National Statistical Institute

"Environmental and Energy Accounts" Department

Daniela Koleva - solid fuels

Antonia Parvanova - oil and petroleum products

Iveta Minkova - natural gas

Irina Mitova - electricity

Chief expert

State expert

State expert

Chief expert

2, P.Volov Str., Sofia 1038, Bulgaria

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

+359 2 9857 590

+359 2 9857 589

+359 2 9857 191

+359 2 9857 476

Monthly data on production, imports (by country of origin), exports (by country of destination), marine bunkers, stock change and deliveries of energy products: solid fuels, oil and petroleum products, natural gas and electricity.

· Nomenclature of energy products as part of PRODPROM to 2007;

· Nomenclature of energy products (PRODENERGY) since 01.01.2008.

Economic activities, covered in data production are: Extraction of coal, oil and natural gas; Production of petroleum products; Production of BKB; Production of electricity; Transport via pipelines; Trade (imports/exports) of energy products.

Production, imports (by country of origin), exports (by country of destination), marine bunkers, stock change and deliveries of solid fuels, oil and petroleum products, natural gas and electricity.

Statistical unit observed is enterprise.

Enterprises that produce, import and/or export energy products; operators, performing licensed activities of natural gas transmission and storage.

For the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria.

Since January 2001.

Not applicable.

Solid fuels - thousand tons

Oil and petroleum products - thousand tons

Natural gas - million m3 at 15C and TJ (Gross calorific value)

Electricity - GWh, for the period 2001-2016 in thousand tons and TJ also

Calendar month.

· Law on Statistics;

· Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics, amended by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 147/2013 of 13 February 2013, Commission Regulation (EU) No 2017/2010 of 9 November 2017 and Commission Regulation (EU) No 2019/2146 of 26 November 2019 as regards the updates for the annual and monthly energy statistics.

Not applicable.

· Law on Statistics;

· Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 on European statistics (recital 24 and Article 20(4)) of 11 March 2009 (OJ L 87, p. 164), stipulates the need to establish common principles and guidelines ensuring the confidentiality of data used for the production of European statistics and the access to those confidential data with due account for technical developments and the requirements of users in a democratic society:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:087:0164:0173:EN:PDF

Individual data are not published in accordance with article 25 of the Law on Statistics. The publishing of individual data can be performed only in accordance with article 26 of the same law.

Date for publishing of statistical information is according to the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute. Statistical information on the production and deliveries of energy products are published 60 days after the reference period.

The calendar is available on the NSI website: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/480

Statistical data are published on the NSI website, section Energy in accordance with the Law on Statistics and the European Statistics Code of Practice respecting the professional independence and aimed at objectivity, transparency and equal treatment of all consumers.

Monthly.

Regular Press releases.

Not applicable.

Detailed results are available to all users of the NSI website under the heading Domain statistics - Energy - Production and deliveries of energy products: http://www.nsi.bg/en/node/5019

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Annex B - Monthly energy statistics of the Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics, amended by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 147/2013 of 13 February 2013, Commission Regulation (EU) No 2017/2010 of 9 November 2017 and Commission Regulation (EU) No 2019/2146 of 22 November as regards the updates for the monthly and annual energy statistics.

Short Quality reports.

Methodology of Eurostat is applied.

Data are national representative.

No study has been conducted on the needs of users and the number of visits in the online database so far.

Not applicable.

Data completely cover the requirements of the Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2008 on energy statistics, amended by the Commission Regulation (EU) No 147/2013 of 13 February 2013, Commission Regulation (EU) No 2017/2010 of 9 November 2017 and Commission Regulation (EU) No 2019/2146 of 26 November as regards the updates for the annual and monthly energy statistics.

Data are reliable, the accuracy is good.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

60 days after the reference month.

Data are published on time according to the Release Calendar presenting the results of the statistical surveys carried out by the National Statistical Institute.

Not applicable.

Completely comparable time series without any breaks.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Not applicable.

Revisions are possible in case of errors.

Not applicable.

Survey by electronic questionnaire.

Monthly.

Data collection is carried out with a questionnaire in Excel format, sent by e-mail.

The questionnaires contain logical and arithmetical controls. Validation is done at regional level - in RSO and at national level - in NSI, and is expressed in comparison with the previous periods and other internal sources of information.

Aggregating of data at national level using Visual Basic.

Not applicable.

Up to 2019 data on production and imports of oil are confidential and are not published. From 2020 only oil production is confidential.