Electricity market bill tabled in Parliament: fixed-price contracts and consumer safeguards
The bill transposing Directive 2024/1711 was tabled on 31 October. It remains proposed legislation; Article 7 specifies the suppliers covered for annual fixed-price contracts.
Updated 31.10.2026 · 02:07, Athens time — What changed
The Ministry of Environment and Energy bill on electricity market design and transposition of EU Directive 2024/1711 was tabled in Parliament on 31 October 2026. Its parliamentary record shows the stage as “Tabled” and identifies the Standing Committee on Production and Trade as responsible.
The substantive development since the previous update is the move from public consultation to parliamentary tabling, with the text and supporting reports published. The record does not show passage or completion of parliamentary scrutiny.
Details in the tabled text
Article 7 would allow all final customers to request fixed-price contracts lasting at least one year from at least one supplier and from every supplier with more than 200,000 final customers. This qualifies the earlier general account of the consultation: the wording does not describe an identical obligation for every small supplier.
The same article would prohibit suppliers from unilaterally changing the terms of these contracts or terminating them before expiry. It also provides for a summary of key contractual information before a contract is concluded or extended.
Article 6 concerns safeguards during pending complaints and out-of-court dispute resolution, subject to conditions and exceptions. It does not provide unlimited protection from disconnection merely because any complaint has been submitted.
Implementation
These are proposed provisions. Article 90 ties general commencement to Government Gazette publication, with specific exceptions. Tabling alone does not activate new rights, amend an existing contract or automatically reduce an electricity bill.
Previous updates — history
A bill on the electricity market is open to public consultation from 10 through 24 October 2026, according to an announcement issued this evening by Greece’s Ministry of Environment and Energy. It aims to transpose EU Directive 2024/1711, alongside other energy and environmental provisions.
The new development is the announcement of the consultation. The proposed provisions are not presented as enacted law or new rights taking effect today.
A fixed price for at least one year
According to the ministry’s presentation, suppliers would be required to offer fixed-term, fixed-price contracts lasting at least one year. Unilateral changes to their terms or the supply price would not be allowed during the contract.
The proposal concerns the option to choose such a contract. The announcement does not establish mandatory transfers of all consumers to fixed tariffs or a specific automatic discount on bills.
Disconnection and the supplier of last resort
The ministry describes protection against disconnection while a dispute-resolution process is under way. It also proposes extending representation by the Supplier of Last Resort to at least six months, from the three months it identifies as the current limit.
Energy sharing subject to conditions
Under the proposal, households, small and medium-sized businesses and public bodies would be able to share renewable energy through a private agreement or a joint legal structure. They could entrust its organisation to a third party, provided energy sharing is not their main commercial or professional activity.
The proposal also envisages, subject to conditions, multiple supply contracts or energy-sharing agreements at the same connection point through separate meters.
Information on grid connections
The same presentation includes a requirement for distribution operator DEDDIE and transmission operator ADMIE to publish quarterly information on the capacity for new connections in each area. Applications would be submitted digitally, and applicants would receive an update on progress within three months of a relevant request, followed by quarterly updates.
What is needed for the provisions to take effect
The consultation allows comments to be submitted before the text is finalised. The final wording, parliamentary passage, publication in the Government Gazette and commencement provisions must be checked at the subsequent stages. The announcement of 10 October does not itself change the terms of an existing contract.
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