The main activities of TRA WG can be summarized as follows:
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Organization of workshops with ACER and European
Commission for clarifying legislation and proposing
implementation solutions for data provision
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Participation in public consultations and workshops
organized by the European Commission and ACER
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Participation in REMIT IT expert group meetings
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Participation in ACER pilot project for data uploading to
ACER database for REMIT purposes
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Refinements to text copy, definition of table structures for
data provision and taxonomy for drafting implementing
acts to be proposed to the European Commission and
ACER
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Development of Urgent Market Message structure and its
implementation in Upgrade Transparency Platform
TRANSPARENCY WORKSHOP
ENTSOG’s 7th Transparency Workshop was successfully organ-
ized on 11 December 2013. Participants from all sectors of the
gas industry had the chance learn and discuss:
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Features and functionalities of upgraded
Transparency Platform
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Plans for New Transparency Platform
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ACER’s views on implementation of transparency
guidelines
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REMIT implementing acts and data to be reported
by TSOs
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Framework guidelines on tariffs and new
transparency requirements
TRANSPARENCY STANDARDIZED
SECTION ON TSOS’ WEBSITES
The Transparency Guidelines describe the basic responsibility
of TSOs to publish information on their website in a ‘user-friend-
ly manner’ and to make it available for market participants with
no restrictions. In previous years, TSOs had received significant
negative feedback particularly with respect to user-friendliness
from stakeholders and ACER. After a brief implementation peri-
od, TSOs worked hard to revamp their websites in a more user-
friendly manner aimed at multinational users.
As a solution, TRA WG developed a structure that partially
standardizes how information is to be presented. This structure
consists of three columns providing:
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Legal requirement of Regulation (EC) 715 / 2009 (EC)
Annex 1
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Direct link to corresponding section of TSO individual
website
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Any further individual information on requirements
(e.g., exemptions, definitions, interpretations specific
to a country or TSO)
This standardized section has been adopted by the majority of
the TSOs and has been well received.
REGULATION ON ENERGY MARKET
INTEGRITY AND TRANSPARENCY
The Regulation on Energy Market Integrity and Transparency
(REMIT), which applies to all European players in the gas
and electricity market and has significant consequences for
European TSOs and ENTSOG, was on the agenda of each
Transparency Group meeting. Regulation (EC) 1227 / 2011 was
published on 25 October 2011 and was followed by additional
ACER documents (Guidance 2 Update and Guidance 3). In
2013, the European Commission issued a draft of the Im
plementing Acts that will establish rules to prohibit abusive
practices on the wholesale energy market. This document will
clarify which information market participants must report to
ACER for market monitoring purposes.
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