SLOVENE GOVERNMENT SETS PRICE OF ELECTRICITY FOR CROATIA

LJUBLJANA, June 20 (Hina) - The Slovene government at Thursday's session set the price of electricity from the Krsko nuclear power plant if the agreement on the plant is not ratified by the Croatian government by the end of the month. #L# "We are prepared to deliver electricity to the Croatian utility company HEP at a price of 29.697 euros per megawatt of electricity from the plant, and the price will be valid until June 30 of next year," Slovene Environment and Zoning Minister Janez Kopac said after the government session. He said the government would ask the Constitutional Court, which was asked to ascertain whether the agreement on Krsko was in accordance with the Constitution, to make its ruling as soon as possible so that the agreement could come into effect on July 1, as planned, should it be ratified. Kopac said that the act by 31 MPs who sent the agreement to the Constitutional Court was irrational and harmful for Slovenia. The minister said that the price of electricity which the government set included the expenses for the decomposition of the nuclear plant, but not Value Added Tax, but not the expenses of transporting electricity. (hina) lml sb