{"id":26022,"date":"2020-06-05T11:03:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=26022"},"modified":"2020-06-05T11:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T10:03:45","slug":"covid-19-pandemic-update","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/press-releases\/covid-19-pandemic-update\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 pandemic update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 pandemic has significant impact on countries in&nbsp;which EPH group (the&nbsp;Group) operates. Economies of&nbsp;these countries are influenced in&nbsp;particular by restrictions introduced by Government authorities and&nbsp;also by voluntary temporary shutdown of&nbsp;some factories or voluntary limitation of&nbsp;business operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Group\u00b4s management has been critically monitoring and&nbsp;evaluating the&nbsp;impacts with having implemented relevant measures with main focus to guarantee health and&nbsp;safety of&nbsp;the&nbsp;Group\u2019s employees and&nbsp;to safeguard the&nbsp;continuity of&nbsp;the&nbsp;essential energy security services in&nbsp;the&nbsp;countries where the&nbsp;Group operates. The&nbsp;Group has been implementing specific protective measures such as extensive home office program and&nbsp;special regime for employees working in&nbsp;critical infrastructure. The&nbsp;Group continues to regularly monitor the&nbsp;risks and&nbsp;take measures as the&nbsp;situation still remains unclear and&nbsp;volatile.<\/p>\n<p>Despite temporary short-term operational limitations, the&nbsp;Group believes its&nbsp;medium- to long-term market position stays resilient, primarily as the&nbsp;Group operates the&nbsp;critical infrastructure in&nbsp;gas and&nbsp;power distribution, gas transportation and&nbsp;storage and&nbsp;power generation, and&nbsp;major part of&nbsp;by it operated assets are regulated and\/or long-term contracted with high quality counterparties. At the&nbsp;same time the&nbsp;Group maintains robust counterparty and&nbsp;liquidity risk management system which underpin the&nbsp;Group\u2019s financial stability.<\/p>\n<p>The management cannot however preclude the&nbsp;possibility that extended lockdown periods, an escalation in&nbsp;the&nbsp;severity of&nbsp;measures imposed by Government authorities, or a&nbsp;consequential adverse impact of&nbsp;such measures on the&nbsp;economic environment where the&nbsp;Group operates will not have an adverse effect on the&nbsp;Group, and&nbsp;its&nbsp;financial position and&nbsp;operating results, in&nbsp;the&nbsp;medium and&nbsp;longer term. The&nbsp;Group continues to monitor the&nbsp;situation closely and&nbsp;will respond to mitigate the&nbsp;impact of&nbsp;such events and&nbsp;circumstances as they occur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 pandemic has significant impact on countries in&nbsp;which EPH group (the&nbsp;Group) operates. Economies of&nbsp;these countries are influenced in&nbsp;particular by restrictions introduced by Government authorities and&nbsp;also by voluntary temporary shutdown of&nbsp;some factories or voluntary limitation of&nbsp;business operations. The&nbsp;Group\u00b4s management has been critically monitoring and&nbsp;evaluating the&nbsp;impacts with having implemented relevant measures with main focus to guarantee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"tax-year":[90],"acf":[],"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":[{"locale":"cs_CZ","id":26021,"post_title":"Aktu\u00e1ln\u00ed informace k situaci v dob\u011b pandemie COVID-19","href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/aktualni-informace-k-situaci-v-dobe-pandemie-covid-19\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases\/26022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press-releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tax-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eph23.atelierzidlicky.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tax-year?post=26022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}