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4 Conclusion

4.1 IMPLEMENTATION DATES AND PROVISIONS OF BAL NC

IN EUROPE

1) And additional 5 years for the case of the interim measure of a balancing platform, pursuant to Article 47(3) of the NC

2) In Austria, BAL NC has been implemented. As Austria is a transit country it was necessary to consider some “specialties and needs”

of a transit network.

3) Including some exceptions for three countries (LU, DK and FR).

NC BAL (Code) has been applicable since 1 Oc-

tober 2015 but allows its application to be post-

poned until 1 October 2016. For those countries

which applied for a transitory period, the dead-

line for full implementation of the Code was

1 October 2016.

Instead of full implementation, interim measures

can be implemented for up to five years

from

the entry into force of the Code (i. e. until 16

April 2019) while all the other provisions in the

BAL NC shall be implemented by 1 October

2015.

Of 10 countries (AT, BE/LU, DE, DK, FR, HU,

NL, SI and UK-GB) applying the deadline by 1

October 2015, nine of them (AT

, BE/LU, DE,

DK, FR, NL, SI and UK-GB)

stated the imple-

mentation of BAL NC. One country (HU) report-

ed having most of the provisions in place by

1 October 2016.

Of the 11 countries including Estonia (BG, DE,

EL, IE, LT, PL, RO, SE, SK and UK-NI that ap-

plied for interim measures until April 2019, eight

of them (DE, IE, LT, PL, RO, SE, SK and UK-NI)

reported having the interim measures in place.

Two respondents (EE* and EL) partially imple-

mented the planned interim measures by 1 Oc-

tober 2016 while one country (BG) is planning to

implement the interim measures during 2017.

Three respondents (DE, IE, and UK-NI) stated

that, except interim measures, all other provi-

sions are in place while other eight countries

including Estonia (BG, EL, LT, PL, RO, SE and

SK) reported having partially implemented them

by 1 October 2016.

Out of five countries (CZ, ES, HR, IT and PT)

which applied for the transitory period option

until 1 October 2016, two countries (ES and IT)

have implemented BAL NC while in three coun-

tries (CZ, HR, PT) still had to perform further

implementation steps. For these five countries

annual reviews will be monitored with the next

monitoring report.

Balancing implementation is an ongoing pro-

cess – even following implementation. Due to

continuous changes in the market environment,

adjustments of the implementation might be

needed to better achieve the goal. It can be no-

ticed that steps forward from the planning to the

implementation phase have been made espe-

cially by countries applying interim measures

and the transitional period option to fulfil their

implementation obligations. Those countries

indicated that they had faced key challenges

in the implementation process. In addition

changes to the existing balancing regimes were

reported by other countries.

In all countries the described CBA process on

information provisions had not been fulfilled two

years after BAL NC came into force. In some

countries the implementation process is under-

way while in other ones it is planned or post-

poned for the future. The progress of this

process must be further monitored in the next

implementation monitoring report. Nevertheless

the implementation or the improvement of

information provisions was reported in several

countries.

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