Gas suppliers received from ANRE the ban to sell to other customers, outside the population and central thermal power stations, for the gas they receive from Petrom and Romgaz at the capped price of 68 lei/ MWh. As a result of the amendments made to the GEO 114, ANRE has developed a new framework contract for sale, which introduces an additional obligation for the suppliers that receive, by law, gas from domestic production at the capped price of 68 lei/MWh.

GEO 19/2019, which amends the famous GEO 114, limited the obligation of gas producers (especially Petrom and Romgaz) to sell at the capped price of 68 lei/ MWh only for the consumption of the population and of the thermal power stations producing hot water and heat for the population, not for non-household consumers.

As such, ANRE had to modify the methodology initially adopted for GEO 114 and most likely to ensure that a supplier who buys gas at that price to deliver to the population or thermal power plants will not resell on the free market at bigger prices, introduced a limitation. Gas buyers now have the obligation to “respect the destination of purchased natural gas”, according to ANRE draft order.

The obligation is valid for the entire period in which the price of gas for the population and producers of heat is regulated by the state, 1 May 2019-28 February 2022. The most important gas suppliers for these categories of consumers are E.On and Engie, according to economica.net.