Lawyers’ Society “LokaMība.lv” will try to recover the compulsory procurement components, or OIK payments, which had been included in all electricity bills for 18 years. This is a total of € 2.9 billion, of which 1.9 billion has been paid by electricity end users. If, let’s say, the Society will win the court and the state will be obliged to pay for the money collected for OIK, it is not clear where the government will take such a huge amount of money to pay it.
Even if the amount imposed is not all 2.9 or 1.9 billion, it could still be impressive and comparable to the state budget savings (EUR 171 million) and spending increase (700 million euros). According to various estimates, lawyers are currently looking for over a billion. Of course, it is not yet known what – from the state, that is, taxpayers, or a state -owned company, which is again state and taxpayers.
But there is no worry about this OIK case in the government – “when thunder is in grand and lightning is breaking, let’s cross.” It can even be said that ministers do not perceive it at all as a real problem.
OIK to the inhabitants of the population for 18 years
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Compulsory procurement was a state support mechanism for electricity producers at cogeneration plants or from renewable energy sources.
The state purchased electricity within the mandatory procurement, paying a guaranteed fee for the power installed in power plants, covered the cost of balancing, as well as the administrative costs.
However, these costs were covered by all end -users of electricity in proportion to their electricity consumption as an OIK payment.
After the disadvantages of the OIK system had been pointed out by the State Audit Office and the Constitutional Court had recognized that the OIK did not comply with the Constitution, the government -forming parties agreed in 2022 on a complete abandonment of OIK.
But the OIK saga is not over. Several well -known lawyers have joined the association “Lawliness.lv”, which has been established directly to the OIK recovery. Sworn lawyers Saulvedis Vārpiņš, Artis Stucka and others have committed to help with this work.
“Game Rate” is billion euros
Support for electricity producers in the form of compulsory procurement since the introduction and emergence of OIK in the population’s bills on April 1, 2008 until 31 March this year, totaling EUR 2.9 billion (excluding value added tax (VAT)). The $ 1.9 billion (excluding VAT) has been offset by the electricity end users paying OIK.
In 2025, nine power plants continued to operate in the mandatory procurement support system. The aid period is terminated and will gradually end in 2033. The association “Rudībība.lv” considers OIK payments to be unlawful and calls on everyone to enter into a cession agreement to target the principles of collective claim against the Latvian state and to recover unjustified payments.
Let’s start wisely when the court starts
“If it happens that the court will order the state to repay OIK, where will you take the money from?” NRA.lv asked Finance Minister Arvill Aseraden (JV), to which he replied: “At the moment there is only such communications. When some real courts begin, we can start to come.
It is an event and initiative organized by private people, private lawyers, but at this point I can’t comment on anything. As soon as the legal processes start at the court level, you will be able to comment. ”
“Who will pay for it? Will it not be possible to get money from all taxpayers again to pay it to those who have participated in the claim?” asked “nra.lv”.
Arvill Aseraden responded as Spartans for Macedonia Philip with “if”. “This is” if “… I can say again that a real movement will just start to react. There is no reason to talk about it yet,” the Finance Minister said.
“It is currently a campaign for attracting individual lawyers. We have not discussed it at the Ministry of Justice (TM). It will not be within the competence of TM. Energy policy is not the competence of TM,” said Inese Libina-Egnere (JV), Minister of Justice at NRA.lv.
Will it really be so beautiful?
It is unlikely that the Minister for Climate and Energy will be the one who pulls the billions of euros out of his own or ministry’s pocket to pay for what Ivars Godmanis, Valdis Dombrovskis, Laimdota Straujuma, Māris Kuchinska and Krišjānis Kariņš have done. If judicials are promoted by the “drunkard”.
True, the Latvian Themis tends to judge such complex things for a very long time, and there will hardly be many members of the current government who will be in power when there is a court judgment, which may be many years later. From this point of view, the current government is probably too early to worry.
However, not to take the operations of the association “Rudībība.lv” are not very wise. These sworn attorneys do not need an advertising campaign, as they may seem to be in government, and they do not intend to make a new political party, but they are hoping for money. These sworn lawyers have a great deal of experience and deep knowledge of jurisprudence, and if they have started such a move, they are unlikely to be without a basis and as hopeless as they may seem at first. It is difficult to sue the country. There will be a problem with a collective requirement that the Consumer Rights Protection Law does not provide, but the Society has already invented a “unique legal solution”.
The thing is not simple and there is no predictable at the moment what it will end with.
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