Have you ever moved to a new place of residence or maybe you wanted to do it? Agree that due to global changes, a lot of technical problems arise that have to be solved in a short time. Already in the first month, you need to buy household appliances, take time to renegotiate the contract for gas, electricity and water. Familiar situation?
In our article, you will learn about the legal aspects of the renewal of gas contracts. Read it and you can quickly prepare the documents for a new agreement. We described what the process of re-issuing gas agreements looks like and the situation on the market as a whole.
The content of the article:
- Features of the renewal of gas agreements
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Documents for the renewal of a gas contract
- If the consumer is a legal entity
- If the subscriber is an individual entrepreneur
- What information do you need to provide to the supplier?
- How to renegotiate a contract?
- Legal aspects of the renewal of contracts
- Conclusions and useful video on the topic
Features of the renewal of gas agreements
There are literally 3 components in the renewal of the gas contract. It is about the position of the two sides and the technical feasibility. The supplier agrees to a new deal or rejects it if there are legal obstacles to signing it. The customer collects documents and technical information, purchases equipment and fulfills the requirements for it.
In civil law, there is a rule on the automatic extension of the contract, which was not terminated by either party and which has no expiration date. The expired validity period regularly becomes a reason for reconnection, as does the very approach of the end point.
In turn, the mobility of the market conditions leads to a change in the parties to contracts, which implies the need to update the document. The apartments have new owners, and the gas supplier sometimes changes divisions.
Documents for the renewal of a gas contract
Subscribers should know the rules for re-signing a document when changing the consumer side. The process is started by the current client with their letter of termination of the contract. The appeal is sent no later than 30 days before termination.
To cancel the current agreement, the desire of a subscriber who has no debt is sufficient, but both parties can make a decision, and after that set a termination date
To conclude a supply contract from the new owner, it is required to submit an application on the letterhead of the organization to which the appeal is made, as well as the company's details.
It will not be possible to renegotiate the agreement without documents of ownership:
- certificate of ownership of an apartment, house, structure where gas is supplied or where there is gas-using equipment;
- lease agreements on a long-term basis.
You cannot do without agreeing on the possibility of deliveries by gas distribution and gas transportation organizations, a scheme for dividing pipelines with a distributor. Also provide technical data on gas equipment.
Individuals prepare documents, information and, together with personal data, send all this in an offer (statement, application). After receiving the application for renegotiation of the gas supply agreement together with the attached documents, the local structure of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz will draw up an agreement in 2 copies - for both parties.
Individual entrepreneurs and legal entities will have to collect more documentation to get gas for their technological needs.
If the consumer is a legal entity
For renewal, they present copies of certificates of registration and tax registration of a legal entity, a copy of the charter, as well as an information letter from the State Statistics Committee with the assigned codes. The law obliges the organization to provide a copy of the decision, protocol or order on the appointment of the head.
Using the Lipetsk region as an example, the ratio of gas consumption by the population and organizations is shown: the largest companies in the industrial sector use about a quarter of the total volume
The subscriber will also be required to prove ownership of real estate and land, and it is not necessary to have the right to own, admission is enough. This is evidenced by documents on rent, management, economic management.
In addition, they will ask for an extract from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, received no earlier than 30 days before submitting an application for drawing up a gas contract. In order to renegotiate a gas contract, the rights to the premises where the gas equipment is located are required, and not the production facilities as such.
If the subscriber is an individual entrepreneur
The owners of individual entrepreneurs, as they are called in everyday life, submit duplicate certificates of state registration as an individual entrepreneur and of registration by tax authorities.
To renegotiate a gas agreement, you should keep your passport, title deeds or lease agreement for technical real estate with you. The same applies to the extract from the USRIP. The document must be "no more than" 30 days old.
What information do you need to provide to the supplier?
After the change of ownership, the question about the new gas technology and the number of tenants will become open. For pricing in the absence of a gas meter, as well as to guarantee the conditions for supplying gas in general, the supplier needs to know the data about the premises living in it, the type of gas equipment.
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Thus, the fuel supply offer includes not only personal, but also technical information:
- Room type. Indicate the feature of the living space: a house in an apartment building, a private building, an extension or an economic structure.
- Energy consumption options, be it cooking, heating water, or heating residential / non-residential premises. Animal feed preparation counts too.
- The number of residents, which includes the owner or co-owners of real estate, registered, as well as temporary guests.
- Dimensions of heated premises, including area and cubic capacity, as well as supporting documents.
- The type and number of animals in the household subsidiary farm (if any).
Subscribers indicate an exhaustive list of gas-using equipment and metering devices. This applies, among other things, to the gas meter, about which not only general information is provided, but also data on the place of installation on the gas pipeline as part of indoor gas equipment, the date of sealing.
As for the last point, then the counter is sealed manufacturers and verification organizations. The established period for the subsequent inspection is also indicated in the offer.
Gas suppliers periodically carry out a comprehensive replacement of seals with new ones in order to prevent unauthorized selection of fuel and to clarify the timing of verification
Re-sealing of the meter is not required if all conditions are met:
- there is no damage to the device;
- the counter shows the measurement results;
- the date of the next verification has not come;
- there are seals of the manufacturer and supplier.
In the statement, the consumer needs to mention the social support measures, if any. Benefits are provided at the regional and state level, and in circulation they indicate which ones.
How to renegotiate a contract?
For this purpose, they turn to the supplier and the gas distributor. After legislative changes in the direction of direct sales to the public, distributors are still engaged in maintenance (MOT), repair and connection.
By maintenance contracts and their renegotiation is contacted by these companies. We are talking about city, district and regional gas companies, as well as about the enterprises of Gazprom Gazoraspredeleniye. Re-registration is carried out in person or online, and this procedure will take up to 10 days.
The process consists of 3 stages:
- Applying for the renewal of contracts for the supply of gas and maintenance of gas equipment. To do this, they visit the subscriber departments of gas companies or use the "personal account" on their websites.
- Inspection of gas equipment. You need to be present at home to receive employees of the gas distribution company. The date and time are agreed by both parties.
- Drafting and conclusion of contracts. The reissued agreements will be issued at the branch to which the consumer contacted. The readiness of the documents will be reported.
The territorial units of the supplier company carry out the renewal of contracts free of charge.
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Subscribers apply to representative offices in their locality or larger administrative unit. As part of the fight against queues, Gazprom Mezhregiongaz is opening new sections throughout Russia.
In cities with a population of over half a million people, the number of representative offices is about 5. You should contact any of the branches within the city, not necessarily exactly at the place of residence.
Legal aspects of the renewal of contracts
The law does not allow gas to be supplied without a contract, but subscribers should not be afraid gas shutdown upon departure. In which case, a simple notification to the territorial structure is enough: about the desire to sign an application for an agreement and renegotiate the agreement itself.
Based on the established norms, the supplier accepts and considers all applications without exception. He can only refuse to sign the contract and only if there is a legal basis.
Instead of a notification, you can immediately send an offer. An application to conclude a gas supply agreement is essentially a preliminary agreement that helps the parties prepare. Nothing prevents immediate registration: the contract for gas supply can be renegotiated with or without an offer.
The supplier's representatives may appear after the consumer returns and conclude an agreement with him on the previously sent offer
Gas is not supplied to subscribers without a gas equipment service contract. After moving or buying a home from a former landlord, you will have to reissue this agreement as well. The service itself costs about 1,000 rubles. per year for apartments with a gas stove and a water heater.
In 2019, there was a transition to a scheme in which gas distribution organizations lost the right to sell gas to the population, but only carry out its transit to the final consumer and receive for this money. Previously, both the supplier and the distributor had the right to sell. Debts in some regions led to changes.
Consumers did not pay distribution companies, and those, in turn, could not pay in full for fuel in front of the conveyor. The renewal of the contract now means that the gas transmission company has to pay the bills. Citizens continue to lay down agreements on maintenance of gas equipment with a gas distributor.
Something like this looked like the structure of the gas price for industrial consumers 2 years before gas distribution companies lost the right to sell it
It happens that after the old agreement, money remains on the personal account. They will be returned immediately after the completeness of the payment is determined. Consumers also do not need to worry about double billing, for example, in cases where a notice of termination of the old one was not received under the current new contract.
Conclusions and useful video on the topic
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Consumers renegotiate the gas contract in case of its expiration, after moving or changing the company selling fuel. The right to renegotiate a gas contract is as natural as the right to receive gas in principle. By its own free will and without legal grounds, not a single company will refuse a citizen.
The subscriber should take care of documents for housing, passports for gas appliances, technical data of the premises. A new contract will be signed with him at the nearest branch of the supplier. The company will take into account the content of the preliminary application, if it was submitted.
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