ANNEX VIIF1Minimum requirements for billing and billing information based on actual consumption of electricity and gas
1.Minimum requirements for billing
1.2.Minimum information contained in the bill
Member States shall ensure that, where appropriate, the following information is made available to final customers in clear and understandable terms in or with their bills, contracts, transactions, and receipts at distribution stations:
- (a)
current actual prices and actual consumption of energy;
- (b)
comparisons of the final customer’s current energy consumption with consumption for the same period in the previous year, preferably in graphic form;
- (c)
contact information for final customers’ organisations, energy agencies or similar bodies, including website addresses, from which information may be obtained on available energy efficiency improvement measures, comparative end-user profiles and objective technical specifications for energy-using equipment.
In addition, wherever possible and useful, Member States shall ensure that comparisons with an average normalised or benchmarked final customer in the same user category are made available to final customers in clear and understandable terms, in, with or signposted to within, their bills, contracts, transactions, and receipts at distribution stations.
Substituted by Directive (EU) 2018/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 amending Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency (Text with EEA relevance).