The new National Energy Commission will cost more than 40 million a year

September 29 () –

The National Energy Commission (CNE), a body that the Government wants to develop for the regulation and competition of the energy sector, will have ordinary operating expenses of up to 41.62 million euros by 2025.

The specific figure comes from the economic report of the bill sent to Congress that includes the creation of this body, which Europa Press has accessed. Of course, those almost 42 million euros constitute an approximation that the Executive makes to take into account an estimate of the budgetary impact in future years.

The bulk of the cost is in personnel expenses, which amount to 19.22 million euros. Specifically, the Executive estimates that in civil servants there will be a cost of just over five million euros; of around 8.9 million in staff and 617,540 euros in senior positions.

The total operating expenses do not include the amounts of transfers destined for the electricity sector, since, according to the bill, they do not constitute an operating expense as such nor is there any variation in their amount due to the reinstatement of the CNE .

THE EXPENSE COULD BE REDUCED IN THE FUTURE

Of course, the Government indicates that the almost 42 million expenditure could be reduced in successive years, since part of the endowment is explained by the need to carry out investments in the first years due to the reinstatement of the organization that was integrated into the CNMC, especially to provide itself with an adequate and independent IT infrastructure.

This expense estimate may also be revised downwards to the extent that agreements are reached with the CNMC for the joint provision of some services susceptible to such shared management, especially current expenses. Furthermore, the Government points out that the reduction of corresponding expenses by the CNMC in future years will have to be taken into account, when said agreements are finalized.

In this sense, the Executive indicates that part of the expenses of the future organization are a “mere transfer” from one organization to another, such as contributions to international organizations in the field of energy, expenses associated with the management of income of the electrical sector, procedural costs linked to resources of the electrical sector, or personnel expenses.

Likewise, the Government says that the organization’s operating expenses would be partially covered by the taxes on gaseous hydrocarbons, liquid hydrocarbons and the electricity sector, which would provide income of around 27 million euros.