Article 8 Metering and informative billing

Only when the final customer has not provided a meter reading for a given billing interval shall billing be based on estimated consumption or a flat rate.

They should accordingly be identified separately on a statement, a bill or an equivalent document from the toll operator.

2. In addition to the obligations resulting from Directive 2009/72/EC and Directive 2009/73/EC with regard to billing, Member States shall ensure, not later than 1 January 2015, that billing is accurate and based on actual consumption, for all the sectors covered by the present Directive, including energy distributors, distribution system operators and retail energy sales companies, in accordance with the minimum frequency set out in Annex VI(2.1).

82. Welcomes the achievement of the Secretary-General - in response to previous discharge resolutions, reports by the Court of Auditors and the Internal Auditor - in having obtained the necessary supporting documents to regularise virtually all claims (99.9 % by amount) for the period 2004 - 2007; takes note of the simplification of the claims procedure introduced on 13 December 2006 whereby invoices and fee statements issued by paying agents and service providers are no longer required to be submitted by Members but must be retained by them; instead, Members are now required to submit copies of the 'statements of expenditure' and ' statements of amounts i ...[+++]nvoiced' issued by paying agents and service providers;

Metering and informative billing of energy consumption