G/SCM/Q2/EU/52  
 
24 October 2016  
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Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  
 Original: English  
 
 SUBSIDIES  
REPLIES TO QUESTIONS1 FROM THE RUSSIAN FED ERATION REGARDING  
THE NEW AND FULL NOTIFICATIO N OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ( SLOVENIA)2 
The following communication, dated 24 October 2016, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of the European U nion. 
 
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Question 5  
 
Slovenia  
 
Please explain why the following measures were not mentioned in 
G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add.24 or provide the information required under Article 25 of the 
SCM Agreement for each of these measures.  
 
Feed -in tariff and o perational support of electricity production ("Uredba o 
podporahelektričnienergiji, proizvedeniizobnovljivihvirovenergije" ( Official Gazette 
ofthe Republic Slovenia N o. 37/09 , 53/09 , 68/09 , 76/09 , 17/10 , 94/10 , 43/11 , 105/11 , 
43/12 , 90/12and17/14) ). 
State support, aimed at promoting energy efficiency and use of renewable energy 
sources ("Pravilniko spodbujanjuučinkoviterabeenergije in 
rabeobnovljivihvirovenergije" ( Official Gazette of  the Republic Slovenia  No. 89/2008, 
25/2009, 58/2012)).  
 
Reply : 
 
ENERGY CO NSERVATION AND THE USE OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES  
 
1. Title of the programme  
 
Support for electricity generated from renewable energy sou rces (RES) and produced in 
high-efficiency cogeneration of heat and power (CHP).  
 
2. Brief description of the programm e 
 
Support scheme has been established to support electricity generated from RES and CHP 
generating plants.  
 
3. Period covered by notification  
 
January 2011 - December 2012.  
 
                                                
1 G/SCM/Q2/EU/44 (dated 27 April 2015).  
2 G/SCM/N/253/EU/Add. 24 (dated 10 September 2013).  G/SCM/Q2/EU/52  
 
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  4. Policy objectives and/or purposes of the subsidy  
 
Increase  the use of the rene wable energy sources in production of electricity and the amount of 
electricity produced in high efficient combined heat and power production.  
 
5. Background and authority for the programme  
 
Ministry of Infrastructure.  
 
6. Legislation under which it is gra nted 
 
Energy Act (OG RS, No. 27/07 (EZ -UPB2), 70/08, 22/10 and 10/12)  
 
-  Decree on support for electricity generated from renewable energy sources (OG RS, No. 37/09, 
53/09, 68/09, 76/09, 17/10, 94/10, 43/11, 105/11, 43/12, 90/12);  
 
-  Decree on support fo r electricity produced in high -efficiency cogeneration of heat and power  
(OG RS, No. 37/209, 53/09, 68/09, 76/09, 17/10, 94/10, 43/11, 105/11, 43/12, 90/12);  
 
-  Decree on issuing declarations for generation units and guarantees of  electricity origin (OG R S, 
No. 8/09, 22/10 -EZ-D, 45/12);  
 
-  Regulation on measurements to be performed in production units which are receiving guaranties 
of origin and support for electricity produced (OG RS, No. 21/09, 33/10, 45/12);  
 
-  Decree on the method of provision of an electricity market operator service of general economic 
interest (OG RS, No. 8/09);  
 
-  Decree on determining the quantity of electricity generated from high -efficiency cogeneration of 
heat and electricity and on determining the efficiency of the energy co nversion of biomass (OG RS 
No. 37/09);  
 
-  Decree on the rules for drafting forecasts of the position on the electricity market of units 
generating electricity from renewable energy sources and high -efficiency cogeneration (OG RS 
No. 83/09, 94/11);  
 
-  Decree on the method of determining and calculating the contribution for ensuring support for 
the production of electricity from high -efficiency cogeneration a nd renewable energy sources 
(OG RS, No. 36/14).  
 
7. Form of assistance granted  
 
Feed-in tariffs and feed-in premiums.  
 
8. To whom and how the subsidy is provided  
 
Commercial companies and sole proprietors and households.  
 
9. Total expenditure under the programme  
 
2011 2012 
69,500,000 EUR  89,800,000 EUR  
 
10. Duration of the programme  
 
Until 31 December 2019.  
 
11. Procedure for gaining the subsidy  
 
The owner or with the consent of the owner the operator of the RES or CHP generating plant has 
to submit an application for a decision allocating support to electricity produced in RES generating G/SCM/Q2/EU/52  
 
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  plant to the E nergy Agency.  The Energy Agency decides on the allocation of support by decision in 
an administrative procedure.  
 
 
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