Chinanews client, Beijing, January 7th (Reporter Li Jinlei) Water, electricity and heating matter to everyone, but some unreasonable charges bother the public.
In this regard, the state took action.
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Clean up and cancel unreasonable charges
Recently, the General Office of the State Council forwarded the "Opinions of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the General Administration of Market Supervision, and the National Energy Administration on Cleaning up and Regulating the Charges for the Urban Water Supply, Power Supply, Gas and Heating Industry to Promote High-quality Development of the Industry."
The opinions demanded that unreasonable charges be cleaned up, and various non-compliant charging items of different names in the water supply, power supply, gas supply, and heating links should be cancelled.
The relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission said frankly that there are still some outstanding problems with water, electricity, gas and heating: first, in some areas, there are many items and high standards in the installation and maintenance links; second, the behavior is irregular, and some companies use it. Master the power of grid-connected acceptance, designate the construction unit, meter model, material supplier, etc.; third, the company has a low sense of service and low service efficiency. Some companies apply for installation, maintenance, transfer, payment, and issuance of invoices. In other services, users are allowed to run multiple times, long runs, and the cycle is long, and user consultations and complaints cannot be responded in time.
"The existence of these problems is not conducive to the reduction of the basic cost of urban economic and social operation, the improvement of service quality and efficiency, and the healthy and sustainable development of the industry itself." The person in charge said.
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These unreasonable charges were cancelled
The above-mentioned person in charge said that the focus will be on the construction of projects inside and outside the red line of the building zoning, installation and access, acceptance and opening, facility maintenance fees, etc., to accelerate the pace and intensity of cleanup, and cancel unreasonable, non-compliant, and related charges that have been included in pricing costs.
In terms of water supply link charges, cancel the account opening fees for similar items such as water receiving fees, capacity expansion fees, and installation fees charged by water supply companies and their affiliated or entrusted installation engineering companies during the water application and installation project acceptance link. Gate fee, completion verification fee, completed wire measurement fee, pipeline detection fee, hook fee, rhinestone engineering fee, meeting fee, drawing fee and other similar project costs.
In terms of charging for power supply, cancel the meter transfer fee, compensation fee for metering device, environmental monitoring fee, and high-voltage cable dielectric loss test fee charged by the power supply company and its affiliated or entrusted installation engineering company to the user during the acceptance link of the installation project , High-voltage cable shock wave test fee, low-voltage cable test fee, low-voltage measurement and test fee, transformer test fee, network automation fee, power distribution room test fee, switching station fund-raising fee, commissioning fee and other similar expenses.
In terms of charging for gas supply, cancel the charging items that gas companies should recover costs through gas distribution prices, including: pressurization fees and capacity expansion fees for municipal pipeline network assets outside the red line of the building zone; similar names related to municipal pipeline network The connection fee, opening fee, wiring fee, cut-off fee, purge fee, release fee and other construction and acceptance link costs for the red line connection of the building zoning; involving the maintenance of the facilities within the red line of the building zoning to the gas meter, and the replacement of expired meters And other costs.
Cancel the charging items that are not related to the gas project installation within the red line of the building zone or have been included in the project installation cost, including opening fees, account opening fees, interface fees, connection fees, network access fees, cleaning fees, ventilation fees, ignition fees and other similar items cost.
In terms of heating charges, cancel the interface fees, centralized pipe network construction fees, grid-connected supporting fees and other similar fees charged by urban central heating enterprises in northern heating areas.
If the heating facilities belonging to the user’s assets within the red line of the building zoning are qualified and transferred to the heating enterprise for management in accordance with the law, the relevant maintenance and other expenses shall be borne by the heating enterprise and included in the enterprise’s operating costs, and shall not be separately charged to the user.
In addition, it also involves access engineering costs and other various charges.
For example, the construction and installation costs of water supply, power supply, gas and heating pipelines and supporting equipment and facilities within the red line of the red line of new commercial housing, affordable housing, etc. shall be included in the housing development and construction costs, and shall not be charged separately from the buyer, etc.
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Prohibition of monopolistic behavior by water, electricity and heating enterprises
The opinions require that water, electricity, gas, and heating companies should follow the requirements of "standardization, standardization, and convenience", comprehensively sort out the current charging items and standards, cancel unreasonable charging items, correct mandatory charges, and reduce high charging standards.
In addition, it is strictly prohibited to charge unreasonable fees in the form of mandatory services, bundled fees, etc.
It is strictly forbidden for water, electricity, gas, and heating enterprises to implement monopolistic behaviors, and penalize those who violate the anti-monopoly law, hinder fair market competition, or harm the interests of other market entities and consumers in accordance with relevant laws and regulations.
The opinion is clear that the market supervision department should strengthen price supervision and anti-monopoly law enforcement in the installation, maintenance and repair of water, electricity, gas and heating projects, and focus on investigating non-implementation of government pricing or government guidance prices, charging unreasonable fees, and reaching and implementing monopoly agreements, and abuses Market dominance and abuse of administrative power to eliminate and restrict competition and other illegal activities.
Typical cases of violations of laws and regulations shall be disclosed to the public in a timely manner to play a warning role.
Data map: "Smart Meter".
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Will it push up the price of water, electricity and heating?
In accordance with the requirements of the opinions, establish and improve a pricing mechanism that combines constraints and incentives with "permitted costs + reasonable benefits" as the core. Based on strict cost supervision and review, reasonably formulate and dynamically adjust the prices of water, power, gas, and heating. .
Some users worry that cleaning up and abolishing unreasonable charges and including the costs that should be recovered through the price will drive up the price of water, electricity, and heating.
In response, the relevant person in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission stated that it should be noted that in recent years, the price formation mechanism of water, electricity and heating in various places has been gradually improved, price contradictions have been gradually straightened out, and the financial subsidy mechanism has been gradually established. The implementation of the table-to-home measures, with the exception of the secondary water supply pressurized storage facilities in some areas, the operation and maintenance costs of the power supply, gas and heating facilities within the red line of residential buildings in most areas have been gradually included in the business costs, and did not cause a significant price increase.
At the same time, the "Opinions" clarified that the municipal supporting infrastructure construction costs directly related to reserved land are included in the land development expenditure, which reduces the burden on water, electricity and heating enterprises and reduces the pressure on enterprises to increase costs.
"Even if some companies need to adjust the prices of water, electricity and heating due to increased operating costs, they must perform cost supervision and review, price hearings and other procedures in accordance with the law, and will not have a major impact on the price of water, electricity and heating. The removal of unreasonable charges will help reduce Water, electricity and heating users are burdened.” The person in charge said.
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