China News Service, July 26th. The National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the National Energy Administration recently issued the "Notice on Carrying out Self-inspection and Self-correction of Illegal Charges in the Field of Water, Electricity and Heating", which proposed five key tasks. :
(1) Clean up and standardize the charges for access projects outside the red line of building zoning.
Within the scope of urban planning and construction land, the investment interface of water supply, electricity, gas and heating enterprises shall extend to the red line of the user's building zoning. Unless otherwise stipulated by laws, regulations and relevant policies, the user shall not bear any expenses incurred outside the red line of the building zoning.
For the construction of network access projects that are connected to the public pipeline network by the red line of the user's building division, the part that is borne by the government according to the regulations should be allocated in time to entrust the construction of water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating enterprises, or directly invested by the government, and shall not be passed on to enterprises and users.
If the local government authorizes the water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating enterprises to collect special construction fees in the name of network access fees, centralized pipe network construction fees, and grid connection supporting fees through franchise agreements and other methods to compensate the income of the enterprises, they shall rationalize the prices of water, electricity and heating, establish The subsidy mechanism shall be improved gradually, and the cancellation time shall be specified, and the collection shall not be indefinite.
(2) Clean up and standardize relevant charges within the red line of building zoning.
The construction and installation costs within the red line of the construction zoning of the construction project shall be borne by the construction unit. If the construction unit voluntarily entrusts the construction and construction of a water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating enterprise, in addition to the normal construction and installation fees, other unreasonable fees shall not be charged.
If the construction, installation, renovation, repair and maintenance of the water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating pipeline network within the red line of the building zoning has already been borne by the government, it shall not be charged from the user.
The construction and installation costs of water supply, power, gas and heating pipelines and supporting equipment and facilities within the red lines of new commercial housing, affordable housing and other building divisions are unified into the housing development and construction cost, and shall not be charged to the buyer separately.
(3) Clean up and cancel the relevant charges that have been included in the pricing cost.
The expenses normally incurred by the water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating enterprises in terms of operation and maintenance within the red line of the building zoning shall not be charged to users separately after being clearly included in the pricing cost.
Water supply, electricity, gas and heating enterprises and their affiliated or entrusted units shall not use their monopoly position to obtain unreasonable profits, especially after the completion of user projects, to pay inspection fees, test fees, acceptance fees, opening fees, access fees, capacity expansion fees, etc. Fees are charged in various forms and names.
(4) Clean up and standardize unreasonable price increases in non-grid direct power supply links.
For end-users with metering conditions, the sales electricity price stipulated by the government shall be implemented. For end-users who do not have metering conditions, the electricity fee shall be fairly shared by the end-users, and non-grid direct power supply entities shall not add other charges to the end-user electricity fee.
Non-grid-directed power supply entities shall not pass on their own electricity charges to end users, add electricity charges for public parts, shared facilities and ancillary facilities, operation and maintenance fees, etc. in the electricity charges, and increase the power supply price beyond the specified maximum allowable increase.
(5) Clean up and standardize other unreasonable charges.
It is strictly forbidden for government departments and relevant agencies to charge for compulsory verification of water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating metering devices.
It is strictly forbidden to charge users for water, electricity and heat metering devices.
When any unit collects water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating fees, it is strictly prohibited to charge additional fees to users.
For the end users of water supply, electricity, gas and heating enterprises that have not yet directly copied to their households, it is strictly prohibited for any unit or individual to charge other fees in the collection of water, electricity and heating fees.
The operation and maintenance costs of the public parts of the property, shared facilities and supporting facilities, etc., should be settled through property fees, rents or public income, and it is strictly forbidden to charge service fees based on water, electricity and heating costs.
Standardize government pricing and operator price charging behavior, implement list-based management of reserved charging items, and strictly prohibit charging other fees outside the charging list.
(Zhongxin Finance)