Energy Regulatory Office Department of Legal Issues and Dispute Settlement - Departments and Bureaus

The Department of Legal Issues and Dispute Settlement (DPR) is responsible for:

• legal representation of the President of URE and the Director General of URE in court and administrative proceedings, including preparation of pleadings in cases concerning appeals against decisions and complaints against decisions of the President of URE, complaints for inactivity or protraction of proceedings conducted by the President of URE;
• drafting and giving opinions on normative acts;
• drafting of internal regulations of URE;
• giving an opinion on proposals for decisions and solutions prepared by the organisational units of URE in cases involving complex legal issues;
• conducting proceedings and preparing decisions on disputes, as referred to in Article 8 of the Energy Law Act, Article 81(11) and Article 184d(3) of the Renewable Energy Sources Act concerning:
• connection of renewable sources to the power grid and farm biogas sources to the gas network, excluding disputes concerning the connection of micro-installations and offshore wind farms;
• refusal to connect a RES installation on a priority basis, excluding micro-installations;
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• agreements for the connection of distribution installations to the transmission system and distribution installations to the distribution system, excluding closed distribution systems as referred to in Regulation 2016/1388;
• refusal to amend the agreement referred to in Article 7(2a) of the Energy Law Act with respect to the date of the first electricity delivery to the grid;
• adjusting the deadline for the first electricity delivery to the grid provided for in the connection agreement.

Contact details—matters of dispute concerning:

• connection of renewable sources to the power grid and farm biogas sources to (the gas network, excluding disputes concerning the connection of micro-installations);
• refusal to connect a RES installation on a priority basis (excluding micro-installations);
• agreements for the connection of distribution installations to the transmission system, and of distribution installations to the distribution system;

secretariat—T: +4822 487 56 50