SOFIA (Bulgaria), July 6 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria’s competition regulator said on Thursday the local power supply and power distribution units of Austrian energy group EVN and Czech groups Energo-Pro and CEZ have abused their dominant position on the market.
“The Commission for Protection of Competition established that the companies of each of the groups are implementing common strategies and practices, discriminating independent traders outside the respective groups and restricting trade in electricity at freely negotiated prices,” the regulator said in a statement posted on its website.
The companies of the three groups have exchanged significant information on clients opting to start getting electricity supplies at freely negotiated prices, the regulator said. The companies have also significantly delayed issuing the necessary documents for their clients, which intend to change their power supplier.
The three energy groups have one month to submit their objections to the regulator’s claims, the Commission for Protection of Competition added.