after the braking due to Covid, the disputed figure rises to 18.2 million euros infringements and business evasion, strengthening documentary checks together with on-site inspections.
In particular, explains Arera “the disputes concerned price discounts in favor of energy-intensive companies and compliance with consumer protection rules by energy and gas sellers, also in view of the end of protection.
The protocol, launched in 2003, constitutes an essential support for the Authority’s control activities both in terms of resources and economic-financial competences. Overall, they were recovered or challenged at companies sums over 18 million euros, most of which related to costs to be recognized for various reasons in the tariff. On the other hand, the sums relating to the Authority’s operating fee not paid are slightly less than 2 million euros. With regard to electricity and gas, critical issues were recorded especially for bills (timing, complaints), the obligations of publication and correctness of the sellers’ websites and the determination of the fuel mix (i.e. the average composition of the clean and fossil sources used for the production of electricity sold to customers).
On the other hand, positive feedback in the preparation of the comparability forms to be provided when signing the contract and in the publication of the offers on the ARERA offers portal. Focus also on tariff concessions granted to energy-intensive companies and on the correctness of the information transmitted to the Operators Registry. Among the checks carried out jointly in 2021 with the Guardia di Finanza, those on the Sogin investigation, which will close on 31 July 2022, on the recognition of costs incurred for the National nuclear deposit and the Technological Park and the expenses for the definition and publication of the National Charter of potentially suitable areas (Cnapi).