LJUBLJANA, July 16 (Hina) - Slovenia's minister of environmental protection, zoning and power, Janez Kopac has said his country does not intend to settle a bill for its failure to transmit the electricity from the Krsko nuclear power
plant to Croatia.
LJUBLJANA, July 16 (Hina) - Slovenia's minister of environmental
protection, zoning and power, Janez Kopac has said his country does
not intend to settle a bill for its failure to transmit the
electricity from the Krsko nuclear power plant to Croatia. #L#
The bill has been recently sent from the Croatian Power Industry
"HEP" to the power plant and the Slovenian power industry "ELES".
"The demand for the payment of 69.70 million dollars will be turned
down as it has been done so far," Kopac was quoted by Wednesday's
issue of the "Delo" daily as saying.
The bill refers to the amounts of the electricity which the Krsko
plant should have sent to Croatia between 1 June 2001 and 30 June
2002.
A manager in the ELES company, Marjeta Marcon, confirmed that the
latest bill would be refused with the same arguments like previous
ones.
HEP started to send bills after it became obvious that the
implementation of a bilateral agreement on the nuclear power plant,
which envisages the resumption of the delivery of power to Croatia
after a four-year-long break, would be blocked as long as the
Slovene Constitutional Court did not rule whether the treaty was in
line with the Slovenian constitution.
(hina) ms