Natural Gas

• Licensing
  • Licensing
    • Licensing of activities related to natural gas is regulated by the Natural Gas Market Regulation Laws and Licensed Regulations. This law and regulation can be found in the Legislation section.
      
      According to paragraph (1) of article 8 of the Natural Gas Market Law, any person to carry out any of the following activities related to natural gas must be first licensed by the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA) :
       

      • Construction and / or operation of natural gas and / or storage facilities and / or pipeline networks, pipelines and related equipment;
      • Implementation of any of the responsibilities of the owner of a natural gas installation and / or storage facility and / or pipeline networks, pipelines and related equipment;
      • Performance of any of the functions of system management;
      • Supply of natural gas, including to wholesale customers;
      • Supply of natural gas to eligible customers;
      • Supply of natural gas to non-eligible customers;
      • Implementing any of the responsibilities of the network manager for the import / storage / transmission / distribution of natural gas network;
      • Perform any of the responsibilities of the owner of the network for the import / storage / transmission / distribution of natural gas.

      
      In accordance with Article 9, any Application for Submission shall be submitted to CERA in accordance with the rules provided in the Licensing Regulations.
  • Application / License Fees
    • License fees are paid by natural gas undertakings in accordance with Article 9 and 11 (2) (b) of the Gas Market Regulation and the Regulation (Fees). These legislative and regulatory frameworks can be found in the Legislation section.
      
      A related table of License Fees and Application Fees can be found in the link below.
      Application / License Fees

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• Licensees List
  • Applications
    • Please click on the following link to view the list of applications for natural gas licenses.
      Registry of Applications for participation in the Natural Gas Market

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  • Licenses
    • No license for Natural Gas installations has been issued
  • Απορριφθείσες Αιτήσεις
• Tariff Methodology
  • • The Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA), exercising the powers vested in it by Article 7A(1) of the Laws on Regulation of the Natural Gas Market of 2004 to 2018, issued Regulatory Decision no. 01/2019 concerning the Statement on Regulatory Practice and Methodology of Electricity Tariffs.