The origins of the OIK family – the governments of Calvitis and Godmanis

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Association of the Party "Development / By" Presents the chronological progress of the implementation of the OIK

Aigars Kalvītis, Krišjānis Kariņš, Kaspars Gerhards Yesterday, Jura Pūce, chairman of the board of directors of "Development of Latvia" and Daniela Pavluta, chairman of the board of directors of "Movement Par", appeared yesterday at the press conference specially convened. OIK) in the creation and maintenance of saga. Among other things, the two former officials also tried to wash their feathers in the light of numerous publications in which leaders of both parties "Attīstība / Par!" Are mentioned as the largest issuers OIK license.

The idea of ​​OIK for 23 years

"Already in 1995, the first regulations pbaded provided electricity at a high price. At that time, the prime minister was Maris Gailis, Minister of Economy (ME) Janis Zvanītājs.These regulations stimulated the development of small PPHs, most of which still operate.In 1998, the government from Guntar Krasta introduced another amendment which stipulated that Latvenergo would buy electricity at high prices for another eight years, while the company did not compensate for it, which meant that the company did not pay for it. At the time, an OIK, as we know it today, did not exist, did not appear on the bills.It was more hidden, "said M Owl.

He pointed out that the year of the true birth year of the OIC could be called the 2005 Law of the Electricity Market, which created the OIK system by providing not only the mandatory purchase of PES stations, but also cogeneration stations, that purchases are offset for the wages of the population and entrepreneurs proportionally to the consumer.

Interestingly, at that time, Aigars Kalvītis was Prime Minister, Krisjanis Kārins was Minister of the Economy and Kaspars Gerhards, Secretary of State at the Ministry. However, for all the woes, J. Puce named 2008. "In my opinion, it was the main breakthrough in this model, since the government of Ivars Godmanis, in which K. Gerhards was Minister of Finance. Economy and Secretary of State Anrijs Matīss, amended the law, which provided significant support to cogeneration plants with a capacity greater than 20 MW. thus providing special support to Riga's TEC stations, as well as to biombad and biogas plants with a capacity of more than 1 MW. This decision has made Latvia the biggest financial commitment, "said the former state secretary EM.It should not be mentioned that no government has sought to restrict permits of the OIC – the timing of the receipt of grants was timeless, and there were no control mechanisms, leaving only a few regulations of the Cabinet

2010 The year in which Valdis Dombrovskis was Prime Minister and Artis Kampars was in charge of the Minister of Economy, Juris Pūce, who took office until November 2013 and worked for about two years at the When Daniels Pavluts was in charge of the post.Are the two politicians so innocent as they say?
According to them, J. Pūce, with Kampar, had the initiative of the Ministry to stop the uncontrolled issuance of OIK permits without competition The Regulation of the Council of Ministers It was prepared, but the Minister of Agriculture, Janis Duklavs, opposed it, by organizing at the time two competition projects for subsidies for biogas stations. However, with the tripartite agreement between J. Dūklava, V. Dombrovskis and A. Kampars, the amendments to the Regulations of the Council of Ministers were adopted. The amendments came into force a month and a half later than expected. According to D. Pavluts, during this period, dozens of natural gas stations were still able to integrate into the former Cabinet regulations on licensing without competition, which is still ongoing as a black cloud for the former minister. Why can not you give? The law provided for it, and no one had the right to refuse an authorization if the Cabinet of Ministers had complied with it. As a result, the situation arose, during which the most permits were issued and the most canceled.

Dombrovskis is not innocent

As the two leaders of the "Development / Par" spoke, after the entry into force of the amendments, they made a number of things together that then helped future ministers in the fight against them I did not use. For example, for the first time, grants to OIC recipients have been subject to limitations, baduming that they can not receive them forever but from 10 to 15 years depending on the capacity of the resort .

A ministerial control group was set up to check the station, removing the permit if necessary. The subsidized energy tax (SEN) was also levied at the time of D. Wuluth, which served as a tax to grant recipients, thus recovering some of them paid. At that time, the Constitutional Court and grant recipients were not happy with the tricks of these tips, so the SEN worked for a very short time.

According to D. Pavlut, the implementation of all these provisions was actively delayed by the government of the time. However, although at that time Valdis Dombrovskis was the prime minister, D. Pavluts did not blame him. "I'm sure he wants to solve the problem, but it was difficult to find, I do not know why, but it may have been due to pressure from his party colleagues." decision-making was slow, but he understood the problem and supported us, "Pavlut said. After leaving and J. Oweca, the OCI was set aside for a few years, besides Denmark's Reizniece-Ozola gave the green light to the container chains, which allowed to start a cogeneration with less power than that provided by the permit. Finally, in the year 2017, when the pressure of journalists has aroused the greatest dissatisfaction with the OIC,

wants to again present SEN

Similarly, a certain a number of proposals have been made to mitigate the effects of the OIC. For example, the party's union plans to introduce additional control measures to restore the subsidized energy tax at rates of 10-15% (of the OIC price), to obtain the Latvenergo's voluntary waiver of OIK payments (offset by one year non-profit). also to modify the overcompensation rate according to the evolution of the financial market, which would reduce the purchase price by 20 to 35% depending on the duration of operation of the station. As stated by both politicians, these plans need to be implemented without their coordination with the European Commission.

On the other hand, the EC will have to reconcile other plans. For example, aligning the terminals of the station for 10 to 15 years, proceeding with a recount of appropriate overcompensation, which would require many stations to terminate the decree in 2022 or even before. Another idea would be to re-evaluate dual support, as several resorts currently receive grants and subsidies from the EU.

Finally, in all purchase price formulas, it is necessary to separate fixed expenses from variable expenses by offering to the buyer the repurchase of the remaining fixed part of the decree for the beneficiaries, to provided that the tenderer leaves the compulsory contract. However, this solution can only be implemented if all the points of the plan mentioned above have failed. Similarly, the two politicians were convinced that these plans would result in litigation with the grantees, but they also had no doubts about the validity of the plans and their accuracy.