The decision begins with the government agreeing that as a result of the subsidy amounts established at the beginning of the district heating price regulation year on April 1, 2023 from April 2023, the positive balance of the district heating fund must still be maintained with a payment from central budget sources.
For the sake of the above, the Minister of Finance Mihály Varga was given the task with an immediate deadline to transfer 100.6 billion forints to the charge of the Overhead Protection Fund chapter, to the benefit of the title group “Expenditures related to the compensation of District Heat Providers”.
The decision also states the schedule:
- HUF 52.9 billion until April 14,
- HUF 32.3 billion by May 15,
- HUF 15.5 billion by June 15
must be transferred to an account managed separately by the transmission system operator.
It should be remembered that in February the government already withdrew HUF 115 billion from the Overhead Protection Fund to support the district heating fund
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